The Reef Central Corner Club Thread

[gpx1200]

heres a few pics of my 92 corner bow. it's curently runing 1 250w14k metal halide,2 96w atinic pc's, 1 96w 10k pc and 1 65w 50/50pc in the back but i'm replacing the 10k and the 50/50pc with a 24 led kit i orderd today hopefully making less heat and more controle of my lighting color. all the lights except the halide are contained inside a wood conopy that i made and lined the inside with miror polished aluminum sheet i polished with a car buffer. the mh sits on top
i run a home made 20gal sump/fuge with a biowheel from a marineland comershal system(like they use in petco)that i cut down to fit my sump and a red sea turbo skimmer(i know they suck but untill i find somthing else that fits my system the way i liks it i'm stuck with it). i've built sumps with this designe for the last 3 tanks i set up(10yrs) with only slight changes mostly to increese flow and it works great.
the corner tank is definetly the most chalinging tank i'ev set up but it's also the most rewarding. if i ever need to clean out my overflow ill need to hire a trapize artist to hang from the sealing but other than that i love it.

 

[reefscape15]

Gpx1200, that is a beautiful display!!! Pictures like this are just the inspiration I need to get back into the hobby. I have a rectangle hood (just the wood frame) built for a standard 20high, and 2 young kids who are more than willing to help with setting up a new system.

Just a question, have the Xenias been a problem at all for you? I had a small colony of them which took over a very large rock in my old 20gal system.

 

[reefscape15]

Gpx1200, that is a beautiful display!!! Pictures like this are just the inspiration I need to get back into the hobby. I have a rectangle hood (just the wood frame) built for a standard 20high, and 2 young kids who are more than willing to help with setting up a new system.

Just a question, have the Xenias been a problem at all for you? I had a small colony of them which took over a very large rock in my old 20gal system.

 

[gpx1200]

thanks for the compliment, most of that is grown in that tank from 2-3 inch frags. the xenia has only crashed on me two times in 3-4 years but luckily i have given tons of it to friends and all the local fish stores so i can easily get more if it crashes. on the other hand some of my friends are allways coming back looking for more becouse they can't keep it alive and we can never figure out why, it seems to be quirky stuff and i just seem to have good luck with it. i've found it allways wants to climb so i put it at the base of somthing i don't mind it covering or against the glass and let it climb to the top when it stretches out and starts to block the light i scrape it off and put some back at the bottom and start over.i think it looks prety cool as a big wall of pulsing hands covering the glass

 

[s_kelley]

Ok guys, im picking up a 92 corner, its not reef ready but im gonna have it drilled. So I can plumb it through my floor into my future "fish room." Anyone know where I can get the plastic corner overflow thing to silicone in? I searched all the sites I could think of and no one sells what im looking for. any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[msr224]

Ok guys, im picking up a 92 corner, its not reef ready but im gonna have it drilled. So I can plumb it through my floor into my future "fish room." Anyone know where I can get the plastic corner overflow thing to silicone in? I searched all the sites I could think of and no one sells what im looking for. any help would be greatly appreciated!

You might try contacting aqueon directly....

 

[Meshmez]

Hi, I might be joining the corner crew shortly. I just picked up a 54gallon pentagon corner, i believe its made by truvu. it was used. It holds water but the front and side panels show some bowing when filled, and that, along with some crazing at the bottom joints has me a little worried about it... i assume this is normal, but can someone with one of these tanks ease my fears? or tell me it is probably not good to use and i will move along. thanks!

 

[The_Codfather]

Has anyone drilled the sides of a Oceanic 92 corner bow?.. I'm thinking of adding a second overflow

TIA

Sid

 

[salsipuedes]

Hi, I might be joining the corner crew shortly. I just picked up a 54gallon pentagon corner, i believe its made by truvu. it was used. It holds water but the front and side panels show some bowing when filled, and that, along with some crazing at the bottom joints has me a little worried about it... i assume this is normal, but can someone with one of these tanks ease my fears? or tell me it is probably not good to use and i will move along. thanks!

I'd stay away from acrylic tanks that are crazing. it always spreads and gets worse as its in the acrylic, not on the surface (cant be buffed / sanded out). I have an acrylic 25 flat back hex and the crazing is a nickel sized piece on the front pane, bottom right. It is structurally sound at the moment but I think it will eventually be a structural integrity issue. I think it depends on the size of the tank, depth of the issue (pressure exerted on it) and thickness of the acrylic.

 

[jonnydilger]

Hello lads and ladies - any of you with a 92gal bowfront corner tank running 400W metal halides? I recently (finally) got my new system set up with a 14K Hamilton 400W bulb sitting about 12" from the surface of the water. Considering the tank depth and shape, how long do those of you with acclimated corals (SPS, LPS, zoas, and few other softies) keep your MHs running?

Thanks!

 

[sdoggssf]

Jonny,
I have a 54 gallon corner and have run 400w 14k hamilton bulbs with 4-24inch VHO actinics for about a year. It was a bright bulb compared to the radium that i ran years before. I use to run the 14k 11 or 12 hours a day with no problems. It did take a while to acclimate the corals under that light due to the intensity. Just keep a close eye on them and you should be fine.

 

[jonnydilger]

Thanks for the quick reply! Currently, I'm running the MH for ~8 hrs per day, so I think I'll slowly ramp up the output by an extra hour per week for the next several weeks. I'm not running any supplemental actinic lights... any recommendations for an inexpensive route for this?

 

[gawf4fun]

@ Jonny,

I've got a 180 corner over which I have 2 x 400 watt MH 14K bulbs hanging from pendants about 12" above the water. I run a 12pm - 9pm light cycle. These are supplemented by 4 x 95 watt VHO actinic bulbs run on Icecap ballasts from 9:30 - 11:30.

My corals really only polyp up when the halides are on. The actinics merely allow for me to view the inhabitants and what's going on.

mark

 

[The_Codfather]

Has anyone drilled the sides of a Oceanic 92 corner bow?.. I'm thinking of adding a second overflow

TIA

Sid

I guess not

 

[Vice333]

Does anyone know the thickness of the glass on a 92 corner, and where have people put their MP40 for the best all around flow in this type of tank?

 

[naprestsleep]

I took off the spacer for the mp40 when I measured my glass. I got two on either side at the front by the bow. I wish I could get one further toward the back but its hard to place or service them there.

 

[Vice333]

Looks like 1/2 inch, I have only the one at the moment, but will be getting the other when the lfs gets it in stock.

 

[gawf4fun]

Does anyone know the thickness of the glass on a 92 corner, and where have people put their MP40 for the best all around flow in this type of tank?

As my corner is a pentagon, I've got one MP40- on the left side angle low and the other MP40 on the right side angle high. Both are run at lagoon mode. This makes for good random flow, as the flow of each gets interrupted by my sea swirl rotating return. I also have a closed loop turning another 28 gallons/hour. My view is you can't have enough flow!

 

[SimonSKL]

As my corner is a pentagon, I've got one MP40- on the left side angle low and the other MP40 on the right side angle high. Both are run at lagoon mode. This makes for good random flow, as the flow of each gets interrupted by my sea swirl rotating return. I also have a closed loop turning another 28 gallons/hour. My view is you can't have enough flow!

Just curious. How do you angle a MP40 high and low when it has to sit perpendicular to the glass surface?

 

[gawf4fun]

Just curious. How do you angle a MP40 high and low when it has to sit perpendicular to the glass surface?

Sorry for being unclear. My tank is a five-sided pentagon corner, so from the back corner, the sides come out 4 feet, then a 12" pane that is perpendicular to the sides, then a 60" front pane. I place the vortechs on these 12" panels; the left one close to the bottom of the tank and the right one up towards the top. This puts a lot of flow behind my rockwork eliminating any dead spots and providing a nice random water flow.

Hope that helps,

Mark