tosiek's 40g upgrade DIY
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scarf_ace1981
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- Location
- San Juan, PR
awesome stuff. love everything about this tank. keep it up
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY
Looks fantastic Tony. BTW it is a crocea
- Location
- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
I'm still trying to find a name that would stick. Some days he's a Fuzzy, some days he's a Bob. That day he was Bob the acrobat. The other day he was Fuzzy the lazy starfish.
And noodle i think you might be right. I'm a clam newbie and was told it was a maxima so its stuck. I've been through the help site on differentiating clams but the shells alot like a maxima but the mantle pattern is crocea and i've given up =0) MMMMmmm....Maxima worked better for a caption though......
I've been trying to get a nice mix in with coral. The original plan was to have a bottom to top column of rock and work the coral around it having zoo's/LPs on the lower parts and hard coral or light demanding coral on the top around this column. As usual it didn't go as planned or as smoothly but it'll become that once everything sets itself in and i do a little more work. Giving my mom a 6g tank i built and donating all my zoa's to her didn't help either :frown: I gotto go frag her tank soon when she's not looking.....:theyareon
And noodle i think you might be right. I'm a clam newbie and was told it was a maxima so its stuck. I've been through the help site on differentiating clams but the shells alot like a maxima but the mantle pattern is crocea and i've given up =0) MMMMmmm....Maxima worked better for a caption though......
I've been trying to get a nice mix in with coral. The original plan was to have a bottom to top column of rock and work the coral around it having zoo's/LPs on the lower parts and hard coral or light demanding coral on the top around this column. As usual it didn't go as planned or as smoothly but it'll become that once everything sets itself in and i do a little more work. Giving my mom a 6g tank i built and donating all my zoa's to her didn't help either :frown: I gotto go frag her tank soon when she's not looking.....:theyareon
- Location
- NY
That starfish (whatever his name is) looks like a can-can dancer :lol2:
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- Location
- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
I got really into echno's recently. Here is a new one I recently added to my collection. I also aquired another metallic mint green with pink mouth echno I'll get a pic of soon.
Check out this red and its even brighter than the picture. =0) Of course Bob was in the way as usual (today he's a Bob).
I wish i got the flouresce a little more. Its so much more powdery hot red.... sigh...
Check out this red and its even brighter than the picture. =0) Of course Bob was in the way as usual (today he's a Bob).
I wish i got the flouresce a little more. Its so much more powdery hot red.... sigh...
- Location
- Upper East Side
What kind of starfish is that?
- Location
- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
Fromia Sp. Or Fromia "BoB" Sp.
Don't know the exact type of Fromia. Think it might be a Fromia Monilis but not sure. They are usually sold as a pink fromia but i haven't seen as orange of one sold anywhere. Usually pale pink with a hint of orange.
Don't know the exact type of Fromia. Think it might be a Fromia Monilis but not sure. They are usually sold as a pink fromia but i haven't seen as orange of one sold anywhere. Usually pale pink with a hint of orange.
- Location
- Upper East Side
And he isn't too destructive around your tank? :idea:
- Location
- NY
Tony, that echino is off the chart red. Looks awesome.
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- Location
- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
Meh.... Little story to help with the depression. My tank gave up.
We had a dinner for my brothers confirmation and everything was great and for some wierd reason my cousins and stuff were like "yeah, we haven't seen your tank in a long time so we're gonna come over after to see it". Which got me excited b/c they haven't seen it since i set up the new tank and its gone a long way. I get home and I walked in and said to myself crap, i forgot to take off my shoes, it was wet outside and my shoes were making squeeky noises on the parket floor. Turned on the lights and my girlfriend says "Is your dishwasher leaking? there's water all over the floor". :bigeyes2:
As you can guess it my tank threw up all over my floor :anger2:, about 25 gallons worth. Big crack running down the middle of the back of the tank. I thought it was the overflow clogging but that would only throw 5 gallons on the floor or so, which i wasn't too worried about. Tank was half empty and slowly draining and there was a mad rush with 5 people to get the water off the floor and siphon whatever salvagable water i had from the tank before it ended up on the floor.
So far nothing was affected too much except one acro colony which began opening its polyps about a week ago which was sitting almost dry up top my rocks with 2 other SPS that were sorta wet. That aside from mass shock my fish sustained from all the hustle and bustle and beeing fished for as the water slowly drained. Everything is in a big plastic container with a heater and powerhead for the night till tommorrow morning with as much Lr i can fit and all my livestock. I'm praying i won't have too much die off if any at all.
My pump from my fuge started to vibrate enough to start worrying me about a week ago. Didn't think too much about it causing any real damage (like this) and was going to order one when i placed an order next week for some stuff i needed. My rockwork also made a shift earlier this week, probably from the vibration and was laying on the back glass now which it wasn't before. I cut the overflow teeth myself and made sure I ground down past any chips that happened during the grind process but i guess i missed one. Vibration + pressure from a rock + a chip in the glass = Really bad surprise. Pretty much how this all happened.
I had this feeling at the dinner that it was getting late and i need to get home after it was extended another hour. Also my cousins asking about the tank out of nowhere was a little wierd. :scratchch
I'll be getting a small reef ready 30-40 gallon tank tommorrow for the time beeing till i get the tank fixed and up and running. Sad thing is i would have to rebuild the tank pretty much due to water damage to the wood and getting the glass panel out and a new one in. I would also have to rebuild the cabinet because i'm not chancing it to water damage. The whole cabinet is drenched and not worth it imo to future problems. My parket floor is going to start to bow on me also in a few days. Each piece is gonna mini bow on me and i'll probably have to refinish the floor soon.
I'm thinking of going slightly larger since i'll be doing all that work. Bumping it maybe to a 60g or so and making the tank longer instead of keeping a cube shape. Its currently ~40g cube and I hate getting the flow right in cubes. Plus making it larger lets me add T5 supplimentation which my current tank was too narrow for. I've only seen worthwile T5's at the shortest of 24".
Sorry for the long essay. Eulogy for a tank thats going to be put to rest for now.
We had a dinner for my brothers confirmation and everything was great and for some wierd reason my cousins and stuff were like "yeah, we haven't seen your tank in a long time so we're gonna come over after to see it". Which got me excited b/c they haven't seen it since i set up the new tank and its gone a long way. I get home and I walked in and said to myself crap, i forgot to take off my shoes, it was wet outside and my shoes were making squeeky noises on the parket floor. Turned on the lights and my girlfriend says "Is your dishwasher leaking? there's water all over the floor". :bigeyes2:
As you can guess it my tank threw up all over my floor :anger2:, about 25 gallons worth. Big crack running down the middle of the back of the tank. I thought it was the overflow clogging but that would only throw 5 gallons on the floor or so, which i wasn't too worried about. Tank was half empty and slowly draining and there was a mad rush with 5 people to get the water off the floor and siphon whatever salvagable water i had from the tank before it ended up on the floor.
So far nothing was affected too much except one acro colony which began opening its polyps about a week ago which was sitting almost dry up top my rocks with 2 other SPS that were sorta wet. That aside from mass shock my fish sustained from all the hustle and bustle and beeing fished for as the water slowly drained. Everything is in a big plastic container with a heater and powerhead for the night till tommorrow morning with as much Lr i can fit and all my livestock. I'm praying i won't have too much die off if any at all.
My pump from my fuge started to vibrate enough to start worrying me about a week ago. Didn't think too much about it causing any real damage (like this) and was going to order one when i placed an order next week for some stuff i needed. My rockwork also made a shift earlier this week, probably from the vibration and was laying on the back glass now which it wasn't before. I cut the overflow teeth myself and made sure I ground down past any chips that happened during the grind process but i guess i missed one. Vibration + pressure from a rock + a chip in the glass = Really bad surprise. Pretty much how this all happened.
I had this feeling at the dinner that it was getting late and i need to get home after it was extended another hour. Also my cousins asking about the tank out of nowhere was a little wierd. :scratchch
I'll be getting a small reef ready 30-40 gallon tank tommorrow for the time beeing till i get the tank fixed and up and running. Sad thing is i would have to rebuild the tank pretty much due to water damage to the wood and getting the glass panel out and a new one in. I would also have to rebuild the cabinet because i'm not chancing it to water damage. The whole cabinet is drenched and not worth it imo to future problems. My parket floor is going to start to bow on me also in a few days. Each piece is gonna mini bow on me and i'll probably have to refinish the floor soon.
I'm thinking of going slightly larger since i'll be doing all that work. Bumping it maybe to a 60g or so and making the tank longer instead of keeping a cube shape. Its currently ~40g cube and I hate getting the flow right in cubes. Plus making it larger lets me add T5 supplimentation which my current tank was too narrow for. I've only seen worthwile T5's at the shortest of 24".
Sorry for the long essay. Eulogy for a tank thats going to be put to rest for now.
- Location
- Forest Hills
sorry to hear. its always hard to suffer from an accident (1 of the worst in this hobby) like this. It may be hard but always look to the bright side:
-most of the inhabitants survived.
-excuse to upgrade.
-learn from building the 1st tank to avoid mistakes
hang in there, U got MR here to help.
-most of the inhabitants survived.
-excuse to upgrade.
-learn from building the 1st tank to avoid mistakes
hang in there, U got MR here to help.
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Inept at life.
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Sorry to hear T. Let me know if you need anything.
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