225g Display 500g+ build thread

News Flash on the Equpiment front:

Replacement Power cable for Ozone showed unit showed up! Got it temporary installed to check my orp. Woke up this morning 264 ORP! Agggg!! Soooo I'm thinking either (hopefully) my probe is dirty from sitting around for a year not being used..ooor I got some ORP problems.

Yesterday I took the calcium reactor apart cleaned it up, tightend all the fittings, and am just awaiting a new mag pump before I re-install it.
 
Bumpity bump! Lots of new stuff this weekend, hopefully I'll get some photos tonight.

Picked up a 100lbs of dead rock.
New lighting system
several new fish inlcuding a pair of HOT Blue Spot Jawfish!
and a few new Inverts!
 
more goodies arrived today! So Hopefully i'll get everything together and snap some pics this weekend,

new finnex digital controller
2x 400w SE XM's
2x Luminarcs III
1x PFO Duel 400w Ballast

The lumiarcs with there 20x20 print should cover my much nicer then the 2 smaller 250w DE pendants.

I also half skinned the fake canopy (still need to purchase moldings my next trip down south)
 
Thanks!

Here's a pic of one of my Jawfish.

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Updated Pic of the tank, with the Luminarcs III's and XM bulbs, also the "fake" canopy. Still Need to go buy matching moldings next time I'm near a home depot, (none in mammoth) and patch the hole in the celing where the fan was.

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3 Month Update Photo! Wow I let this thread go so much to update.. hopefully I'll find the time to get everybody up to date..but for now..
Progress photos..

09/26/06
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1/02/07
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Thanks for the Kind Comments.

Victoria, I hid a little frag shelf behind one of my tunzees. You can see where I cut the purple cap for you in the last photo ;)
 
Hehe *crosses fingures* Just a few years for them to grow in and i'm ready! Frags are doing great! Thanks again! Glued them down last nite :) When do you want to come by?! I'll be around all weekend, and I have monday off.
 
Mammothreefer

Tank looks awesome and love the "fish room"

I'm in planning phase of my upgrade to a 120 gallon and wondered if you had any similar problems I'm running into. My sump room will be 35'(sump,refugium, frag tanks and qt tanks, a small room built in my garage) away from the display tank. A slight elevation change of 6'. I noticed you had two overflow pipes leaving your tank. Did you plumb it that way to get more water out to the sump for that big sized return pump? My probem is that one overflow pipe (1") I don't think is big enough to supply water to the sump fast enough to keep up with my return pump. 1200 gph is what we are looking out using. Gravity fed flow is not going to be enough over that distance. What would you do if you had a long distance to travel with your water.
ANy hep would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

MIke
 
Hi Mike, I had that problem with my frag tank but it was acyrlic so I was able to just cut a bigger whole and plump a larger fitting in the back. People also suggeted I could lift the tank up a bit higher.

As far as the main tank, I got it used (traded my 90's for it).. So I just kinda set it up as is.. lately i've been wondering if I can remove one of the 2 stand pipes for better aquascaping options. The main tank to the sump in the garage is a very short distance.. maybe the pipe is 3'

Hope this helps
 
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