90 & 20

[Manny]

My Tank Log

AGA 90 gallon mix reef
AGA 20 gallon side mounted planted
30 gallon oceanic sump

Filtration:
165+ lbs. liverock
80+ lbs. livesand
Euroreef skimmer ?model from a 120g
Euroreef cs80
filter sock
Spectrapure RODI

Aquacontroller II runs:
Lighting
main display
Sunlight Supply Maristar HQI-T5 fixture
-2 dual 250w 12.5k MH on Bluewave 7 dual ballast
-4 54w T5 1 true actinic, 2 actinic+, 1 15k
planted tank
2 100w compact flourescent 5500k
1 75w compact flourescent 6500k
Temp.
1/3 hp chiller
400w heater

Flow:
Blueline T3 return @ 850 gph
Poseidon PS3 closed loop (through chiller) 3/4 seaswirl

Parameters:
good

Livestock
90 gallon
fish & inverts
Clown Tang
Yellow Tang
Mated pair of False Percs
3 Anthias Squampi's
Blackcap
Mated pair of Diamond Gobies
5 blue/green Chromis
70 Blue Leg Hermits
Scarlet Hermits
Harlequin Shrimp
2 Cleaner Shrimp
2 Pepermint shrimp
Serpant star
Boxer Crab
1 Mexican Turbo Snail
nasarius snails
turbo snails
coral
Open Brain
Wellsophelia
Zoas
monti's
Acro's
Milli's
Mushrooms
Pipe Organ
Ricordia
Frogspawn
Hammer
Anthelia
Maxima clam
clove polyps
acan
chalice
Xenia
Trumpet coral
10+ featherdusters
20 gallon
fish & inverts
Baby Box fish
multibanded pipefish
nasarius snails
3 Pepermint shrimp
Blue Leg Hermits
blown button polyps
macro algae
Caulerpa sertularioides (nutrient export only)
unknown Caulerpa (Tang food)
Red algae (gracilaria or Halymenia I think) (tang food)

Thank you very much to:
Kedd
JasonE
Read W
who's brains I've picked so much in the past two months
and have hooked me up with some killer frags and equiptment
to get me started.

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[Manny]

filling the tank took me almost 3 full days:Yikes:

curing rock in my kitchen was no fun at all

Had to finish it off in the tank:idea:

 

[Manny]

was bored of watching my rock cure so I started another project

 

[scarf_ace1981]

that 90 looks very nice in that spot. there's nothing wrong w/ curing the rock in the tank, you have nothing in the tank so it's perfectly fine. you could have probably left half the amount of space behind the tank.

cant wait to see it's progress. looks very nice

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

tank looks great!! in my opinion i dont think you should of put the smaller tank next to your 90g. the 90 is amazing and the smaller tank just takes away from it. nice setup.. love the stand too

 

[Manny]

that 90 looks very nice in that spot. there's nothing wrong w/ curing the rock in the tank, you have nothing in the tank so it's perfectly fine. you could have probably left half the amount of space behind the tank.

cant wait to see it's progress. looks very nice

Thank you, I moved the tank to 3 different places and this was my favorite, not much room in a 900sq ft apt.. I probably could have gone with less space but I like the working room plus it's the way to the balcony that I never use(RO waste water goes right out the door 8 floors down:biglaugh.


SuRFeR BoY, thanks for the compliment. At first the side tank was just going to be a well groomed refugium. Now it's more of the "wife's" tank. Gonna try to make it a "pretty" little macro garden with some zoas and a pipefish(or 2 max). So hopefully they will look nice together . Stand is a custom keddstand with some marine paint slapped on:approve:

 

[scarf_ace1981]

i was gonna suggest to put the smaller tank in that back but since it's "the wife's tank" there is no way you can move it now. LOL

wish you the best
jon-

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

lol ahaha.. nice i like tanks that look natural with macro... i tried to add some feather caulerpa in my tank but my tang mowed it all down :anger2:

 

[DEEPWATER]

Nice looking tank manny .Good idea to have a wifey tank ,this way she get to play with that tank and not yours :shhh:

cant wait for the corals to go in ,they have nice amount of room to grow

Keep up the good work .BTW that tank look sweet in that spot

Ronen

 

[crox99]

Sweet setup. Did you drill the 20g yourself?

 

[Manny]

Nice looking tank manny .Good idea to have a wifey tank ,this way she get to play with that tank and not yours :shhh:

cant wait for the corals to go in ,they have nice amount of room to grow

Keep up the good work .BTW that tank look sweet in that spot

Ronen

Thanks Ronen,
Rock look familiar:scratch:!? It cured pretty quick:teeth:!

I'm having so much fun setting up the new tank.

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crox,
Yes I did drill it myself:smoker:

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So as of right now, I'm planning on making the move this sunday. I couldn't help myself and threw a couple thing in today.

lol... I wonder which rock came from my 30g
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[crox99]

Keep us posted on the progress.

 

[crox99]

crox,
Yes I did drill it myself:smoker:

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Is it hard to drill glass?

 

[Manny]

It has begun

wohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:groupflip

I finally did it:smokin:

 

[Manny]

I decided to up the light in the 20g "the farm". I think I had enough light for what I'm going for but the aga hood was restricting my rig from getting light throughout the entire tank:irked:. So I built a temporary canopy (or maybe just unfinished for now) to help me out and I figured... "what the hell one more bulb can't hurt":lol2:. Oh and I've since the pics where taken pulled out the pvc. It was just to raise the caulerpa closer to the light

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

nice.. did you know they sell artinics and 50/50 bulbs too?!

 

[Manny]

nice.. did you know they sell artinics and 50/50 bulbs too?!

what do you mean... in compact flourescent?!? I did not.
If I can manage to match the paint to the 90 stand, I will pretty up the canopy and retro fit a 24w T5 actinic+ into the canopy.

 

[Psycho graphic]

Is it hard to drill glass?

It's very easy. You just have to convince yourself you can do it.

 

[Manny]

Check out my new buddy:biggrin: Picked him up at Greenwich Aquaria along with a couple other thing but my Halides aren't on yet so no pics

 

[headlessblade]

wow nice indeed