Karl's 100G Build Thread

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The tank looks really good. Excellent coloration on everything, every coral looks like it's thriving. The fact that you can pull that off with leds is quite a testament to your water quality.
And it's the cleanest tank in the club every time you update this thread I feel dirty and have to get out my own razor and gravel vac. Great job with the pics Franky.
 
Useful_Idiot said:
The tank looks really good. Excellent coloration on everything, every coral looks like it's thriving. The fact that you can pull that off with leds is quite a testament to your water quality.
And it's the cleanest tank in the club every time you update this thread I feel dirty and have to get out my own razor and gravel vac. Great job with the pics Franky.
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Thanks Patrick. I agree with his tank being super clean. In fact I went home and scraped the coralline off the back when I got home lol.
 
Paulywalnuts said:
Karl the tank is awesome, nice job bro. The skimmer works great thanks
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Thanks. Glad to hear youre putting it to good use.

Useful_Idiot said:
The tank looks really good. Excellent coloration on everything, every coral looks like it's thriving. The fact that you can pull that off with leds is quite a testament to your water quality.
And it's the cleanest tank in the club every time you update this thread I feel dirty and have to get out my own razor and gravel vac. Great job with the pics Franky.
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Thanks Pat, ever since my last visit to your house ive been concentrating on coloration.

frankyrivera said:
Thanks Patrick. I agree with his tank being super clean. In fact I went home and scraped the coralline off the back when I got home lol.
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OCD at play. I told you that youd like that clean black background. Its going to start getting really difficult for me to do soon though due to growth, which I guess is a good thing lol. In all honesty though the cleanliness was inspired by the first time I saw a legitimate saltwater SYSTEM, not just tank.

pecan2phat said:
Definitely makes me want to tear down all my tanks.

Work of art Karl :thumbsup:
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And speaking of the the system that inspired my current upgrade/cleaniliness....

Youre too kind Warren, im barely starting to light a candle compared to your tanks.
 
I really like how you changed some stuff around Karl! Did the MP-10W work out for you? I didn't see an addition Vortech on the Pics.... I know you painted the back of the tank and you said you had issues with the Vortechs sticking to the glass. Have you thought about scraping off a small amount of the paint that would fit the MP-10W? Ecotech has a lot of info about adding a third Vortech on the back glass. You can get really crazy flow patterns with that setup....

Anyways, I gotta say one of the cleanest looking tanks I've seen. You are truly OCD about the tank, (I would know I'm a Psychiatric Nurse, j/k) Looks great and I'm truly impressed. Keep up the good work!!!
 
Masedaddy said:
I really like how you changed some stuff around Karl! Did the MP-10W work out for you? I didn't see an addition Vortech on the Pics.... I know you painted the back of the tank and you said you had issues with the Vortechs sticking to the glass. Have you thought about scraping off a small amount of the paint that would fit the MP-10W? Ecotech has a lot of info about adding a third Vortech on the back glass. You can get really crazy flow patterns with that setup....

Anyways, I gotta say one of the cleanest looking tanks I've seen. You are truly OCD about the tank, (I would know I'm a Psychiatric Nurse, j/k) Looks great and I'm truly impressed. Keep up the good work!!!
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Thanks man. MP10 still in the box in my closet. Ill put it on eventually when I need it. Hopefully once I get some more growth i will need to install it due to blocked flow. ATM the 2xMP40 is plenty. I have thought about the back, which was initially the plan. I wanted 2xmp40 on the ends and 2xmp10 on the back. I even placed the tank a predetermined amount away from the wall to fit the mp10's. They stick to the bare 1/2" glass np but the extra added thickness of the spray paint prevents it from sticking on the back. Ofcourse now I cant get an mp40 to fit on the back (well i could but its pretty tight and I want to avoid heat issues for the pump), and itd be impossible for me to scrape the paint off where I want to place the pump in a neat manner w/o scratching up the glass. Oh well, ill figure something out when I need to.
 
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Top Down Madness

Bought a top down viewer so I decided to experiment with some top down photos.

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