Phizzle's 40g cube build thread

Finally got a chance to update. Pretty much finished moving out to an apt with my wife within the past week. Finished the stand during that time. Planning to build a better stand down the line but this is good enough for now. Drilled the tank and installed overflow. Painted the back blue. Still need to install the plumbing. Planning on putting some water in today with water from my existing tank and some freshly mixed water with some lr and ls. I'll add more pics later. No internet at the apt yet so have to do with cell phone pics. Still have to build canopy...hopefully have it finished by end of the week...

Edit: issues with my phone...can't copy photobucket link cause the phone sucks. Can't upload either bec I can't shrink the size of the pic on this phone...gotta be patient until I get to my parents house to upload pics...
 
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Update! Pictures! These came off my BB, so quality is not great.

Finished stand - Not what I envisioned, but it works for now.
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Tank background spray painted blue
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Tank on stand - Forgot to take pics of me drilling the hole in the tank and installing the overflow box.
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Canopy
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Finally up and running - Pic taken after a couple hours of it running so the water wasn't clear yet.
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couple more pics. not done with my aquascaping. it just consists of 2 main rocks right now. planning to add some more, but dont know what yet since there is limited space and after i get rid of some corals. about 75% of the sps i dont want are going to my friends tank. the rest i will post online later for sale and it'll be really cheap. nothing really fancy though. some favias as well.

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oh yeah, any way to get rid of that sponge like thing on the rock in the middle pic w/ the orange and green caps? its bothering me
 
Updated 6/28/10

Updated 6/28/10

Did some aquascaping today. Happy with it so far, will of course do some tinkering down the road, but i'm happy for now. Just gotta mount my acans, but need to find some small, flat LR so they all can be on their own rock.

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Holy smokes you came up on a lot of coral! Looks good brotha man!

Still running the LED and t5s?

Also, what coral is that right in the middle? Like a redish color...is that a milli? Do wants :D
 
Thanks man! Yeah still running LED and t5 actinics in front.

The red one in the middle is the red planet. There's 2 branches that grew off of the plug. The one in the back, john wants and the other i'm wanting to keep since no branches have grown out on the plug yet. I'll hook you up with a frag of it down the road for sure.

Holy smokes you came up on a lot of coral! Looks good brotha man!

Still running the LED and t5s?

Also, what coral is that right in the middle? Like a redish color...is that a milli? Do wants :D
 
Hey Phi, what are you doing to supplement for you LPS and SPS? Dosing or just water changes? If doing water changes, what salt are you using? I like the coloring you got going.
 
I spot feed lps with frozen mysis, and 2x/week I use coral frenzy for sps. I was using the frozen coral food stuff (forget what brand). Planning to start using some freeze dried cyclopeeze that i got from john. water change with seachem reef salt, only stuff I've used so far.
Hey Phi, what are you doing to supplement for you LPS and SPS? Dosing or just water changes? If doing water changes, what salt are you using? I like the coloring you got going.
 
Update 9/12/10

Update 9/12/10

Got some new corals and would like to share some pics

zebra stripe mint green open brain
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teal/purple symphyllia and orange crush acan enchinata
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wellso
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FTS
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Right side
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Left side
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