In-wall 380gal tank - cut out options

karimwassef · Aug 8, 2015

I don't know why the crustaceans in my tank get so big so fast. Same thing happened with my arrow crab last year.

Now I have a monster red emerald and coral banded.

If they ever spar, it'll be like clash of the Titans!

vbnxvhj · Aug 8, 2015

Make to opening so that the water line does not show.

karimwassef · Aug 8, 2015

Thanks! I guess that's how this thread started but it's kind of turned into my build thread

marco.sv · Aug 9, 2015

Karim! congratulations for the tank, i really like it good job with everything DiY

karimwassef · Aug 9, 2015

Thanks Marco. It's been a labor of two years with many failures... but it stands.

ericarenee · Aug 10, 2015

karimwassef said:
I don't know why the crustaceans in my tank get so big so fast. Same thing happened with my arrow crab last year.

Now I have a monster red emerald and coral banded.

If they ever spar, it'll be like clash of the Titans!

Send me the video. We could make a Block buster hit and Then i can build us both new homes on stilts on the barrier reef with glass floors..
Hurry now

karimwassef said:
Thanks Marco. It's been a labor of two years with many failures... but it stands.

Failures no way.........

karimwassef · Aug 10, 2015

Mmmm glass floor house over a reef.... Insert gurgling homer sound here

ericarenee · Aug 10, 2015

karimwassef said:
Mmmm glass floor house over a reef.... Insert gurgling homer sound here

Your money my Skills........ We be happy reefers .... Does your wife wanna go to . That would be odd otherwise.......

I know I am Bringing Bonnie and Mr Boy (Rusty the Persian Cat)

I am going to go back thru your diy rock work i want to do something like that to half of the bottom of my tank . Put sand in the front half and covert the back to follow the rock work.........

But just not got it started YET...

karimwassef · Aug 11, 2015

I'd do a few things differently on the rock work. Benefit of learning from my mistakes

I was too impatient. It worked out but I'd spare you the pain I endured with algae.

tbeitouni · Aug 11, 2015

reading through all that was the best 3 hours of my life, and as intense as if it were my own build. Truly magnificent.

Great Job. You are my hero!

karimwassef · Aug 11, 2015

Wow. Thanks. I'm no hero- just very stubborn, umm tenacious

If my thread helps you make your reef experience better, then that's excellent. I love learning from other people's mistakes. It's so much cheaper than making my own new ones.

karimwassef · Sep 24, 2015

Here's a recent view with my seaweed feedwe

http://youtu.be/2jBZVCdlVh4

Michael Hoaster · Sep 24, 2015

Looks great!

karimwassef · Sep 27, 2015

Thanks!

Here's my latest little addition

<a href="http://s1062.photobucket.com/user/karimwassef/media/5C42DA78-2D99-41E2-83FA-3A6A876E0C23_zps1xqxcwbg.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t496/karimwassef/5C42DA78-2D99-41E2-83FA-3A6A876E0C23_zps1xqxcwbg.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 5C42DA78-2D99-41E2-83FA-3A6A876E0C23_zps1xqxcwbg.jpg"/></a>

and the growing frag plateau

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<a href="http://s1062.photobucket.com/user/karimwassef/media/7E8027FA-0BC7-4298-9A9A-1987140682A3_zps1pdzp6gf.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t496/karimwassef/7E8027FA-0BC7-4298-9A9A-1987140682A3_zps1pdzp6gf.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 7E8027FA-0BC7-4298-9A9A-1987140682A3_zps1pdzp6gf.jpg"/></a>

This used to be pvc and concrete..

karimwassef · Sep 27, 2015

community likes the artificial rockwork and the surge too.

<a href="http://s1062.photobucket.com/user/karimwassef/media/FC53F21D-934D-49D1-B4AC-ECCC2DAF2075_zpstynsxuug.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t496/karimwassef/FC53F21D-934D-49D1-B4AC-ECCC2DAF2075_zpstynsxuug.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo FC53F21D-934D-49D1-B4AC-ECCC2DAF2075_zpstynsxuug.jpg"/></a>

Michael Hoaster · Sep 27, 2015

Your corals and fish all look happy! What's the orange coral in the 4th pic? I don't recognize that one.

karimwassef · Sep 27, 2015

The pink coral is a satosa (montipora satosa). It's a low light coral and I haven't been successful keeping it in my ultra bright, ultra high flow tank in the past. So, I put it on the lowest rock I have and in the middle where it can get residual flow from the surge instead of main flow.

Its polyps are opening so I'm hopeful. It's supposed to have a wild growth pattern, encrusting, branching or plating all at once depending on light and flow.

karimwassef · Sep 27, 2015

karimwassef · Sep 27, 2015

This one is an undata (another monti)

<a href="http://s1062.photobucket.com/user/karimwassef/media/5C42DA78-2D99-41E2-83FA-3A6A876E0C23_zps1xqxcwbg.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t496/karimwassef/5C42DA78-2D99-41E2-83FA-3A6A876E0C23_zps1xqxcwbg.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 5C42DA78-2D99-41E2-83FA-3A6A876E0C23_zps1xqxcwbg.jpg"/></a>

karimwassef · Oct 2, 2015

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