akopley
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Well its been about 3 months now and I have finally decided to set up a thread on my new tank. I got the empty tank and stand from a friend for $50 and began creating my new underwater work of art.
Last year i became interested in the reefing hobby and jumped right into a 90 gallon. I went all out...as best i could at least on a college students budget. 520 watt orbit extreme light fixture, uv, euro reef skimmer...the list of equipment goes on forever. To my great dismay someone became angry with me and decided to sabotage my underwater world. I came back from class one morning and noticed that none of my corals were open. I stuck my hand in the tanka nd about had a heart attack, the tank was well over 100 degrees. I cooled things off as quick as possible by floating bags of ice but it was just too much stress and i lost about 75 percent of my corals. I didn't give up though, I began adding livestock again...and believe it or not some ******blasted my heat again. I decided to break down my 90 and wait till i moved into my new place before starting up again. My old house had 5 room mates...all best friends so none of them were ever suspects. But between us we had upset quite a few women around the Charleston area...its hard being so charming. Many of these angry girls still showed up to our house parties and in my humble opinion were the cause of my first tanks demise. Fortunate for me i only have one room mate now and my new tank is set up in my room (no heater this time either). So far things have been going very well and i hope everyone out there enjoys what i have to share.
The New tank like i said is a 24 Gallon Aquapod. I upgraded the lighting to a 150 watt sunpod running a 14K pheonix bulb...very nice! I decided to keep all my filtration equipment and sump from my 90 and placed an overflow on the Pod to drain water into it. I have a Euro Reef Skimmer rated for a 300 gallon tank, an 18 watt turbo twist uv, and a refugium that is larger than my display. I am using a mag 9.5 into a SCWD which diverts the flow all over the tank. I think i am pushing about 600 gallons per hour in the display maybe more. I haven't decided what to do yet with the refugium section of the sump. Since it is visible i was thinking about setting it up as some type of species only tank. Maybe horses since that was my original but not followed plan with the POD. Or maybe a large peacock mantis. Who knows only time will tell. The current inhabitants in my tank are two very lucky true percs and numerous inverts. If anyone wants to know specifics just ask...anyway here come the pics. They are pretty much in order.
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This is the tank at my old house. I took all the LR i wanted to keep from my 90 and just put it in here before i moved.
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I got a little impatient and added a couple frags.
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Last year i became interested in the reefing hobby and jumped right into a 90 gallon. I went all out...as best i could at least on a college students budget. 520 watt orbit extreme light fixture, uv, euro reef skimmer...the list of equipment goes on forever. To my great dismay someone became angry with me and decided to sabotage my underwater world. I came back from class one morning and noticed that none of my corals were open. I stuck my hand in the tanka nd about had a heart attack, the tank was well over 100 degrees. I cooled things off as quick as possible by floating bags of ice but it was just too much stress and i lost about 75 percent of my corals. I didn't give up though, I began adding livestock again...and believe it or not some ******blasted my heat again. I decided to break down my 90 and wait till i moved into my new place before starting up again. My old house had 5 room mates...all best friends so none of them were ever suspects. But between us we had upset quite a few women around the Charleston area...its hard being so charming. Many of these angry girls still showed up to our house parties and in my humble opinion were the cause of my first tanks demise. Fortunate for me i only have one room mate now and my new tank is set up in my room (no heater this time either). So far things have been going very well and i hope everyone out there enjoys what i have to share.
The New tank like i said is a 24 Gallon Aquapod. I upgraded the lighting to a 150 watt sunpod running a 14K pheonix bulb...very nice! I decided to keep all my filtration equipment and sump from my 90 and placed an overflow on the Pod to drain water into it. I have a Euro Reef Skimmer rated for a 300 gallon tank, an 18 watt turbo twist uv, and a refugium that is larger than my display. I am using a mag 9.5 into a SCWD which diverts the flow all over the tank. I think i am pushing about 600 gallons per hour in the display maybe more. I haven't decided what to do yet with the refugium section of the sump. Since it is visible i was thinking about setting it up as some type of species only tank. Maybe horses since that was my original but not followed plan with the POD. Or maybe a large peacock mantis. Who knows only time will tell. The current inhabitants in my tank are two very lucky true percs and numerous inverts. If anyone wants to know specifics just ask...anyway here come the pics. They are pretty much in order.
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This is the tank at my old house. I took all the LR i wanted to keep from my 90 and just put it in here before i moved.
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I got a little impatient and added a couple frags.
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