Angela's 270 tank thread

I wanted to update soon but hate to bump up without no exciting stuff! My fish all made it through the velvet oputbreak except a royal gramma and the wrass I think brought it in. So 2 fish is not bad for such a nasty disease! I am acclimating some fish for the 270 as we speak. It has set fallow for 5 weeks tommorow and I am so very tired of tanks every where!
Most all my stony things from the original move did not make it. Things I thought were OK started slowley receeding from the base up and pretty much had a 100% wipe out on all hard corals but zoas and softies are kickin it, naturally! I will post some pics soon. I got 3 huge colonies from Doodoobrown that are fine. So it was the bad aclimation that killed my other corals.
 
My zoa tank will be the tank to love after I get it going and it fills in thanks to all the cool fraggs from Steve today! I can't wait to get the fish out of it to get it going!!
 
My Oceans motions 4 way is here and I can't brag enouph on the customer service from the company! I sent a email with some questions and Paul called me within a hour to talk me through it in person. I was only expecting a email back. This is the 3rd time I have talked with him and he has been a huge help with layout and pump choices for my tank.

My sequence dart 3,600 gph pump is on its way from Premium Aquatics, another #1 company to do buisness with. I could have gotten a 6 month old dart from the selling forums cheaper but PA was wonderful with a issue I had last week so I choce to give them my buisness for the pump because they have great customer service.

I ordered a auto top off unit yesterday also so hopefully within a week I will have all the big tank set up behind me. I just went with a cheap ATO from the link in melvsreef homepage.

I only tell myself I am "almost done" We all know that is a lie and its never finished. As long as my hubby keeps beliving its almost done I am good! :lol:

But he is catching on its never done....
 
LOL, yeah -- it's never done :)

I like PA as well. I've ordered quite a bit of stuff from them lately as well. It'll be cool to see your tank when you get it all set up.
 
Angela, how is the tank doing???? Any updated pics as long as things are moving better. My tank is doing ok, but seems my red slime is back a bit. Going to do a water change and change some flow again. My big huge colt coral seems to be not doing so well, it was big and one of my originals. My zoos seem to do best. Once you get the tank back in check, let me know, I will try to share some things out of the tank for you.
 
I will try to get pics up when I get the closed loop going hopefully this weekend! I am having mild red slime due to low flow areas right now also.
 
Just got finnished with a big water change! A little behind scheduel, suppose to be done on or about the first of November. I keep promising pics but its still just duck taped together, literally! Maybe I will post some pics of the way a reef is not suppose to be run! :lol: I did get my closed loop runnig and it is messing up the sand pretty bad in a few places. I am not real happy with the flow pattern either I designed but live and learn. Its all PVC so it can be modified when I have a Saturday to spare.
 
angela, if you need a hand replumbing let me know, its what i did for a living for a long time and now for an even longer time ive been wholesaling the parts and fittings. i also work for free for friends :) wether you need tank plumbing parts or new faucets/toilets etc. you guys let me know.<~~~steve
 
Thanks for the offer turbo, my re-configuring would be small tweeks inside the tank with the direction of flow. Just getting to the outlets will take some major rock movement!

Here are a few pics of what I am talking about with everything just in limbo waiting on someone to get off there butt and finnish!

A look at what it looks like 99% of the time, doors open and all :lol: always needing to do something! Cory just wishes he would come home one day to find a finished tank.
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A close up of my "fancy" hood ventalation system....
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A look where the auto top off will sit when it stops being a electrical fire hazzard, I wonder how many cords are too many.... :lol: FWIW I do have a dedicated 20 Amp circute and another almost dedicated 15 Amp. The lights alone take up 8 plugs. I really need to get this taken care of and on a board.
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And I might as well say I run skimmerless......Think this thing is working at peak preformance with so much gunk in the neck? :lol: My way underated AquaC180 does a pretty good job when its clean though.
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And a shot of the huge closed loop. My Oceans motions 4 way is split down 2 each outlet so its kinda like a 8 way. I used spaflex thinking it would be easier to plumb and more forgiving of getting just the right angle but it took up a ton of room! That stuff doesn't bend very well at all. And thank goodness for union joints! I have had to take the Whole closed loop off twice from a problem with my dart. The company fixed the problem right away though but a super pain. BTW, I love my Dart and it pumps great even splitting it down 8 ways!
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I will try to take some tank shots soon. It seriously needs a good cleaning and some re-arranging first. Once I got it so far it has just been on the back burner. I have to take the top off to do the re-aranging I want and that is a major deal. But would force me to address the electrical issue I guess.

Oh one more pic of my zoa dominent 29... Kinda
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It's been like this for a few days now really begging me to put it back together. Procrastination is my middle name! :lol:
 
lol..excellent pictures angela. That first one is beautiful. I can completely relate. The whole bottom level of your home could keep a hobbyist's interest for hours. I like the "practical approach" type feel down there. Very cool.
 
:lol: Yea Daniel and His girlfreind saw my shambles of a tank room a few weeks ago! I have tanks and reef stuff litterally everywhere. The basement is MY domaine :) And the kids toys.... That first shot shows where toys go when they are fighting over them, on top of the tank! A barn and 2 horses are up there in time out! :lol:

Oh and sometimes I can waste a hour just looking for my refractometer in all that mess! One day it will be all neat and I will not know what to do with my time!
 
Even with the mess you can see where it's headed... and that's quite enough. I just keep admiring the stand and hood... they are amazing. The rest will come together and I'm sure you'll be tinkering with it for eternity. That's what keeps this hobby interesting, right?
 
I am sure it will look great when it's done. I bet it looks pretty nice inside the tank now.

FWIW I keep a couple of large gaseous dogs in my "man space" to keep others out;)

Chris
 
OK spent about 8 hrs on the tank Saturday re-working the flow pattern and aquascape. Cleaned out and organized my ecectrical issues from above and glued in tiny zoa fraggs everywhere. and still got my face all wet doing a good deep clean of the glass even after draining a lot of water from the tank. I have realized Yes I do need a bathing suit and goggles to do any work on the sand bed. It is definetly deeper than arm pit deep But I am pretty short :). I took tons of pics tonight. Here is why I say go with a TALL tank over a shorter one if at all possiable on a big tank. I think a long, thin tank with a big stand/canopy can look lost to the wood if you don't have enouph glass showing. This is JMO but I am just loving my tank and am bias in my opinions ;). It was conciderably higher to go taller but over the next 20 years I will be glad I did.

This section of wood was made to hide the side overflows you could see into on the original 180 (24 tall) I had the stand and canopy made for. This gives you an idea of how much better the extra 7" makes. I ordered a extra 7" to get the 31" tall tank and it added almost 100 gallons making it a 270ish and a bunch to the look of the tank. I think the tank is more in scale with the stand and canopy now....

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