Frankie's 120 gal. reef.
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FFrankie
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Oh man, I wish i had a picture of my oscar breeding setup back in 1986. I was renting a room from some lady in her house. Going to school during the day and breeding oscars at night. I was 16. The room had to be about 20'x16' give or take. I had four 55 gallon tanks in there, a pacman arcade (the game room size!) my bed, small fridge, packed book shelf (always a reader) my cat and small B&W TV. 
dkirchoff
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FFrankie...I tell ya I went down the same road with oscars years back...and they did breed and i made the mistake of taking them out after the eggs began forming to protect the fry...big mistake....next thing I know mesquito larvae took over the fry and I was actually feeding the dam things...sad to hear about the blue carpet though :sad1:
Reeftanks6
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Hey frankie havent stoped in a while. How is everything going.
jnarowe
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Nice work on the reactor. the hose clamps are kind of scary though!
BTW, when you post photobucket pics you can just paste them into the message without using the iamge function. Those copied urls have the image code already added. That's why you see an extra set around your pics.
BTW, when you post photobucket pics you can just paste them into the message without using the iamge function. Those copied urls have the image code already added. That's why you see an extra set around your pics.
boozeman
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very nice work as usual Frankie :thumbsup:
I agree on the scariness of using hose clamps ...any reason why you didnt hard plumb it?
looks similar to the barr aquatics design
http://www.barraquatic.com/cal.php
maybe for your next project you can copy the marinetech5 design :bum:
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=26999
I agree on the scariness of using hose clamps ...any reason why you didnt hard plumb it?
looks similar to the barr aquatics design
http://www.barraquatic.com/cal.php
maybe for your next project you can copy the marinetech5 design :bum:
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=26999
Reeftanks6
Active member
Looks good.
FFrankie
New member
Actually i am hard plumbing the pump. It leaked on me the first day.
Thanks for the tip on the pictures Johnathan!
It is a copy of the Barr. I am not to sure how they plumb theres though. there is no thread out there on the build of one.
Dam Booze! That thing is ridiculous! Looks cool but really whats so great about it? My old reactor kept my tank perfect before and that was just a copy of a Korallin Calcium Reactor. I built my own because the one i had was leaking and i hated all the crap sitting on top like that.
When i buy the 300 i will make a multi media box like Johnathan's. That thing is pretty cool.
Thanks for the tip on the pictures Johnathan!
It is a copy of the Barr. I am not to sure how they plumb theres though. there is no thread out there on the build of one.
Dam Booze! That thing is ridiculous! Looks cool but really whats so great about it? My old reactor kept my tank perfect before and that was just a copy of a Korallin Calcium Reactor. I built my own because the one i had was leaking and i hated all the crap sitting on top like that.
When i buy the 300 i will make a multi media box like Johnathan's. That thing is pretty cool.
