The Reef Central Corner Club Thread
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Hookup
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Kelso, i would recommend remove 1/2 the rock from your DT and moving it to your sump. Well, that would be my wifes recommendation. I had 3x the amount of rock in my tank as I do now, she kept telling me to pull more out... In the end she was right.
Now, that's because I wanted a very open concept structure... you have a nice reef-wall structure going on there... and the rescape looks better, IMO.
One other suggestion would be to try to avoid the pyramid shape you have going. The two sides are leading the eye to the top center, so if there is any way you can create an off-set point, or keep it lower in the middle with two islands, it would look different..
Honestly, i suck at this stuff, aquascaping is one of the main benefits of having a wife... she can tell me what i;m doing wrong, and 9 or 10 times she is right. These are just thoughts on how I might consider modifying your setup... not improving, just changing to something else... It looks good as is, but I wanted to give you something as feed back, beside... "nice job!"..
Now, that's because I wanted a very open concept structure... you have a nice reef-wall structure going on there... and the rescape looks better, IMO.
One other suggestion would be to try to avoid the pyramid shape you have going. The two sides are leading the eye to the top center, so if there is any way you can create an off-set point, or keep it lower in the middle with two islands, it would look different..
Honestly, i suck at this stuff, aquascaping is one of the main benefits of having a wife... she can tell me what i;m doing wrong, and 9 or 10 times she is right. These are just thoughts on how I might consider modifying your setup... not improving, just changing to something else... It looks good as is, but I wanted to give you something as feed back, beside... "nice job!"..
kelso1980
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thanks hookup. I like your suggestion about taking more rock out...I just cant bring myself to do it! For instance...I'm saving that one whole rock because I cant get the ricordia off it. and I feel like it's too bulky so that's why every time I re aquascape more rocks come out. I have no more room in my sump. eventually more rock will come out...but i'm not ready to take that next step yet.
Plus I found a bristle worm in there today so I think i'm going to torch the whole aquarium. maybe the house too. I'm pretty sure bristle worms came from my nightmares. I know it's silly and everyone has them but i cant STAND them! they give me the willies
Plus I found a bristle worm in there today so I think i'm going to torch the whole aquarium. maybe the house too. I'm pretty sure bristle worms came from my nightmares. I know it's silly and everyone has them but i cant STAND them! they give me the willies
you could pull some out, and also move some forward a bit, just make the wall a little thicker, not sure how much you have in there, but i estimate theres about 115 pounds in my DT and it looks ok, a bit of re-scaping may be worth a shot, fwiw i think it looks quite nice, but hookups suggestion about moving a bit is a good idea, i have 10 pounds in my sump
gawf4fun
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Hello Boys, just found this thread tonight and enjoyed reading to this point. Great stuff in here, much that you have to have experienced to really appreciate. I too suffer from big sump envy!
I bought a used acrylic pentagon corner tank about three years ago because I loved the shape and look of the tank's depth of field for viewing. The dimensions are 48" from the corner tip to the front edges, 11" for the side panels and 54" across the front panel. The depth of the tank is 24" (a pain in the butt for corner cleaning). I haven't done the math to confirm it, but I was told it was a 180 gallon, so that my story and I'm sticking with it.
I traded my old hot tub to my UPS man at work who does woodworking and used to build stands and canopies for a LFS. He did a super job. The stand has a flat back leaving even less room for equipment, though I've managed to cram a good amount of stuff underneath including 30 gallon sump, external protein skimmer, calcium reactor, auto-top off and phosban reactor. The only thing that didn't fit is my 1/4HP chiller which sits on the right side of the tank alongside the closed loop pump. (which after reading the last line, I realize didn't fit underneath either). I don't have a picture of underneath the stand but will take one and post so you can appreciate the same cramps that I have. LOL
Anyway, here's a few pics of the canopy, stand, and tank early after setting it up and with my initial rockwork after about 5 months.
I re-worked the aquascaping just over a year ago to create better flow and to give more room for adding corals. Here's pics of the new aquascaping from a year ago and then more recently after a year of filling in and coral growth. I'm pretty happy with the mixed reef look, just thinking now that I need to upgrade my flow by adding a Vortech.
I'm really looking forward to seeing and hearing from more corner reef owners here on RC. If anyone has feedback on Vortech' pumps and their use and positioning in pentagon/corner tanks, I'd love to hear it.
I bought a used acrylic pentagon corner tank about three years ago because I loved the shape and look of the tank's depth of field for viewing. The dimensions are 48" from the corner tip to the front edges, 11" for the side panels and 54" across the front panel. The depth of the tank is 24" (a pain in the butt for corner cleaning). I haven't done the math to confirm it, but I was told it was a 180 gallon, so that my story and I'm sticking with it.
I traded my old hot tub to my UPS man at work who does woodworking and used to build stands and canopies for a LFS. He did a super job. The stand has a flat back leaving even less room for equipment, though I've managed to cram a good amount of stuff underneath including 30 gallon sump, external protein skimmer, calcium reactor, auto-top off and phosban reactor. The only thing that didn't fit is my 1/4HP chiller which sits on the right side of the tank alongside the closed loop pump. (which after reading the last line, I realize didn't fit underneath either). I don't have a picture of underneath the stand but will take one and post so you can appreciate the same cramps that I have. LOL
Anyway, here's a few pics of the canopy, stand, and tank early after setting it up and with my initial rockwork after about 5 months.
I re-worked the aquascaping just over a year ago to create better flow and to give more room for adding corals. Here's pics of the new aquascaping from a year ago and then more recently after a year of filling in and coral growth. I'm pretty happy with the mixed reef look, just thinking now that I need to upgrade my flow by adding a Vortech.
I'm really looking forward to seeing and hearing from more corner reef owners here on RC. If anyone has feedback on Vortech' pumps and their use and positioning in pentagon/corner tanks, I'd love to hear it.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14119613#post14119613 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kelso1980
I reaquascaped again. I dropped a tiny rock w 6 daisy polyps on it and tried to retrieve it. this turned into a swirling vortex and I never found my daisys. D: It was still looking too bulky to me. What do you think? Honesty is the best policy
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I wouldn't change a thing with that aquascaping. When those corals grow in that it going to be one sweet tank. Also love all the room for the sandy front.
hey gawf4fun welcome to the corner club, your tank looks fantastic, i love the look of the aquascape, it looks really well established, not into vortecs myself but hopefully one of the other guys who participates on this thread will chip in later when they catch up with the thread
Hookup
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Hey gawf4fun! Nice setup. I cannot tell you much about the vortech other than I will now be moving my fish tank to accommodate the pumps... mumble grrrr mumble... You need over 2.5" from the wall to glass for the pumps... Echotech as a forum on RC for more details. They are definitely getting amazing reviews, and their customer support is full of praise. I'm gong to be throwing 2 into my 92gal bowfront to get random turbulent flow for the SPS. I'm hopefully moving the tank tomorrow.. trying to line up the help to get it done. I'm sure you'll like the vortech, it's getting great reviews.
well ive had a word via pm with a moderator and basically its not practicable to get a forum for a corner club, however this doesnt mean we cant keep this thread going and encourage new members, hope all you guys and gals keep posting here to help newcomwers and we can also exchange ideas, thank you very much fellow corner owners im humbled by your contributions and am honestly priveliged to be a part of REEF CENTRAL and this thread, cheers guys, keep up the great work
well it would have been great, but it just wont be, so we need to try to make our own club, jesse is the main man when it comes to photos and the like, perhaps he can design avatars we can all use and we will make our own club within RC, and stick together and help each other out, by doing tank builds like jesse is doing now and showing pics of flow and lighting and genrally halping new members with corners, at worse weve all met and know were not alone with our different corner tanks, im prepared to keep this thead going and will always post and add anything i can constructively to make it work, and lets hope we get more newbies joining, and yes one day we may get a corner tank of the month:lol: i suppose i could always swim across the atlantic for meetings
gawf4fun
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Thanks Mike, Hookup and Kelso for all the positive comments on my 180 corner. I'm all for continuing to post pics, comments and other useful information for my fellow "Cornerownians" (non gender specific phrase Kelso). :rollface:
It has been a struggle at times with equipment failures, upgrades and just about 8 weeks ago, a cucumber got blenderized in my closed loop and distributed throughout my tank. The ammonia spike took out every fish I had
(and 1 x SPS), with the exception of my purple tang. I've been re-stocking fish since then, trying to add new fish which I've not previously owned. In this hobby, every cloud has a silver lining.
I'm still planning to post a sump pic this afternoon after I do my waterchange. Cheers all!
It has been a struggle at times with equipment failures, upgrades and just about 8 weeks ago, a cucumber got blenderized in my closed loop and distributed throughout my tank. The ammonia spike took out every fish I had
(and 1 x SPS), with the exception of my purple tang. I've been re-stocking fish since then, trying to add new fish which I've not previously owned. In this hobby, every cloud has a silver lining.I'm still planning to post a sump pic this afternoon after I do my waterchange. Cheers all!
Hookup
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V-Nice Husky_1! Love that tang and the open look. No sand isn't for me, but I appreciate the value.
Lots of frags there too... looking good for sure.
I notice you have the bigger sized glass cleaner magenet thing. Do people find that works better than the slim-size? I was wondering given the curve of the front glass is the bigger one (that I also have) as good as the narrow thin version?
Lots of frags there too... looking good for sure.
I notice you have the bigger sized glass cleaner magenet thing. Do people find that works better than the slim-size? I was wondering given the curve of the front glass is the bigger one (that I also have) as good as the narrow thin version?
Bernie21
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gawf4fun- Nice tank, Im sorry to hear you have had so much trouble w your tank, but hopefully this time around you'll have better luck & you can count on us for any help you may need. I wish I had that type of water volume, the fish I could keep, oh well.
Husky, good to see you here, tank is looking nice, I hope to finally meet you at the frag swap.
Michael, as far as the corner club/forum, you, I can see how its not convinient for them to give us our own forum, truthfully there really isnt enough of us. But we can do our own club and we can post right here. Im down for the Idea of a club avitar, that'll be cool. You can suggest to the mods though, to atleast lock this thread on top of the forum since they wont give us our own forum, this way people can find us easily. Im sure that can be arranged. Its not an entire forum.
Husky, good to see you here, tank is looking nice, I hope to finally meet you at the frag swap.
Michael, as far as the corner club/forum, you, I can see how its not convinient for them to give us our own forum, truthfully there really isnt enough of us. But we can do our own club and we can post right here. Im down for the Idea of a club avitar, that'll be cool. You can suggest to the mods though, to atleast lock this thread on top of the forum since they wont give us our own forum, this way people can find us easily. Im sure that can be arranged. Its not an entire forum.
