The 300 has begun

[frontosa_man80]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14334525#post14334525 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bigred
Thanks but I'm having trouble finding rubber gasket material.

Well here a picture of some more work done on the canopy.

now i can see fish in your tank, two of them.

as far as the gasket goes, got some coming.

-jesse

 

[Bigred]

Thanks everyone. Thanks for the search for the gasket material Jesse.

Well got the doors on now. All I have to do is buy one more piece of crown molding from the canopy to the tank to do the finishing touch. Here's a pic.

 

[NaClH20NMYVEIN]

:thumbsup:

 

[Bigred]

Well here's a update on my fish list that's in my tank now.

5-6" Blonde Naso
Pylei Fairy Wrasse
Black Leopard Wrasse
Ornate Leopard Wrasse
Pair of Green Mandarins
Purple Tang
Vlamingi Tang

 

[Bigred]

Well I finally got a good picture of the Black Leopard. Also here's some pics of the calcium and kalk reactors finished waiting for the gaskets.

 

[frontosa_man80]

has your ornate leopard wrasse come out yet?


-jesse

 

[JMCAquarium]

Looks Sharp Red

 

[Elliott]

beautiful! great job on all the DIY stuff, wish I had your skills

 

[Bigred]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14345685#post14345685 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by frontosa_man80
has your ornate leopard wrasse come out yet?


-jesse

I saw him yesterday for about 5 minutes. I would have never seen him but I was sitting there mounting the corals I got from you and he had his head popped out of the rocks. He came out about 3" from the rock then went back in and haven't seen him since. My black leopard is a buck tooth. Half of his top lip is gone and you can see his teeth. I've been trying to get a picture but he moves too much.

 

[frontosa_man80]

my ornate leopard came out late last night and ate alittle. havent seen him yet today.

-jesse

 

[DML08]

Did you use a bulk head to go through the 6'' tubing on the input side of the pump? or did use a uniseal?

 

[Bigred]

I used a bulkhead. I finally got a pic of the Ornate Leopard.

 

[Bigred]

Well here's the fish I'll be adding tomorrow:

3 Glass Cardinals
3 Female African Lyre Tail Anthias
1 Male African Lyre Tail Anthias
1 Yellow Coris Wrasse

The fish list is getting up there. I'll finally have some movement in my tank.

 

[jerburton]

those leopards are so cool - and having those schooling fish in there is going to look sweet

 

[ArizonaReefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14345590#post14345590 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bigred

What sort of tools do you use for constructing the pieces?

Do you drill the holes in the lower plates or do you know someone with a CNN machine?

 

[Bigred]

Someone with a CNC did it. I have few of these.

 

[joe bendel]

hey red everything looks great i would love to see it one day.

 

[Bigred]

If you want to come by this weekend it's fine with me. I still have that one tile that needs to be fixed.

 

[Bigred]

Well, since I added the kalk reactor my PH went up a bit. Got home tonight and it was 8.77 according to my controller. I think I need to calibrate it anyways. The only coral that didn't look happy was the Elegance and everything else looked fine. He was a little sucked in tonight. So I'm going to wait until I get my calcium reactor hooked up so I can balance the PH a little better to hook it back up.

I just need a CO2 tank.

 

[Bigred]

Well needed to add some storage so I'm building a addition. Here's a pic. Still need to cut the hole for the door and add a few other thing but it's coming out nice. I'm using 2 pieces of the floor tile for the top.