Recent content by epares

there is about 75 pounds of live rock,,, 2 clown fish, 1 sargeant major, 1 rainbow wrasse, 1 yellow tang.....

I have a full salt water tank setup for sale... Mature tank 5 years old... Working too much to give it the care it needs. Starfire 90 gallon tank- bought for 800$ Deltec skimmer, new aquabee pump this year paid 300$ - bought for 700$ vortec pump- bought for 500$ tunze pump- bought for 350$...

I have a rainbow Wrasse, and It looks just like that one!---E

Interesting!-- I actually switched mine from free fall to submerging it cause I didnt get enough skimate,, maybe now that the tank is a little older I should try free fall again. I have actually put a ball valve on the return since the picture you see here, and my skimmate has improved even more...

Ditto. I do Props.. There are a few of us on this board.. I am at the August Wilson.. perfect between cues to catch up on my reef knowledge!!

It seemed like a natural fit,, a few wiring changes and there you go!!-- are you in the business as well?/--E

The hard part is that I have enough room in my sump that if the power goes out, all the plumbing will be able to drain back into the sump and not overflow. the tank is about 15' away, so with 2 - 1.25" pipes on the overflow and 2- 1" pipes on the return, when the power cuts out there is quite a...

I wanted to share this unfortunate experience so that hopefully it can prevent another in the future. I have an oceanic tech tank with starfire glass 90 gallon, dual durso overflows. It has 1.25" bulkheads under the dursos with about 15' of 1.25" pipe that goes to a sump in another part of my...

power thoughts I bought two of the airstones, ran the tubes down the back of the tank, hid the tubes behind some liverock, you cant even see them. I then took my two powerheads and plugged one of them into a ups, and plugged one of the battery operated airstones into the ups. That way , when...

Skimmer question Thanks Paul!!-- That Deltec is working great!-- I have one question about it , maybe someone has a solution to this one. I took the skimmer apart top to bottom last week ( Deltec ap600 ) because , one, it has been a while and two, because after about three days of skimming...

Tank by Christmas Here we are today, with a few fish and a few corals. I am not very happy with my crushed coral right now, so I think that is going to be slowly siphoned out in the next few weeks, but overall I am pretty happy with the way it turned out !

The Transom solution It feels good to give back to the board that provided so much great info during the process! After watching a movie in the middle of the night , I came up with the idea of a transom window above the tank.. I thought stained glass would look cool, something not too...

crushed coral Timing is everything!-- I thought the end of the year would be appropriate!! I need to replace all of that crushed coral you see in the pic, I am not liking the way it looks now.. too much constant vacuuming to keep clean, I need to keep my Goby busier!!!-- see you on the 28th!

Finishing up the trim I needed to find a solution as to how to finish the top, and yet still have access from the front, while I thought about the best way, I fiinished up the trim and stained what I had done

building the reveal around the tank I wanted to frame my tank as I would a picture frame, but I also wanted it inset so that I would have a small shelf to rest things on. ( coffee- for the early mornings, Beer- for the late nites) This strategy has been very helpful in alot of ways...