The 720- take 2

[sfsuphysics]

Hey some of my best thinking is done out loud... that is until I'm interrupted by my wife who says "who the hell are you talking to??"

That said, Dave is spot on with the fish list are personal. I mean I would go with a few bristletoothed ones, a few zebrasoma, probably stay away from Acanthurus types since they tend to be the more territorial/aggressive ones, and of course one Naso just to be the Titanic of the tank. But again like Dave said, a multi-pronged approach to usefulness for your tank would also be my thought of what I would put in a tank that large.

 

[jrpdriver]

Hey some of my best thinking is done out loud... that is until I'm interrupted by my wife who says "who the hell are you talking to??"

That said, Dave is spot on with the fish list are personal. I mean I would go with a few bristletoothed ones, a few zebrasoma, probably stay away from Acanthurus types since they tend to be the more territorial/aggressive ones, and of course one Naso just to be the Titanic of the tank. But again like Dave said, a multi-pronged approach to usefulness for your tank would also be my thought of what I would put in a tank that large.

LOL, yeah I do the same, or sometimes I make facial expressions and she asks me who I'm arguing with ....I have to have an Achilles though, by far my favorite fish, I had one in my 300g for a couple years until the heater malfunctioned while I was out of town, and actually, I didn't see the aggression out of him like I have with Powder Blues for example.

 

[Vegas RN]

i love the seat idea. might have to steal that when i do my inwall. was it difficult to do? looks great.

 

[ADVRESOURCE]

Your setup is awesome. I'm going through a 240 rebuild. Just added 3 yellow tangs, a purple tang, and 3 chromis. The tangs hang together and the chromis' do too. I'll be adding a naso blonde, chevron and Red Sea sail fin, 6 line and cleaner wrasse soon. Your setup is so large with awesome rock work for plenty of hiding, you probably can get away with a lot of fish varieties. I tried that with my 240 and failed miserably. Fish killing fish killing crabs, killing coral, killing you name it. Powder blue, brown, clown tangs stressing each other out, blue spot jaw fish jumping. Basically, more money than brains! This time I'm going to be way more selective. And, quarantine. With ample feeding along with having the lfs medicate all fish and getting them to eat prior to me taking to my reef systems.

Your decision on fish selection is prudent.

 

[jrpdriver]

i love the seat idea. might have to steal that when i do my inwall. was it difficult to do? looks great.

Thank you...Nah it was very easy, it's just framed out with 2 X 4's behind it

 

[jrpdriver]

Your setup is awesome. I'm going through a 240 rebuild. Just added 3 yellow tangs, a purple tang, and 3 chromis. The tangs hang together and the chromis' do too. I'll be adding a naso blonde, chevron and Red Sea sail fin, 6 line and cleaner wrasse soon. Your setup is so large with awesome rock work for plenty of hiding, you probably can get away with a lot of fish varieties. I tried that with my 240 and failed miserably. Fish killing fish killing crabs, killing coral, killing you name it. Powder blue, brown, clown tangs stressing each other out, blue spot jaw fish jumping. Basically, more money than brains! This time I'm going to be way more selective. And, quarantine. With ample feeding along with having the lfs medicate all fish and getting them to eat prior to me taking to my reef systems.

Your decision on fish selection is prudent.

Thank you....we've all been there, I had a fish only once and I put a bird wrasse in that proceeded to bite the smaller fish in half. I ended up catching him with a line and hook.

 

[Drblakjak55]

That's what I thought with neon gobies. Bought four. Year later they don't talk


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[Psirex]

If you do the Anthias 4 females per 1 male and introduced at the same time

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[jrpdriver]

I finished my water change station today, 85g container...I have had 6 Chromis in the tank for about a week now, going to add some Tangs and Rabbitfish tomorrow

 

[jrpdriver]

I transferred all the coral out of my other 2 tanks and bought a bunch of frags and mini colonies from various sources, everything is doing well and starting to color up and some of the browned out wild pieces I bought are starting to look amazing. Tonight I finally got the ole camera out, these pics were taken under the actinics only...

 

[jrpdriver]

 

[m0nkie]

Jason, how do you like your none filter sock idea now that the tank has been running for awhile? I'm thinking about doing something similar for my set up.

 

[sfsuphysics]

Man if those are just "starting to color up" I think my jaw is going to literally drop when they fully color up

 

[jrpdriver]

Jason, how do you like your none filter sock idea now that the tank has been running for awhile? I'm thinking about doing something similar for my set up.

I'm happy with it, I have to run two layers of filter pad though, with just one piece the front of it gets pushed and water passes in front of it. I change out the pads once a week

 

[Drblakjak55]

Fantastic. What lights are you running?


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[m0nkie]

I'm happy with it, I have to run two layers of filter pad though, with just one piece the front of it gets pushed and water passes in front of it. I change out the pads once a week

nice! I saw a BRS video and they have a sump designed very similar. but instead of a roll, they had sock holes. just need to swap out socks. trying to decide between yours and BRS design

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0jk2yaT-hc

anything you would do differently now to prevent that water passing issue?

thanks!

 

[jrpdriver]

Fantastic. What lights are you running?


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Thanks, I'm running ATI 6 x 80w fixtures

 

[jrpdriver]

nice! I saw a BRS video and they have a sump designed very similar. but instead of a roll, they had sock holes. just need to swap out socks. trying to decide between yours and BRS design

@ 1:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0jk2yaT-hc

anything you would do differently now to prevent that water passing issue?

thanks!

thats cool, I just don't like the hassle of washing socks and they are too expensive to be disposable....I'm going to make a new lid for the area that has some pegs on the underside of it to hold the pad in place

 

[jrpdriver]

I haven't been able to get a good FTS with my camera, anyone know any good tricks? In the meantime here is an iphone pic just to document the progress

 

[jrpdriver]

so how do people post those really large pictures? photobucket keeps making it this size no matter how big the file is before I upload it