Room Dividers...lets see some pix

[Justin/TiV]

thinking about doing a room divider this time around...would love to see some room divider, or in walls you can see from both sides...thanks guys

 

[Justin/TiV]

or does anyone know where I can find some pics...looking for some inspiration here

thanks again

 

[boodlefish]

i would like to see some pics of this type of setup too.

 

[Hookup]

It's in-progress but i think this counts as a room-divider.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Well, here's mine from back when I was curing the concrete rocks:

Water return is on the left side of the tank and the overflow is on the far right.

From the other side:

 

[IPT]

Hookup that should be sweet..

Justin - I think there was a thread about this in the SPS or one of the other forums. There were a lot posted (course my mind might be playing games on me but I am pretty sure about that). Might want to do a search on those. It might have just been built in's bit there were a lot of dividers.

 

[boodlefish]

both very nice looking starts do we have any fully stocked to show off here?

 

["Umm fish?"]

My system's had a lot of issues with corals. I think because of using concrete instead of live rock. But it's been running for around a year now and has some corals that are doing okay. But the fish have been doing fine. Here's my last FTS:

 

[boodlefish]

Andy that looks really cool, i hope the concrete ends up working out it, for you. it is a unique look for sure. does the concrete effect eh ph or alk or something?

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks, Tucker. The pH was really high at first and took lots of rinsing (=whole tank freshwater filling and emptying) until that ran down. I'm not sure whether I think subsequent coral problems were from leaching substances from the concrete or whether I think it was because it took a long time for small cleaner populations to get established. Or both. I do know that a few months ago the coralline really took off and that seemed to signal a turn-around for the corals. Now if I can just avoid doing bone-headed things maybe I can get the reef established. (I walked away from the top-off water yesterday and ran the salinity down. Grr.)

 

[boodlefish]

well i cant wait to see some updated pics of that tank in a couple of months then

 

["Umm fish?"]

Well, it'll be a bit longer than that, I'm afraid. The tank's so big that frags just get lost. Heck, all the way to the right on the very top of the rock is a pretty large Euphyllia (frogspawn). It'll be a while 'til things grow in.

BTW, there's another possibility for corals not doing well. I feed the fish pretty darn heavily. I _like_ spawning fish. Nitrates have not been an issue, but I move a lot of nutrients through the system and into algae. I'm just still working on finding the right corals that can put up with the way I do things.

So, three possible issues to work on. Maybe someday I'll get it all figured out.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Dang Andy that looks like a well planned system with HUGE potential! You already have someone wishing to someday have what you have now at any rate.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Well, sorry. I got to the macro thread first. But here it is again, my build thread if you are interested: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1295659

There was lots of planning, but I'm not sure whether it was "well" or not. More like drunken planning. :beer:

 

[LoneRanger]

you can see the headboard to our bed if you look through the tank-

 

[FishBoy05]

Your lighting looks cool at night.

 

[Justin/TiV]

Right on...cool pix guys.

 

[Justin/TiV]

It's in-progress but i think this counts as a room-divider.

thats looking awesome...by the way, did you do the rock on your fireplace yourself...I'm thinking of doing something really similar with mine.

 

[Octoshark]

Hookup,

I can't tell from the picture how far away that fireplace is, but if you use that fireplace, is it far enough away so that it wouldn't affect your tank temperatures?

 

[fullmonti]

We live in a horse barn. When we bought it there were 8 stalls down stairs & 700 sq ft apt up stairs. We converted down stairs to my wood shop, tack room, storage ect & eventually closed in 500 more sq ft in the loft, built in a 180 between original living/ktn & new living room. The photo is HDR shot