Addiction wins, 450 gallon system begins
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Oriental Reefer: and steveoutlaw: Thanks guys, I'm really humbled. But really like I said before it was the other tanks here at RC, most of them less than 100 gallons, that led me on this path.
And like jnarowe said...salty65gal: how is that fox face? I'm thinking a fox face and a couple tangs as the first new guys...
And like jnarowe said...salty65gal: how is that fox face? I'm thinking a fox face and a couple tangs as the first new guys...
jnarowe: I hear ya... Been thinking so much about the set up that the reality of stocking is just now hitting. Torn between a medium school and a few show stoppers or all out beauties... Not sure.
JW Jersey: Thanks, me too. Should have rock and my whole 4 fish in it this weekend
Today I managed to play more than work and snuck a little nap in. This afternoon I got a few more items wired, built the feeding door, installed the fans, played with the AC Jr. and fixed the leaky drain in the crawl space. Oh and I watched the water from the RO/DI fill the tank! It's about 11 inches deep right now! Going a tad faster than I thought it would.
Here's a few boring pics.
First up is the left side of the cabinet access. This is the only cabinet area in the lower portion connected to the rest of the tank. All the ballasts and heat producing items are in here in order to vent with the fans. I still have to mop up the wiring, but everything seems to be working at the moment.
And here is the intake fan for the canopy area. Not much to look at, but what the hey I figured it was worth a picture. Below this fan is an 8"X8" feeding door. This way I can feed the tank without opening one of the large access holes in the front. You can just make out the top of the access port above the lights. When this thing is done I plan on doing a full photo-walkthrough.
So in the AM, I am planning on finishing the top off system, cleaning the wetroom, remembering to glue one of the OM legs I had to move, finishing up some painting/caulking and hopefully doing some insulating under the house
JW Jersey: Thanks, me too. Should have rock and my whole 4 fish in it this weekend
Today I managed to play more than work and snuck a little nap in. This afternoon I got a few more items wired, built the feeding door, installed the fans, played with the AC Jr. and fixed the leaky drain in the crawl space. Oh and I watched the water from the RO/DI fill the tank! It's about 11 inches deep right now! Going a tad faster than I thought it would.
Here's a few boring pics.
First up is the left side of the cabinet access. This is the only cabinet area in the lower portion connected to the rest of the tank. All the ballasts and heat producing items are in here in order to vent with the fans. I still have to mop up the wiring, but everything seems to be working at the moment.
And here is the intake fan for the canopy area. Not much to look at, but what the hey I figured it was worth a picture. Below this fan is an 8"X8" feeding door. This way I can feed the tank without opening one of the large access holes in the front. You can just make out the top of the access port above the lights. When this thing is done I plan on doing a full photo-walkthrough.
So in the AM, I am planning on finishing the top off system, cleaning the wetroom, remembering to glue one of the OM legs I had to move, finishing up some painting/caulking and hopefully doing some insulating under the house
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I am going to put in a school of something in mine. Not sure yet,, but probably a less expensive hardier fish to get the reef going. I think running with a doen or so for a while will help work out the bugs in the system before I drop in any prize fish. Terrible thing is I am getting liveaquaria emails every week and salivating non -stop!
That fan looks tiny. I am using 2-4" and 1-6" to vent the fish room. The 6" will vent the room based on room temp and humidity, and the 2-4" fans will vent the area over the tank based on tank temp. I'll have a louvered intake under my deck to draw in outside air and a marine dehumidifier running 24/7. Keep in mind though that the base lighting for my tank will be 3-1000W MH 20K's. Think I will need a chiller? LOL!--J
That fan looks tiny. I am using 2-4" and 1-6" to vent the fish room. The 6" will vent the room based on room temp and humidity, and the 2-4" fans will vent the area over the tank based on tank temp. I'll have a louvered intake under my deck to draw in outside air and a marine dehumidifier running 24/7. Keep in mind though that the base lighting for my tank will be 3-1000W MH 20K's. Think I will need a chiller? LOL!--J
Yeah I keep bouncing back and forth on the fish. I'm thinking that this weekend my chromis and coral beauty will be in there with the shrimp, crabs and snails. Then I have to move my FW fish out of my quarantine tank, get the 125 converted back over to FW. Then I'll order the next round of fish for the reef and have six weeks for the system to mature a tad before releasing the next batch in the reef. I've been looking at a few of the new chromis species at DR. Foster as well as a Naso Tang, white cheek tang (my last one died of a fungus and took out my 5 black bar chromis and prior coral beauty before I could tell something was wrong) and a fox face.
Those fans are actually 4" fans. They turn over about 3500 Cubic Feet per hour, which is about 31 times turn over of the canopy section per hour. I have one blowing in and one outside. They are rigged into the AC Jr. on both a time basis as well as temperature basis.
Yeah I think that you might and I stress might need a chiller running those mammoth lights. I bet a 1/5 horse power would do it:lol:
Those fans are actually 4" fans. They turn over about 3500 Cubic Feet per hour, which is about 31 times turn over of the canopy section per hour. I have one blowing in and one outside. They are rigged into the AC Jr. on both a time basis as well as temperature basis.
Yeah I think that you might and I stress might need a chiller running those mammoth lights. I bet a 1/5 horse power would do it:lol:
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I'll have to measure mine...they look a whole lot bigger than those. I got them off a guy going to the big house for growing something other than tomatoes.
Yeah, turns out they are all commercial rated 6" fans.
I have not gotten into the humidity control unit yet. The temp. one is easy, but I am sure humidity probes are easy enough to get either from a agricultural supply house or propertyroom.com!
Yeah, turns out they are all commercial rated 6" fans.
I have not gotten into the humidity control unit yet. The temp. one is easy, but I am sure humidity probes are easy enough to get either from a agricultural supply house or propertyroom.com!
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BTW, for anyone interested, I just posted some photos to my gallery. Some are of a 70g planted that I experimented with handi-foam on, and I am really pleased with the results. That may be a very good way to deal with my reef. Also in there a 3 shots of my reef tank in waiting.--J
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jacmyoung: Thanks, It should be back up and running here real soon. I'm going to cut back on the lighting though. 5 WPG on a planted tank was insane to keep up with. I'm cutting back to about 2.5 WPG, PC and going to cut things back a bit. I might even get rid of the light demanding plants and do a 1.5 WPGish low tech/no Co2 injected scape.
alten78: I would hesitate on the hero:lol:, maybe clumsy reefer! The rocks from Capt. Jer were reasonable when you compare shipping quality live rock to rural Colorado. The only SW LFS here is 50 minutes away and they want $10.00 a pound for junk. Shipping it here is $6-18.00 per pound, as I really didn't like the mass of the TBS and others. I really like the porous, less dense look that I got. It was a little less than double hirocks, but after I got a shipment of their "best rock" that was absolute junk, I refused to go back. I e-mailed Capt jer, told him what I wanted and in a few days he had set up the rock similar to a diagram I sent him and fired off pictures to me. After a few ideas back and forth, I think I got the rock that I wanted. It's hard to tell in the pics, but these rocks are huge. Two of them are over 54 lbs. each and one is 3' across.
alten78: I would hesitate on the hero:lol:, maybe clumsy reefer! The rocks from Capt. Jer were reasonable when you compare shipping quality live rock to rural Colorado. The only SW LFS here is 50 minutes away and they want $10.00 a pound for junk. Shipping it here is $6-18.00 per pound, as I really didn't like the mass of the TBS and others. I really like the porous, less dense look that I got. It was a little less than double hirocks, but after I got a shipment of their "best rock" that was absolute junk, I refused to go back. I e-mailed Capt jer, told him what I wanted and in a few days he had set up the rock similar to a diagram I sent him and fired off pictures to me. After a few ideas back and forth, I think I got the rock that I wanted. It's hard to tell in the pics, but these rocks are huge. Two of them are over 54 lbs. each and one is 3' across.
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jnarowe: Thats a big tank... Makes mine look like a little breeder!
And I second what melev says. Currently I use plantedtank.net to host pics, $1.99 mo for 25 megs. If I get to the point where I think that this tank or someway I can benefit the hobby, I may get an actual site up and running and discontinue the picture hosting site.
And I second what melev says. Currently I use plantedtank.net to host pics, $1.99 mo for 25 megs. If I get to the point where I think that this tank or someway I can benefit the hobby, I may get an actual site up and running and discontinue the picture hosting site.
JN - that tanks a monster, can't wait to see that one set up
Hop - What can I say, but awesome set up. Makes me jealous of all you fish room people. it would be nice to have some extra space to set up equipment and extra sumps. Maybe in the next house. As far as fish go, I have a Naso, purple, yellow, kole and a Indian mimic tang with a large foxface and they are all great buddies.
Hop - What can I say, but awesome set up. Makes me jealous of all you fish room people. it would be nice to have some extra space to set up equipment and extra sumps. Maybe in the next house. As far as fish go, I have a Naso, purple, yellow, kole and a Indian mimic tang with a large foxface and they are all great buddies.
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