paronaram Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Awesome stand! Where did you get your dry rock from? Thanks. Link to comment
Smithjm5 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Looks sweet! Love the yellow! Do you mind me asking how you hung the kessil? Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 Awesome stand! Where did you get your dry rock from? Thanks. The rock is from Marcorocks Looks sweet! Love the yellow! Do you mind me asking how you hung the kessil? It's a plant hanger with a toggle bolt behind it on the other side of the ceiling tile. The chain is bought by the foot. I used small S hooks to hook the Kessil to the chain and to tie the chain together. Link to comment
Smithjm5 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 It's a plant hanger with a toggle bolt behind it on the other side of the ceiling tile. The chain is bought by the foot. I used small S hooks to hook the Kessil to the chain and to tie the chain together. Ok cool, but how did you attach the S hooks to the kessil itself? Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 Ok cool, but how did you attach the S hooks to the kessil itself? The Kessil comes with two little triangular hoops that screw into the unit. It comes with the two little hoops and the gooseneck adapter. They use the same holes so you just choose which one you want to use. Link to comment
paronaram Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 How is bacteria get's introduced in the tank, if you are planing to have dry rocks and maybe sand? I'm planing to setup 24G nano so I was thinking to use dry rock and sand... Thank you Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Bacteria in a bottle. Link to comment
paronaram Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Which one do you think works better? DrTim's Cycling Reef, Fritz TurboStart 900 Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Which one do you think works better? DrTim's Cycling Reef, Fritz TurboStart 900 I will probably use Microblift Special Blend and Nite-Out Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 Got word today that the tank is shipping on Friday so it should be here by Wednesday. I'm looking at starboard but I'm not sure about the thickness. 1/4" or 1/2"? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 either is fine imho Link to comment
Jay Wee Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 I call this stairway to heaven. Nice one. Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 I ordered the last few things tonight and it should all be here next week. I ordered a black piece of starboard for the bare bottom. I haven't seen many with black but it's purely aesthetic. Until it gets covered with corals and coraline it will match the black seams on the tank and the black Kessil. Also ordered frosted window cling for the back. I plan on backlighting the tank with a soft white light. Not sure yet what that light will be yet but I'm sure the good people at Home Depot will have some suggestions. I'm hoping this will help hide what little equipment there is behind the tank. Only thing left to pick up is a 5 gallon tank from Petco to use as a temporary ATO reservoir. This time next week I should be filling up. I still have a couple of minor projects to tidy up this weekend including reinforcing the scape and assembling the MAME. I've worked hard on the details with this build. I started with the MAME overflow and worked around it. "Where there is clutter nothing stands out". Once the tank is filled out I don't want people to see anything but the livestock. For the most part everything has been carefully planned and researched and almost all of the planning worked out on the first pass. There is a lot of inspiration to be found on these forums. Some of the tanks that influenced me or I blatantly ripped off elements of are... 4x5's Shallow Reef Hey's 50g Ninjamysts Spec V and his PicOsIII NGaHB's 34 Gallon Hypes Zero Edge There are plenty more but these come immediately to mind. I hope that someday my tank is on someones list. Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 It has been 97 days now but my tank is finally shipping for the second time. It will be in the dirty clumsy hands of UPS once more by the end of the day. I keep thinking that I should have just taken a road trip to Illinois. Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 Behold, a box of wet rocks. Tank finally arrived and it was worth the wait. It's still a little hazy and there are still little bubbles stuck to the sides but it's full. Almost flooded my living room twice before I figured out that I had to prime the front AND back u's on the overflow. Had to dial the pump back to about 75% or the waterline would nearly come to the top. I've tested it about a dozen times and the overflow restarts every time. The Tunze 6040 didn't work out the way I was hoping so I had to switch it out for a MP 10. The cycling process has commenced with Microlift special blend and nite-out. Is it possible to silence the high water alarm on the 3155? Link to comment
xiaoxiy Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Is it possible to silence the high water alarm on the 3155? Yeah, you can raise the sensor. Loljk. Btw, the tank is looking fantastic! Link to comment
Jay Wee Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Nice scape! And that MAME looks sexy! Link to comment
Spiderguardnano Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Your using the sicce 2.0? Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Your using the sicce 2.0? Yup Link to comment
Eisernes Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Dosed 30mL of Special Blend yesterday and my house still smells like rotten egg farts. The wife is not pleased. Link to comment
Eisernes Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 Salt tanks are a constant learning experience for me. Todays lesson - hermit crabs have a really hard time moving in a bare bottom tank. Tank is cycled. It has been good for a couple of days but to be sure I added a little ammonia yesterday and it processed it over night. I added a few ceriths and hermits and a pair of regular old occellaris clown. I debated getting some fancy designer clowns but I want the focus to be the coral, not the fish. Pics to follow. Link to comment
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