New look for the same old tank

[cloakerpoked]

Added a much courser sand, almost like pebbles, from LMK and I gotta say that I'm pretty happy with the way this tank looks now. I've moved all my SPS over from the frag tank to heal up to the display, and thanks to having to catch that coral beauty about a month ago, I got a new aquascape that has given me a lot more room for the SPS without getting hit by my 2 extremely large anenomes. Picked up that 1/3 HP chiller that Paul brought to our attention on craigslist for like 20 or 30 frags I already had laying around in the frag tank, so now I have to plumb it. Before I do, I'm reworking the entire plumbing for the tank, and thinking about adding spray-bars to the top sides of the tank, in order to get more random flow. I'm not sure how I want to accomplish everything yet, but am sure that a manifold system like what Tswifty did will be incorperated. Drew out a map of the whole system, and it is going to have something like 25 ball valves and unions. Will be a real fiasco, so I'm hoping this whole mess is worth it. Gotta grow out the SPS for a month or so, then frag it and hopefully sell it off for my $250 re-plumb. In the mean time, here's a few pics...

Before....

After....

 

[superstein61]

Looks good !!! But 25 ball valves / unions - wow, that will be one involved plumbing setup

 

[Tswifty]

Very nice... looks like you have a lot of good real estate over on the right hand side..

 

[the2ofus]

WOW!!!
I didn't realize how much you had to move to catch that coral beauty.
Thanks, it's doing great.
The Chromis look good in there.
I'm jealous.

 

[cloakerpoked]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14493278#post14493278 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tswifty
Very nice... looks like you have a lot of good real estate over on the right hand side..

Yeah, there is. Believe it or not, there are actually 21 different types of SPS frags already over on the right side, and also 3 LPS, so I'm waiting to see them grow in a little bit before i add a few more. The idea overall is to get them all in at the same size and let them fill in together, that way nothing outcompetes the others, so I've been intentionally pruning, but now I've gotten to the point where I want to let it grow in some. I'm very happy about all the territory it gives me though, and I can control the anenomes better keeping them all on one side of the tank, and close together. I'm hoping that when I add a spray bar with the plumbing update in a month or two, that I will be able to control them even a little more.

 

[Stray32]

Looks good Nate

 

[LDMF]

Looks even better, but I thought it looked great before. Glad the sand helped.

Hopefully when my tank "grows in" it will look half as nice.