my 200 to 500gal upgrade.....help needed..

[troylee]

and the new beast!!!!!!!!!
left side.....

right side....

fts...

ok im back to moving. more to come later..........

 

[troylee]

kinda crapy all the pics i have ever posted have been with my camera phone so please excuse me [smilie=angry3.gif] lol
from the left looking right...

from right to left..

 

[troylee]

no time to clean or aquascape yet with the move going on but soon i will........so this is where she sits for now..........

 

[troylee]

ok i got it cleaned up and did a little aqua scaping but im not really pleased with it.... anywho here is some shots...
fts.

right side...

left side...

looking from left to right...

right to left...

 

[troylee]

and some coral shots and fish.....sorry all pics with a camera phone....
paly's

zoa's

colt and some gsp..

2 maxima's

green eye favia and fuzzy shroom..

green leather

huge toadstool not opened yet...

and the frogspawn and hammer

 

[troylee]

and the fish lol.....
7" tiger watchman

the man biting clowns..."mated"

theres also a yellow corris wrasse and chromis hiding somewhere...
big bioload for 500gal lol..... time to stock it...

 

[GoToSleep]

Wow, I am totally awed by your build skills. I ran into the same thing with my wife about the new tank. Tank hasn't arrived yet becouase the *#%$^ shippping company took it to the wrong town but the 78 x 39" stand kinda clued her in.

One thought on your electrical set-up though... GFI outlets can be tempermental and if they knock out a whole circuit when your not home, you could have bad news in a hurry. According to several electricians I talked to, GFI breakers are much less susceptable to inadvertent tripping (eg due to a chiller or MH ballast starting up) than GFI breakers are. A 20amp GFI breaker is around $15 at Lowes or HD and pretty ease to swap out for an existing breaker. Just remember to turn off the main power to the breaker panal first.

 

[FuzzyZipperbaum]

Nothing wrong with the RockScape.... I consider the live rock to be like the 2x4's of a framed house.... It's gonna get covered up, just make sure the foundation is solid...

 

[troylee]

well i got a few more additions....
i still have not caught the powder blue for a good pic, but here is the rest....
first meet chevron...big boy..

the sump... got some chateo and mangrooves to give a try....a first for me...

a huge brittle thats kicking it in the fuge for now untill i decide if i want him in the display.....

and the coral list...
#1.......nuke green palys no photo yet....sorry..
#2some kinda softie will get name and photo when the light's come on today...
#3 a big frogspawn...photo to come.....
#4 another huge rock covered in gsp...photo later today..
#5 a unkown acan pics later....

and my prize possessions.... i finally got them yesterday.... these are not my pics, but they are my corals i decided his photos are a 1000 times better than mine so i will use his pics...
#1 pink acans...

#2 ring of fire acans..

#3 a green pocci..

and last but not least #4
blue orgeon tort..

 

[troylee]

and another... new addition.... some kind of big green acro...not sure the name???looks like my blue oregeon tort but it's green....also got a 5" powder blue but he's camera shy can't get a photo yet.....

 

[troylee]

im gonna have to thank anthony calfo for the idea but it works great just as planned....i got my skimmer drain feeding the fuge and put a baffle where it makes the water run recirc and my chateo spin....
a quick video....
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[burton14e7]

Thats tight. I'm going to have to keep that in mind for a future build.