75 gallon, revised edition

[AquariumPerson]

Hello, so it turned out my 75g. acropora tank crashed due to a stuck auto-top off system. Anyhow, I saved the rock, because I knew there had to be some life on it, "cured" it for a week in my 125g. aquarium's sump, and then put it in my 75. As you can see my before 75g. was BB, my new one is DSB. A big difference, but I think it will work for me. Also, the elegance corals you see has been with me for over a year, I bought it January 2005. It was $60 and it looked really healthy at the store so I thought what the heck and bought it. It lived. Anyways, here are the pics tell me what you think.

BEFORE:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/glooney/tankdead001.jpg

AFTER:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/glooney/newsevfiv003.jpg



Here is a pic of my Elegance. It is not fully open in the pic. it gets twice that big.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/glooney/newsevfiv002.jpg

I proveded a URL and image so everyone could view the pics.



Tell me what you think.

 

[kbmdale]

NICE...What kinda lighting you running I like the color

 

[Lpsfanatic338]

The elegance is really nice. That's a really long time to have one, Most peoples die within a couple months

 

[rizkeeper]

nice tin foil....

how did the top off crash the tank?

new tank looks good

 

[AquariumPerson]

it crashed the tank because it was plumbed directly into the water source and I was using a toilet float valve and I guess a peice of carbon or something got stuck in it on the on position and it kept putting huge sums of fw into the tank. Did I mention that 100+ gallons of water were dumped onto the floor due it the auto top off continually putting water into the tank? I had to remove the carpet to put new padding down. The flooding was all in my room and even went into the hallway. Ahh well, I think I am going to like my new system better anyways.

This my surprise/scare you, but right now I have one VHO atentic, and one VHO atentic white. Thats it. Next year when the time comes to replace the bulbs I am going to use a aquasun white instead of a atentic white. I like that pink color those bulbs give off.

 

[Andrew]

Looks sweet! I like how you have alot of sandbed space.

 

[kbmdale]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6541052#post6541052 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AquariumPerson


This my surprise/scare you, but right now I have one VHO atentic, and one VHO atentic white. Thats it. Next year when the time comes to replace the bulbs I am going to use a aquasun white instead of a atentic white. I like that pink color those bulbs give off.

Not really surprised . Thats the same light I have on my 75 right now. Of course I'm still in the build stage, once I am done I will move the 3 95w VHO bulbs from my 30g as I move the corals over. I want to have one end with great lighting and one end that is alittle darker for my shroom garden...
Talk about pink..This is an aquasun comapred to a actinic white..

aquasun

actinic white

LOL...PINK aint it.

 

[AquariumPerson]

DANG!!! i didnt realize the difference!

 

[AquariumPerson]

ohh and BTW before on my old 75g. setup i had the two vhos, but they were atentic, and i had (2) 250w. SE XM 10K bulbs. they looked yellow too much to me. I am going to get those fish "that I have always wanted" with the tank I have now. You know, those ultra pretty or rare ones. I want a longhorn cowfish but........



I had a "Scrawled Cowfish" before. I cought it in the keys. At died tho cause it jumped out of the tank. I also had one before that one that i also cought in the keys, it only ate whole shrimp from the supermarket. It lived like months, then I traded it in to the LFS and it died almost immediately. HUH I say. IT was kool, a little big for a 75g. tank, (at 7" long and 4" wide and 5" talll) but it was triangle shaped and kool. anyways..

 

[kbmdale]

It blends nicely if you have 1 aquasun, 1 actinic white, 1 superactinic... But still to pink for me..