DIY Rimless Starphire and Stainless Kiddy Pool (PICS!)
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ClownReef®
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liveforphysics
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Ok Marc, you inspired me to take some pictures tonight.
Please remember, I just had to start over with my tank 5 months ago due to the flooding that forced my imeadiate move, and nearly 100% coral death in the process.
I'm starting entirely from tiny frags.
I have drilled my liverock and mounted three 3/8th inch acrylic rods into the bottom to make tripods. It gets the rock up off the bottom. Then I drill the rock and slide in 3/16" acrylic rods which smaller rocks are drilled to fit onto. This way when I want to mount corals, I can easily lift off the small rocks and glue corals onto them, then they are locked back into place on the rod.
It also let's me very easily move corals in the tank, just by lifting the rock off the dowel and sliding it down over a differnt dowel.
It's still not aquascaped at all... Posting the embarassing pictures here should help inspire me to finally setup the inside of the tank. I've been spending all my time on the life support systems for the tank and largely ignoreing the inside. Also, I didn't clean the glass...
So, this is what they look like dry after I've glue the rods into them.
Small rocks sitting on acrylic rods in the larger rocks.
Full tank shot with doors open.
Another tank picture. Kinda sad looking
I gave my GF a few square feet of space in the corner here to do soft coral stuff. She doesn't like fuzzy sticks. I do like the blue cespitularia though
It's a softy that I like
Here is a picture showing how well Cree XR-E series LED's penatrate through water.
I hope you guys enjoy the pictures! I currently have a frag of every coral ORA sells, so in a year of so when the tank grows out again, things should start looking natural again.
Best Wishes!
-Luke
Please remember, I just had to start over with my tank 5 months ago due to the flooding that forced my imeadiate move, and nearly 100% coral death in the process.
I'm starting entirely from tiny frags.
I have drilled my liverock and mounted three 3/8th inch acrylic rods into the bottom to make tripods. It gets the rock up off the bottom. Then I drill the rock and slide in 3/16" acrylic rods which smaller rocks are drilled to fit onto. This way when I want to mount corals, I can easily lift off the small rocks and glue corals onto them, then they are locked back into place on the rod.
It also let's me very easily move corals in the tank, just by lifting the rock off the dowel and sliding it down over a differnt dowel.
It's still not aquascaped at all... Posting the embarassing pictures here should help inspire me to finally setup the inside of the tank. I've been spending all my time on the life support systems for the tank and largely ignoreing the inside. Also, I didn't clean the glass...
So, this is what they look like dry after I've glue the rods into them.
Small rocks sitting on acrylic rods in the larger rocks.
Full tank shot with doors open.
Another tank picture. Kinda sad looking
I gave my GF a few square feet of space in the corner here to do soft coral stuff. She doesn't like fuzzy sticks. I do like the blue cespitularia though
It's a softy that I like 
Here is a picture showing how well Cree XR-E series LED's penatrate through water.
I hope you guys enjoy the pictures! I currently have a frag of every coral ORA sells, so in a year of so when the tank grows out again, things should start looking natural again.
Best Wishes!
-Luke
liveforphysics
New member
You will notice that I do not skim or change water. I have 12 tangs and 14 anthias along with a handful of angels and other fish. Water is always undectable nitrate and phosphate. Gotta love chaetomorphia algae I export it by the 5 gallon bucket every couple weeks.
Best Wishes,
-Luke
I export it by the 5 gallon bucket every couple weeks.Best Wishes,
-Luke
I agree with your statement 100%. I'm more of a biological filtration man...not to big on the mechanical. If you have the right bio load, biological filtration and proper clean up crew, IMHO, theres no need for water changes and such.
I like the pics, very nice job on the tank. Give it time and those frags will be blossoming!!!
kcress
New member
Typical Engineer... Fish? Really you're just interested in the pretty shiny, moving things, that make noise, and motion under the tank!
I know as that is my situation too.
General suggestion for people putting up pictures(Luke).
Since all our cameras take gigantic web-worthless pictures we need to resize them generally.
After going thru a grueling 600 wedding pictures and manually resizing them I went looking.
I use this program now ALL the time.
http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize
It's free, its blisteringly fast, and brainlessly simple.
You rename the program with the resulting picture size you want.
Leave it on your desktop. Take the entire directory of pictures you want reduced and drag it on top of this program's icon. It blasts thru all the pictures in the directory reducing COPIES of them to the chosen size. The reduced pics go into the same directory with the size appended to the copy's names.
This greatly reduces your upload times to web picture hosting spots.
You can have several of these icons on your desktop each named the sizes you need. Generally 1024 is way big enough for raw pictures and 500 is a typical size for forums.
stugray
Premium Member
liveforphysics,
What are you planning on doing with the CREE XLEDs?
I have been experimenting with them as well & was about to do a small order of them ( less than 20 ).
I have a constant current source & a enet controlled PWM circuit working.
Let me know what you are up to ;-)
Stu
What are you planning on doing with the CREE XLEDs?
I have been experimenting with them as well & was about to do a small order of them ( less than 20 ).
I have a constant current source & a enet controlled PWM circuit working.
Let me know what you are up to ;-)
Stu
