Iceemn's 125 reef tank PHOTO intense

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Over the past summer I upgraded to a 125 reef. I had posted some of updates of my tank in another forum but figured I might want to share my experiences and photos here. My original reef tank was a 72 bowfront. I also upgraded the lighting to three 250w 10k halides and 2 110w actinic VHOs. Some of the posts are from farther back so hopefully everything makes sense. The photos are in chronological order for the most part. I hope you enjoy and feel free to post questions.

 

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WAIt! I found one photo of the full tank just a week after I moved some of the stuff in to the new tank.

the old 72 bowfront

Here it is now converted to a Vivarium for my red eyed tree frogs

My red eyes

 

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Hey everyone. So I finally got to go back home to Northern CA for my grandma's 90th and found that everything is running quite well. Many of the corals have started filling in the spaces. I also bought a newer calcium reactor since my old one wasnt working and so my tank has been without one for like 6 moths now. I added a phosban reactor and adjusted the time for the lights now that days are getting longer. I also removed several fish to lower the bioload. Its amazing how fast things have grown since I've been gone. I removed the Green Coris wrasse (due to size and agression), two damsels, the lamark angel (which had gotten to a good 4.5 inches from the 2 inch juvenile when i got it), and the Foxface. As of now the Vlamingi may still be going to the Birch Aquarium or a LFS that I work at when home. My rose bubble on the right has split yet again. The pictures show three but now there are currently 5 (all of which started from a small $15 dollar anemone won at the San Francisco Aquarium society). When I was home I noticed that my pair of psychedelics had spawned. My papau new guinea percs were breeding as usual, as were the bengaii cardinals. Hopefully this summer ill have time to raise something! Here are some picture updates as well as some other fun pictures that I've taken while volunteering at the Birch Aquarium, at home, and here in San Diego.

 

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So my friends tank just crashed after hitting 95 degrees or so. Thus I am now holding his fish.. AAHHHhhhh. all I can say is that the system is waaaaay overstocked but Im glad his fish pulled through since they were in terrible condition when he brought them over (swimming upside down/ spinning/ pale). He's setting up a new system since> all his corals / some fish died and the system he had became polluted. You can see some in the picuture> purple/sailfin/ yellow belly. I am just glad the Vlamingi will have a nice big home to swim around by the end of july. btw the dog is my mom's new dog.

Here is another picture of my female mandarin

and one of my male

my BT

my female Percula Clown for Papua new Guinea> still breeding every 9 days>> the male is soo difficult to get a picture of

 

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A bit off topic but here are some picts from the sd wildlife park yesterday.

 

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Here area few picts i took recently

THis on had the camera set to highest saturation

 

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I figured I ought to show what poor planning and a college budget does. lol

here is my ghetto refugium/plumging job

I just had a coralife 1/4 hp chiller plumbed to my tank from the garage> going through the basement crawl space> and despite 90 degree weather the tank has been staying a coooooool 78. Going through the crawl space means the chiller has to work less hard. Yet this may become a problem during the winter so by that time I probably will insulate those pipes

 

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here is a fun pict of star polaris at midnight from my house

 

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Actually this happened a few weeks back but i though I sould share

Well on my way back from school on the California I-5 I totaled my poor jetta .

I was in the left lane> move to the right to let someone pass when a motor/blower fell off the back of a pickup. I moved to the shoulder> since the car I was letting pass was just coming by. In doing so I hit a gravel patch, went through a chainlink fence, hitting a few of the poles, popped the first curb, skidded onto the offramp, and demolished another curb. The pictures tell the rest. The car was flat bed towed to my moms service station about 120 miles farther north by the good'ole AAA

if you look reeallly closely you can see where i went through the chainlink> just above the jetta you can see where the fence disappears.

too bad it only had 50K miles still had a lot left
I guess the moral of the story is love your jetta while you have it because it could be gone just like that

Modified by iceemn360 at 1:32 PM 7-21-2008

 

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Well the tank looks a little less crowded without the Vlamingi but it is none the less still a mess full of waste making machines! Let this not be an example! Alteast my friends tank is back up on its feet and should be running smoothly shortly.

 

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Small side track. I just got back From Jackson Hole Wyoming so here are some photos

 

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