New 220 gallon build
- Thread starter KurtsReef
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...and many many many pods 
now dead
acdraindrps
New member
The tank is coming along great Kurt. How did you have a background in those photos? Did you hang a sheet or something over the side facing your family room? In any event the pics are amazing, hopefully you can come to the reef crawl and do some magic for my tank.
KurtsReef
Premium Member
This Poc is unusual, at least compared to my others. It seems to be a Tri Colored Poc...
The main skeleton is cream colored and then pink at the ends and the polyps are green with a yellowish flourecent tip. The colors in this shot are as accurate as I could get them, I think the shot is a bit overexposed...and I really need to make a water proof white balance card to use in the tank for easier white balance setting.
The main skeleton is cream colored and then pink at the ends and the polyps are green with a yellowish flourecent tip. The colors in this shot are as accurate as I could get them, I think the shot is a bit overexposed...and I really need to make a water proof white balance card to use in the tank for easier white balance setting.
KurtsReef
Premium Member
Thats a great (and simple idea)!
Picked up a "Christmas Tree" rock from SWP today, it has an interesting creature living in it besides the normal worms...
My first thought was a mantis of some sort, but I am far from an expert on these exotic little critters.
Find this one very attractive with its eyes and cat like coloration.
Also picked up this scoly (I think) that was in the live rock bin left for dead....hoping to bring it back to life.
Picked up a "Christmas Tree" rock from SWP today, it has an interesting creature living in it besides the normal worms...
My first thought was a mantis of some sort, but I am far from an expert on these exotic little critters.
Find this one very attractive with its eyes and cat like coloration.
Also picked up this scoly (I think) that was in the live rock bin left for dead....hoping to bring it back to life.
suppressivefire
New member
looks to be more of a pistol, are you sure thats a xmas tree rock?
AMAZING SHOTS!
AMAZING SHOTS!
melev
Well-known member
That is a Paguritta Crab.
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/paguritta.html
If you can get a nice crisp close up (that one is good, but not as good as I'd prefer), I'd love to add it to my site as an alternate view.
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/paguritta.html
If you can get a nice crisp close up (that one is good, but not as good as I'd prefer), I'd love to add it to my site as an alternate view.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
awesome pix. I'll second the crab ID.
Here's a pic I took of mine but Kurt's pic is better by far IMO
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/gary334/IMG_0204keeper.jpg
Here's a pic I took of mine but Kurt's pic is better by far IMO
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/gary334/IMG_0204keeper.jpg
Hey guys,
My name is Ben, I live in Rochester, and just got involved in the Salt water Hobby after a decade in fresh water.
I have always dreamed of putting a tank in the wall like you have done here, its truly inspirational and I want to give you a pat on the back. I was wondering what kind of issues you get from putting a tank in the wall. Do you have humidity issues? I saw that you had to vent your basement, but are they humidity issues in your wall?
Also, how do people vent all the heat from these systems? has anyone every "plumbed" a tank into their cold air returns of their furnace?
Anyways your tank looks amazing and I hope you let us know if there are any longterm issues you have, and what you would do differently if you did it again
Thanks,
Ben
My name is Ben, I live in Rochester, and just got involved in the Salt water Hobby after a decade in fresh water.
I have always dreamed of putting a tank in the wall like you have done here, its truly inspirational and I want to give you a pat on the back. I was wondering what kind of issues you get from putting a tank in the wall. Do you have humidity issues? I saw that you had to vent your basement, but are they humidity issues in your wall?
Also, how do people vent all the heat from these systems? has anyone every "plumbed" a tank into their cold air returns of their furnace?
Anyways your tank looks amazing and I hope you let us know if there are any longterm issues you have, and what you would do differently if you did it again
Thanks,
Ben
SkiFletch
New member
Heat is usually vented with fans in the canopy and often times fans on the sump. I would NOT mess with your furnace returns as you could definitely get yourself into some interesting condensation and evaporation problems depending on what you tried. Heat reclamation is really tricky, so take care.
With larger tanks like Kurt's here, one thing to consider is evaporation and resulting humidity. This can be a problem in the summer here in WNY and very often a dehumidifier may need to be purchased for the tank's room and/or the sump room. Either that or some creative exhausting system. With mid range tanks though (50-150g), humidity isn't all that big of a problem.
With larger tanks like Kurt's here, one thing to consider is evaporation and resulting humidity. This can be a problem in the summer here in WNY and very often a dehumidifier may need to be purchased for the tank's room and/or the sump room. Either that or some creative exhausting system. With mid range tanks though (50-150g), humidity isn't all that big of a problem.
