im finaly here

[theloud1]

well im fianly making it with the big dogs, barely but im here, got the tank ( 180 ) in the house and on the stand tonight pluming it tommarow and transfering all the livestok on tuesday ill get some pick up once the tank clears

 

[13threefmaniac]

Get some pics of the setup process, equipment etc etc. This forum is full of pic junkies (myself included).

 

[theloud1]

well i can start with saying, its a 180g glass jebo tank with rounded corners, 60g refugium, 3 250 watt halides with radium bulbs, 4 48" vhos on an ice cap 660 ballast, asm g2x skimmer w gate valve and mesh mods, posidion ps4 pump for the closed loop, not sure on the return pump yet figure that out tommarow, CL280 chiller (small i know but it works), 18watt uv sterillizer, 2 tunze 6060s, korlin 1502 ca recator w 20lb bottle, 3" deepsand bed, and about 180lbs of rock at the moment

live stock
1 valmingi tang 4 1/2-5"
1 orange sholder tang 4"
1 scopas tang 4"
1 sail fin tang 5"
1 blue hippo tang 5"
1 purple tang 5"
2 yellow tangs 3-3 1/2"
1 6line wrasse
1 zebra dart fish

and the normal cleaner crew on steroids

mixed lps and sps with some softies in there as well

ill go ahead and get the camera al charged up tonight so i an take some pics tommarow

 

[13threefmaniac]

Sounds like a nice setup Nick. You love your tangs don't you? 8 tangs in a 180 seems like a lot but they seem fairly small now so i guess you should be fine. Some of the ones you mention grow pretty large.

 

[theloud1]

lol yeah, i do love my tangs, and thank you, getting ready to start plumbing it all in right now and hopping to have all my lights and rock in it tonight and start getting some live stock in there, i keep posting though out the day with update and maybe some picks

 

[13threefmaniac]

Good luck with it. Do keep us updated on the progress and pics will be very much appreciated. I can't wait to see all those tangs together. Are they going to come from your existing tanks? Have you thought about the potential aggression between them?

 

[savethereef]

Wooohoooo Go nick.
What did you dad say about the Up grade?

 

[theloud1]

yeah all but 2 of them are housed together, but i think since there all going into a new set up they will get along ok, just got back from getting all the plumbing parts so now the fun begins,

robert , he went with me to pick everything up yesterday, and hes more excited them i am i think, lol it looks really cool, and tho only 12" longer it looks way bigger then the 150


on a side note you know any one that would be intrested in a pair of mated glod stripe maroon clown or a mated pair of 10" + engineer gobys ? need to get them sold by the weekend

 

[theloud1]

ok so its all done and stocked ill get some better pic tommarow once the lights are on, i eded up going with a iwaki 40 for the return pump and so far all the tangs are gettin along great ( only 2 of them are new those being the sail fin and the blue ), so for now here are a few pics of the tank going together

 

[theloud1]

 

[thor32766]

great start cant wait to see it running!

 

[theloud1]

i need to clean the glass and put a few more frags into it but here she is

 

[savethereef]

Duude where did you get this tank from? glass or acrylic?

 

[theloud1]

like i said the glass needs to be cleaned robbert, so its a glass 180 w rounded corners, i got it from jimmy at fish collection over in yorba linda and the stand and canopy cam from an rc member (simon007)