My New 72 Bowfront

[Lenny718]

Sweet Tank, Best of luck with it!

 

[CHEMCHEF]

New Aquascape!!! Big Changes!!!

Well I decided to redo my tank. I had some issues with my first try at a reef tank larger than a nano.
I do not have before pics but the tank looked like it did in the pics on the first page of this thread. Plus 30 various frags and some coraline algae.

I thought this would be a daunting task, but it was really alot of fun and went fairly quickly. I started @ 11:30 and I had sand water and live rock in by 3:00.
Happily I still have my ap24 set up with water and sand. It is waiting to go to my fathers house. Yes a new reefer. So I put all my fish in that.
I put all corals in a rubbermaid container with a heater and small powerhead.
All my rock went into a container with tank water.(Some of the rock was above the water line and the coraline got discolored. It looks pink now)
So Here are some pics

Container (hopefully not CASKET) full of corals.

Fish in temporary home.

Water and rock back in tank. Clearing up nicely with a sump full of floss. Literally intake and return chamers full of floss.

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[CHEMCHEF]

Fish are finally back in. Corals will go in tomorrow.
Good Night!
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[DrCooper]

damn nice tank!

 

[Mr. Softy]

Chef i got tired just looking at all that work you did. Three mugs for you.:beer::beer::beer:

 

[Awibrandy]

Well done CHEF! Love the new look......................

 

[PurpleTang]

nice new aquascaping! that black sand looks sick

 

[PolandSpring]

yah it looks good.. i cant wait to see corals in it

btw.. i was just wondering what light are you using?

 

[CHEMCHEF]

Thanks everyone. I just got some corals in. I will post more pics tomorrow.

 

[CHEMCHEF]

This one:splitspin
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/sale-trade/58421-fs-aqua-vim-48-2x150-mh-2x54wt-5-fixture.html

yah it looks good.. i cant wait to see corals in it

btw.. i was just wondering what light are you using?

 

[Awibrandy]

This one:splitspin
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/sale-trade/58421-fs-aqua-vim-48-2x150-mh-2x54wt-5-fixture.html

What are you switching to? I really like that fixture. If I was setting up my 55 or 75 I definitely would have snatched it up from you....

By the way, I love that black sand!!!!!!:inlove: More so then the black gravel I had in my FW oh so many years ago...

 

[CHEMCHEF]

I am switching to an aquactinics. This one is a little wide for my tank, being tank is only 12" wide at the end. Plus my wife can't take the gap between the light and the top of the tank. The new light sits right on top of the tank.
The black sand really makes the corals pop:splitspin

 

[JHOV2324]

:wow: sweeet dude...this makes me want to go with black sand :scratch:

 

[mckostya]

wow black sand, very neat. never seen black sand lol
would like to see picture with corals in!

 

[CHEMCHEF]

I'm waiting for my lights to come on and I will take some. I cant wait to see

wow black sand, very neat. never seen black sand lol
would like to see picture with corals in!

 

[CHEMCHEF]

Updated Pics

 

[CHEMCHEF]

 

[mckostya]

the sand actually looks more dark blue to me now. now its time to get more frags!! good thing swap is right around corner

 

[CHEMCHEF]

So i'm happy to say that all of my corals seemed to open up last night.
I only lost one piece and it was on it's way out anyway. All fish survived the move no problem. They didnt seem stressed out a all.
All in all it was as succesful as I could have hope for.

 

[Awibrandy]

Good to hear/read! Loving the black sand!! May I add a bit of advice? Will it bother you or your wife to see algea film growing on the side of your tank? If it will then I would move the rocks away from the glass leaving room for a mag float or better yet for your hand to get to the glass to clean it.:bablefish
Otherwise, great job J! Wish I could have stayed to help, but as you know my son was waiting in the car.