57 Deep Blue Rimless

[CoralReefer]

Yea I was a little nervous about drilling in the cold but everything worked out luckily.

 

[CoralReefer]

 

[CoralReefer]

The front glass has such a nice blue tint to it. I can't wait to see this thing lit up.
Im about to start dry fitting the plumbing.
Black background came out great and really should help my photos pop.
One thing I am not gonna miss about my bowfront is the lousy pictures.

 

[Ligershark]

tagging along, i have a 57 rimless coming along. i bought a used oceanic illuminata because of the glass thickness (3/8" easier for mp10 to stick) and smaller overflow box.

everything is looking good.

 

[CoralReefer]

tagging along, i have a 57 rimless coming along. i bought a used oceanic illuminata because of the glass thickness (3/8" easier for mp10 to stick) and smaller overflow box.

everything is looking good.

Thanks good luck with your build

 

[afernandez]

Very nice!!!

 

[Shastri Sookraj]

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[CoralReefer]

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O really, glad you like it.

 

[Shastri Sookraj]

O really, glad you like it.

Sorry my phone when bananas lol, great tank by the way! Lol, how hard was it to drill? I want to drill bottom overflows on a 75g

 

[CoralReefer]

Thanks. It wasn't hard to drill at all especially the second hole once I got the hang of it. Make sure you have a battery powered drill with a clutch. I set the clutch to 4 and put the drill speed on low. I went as fast as the drill would go on the low setting. Keep it lubricated and cool with water and stop every 20 seconds to let the bit cool down. Make sure the bottom glass isn't tempered.

 

[Shastri Sookraj]

Ok, thanks...I will try making some holes in some old style glass windows before I make the unbreakable mistake lol

 

[CoralReefer]

She is ready for water!

 

[TRUKINGNY]

Damn im jealous lol.. fill it up

 

[CoralReefer]

Damn im jealous lol.. fill it up

Lol I was just looking at it, like damn this tank is small. I am going to have to pack a lot of corals into it until I get my 93 cube.

 

[CoralReefer]

The cutting board came in today. I am gonna put a couple rocks in the tank to keep the board from floating and seed the tank. I originally filled the tank with instant ocean because I had it layin around but am gonna do a 50% WC with esv salt.

 

[CoralReefer]

Transferred corals finally. Need to aquascape and start drilling rocks so I can peg the corals.

Going for a bonsai reef
Very minimal aquascape. I'm loving these t5s lights that are temporary lighting my tank until I hang the radions.

 

[afernandez]

Very nice !

looking forward to see wat you come up with!

 

[CoralReefer]

Thanks man.
Well the temp creeped up 3 degrees in about 6 hours so I pulled the plug on the t5s and the radions are now back on the tank. I was getting some crazy colors from my coral with the t5s. It's been a while since I used some and I forgot how crip the light looks. Not to mention less hard on the eyes, my LEDs give me headaches sometimes. Some corals however do look better under LEDs.

Some comparison shots

36" tek 6 bulb t5:



Radion with TIR:

 

[lnevo]

Usually LED photos don't look so hot...but I would choose the radion pics over the t5 any day!

 

[CoralReefer]

Usually LED photos don't look so hot...but I would choose the radion pics over the t5 any day!

I have a slim window from around 4-5pm in my lighting schedule where I can capture the colors really nice with LEDs.
Any other time of day and the blue is over powering.

I am with you though, overall I think led light is better, granted I had to raise my LEDs to around 14" off the water to closely match the spread of the t5.