Deeznutz Hd 120 Shallow rimless (Pics)

Hey dan. Merry Christmas to you and family. I haven't checked in on rc for a while. Tank is looking great!! I had to go a few pages back to see where the wave box got too. I lost my old phone with your contact info. I'm pretty sure that wave box will be under warranty still. I can email you the original invoice again and see if we can contact my dealer to get it fixed up for you
 
Hey man, thanks for the compliments. She's holding steady :)

Tanks going to take a rest for the next month or so as I keep on top of my water chemistry. My wallet needs a rest anyways :)

Thanks for stopping in

-deez
 
Spectacular build thread you've put together Mr. Nutz :thumbsup: thanks for sharing!

Do yourself a favor and get a Digi-Q for that BGE... Makes what's considered the greatest cooking experience... even better!
:beer:
Yes indeed, frees you from some of the temp/heat/balance management. Cyber-Q is another awesome controller for the smoker
 
Update time

Hello everyone, it's been quite some time since i've updated this thread. I've been through a lot with this tank and it's just starting to come around again.

I'll start off with the hair algae issue I've been having. I've been scrubbing rocks, changing gfo, water changes, reduced feedings and finally decreased my photoperiod. As a result, my SPS have suffered significantly. No losses but I've lost a lot of colour and the growth has come to a complete stop as well.

4 weeks ago, the wife and i woke up at 4 am to a burning smell coming from our furnace. I searched for the source of the smell for a about 10 mins. While I was in my fish room, I found sparking coming from my sump. :eek2: Turns out one of my ehime heaters shorted out and was causing quite a light show. I've recently swapped them out for new heaters. The heater were about 4 years old.
So if you guys have old heaters, might want to swap them out for newer units.
I'm not sure if the whole heater issues caused me some of the headaches I'm dealing with today, but I'm happy things didn't get any worst. No fish losses either.

So other then that the tank is doing well. I plan on increasing the lights again and feeding normally. I hope this hair algae is behind me as it was smothering my corals as one point.

No marcos shots today as the colour isn't that great, but i dod have a few FTS.

Well I guess I'll post more pics in the future when things get back to normal.

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until then...

-deez
 
Looking good. Are you growing any SPS under those lights? If so how are they doing? Trying to decide between the hydra 26 and the radion 15w for my 20 gallon frag tank.
 
Looking good. Are you growing any SPS under those lights? If so how are they doing? Trying to decide between the hydra 26 and the radion 15w for my 20 gallon frag tank.

Thanks man, the xr15 are great. My sps were growing and colouring up when things were rocking. Keep in mind though, my tank is young. My ponape birds nest is the only SPS that has not been effected by all this madness lol.
The XR15 combo'd with a reeflink is awesome and will be perfect for a 20g frag tank :)

Great pic,tank has a very modern style!
Glad nothing bad happend with the heaters incident:)

Thank you! I'm happy nothing died, including myself hahaha.
 
Deez I just read through the entire build thread, your house and tank is absolutely amazing! I'm sure all the algae will come to an end, everything will start taking off again. Good luck
 
Hello all. Thought I might as well start a build thread here on RC.

Thanks to all for the info that can be found here in this forum.



I'll start with the tank.



Miracle 84x18x18 rimless

3 sided Starphire 3/4 glass.

Bean animal internal overflow drill with 4 holes. One for return.



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After shutting down my 150 peninsula, we moved into our dream bungalow.

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After taking possession of the new house, it was time to get down and dirty.

We ended up bridging the two homes for a month while I was lucky enough to do all the reno lol.



This is how our home looked before the demo

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Here is where the tank is going. On the left between two windows on the long wall. We had to raise the floor :hammer::hammer::hammer:

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Here's a pic from the back of the house. The wall on the right with the two sided fireplace was taken down.

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More to come :)


Beautiful tank both new and old. You have very good taste in home styling my friend and the cabinetry of your tanks to match. I love the stand of your old tank. Would you mind pointing me to the right direction of who built it for you or where you purchased? Thanks
 
Awesome tank and build!! I am looking to do a build with very similar tank dimensions (especially the height).

Quick question: Have you seen any ill effects from having a shallower tank with the anthias and tangs? People always talk about length and volume of a tank but I don't hear much about height. Thanks!!
 
Looking great D

Thanks man, it's coming along.

Deez I just read through the entire build thread, your house and tank is absolutely amazing! I'm sure all the algae will come to an end, everything will start taking off again. Good luck

Thank you very much! The algae is almost gone :bounce2:
Increased lighting already, now I'm just waiting for the Radion magic to kick in :)

Beautiful tank both new and old. You have very good taste in home styling my friend and the cabinetry of your tanks to match. I love the stand of your old tank. Would you mind pointing me to the right direction of who built it for you or where you purchased? Thanks

Thank you for your compliments. I for one was only allowed to have a fish tank on the approval of the stand by the warden lol
On my quest to have the stand built was quite complex. Every time the word fish tank came up, the price would alway double. So I knew this wasn't going to happen.

I started off with building the stand myself using 2x4's with anticipation of having it skinned. The skinning part didn't work out as the wife wasn't happy with my intentions. So she hired a guy from kijiji to do it for me.

To make a long story short, the tank was 30" wide, the stand was 30" wide as well, leaving about 2" of play for the skinning. This guy from kijiji skinned it with 1/4 veneer. When he was done the overall width of the stand was over 34" inches wide. He skinned it in my garage and my front door was only 32" wide lol. I was like how am I suppose to get this stand into the house?
His reply "I don't know".
He also made the doors out of 3/8 ply and man were they pathetic and he's suppose to be a carpenter. lol

So after that disaster, I decided that (A) the skinning job was horrible and wouldn't cut in in our home and (B) the 2x4 construction of the stand is not ideal as it tends to be not square as the wood drys and warps etc.

So I decided to build the stand myself. I used cabinet grade 3/4 ply. I build the box using biscuit joiners, glue and decking screws and then i cut approx 6" strips on the table saw and braced the interior using the same methosds. I used solid maple to wrap the top and bottom. I made the doors with solid
maple stock, routed the backing and silicone in frosted custom glass.
Then I stained and sealed it with 3 coast of urethane. Overall the stand took me about 25 hours to build. About $400 in material and I acquired a few new tools along the way as well. Tools I still use today :) This was my first attempt at building furniture. I did a lot of reading on cabinetry site etc before I made my decision.

You can find the pics here from my old build thread http://www.aquariumpros.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=35941&page=21

I hope that helps and thanks for bring back some bad memories hahaha


Awesome tank and build!! I am looking to do a build with very similar tank dimensions (especially the height).

Quick question: Have you seen any ill effects from having a shallower tank with the anthias and tangs? People always talk about length and volume of a tank but I don't hear much about height. Thanks!!

The whole idea around this tank was that I wanted tangs and wanted to give them the leg room they require, hence the length. At the same time I didn't want a massive volume of water. So we went long. narrow and shallow. We also didn't want the fish tank to over power everything in the house. Just accent it enough to be a focal point and not to predominate. I also hated working on me previous tank, which was 24" tall with euro brace. 18" shallow tank is much nicer to work on.

My tangs are happy and swim the length of the tank, when there are quarrels they also have room to retreat to there hide spots. But they get a long for the most part. My anthias are enjoying the tank as well. None of my fish hide in the tank, even with the lack of hiding spaces. The fish actually follow me from one end to the other like a dog begging for food. It's quite funny. :lolspin:

So I think there are no problems with these tank dimensions. But I've only had it for about 6 months now. I would have liked to have gone a bit deeper now that I look back. But again, I may not have achieve the look I have now.
Which was a sleek contemporary look.

I hope that helps with your decision.
 
Thank you for the reply!

Glad everything has been getting along nicely! I am hoping to see if a slightly shorter but wider tank will work with tangs as well, but I won't be adjusting tank sizes because of this. Tangs will be on the lower end of my stocking list and would only be a bonus if the tank dimensions are appropriate for them. Hope when I finally make the investment into a new tank things will work out as yours has.

Why would you want to go deeper? because of livestock choices?
 
Really pretty tank! I love that you didn't sacrifice the aesthetics of the room for the tank.

I have a 60 gal set up similar to your tank and I had a ridiculous hair algae problem. I could scrub the rocks and they would be completely covered in a week. I even had it trying to grow on my substrate. Long story short, I did a bunch of reading and decided to try a remote deep sand bed. The hair algae disappeared completely in 4 weeks and hasn't returned. I feed my fish a lot and even dump extra food in the sump for the pods. Also, I do not own a skimmer. A RDSB was a cheap solution for nutrient export for me. I don't know if you have room for one, but thought I would share.

Hope this helps. I'll be following this thread.
 
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