Bristol's 26 Bowfront

[bigbris1]

I thought this would be a nice 33,000th thread!

Recently picked up a brand new AGA 26 bowfront. I especially like the dimensions & the black silicone edge trim. Lighting is 130W PC + Lunar fixture by Coralife. A MJ1200 for flow & a heater is inside. Not going to drill this one. Picked up a AquaC Remora for a song on ebay, which should come later this week. I plan on custom making an overflow/surface skimming box for the Remora out of black acrylic which is much smaller than the one currently offered by AquaC.

So far I have stocked it with like 30lbs of beautiful rock I got from Leo, & added like 30lbs of sand from my other system. A two-sided vinyl background lines the back glass (Blue side facing forward for now).

Livestock so far is my son's beautiful pair of ORA misbar ocellaris clowns I got from Alex a few months ago, a zebra hermit, 3 nerite snails & 1 black turbo snail.

Hopefully I will pick up a few coral piece this evening.

Original aquascape with the 6 rocks I bought from Leo:

After picking up a couple more rocks from Leo:

Looks much better in person, these pics are with my phone, I'll try to take some better ones.

 

[bigbris1]

Added a Remora, put the heater inside the Remora. Also added like 35 pieces of coral. Ordered T5 retro kit. Coralife digital thermometer & Sure Grip 50 on the MJ1200.

Just before the GB

Today:

 

[JLAudio]

Tank looks great and Love the aquascaping! One suggestion, bring the bottom of the rocks out a bit so they are ascending in a diagnol, with the bottom furthest from the back, so you can have more surface area to load up with frags. Just a suggestion from my warped logic, but asthetically looks great

 

[bigbris1]

Thanks!

That's the way it is, sloping down & forward from the top.

 

[JLAudio]

Perfect, tough to tell from the camera view. I just setup a 36 corner reef and after I made all this nice aquascape, with caves and other things, I realized I have no flat places to put any corals.

 

[bigbris1]

I took another pic from the side, I have to get a better camera!

 

[jcohen9999]

Welcome to the 26G BF Club!

Here's mine:

It's actually on its second life now.

Jeff

 

[emmanuel]

looking good bigbris I see my babies in there

 

[bigbris1]

Thanks Manny, those are some big babies! I never saw candy canes & trumpets so big. And they extend their feeder tentacles everyday.

Thanks again man!

 

[Awibrandy]

Very nice!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bigbris1]

Some pics from just now with my Olympus D-535

 

[neptune]

yo'ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[bigbris1]

Got some frags for me?

 

[Awibrandy]

bigbris, the tank looks outstanding!! Only 1 concern, watch out for the candy canes & trumpets being so close to the frog spawn & hammer!

 

[steve614]

tank looks great!do you glue the discs to the rocks?
steve

 

[bigbris1]

Thanks!

Yeah Awilda, I was staring at the tank for about 20 minutes trying to decide where to move that trumpet to.

Steve, nothing's glued, I'm waiting to pick some up, then I will bust the rest of the frags off of the disks (except of the sps which are encrusted) & glue them to the rocks. I hate disks.

It's coming along, I just wish I could capture on camera the way it looks with just the actinics :bigeyes:

 

[grundig5]

Lookin good Bris...those actinics are tough to capture in a photo. Now to play the waiting/growing out game...

 

[Chris5]

Looks good ... How do you like the T5's vs the Powercompacts? Do you have any pics of the lights on your tank?

Keep up the good work ... :knockedou

 

[bigbris1]

Thanks Josh.

Chris, I will never buy a PC fixture again! I can post pics of the lights later.

Thanks!

 

[CancerverO]

beautiful tank.. I saw it the other day.. clean and neat.. good job man.. and I know u loving the T5s... :thrash: