Travis Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Starting a tank thread for my wife's tank!She has wanted a tank of her own for a while now. When JBJ replaced my 45 RL we kept the blemished tank not knowing what we would do with it. My office nano is in serious neglect, 2016 is proving to be one crazy busy year for us here at the shop. So she decided that she would take the responsibility of caring for the fish and coral of the office tank so I built another stand for the blemished JBJ and we are setting it up in another room of our house for her to take care of it. This is her first sw tank. She is very excited to say the least! Untitled by travis savant, on FlickrUntitled by travis savant, on FlickrUntitled by travis savant, on Flickr Link to comment
Travis Posted February 13, 2016 Author Share Posted February 13, 2016 Oh and she said that she needed it to send her text alerts like my tank sends me so she just had to have an apex. lol I got her the apex jr. Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Awesome! Will the Apex and other equipment stick out too much without sides and a front of the stand? Link to comment
Sk8n Reefer Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Great start- like the stand color! Link to comment
Travis Posted February 13, 2016 Author Share Posted February 13, 2016 Awesome! Will the Apex and other equipment stick out too much without sides and a front of the stand?Well showing the equipment was somewhat the point of not having it covered up. I'm going to use the back wall as a place to mount all the equipment with adhesive backed Velcro. Make it look nice and neat. We spend so much money on the "under the hood"equipment. Kind of want to show it off lol. It's not in a main room of our house so it didn't need to look like furniture like my other stand in our living did. Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Well showing the equipment was somewhat the point of not having it covered up. I'm going to use the back wall as a place to mount all the equipment with adhesive backed Velcro. Make it look nice and neat. We spend so much money on the "under the hood"equipment. Kind of want to show it off lol. It's not in a main room of our house so it didn't need to look like furniture like my other stand in our living too did. Makes sense! Yeah our equipment is pretty badass, why not show it off Link to comment
spectra Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Like the looks so far! What are the plans for stocking it? Also any ideas on a light? Link to comment
Travis Posted February 13, 2016 Author Share Posted February 13, 2016 Like the looks so far! What are the plans for stocking it? Also any ideas on a light? Well the office tank is a mixed reef. Leathers, and lps. But she also would like a rbta in the near future. I have a coralife 24" 4 bulb t5ho fixture I will put on it. Transferring the tank from my work office to this tank at home this Sunday. Link to comment
Travis Posted February 13, 2016 Author Share Posted February 13, 2016 Here's a cool filtered pic of my office tank. Link to comment
Travis Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 Well everything made the transfer quite well! We stopped by tropical fish bowl in Lafayette the other day and she picked up two emerald crabs to beat the hair algae into submission! They are actually cleaning things up faster than I would have expected. She also picked up a nice pink/red brain with green eyes. She also just had to have a frag of the red cap. Everything was looking happy so I snapped a fts. Link to comment
vlangel Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Well everything made the transfer quite well! We stopped by tropical fish bowl in Lafayette the other day and she picked up two emerald crabs to beat the hair algae into submission! They are actually cleaning things up faster than I would have expected. She also picked up a nice pink/red brain with green eyes. She also just had to have a frag of the red cap. Everything was looking happy so I snapped a fts. O boy, when you say she 'just had to have', I see the writing on the wall! You may have created a monster! A good kind of monster, I must say. I am one such monster, although I don't think my husband is responsible. Link to comment
braaap Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Looking good but I agree with Vlangel. You are screwed haha Link to comment
Travis Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 Yeh I'd have to agree with you all. She asked me why I don't buy coral all of the time and I had to remind her that we have bills due every month x) Link to comment
metrokat Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Mrs. Lindseys tank is gonna rock!! Link to comment
Travis Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 Mrs. Lindseys tank is gonna rock!! Thanks! We sure hope so! Tested for n and p for the first time today and I can't be happier. No3 2ppm and po4 0.00ppm I am going to go ahead and start a very low dose of carbon dosing to hopfully maintain these results! Link to comment
Travis Posted April 3, 2016 Author Share Posted April 3, 2016 Little update. Nearly all of the turf algae is gone thanks to the 4 emerald crabs we have added. Link to comment
Sharbuckle Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Love the color. Looks great Link to comment
Travis Posted April 3, 2016 Author Share Posted April 3, 2016 Love the color. Looks great Thanks! Link to comment
yoshii Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Love the stand! Do you have a pic of it with the running equipment underneath? The tank looks great too, nice coral selection and placement Link to comment
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