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12-26-2006, 04:23 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: G.V NYC
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I spent the last three days working on the new aquascape for my tank. It's the complition of the rock cooking & rock pillar thread. I ended up making six of the pillars which I'll show in seperate photos. The photo below is a photomerge of 5 pics, that's why you'll see some fuzzy overlap in the image, and three large blue damsels (there is just one damsel, he got in three of the five shots)  tank specs, custom glass cages tank 60"x24"x20", 1/2" marina board bottom with a very shallow ESV fine grained sand bed 1/2"-2" deep flow tunze 6060, tunze 6080, vortech (on order) lighting 3x250 10k EVC se bulbs on IC balasts, 2x4' t-5 actinics, 2x4' white vhos, both on IC430's, 3-4" fans in the hood filtration deep sand bed fuge in sump packed with cheato, DAS EX-2, ESV GAC in a flow through chamber supplements Randys 2 part fed by an aquamedic doser. also adding the ESV supplements. return pump sequence snapper flowing through a 1/2 hp red sea chiller Previous Tank Threads SPS Island Reef 120 SPS Reef anthelia heaven 1994 Reef other threads jose the mandarin coral from 4/05 coral from 4/05 cont. let's get ready to rumble! arts and craft power heads old school QT biotopes my battle with red bugs Last edited by jhale; 02-09-2007 at 08:22 AM. |
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12-26-2006, 04:24 AM
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| paper bags are fun!
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: G.V NYC
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pillar advice • buy at least two of each drill bit • wrap a towel around the rocks to hold them while drilling • keep the towel well away from the drill bit • when placing pillars in the tank it's better to put them in half made, they get bulky and heavy. getting ready for the job, buckets to hold the rocks and bins to hold the coral. take out all the coral that you do not want to break   the bin of rocks is finaly ready  rock drilling station, a corded drill with a smaller diameter bit, the cordless drill with the 1/2" bit, a cutting board that I don't mind putting some round dents in. lots of towels.  half of the first pillar.  in the tank,  Last edited by jhale; 12-26-2006 at 12:39 PM. |
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12-26-2006, 04:24 AM
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| paper bags are fun!
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the second pillar, I did not spend a lot of time picking the rocks, I just went with what looked good at the top of the bucket. http://www.manhattanreefs.com/galler....php?i=8844&c= some of them I got all crazy and put two support rods in. this allowed for two levels of rocks and some interesting configurations.  one side done  the almost complete structure  half the pillars in the tank , photo credit deanos  in the end I made seven pillars, but used six of them. the full tank shot flattens out the depth, but in person there is quite a bit of depth between the pillars and I really like the way they break the surface of the water. it gives the  a place to go sun bathe  Last edited by jhale; 12-26-2006 at 12:48 PM. |
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12-26-2006, 04:25 AM
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| Soon To Be Nano KiNg ;)  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Staten Island
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J let me be the 1st to say D A M N.... Looks freakin awesome dude..... great job... you deserve something that beautiful J . good luck this time..
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12-26-2006, 08:32 AM
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someone has been hiding his master piece  Very nice job dude ,,Now get them pics up Ronen |
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12-26-2006, 09:05 AM
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vn jon....its a constant evolution...keep workin it, WTG!
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12-26-2006, 09:46 AM
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Nice to see the tank coming back Jon. Post some larger pics. I can't see anything in that FTS
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12-26-2006, 09:47 AM
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wow, well crafted sir, hmmm wait a sec, hey whats all that sandy lookin' stuff on the bottom of your tank J?
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