stpatrick
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Here we go again...
So we bought a new house and I don't have the area I had in my old house for me tank... I broke down my 112 Rimless reef.. I've been tank-less for a little while. I found a 60 Gallon Solana XL, tank, stand and sump from baherrick in Mission Viejo.
I am doing some major changes. I will be going back to metal halides. I will be running 250 watt Radium. The ballast will be the Aqua Medic Reeflex Cube M80 ballast. I will be running 453 nm leds strips for accent, dawn and dusk.
The sump I will be using came with the Solana. Small but I am very limited on space so I will make it work.
I will be using a SWC 160 protein skimmer. I currently have it on my temporary set up in the garage. Seems to be doing a decent job.
Another big change is my scape. I am going from my huge tank down to a 24X24X24. I will be building one pillar for the center front and then I will cut dry rock and wrap it around the overflow. In my mind it looks awesome, we will see. It is still 3 dimensional and will provide plenty of space for sps and lps.
I will be running a JNS Alpha 1 Biopellet Reactor loaded with 125ml of Warner Marine ecobac,
Thats a brief snap show of the build. No lets let the pictures roll.
Here is what my old set up looked like. :beer:
The new set up.
This is my set up in the garage. Everything has been in this 35 gallon Tupperware container for 2 months and are growing like crazy. I did initially lose a few nice corals.
More to come soon.
So we bought a new house and I don't have the area I had in my old house for me tank... I broke down my 112 Rimless reef.. I've been tank-less for a little while. I found a 60 Gallon Solana XL, tank, stand and sump from baherrick in Mission Viejo.
I am doing some major changes. I will be going back to metal halides. I will be running 250 watt Radium. The ballast will be the Aqua Medic Reeflex Cube M80 ballast. I will be running 453 nm leds strips for accent, dawn and dusk.
The sump I will be using came with the Solana. Small but I am very limited on space so I will make it work.
I will be using a SWC 160 protein skimmer. I currently have it on my temporary set up in the garage. Seems to be doing a decent job.
Another big change is my scape. I am going from my huge tank down to a 24X24X24. I will be building one pillar for the center front and then I will cut dry rock and wrap it around the overflow. In my mind it looks awesome, we will see. It is still 3 dimensional and will provide plenty of space for sps and lps.
I will be running a JNS Alpha 1 Biopellet Reactor loaded with 125ml of Warner Marine ecobac,
Thats a brief snap show of the build. No lets let the pictures roll.
Here is what my old set up looked like. :beer:
The new set up.
This is my set up in the garage. Everything has been in this 35 gallon Tupperware container for 2 months and are growing like crazy. I did initially lose a few nice corals.
More to come soon.
Tank has been repainted. More on that later. I finished my scape. So I had this idea about wrapping the rock around the overflow box and building one pillar in the front center. The rock was to chunky and I couldn't piece it correctly to make it look natural. So I was thinking . I can use my hand saw with my 4" diamond blade and cut a V in the rock and place the pieces like Lincoln logs. I cut the first piece, put it in place then went to cut the second piece and almost cut my thumb off . Well an emergency room visit, 5 stitches and 3 hours later, I finally got home. Needless to say I was very lucky. The blade cut into my bone and fractured it. I have some nerve damage but missed all the tendons. Not sure how I missed them all. I will spare you the gore. Here is the clean version of my injury.
