Reefseaweed
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Tank is coming along very nice. Looks amazing
evolved's 190g Reef Upgrade: Wrasse Retreat
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areucrazy
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Beautiful job!! Everything you did from beginning to end is awesome! I want to re-aquascape my tank but as you said...it was time consuming & more than you expected! Im afraid to tear mine down and start over unless it was for a whole new tank like you did. Congrats on your new set up! 
evolved
Wrasse Nut
Thank you very much.
Thanks. While I'm very pleased with the aquascape I have now, I won't lie about how much work it was. Took several hours to play with things, make it look good, AND make it stable. The lower pieces are set on short PVC rings and the upper pieces are glued to the lower pieces.Beautiful job!! Everything you did from beginning to end is awesome! I want to re-aquascape my tank but as you said...it was time consuming & more than you expected! Im afraid to tear mine down and start over unless it was for a whole new tank like you did. Congrats on your new set up!
Oh, that's quite the compliment. Many thanks for that.
Thanks! Hope your old yuma did well for you.
evolved
Wrasse Nut
Pretty sure it's past addicting now.
Cirrhilabrus lunatus (m)
Cirrhilabrus earlei (m)
Cirrhilabrus nahackyi (m/f pair)
Cirrhilabrus johnsoni (m/f pair)
Cirrhilabrus lineatus (m)
Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis (m)
Paracheilinus bellae (m)
Paracheilinus octotaenia (m)
Halichoeres melanurus (m)
Halichoeres timorensis (m/f pair)
The clam is a tear-drop maxima.
Thanks.
Cirrhilabrus lunatus (m)
Cirrhilabrus earlei (m)
Cirrhilabrus nahackyi (m/f pair)
Cirrhilabrus johnsoni (m/f pair)
Cirrhilabrus lineatus (m)
Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis (m)
Paracheilinus bellae (m)
Paracheilinus octotaenia (m)
Halichoeres melanurus (m)
Halichoeres timorensis (m/f pair)
The clam is a tear-drop maxima.
Thanks.
evolved
Wrasse Nut
Thanks Brett.
Thanks Jeff. However, the pictures were very much lazily taken via my phone; maybe someday I'll buy a real camera. Seems that money always ends up on a tank addition.
Pick some things out which we can trade for that fantastic pectina you've got, when you frag it.
zibba
New member
Beautiful upgrade Hunter! Very impressive wrasse and coral collection!
Few questions:
Did you upgrade your electrical panel (either this go round or for your first tank)? If not, are you running everything through one line or different lines? I'm just curious because I'm in the process of setting up now and that's one of my concerns. The quotes I got to upgrade a 15AMP to 20AM and add in a second 20AMP were really high and I'm not sure it's worth the extra cost for the size of aquarium I'm running (maybe 30-50 gallons less than what you're at). Preferably, I'd like to just swap out the outlet for a GFCI and add in a water cover like you did.
Are you happy with the Eheim? I'm deciding on a return pump now and that pump, along with the RO Water Blaster 5000 are in the line up. My biggest concern is noise and making sure it has enough power to feed two tanks (and possibly a refugium).
How are you running the vortechs?
Thanks!
Few questions:
Did you upgrade your electrical panel (either this go round or for your first tank)? If not, are you running everything through one line or different lines? I'm just curious because I'm in the process of setting up now and that's one of my concerns. The quotes I got to upgrade a 15AMP to 20AM and add in a second 20AMP were really high and I'm not sure it's worth the extra cost for the size of aquarium I'm running (maybe 30-50 gallons less than what you're at). Preferably, I'd like to just swap out the outlet for a GFCI and add in a water cover like you did.
Are you happy with the Eheim? I'm deciding on a return pump now and that pump, along with the RO Water Blaster 5000 are in the line up. My biggest concern is noise and making sure it has enough power to feed two tanks (and possibly a refugium).
How are you running the vortechs?
Thanks!
evolved
Wrasse Nut
Thank you for the complements.
This tank (and the last) I'm running off two separate breakers; no upgrades on the electrical panel. One 20A breaker has all the essentials on it which connects to the EB8 for the Apex. And per that, it runs a pretty constant 3.1A, so plenty of headroom there. The other breaker is a 15A breaker, and the only thing really on it is most of my lighting (6 meanwell drivers, and the sump light); also a vortech backup battery, but that's a very low draw. I'm not sure what this one runs steady at, but I've never had any issues here; the extension cord stays at room temp.
I'm very happy with the Eheim and have had it for about 1.5 years. It's a very solid pump. Prior to it, I used a Mag 12, which was noticeably louder but more than anything produced a LOT more heat. The 1262 flows quite a bit of water, and how I've plumbed it here (feeding to a 1" line) it provides more than enough flow for this tank. I probably could dial it back a bit, but I'd rather run a bit much than too little. The trickle of water into the overflow, my skimmer, and the vortechs are louder than this guy.
Speaking of the vortechs, I have a WXM with the Apex, so they're programmed in there. Reef Crest at 95% from 8AM to 11AM, NTM at 95% from 11AM to 8PM, back to Reef Crest from 8PM to 10:15PM, then constant at 45% from 10:15PM to 8AM.
jporter
New member
Thanks Brett.
Thanks Jeff. However, the pictures were very much lazily taken via my phone; maybe someday I'll buy a real camera. Seems that money always ends up on a tank addition.
Pick some things out which we can trade for that fantastic pectina you've got, when you frag it.
I don't know how to frag the pectina and don't want to hurt it. It is growing very fast, and keeping a neat formation. Let me know when you have time and I can come over and take some photos with the Canon. I'd like to see the tank in person.
zibba
New member
Got a chance to hang out with evolved a little bit last night and admire the finest wrasse collection in Arizona. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the wrasses because I got a new camera and these were literally the first pictures I took on it so I didn't know the right settings (also, I screwed up when uploading them and deleted a few decent pictures of the wrasses). I'll need to get back there once I figure out the new camera a bit more, but here' a taste of some of the awesome corals he keeps too:
Thanks again evolved!
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Thanks again evolved!
- z
Dangerwill
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Cool pics of an awesome reef, i cant get enough of the wrasses either that is a beautiful collection
