Smoothdog's 150DD build

[smoothdog]

Makes me wish I had a taller stand or better yet a fish room!

Just cut a hole in that concrete wall, dig up all the ground on the other side and add one. :lol2:

 

[Tradewinds]

Easy fix...

How so?

Just cut a hole in that concrete wall, dig up all the ground on the other side and add one. :lol2:

Once I find a pot of gold. :lmao: :thumbsup:

 

[Reeferhead]

Your thread's star count was downgraded? I wonder how that could have happened? :lol:

 

[smoothdog]

Your thread's star count was downgraded? I wonder how that could have happened? :lol:

Apparently some buzzkill that doesn't like having a little fun visited. :crazy1:

 

[smoothdog]

Took a few shots of the tanks over the weekend. Everything is doing really well while holding for the new tank!

Holding tank:

DSC_1904.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Frag tank:

DSC_1906.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Fuge:

DSC_1908.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Skimmer finally broke in and is producing some nasty black goo

DSC_1909.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Blue tipped stag:

DSC_1912.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr


DSC_1914.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Pink Mille:

DSC_1915.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Back from the dead!

DSC_1916.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr


DSC_1917.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

 

[smoothdog]

Pink Pocillipora:

DSC_1918.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Hawkins I just got from Herschel is already encrusting :thumbsup:

DSC_1919.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Undata:

DSC_1920.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Lokani:

DSC_1922.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Palmer's blue:

DSC_1924.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Tricolor valida:

DSC_1925.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Bonsai:

DSC_1927.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Cali tort back from the dead. There was probably less than 10% tissue left on this when I broke down the old tank:

DSC_1930.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

 

[smoothdog]

Stawberry lemonade:

DSC_1931.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

favia:

DSC_1933.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

One of the best 'no flash' fish pics I've ever gotten!

DSC_1937.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr


DSC_1937.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr


DSC_1940.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr


DSC_1941.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Just put this in CDP:

DSC_1943.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

and this:

DSC_1945.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Still got Smack's dragon eyes:

DSC_1948.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

Duncans are looking much better:

DSC_1953.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

 

[smoothdog]

Found a better FTS of the holding tank:

DSC_1905.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr

 

[Tradewinds]

Everything is looking great! :eek1:

I bet you can't wait to see how the stuff looks in the new tank.

Excellent photos as well.

 

[smoothdog]

Everything is looking great! :eek1:

I bet you can't wait to see how the stuff looks in the new tank.

Excellent photos as well.

Thanks Mike! Yeah, bought a new table saw this weekend and I'm hoping to get plans finalized and final lumber measurements so I can get going on the stand soon.

 

[Mr D smack]

Looks really good :thumbsup:

 

[Koddie Doo]

Do you have a plan you are using for the stand?

 

[Nanook]

Beautiful acros. You must have a very low bioload.

 

[smoothdog]

Do you have a plan you are using for the stand?

Well, this is what I've come up with in SketchUp. Wether I can pull it off or not remains to be seen.


150DD Aquarium stand by ksw2005, on Flickr

Beautiful acros. You must have a very low bioload.

Thanks Nook! Well, I don't know about that. I feed flake and pellets to all three tanks twice a day and put nori in the tank with the tang and rabbit fish a couple times a week, with occasional frozen feedings. Here's the stock list:

Purple tang
Two barred rabbitfish
large melanarus wrasse
yellow coris wrasse
yellow watchman goby
onyx clown
lubbucks wrasse
blue margin wrasse ? juvi.
royal gramma
exquisite wrasse
couple of serpent stars
2 tiger tail cukes (one that split)
assorted snails
and a few hermits

I really think the bio-pellets are doing a great job of keeping the nitrates down. My phosphates were up as high as 1.6 at one point but after a couple of GFO changes they were down to .06 a couple of days ago.

 

[rackman]

I really think the bio-pellets are doing a great job of keeping the nitrates down.

are you still using the 550 mod for them or are you running a stock 550?

 

[rackman]

i just can't remember if you ditched the mod

 

[smoothdog]

Yeah, I took it off. The ports built into the reactor are too small for re-circulation. They need to be modded to re-circulate. Look at the last post on the first page of this thread for a good mod: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2274224

 

[rackman]

but you are still using the stock 550?

 

[kegogut]

I was reading that the TLF 150 is better suited for running biopellets than the 550. Im thinking Im needing to try some pellets myself. I did another water change today and my nitrates are still high. Gonna test again tomorrow and see what I come up with. If theyre still high I'll do another water change but dont want to do too many too fast.

 

[VSpeck]

I was reading that the TLF 150 is better suited for running biopellets than the 550. Im thinking Im needing to try some pellets myself. I did another water change today and my nitrates are still high. Gonna test again tomorrow and see what I come up with. If theyre still high I'll do another water change but dont want to do too many too fast.

what are they at?