Xx_de_xX Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Distance shot Tank shot Left shot Right shot Plumbing shot The tank is a 6 month old 15g AGA Designer tank drilled (by yours truely) with a 1.5" bulkhead. A hole is cut, behind the wall. The 1.5" drain leads to a 20L sump. A Mag 9.5 feeds a ported and modd'd scwd to run the water movement in the tank (approx. 750-850 gph). A 802 powers the Refugium lit 24/7 by 28w's of 5500k PC's. A simple 10$ clip on fan keeps the tanks temperature down around 80 degrees. Lighting for the main tank is provided by a 175w MH 14k Hamilton. Faux sand bed. Tank critters 6 or 7 Hermits. (can't count them) 1 peppermint shrimp (to control aiptasia) 3 snails (could care less what kind) Corals 2 Chocolate Tri color Acroporas 1 Tri color acro 1 purple tipped elkhorn montipora 1 red encrusting montipora 1 pink stylaphora (sp?) 1 green polyp'd pacopora (sp?) 1 Pink Birds Nest 1 Brain 1 colony of zoos 1 unknown plating brain?!? Fish None- they all get sucked down the overflow and die Additives Dosing Kalkwasser 24/7 from a 32 gallon trash container (filled about once a month.) via a 3 gpd dosing pump Still working on alkalinity supplements.. testing daily 5-10 ml's live phyto per night (when I remember) Parameters Temp 78-82 (on a hot day) SG 1.025 Ph 8.4 (day) 8.3 (night) Ammonia - 0 Nitrites - 0 Nitrates - 0 (though does rise when I forget to clean out my filter sock.) Phosphates - 0 Alk - 10 Ca - 415 Mg - 1250 Turn over rate - 50-56x per hour. Almost once a minute ;-) The tank was originally set up to be a "simple" tank. As you can see though.. it's not so simple. Especially with the rats nest of plumbing I have in the "geek" room. Thanks for looking. Link to comment
imsuperjp Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 So thats the secret. Mountain Dew. Link to comment
irishbing Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Do you think a 1" drain can keep up with the mag 9.5? Link to comment
Xx_de_xX Posted July 27, 2004 Author Share Posted July 27, 2004 Originally posted by irishbing Do you think a 1" drain can keep up with the mag 9.5? No, it can't. Not unless you use a durso. When I was test running my setup, I ran everything into my 10 gallon fuge (which I also drilled and installed a 1 inch bulkhead) and it would overflow quickly. Link to comment
Xx_de_xX Posted July 27, 2004 Author Share Posted July 27, 2004 Originally posted by imsuperjp So thats the secret. Mountain Dew. ahhh.. he's figured me out! Link to comment
xcajx Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 very cool tank. A tall gorgonian would look awesome in there! Link to comment
irishbing Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Yeah im gonna use a durso. So with a durso everything should be ok? How tall should it be? Thanks. Sorry if im hijacking your thread. Link to comment
birdman204 Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Bing, I am running my mag 12 through a durso, and I feel it could handle a shade more, but not much. BTW hows it coming? My PM box was full last week, sorry XX - Neat tank shape, and the wall drilled, nice touch. Better off without the fish. Less nutrients. If you did want though, you can log onto www.marinedepot.com and they should have a grate for your overflow that will keep them from getting sucked in. Link to comment
birdman204 Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Originally posted by xcajx very cool tank. A tall gorgonian would look awesome in there! like this ? Link to comment
Xx_de_xX Posted July 27, 2004 Author Share Posted July 27, 2004 Thanks for the advice.. but I'm going for an all SPS tank I think. I need to get rid of my zoos, and my brain. Link to comment
birdman204 Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 I wasn't suggesting you don't , I was suggesting this, I only posted the gorg, cuz Caj mentioined, and you have such a tall tank. This is what I was talking about, so you can have fish. http://www.marinedepot.com/a_ft_2.asp?CartId= Link to comment
Derek_setter Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 hey---i really wanna see your tank, but it tells me that the image is no longer available .... ayudame por favor! Link to comment
dhoffroad Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 must of had too many views . Xx need to get a diff hoast Link to comment
Xx_de_xX Posted July 29, 2004 Author Share Posted July 29, 2004 The guy that was hosting them for me deleted them.. Should be working now though. Thanks for the help Link to comment
Xx_de_xX Posted July 31, 2004 Author Share Posted July 31, 2004 Latest change: Ripped out the sand bed in my fuge. Since the fuge was the slowest moving part of my setup, I decided to make a detritus settling tank out of it. I'm keeping the algae in a rubbermaid dish so it doesn't go down the overflow, but other than that, it's barebottomed now. All my water changes will come out of this tank. It's been up and running for almost two hours now, and I can already see detritus building up on the bottom. What was nice and clean is now tanish in color. Thanks for following along. Link to comment
Xx_de_xX Posted July 31, 2004 Author Share Posted July 31, 2004 Also, the 32 gallon trash container has been swapped out for a 44 gallon container. The 44 gallon will last for all of my topoff for a entire month. Ahhh... nothing to do but siphon the bottom of the 10 gallon fuge/detritus tank and watch how quickly my SPS grow. Link to comment
Withers Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 DAMN YOU, lol. i've set up one of those tanks for about a month now, and was waiting till it looked half decent before posting pics. they're AWESOME. lol, i wish i had a wall to put some equipment behind, i'm still trying to figure out a way to have an auto-topoff and not make it look ghetto with the container sitting beside the tank, lol :| ...stupid designer stand with no door Link to comment
Xx_de_xX Posted August 1, 2004 Author Share Posted August 1, 2004 A idea I had was to ditch the stand all together, and build a new cabinet for it. But make it about 5-6 feet tall, and 2-2.5 feet wide. The 15 would only be two sides viewable at that point, but you can house all kinds of stuff to the left of the tank, above it, and below it. But then I thought, if I was going to go that far, I'd get a bigger tank. You can make a door for it no problem! A jig saw, some hindges, and a handle is all you need. Just cut it out! You might wanna think about bracing though if you do that.. considering the back is open. Link to comment
Withers Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 thats a good idea. could get tricky with the tank already set up though. lol, i wonder if i could even fit anything under there that would be worth the effort of cutting out a door. Link to comment
Xx_de_xX Posted August 3, 2004 Author Share Posted August 3, 2004 My big ass magnetic MH ballast fits, but that's it. lol Link to comment
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