YES salty!! You know water that contains salt required to maintain a marine aquarium......:wink:

Thanks Tony, 60 gal should be ready in a few weeks and the 30 gal is going to wait for a bit until I actually have the rest of the system completely up & running.

Don't know about Alberta but maybe Rural Central Alberta :biggrin:

Alright then how about some aquascaping..........there are still a couple more pieces that I want to fit in there but I really like the way it is now.

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps0c328f78.jpg

Left side.......
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps0c5b1bbd.jpg

Right side......
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps445d66a6.jpg

Tank is also cycling now with approx. 180 gals of water from my existing system, topped off with fresh mixed water & 39 vials of Prodibio Start Up.

I like the aquascape Grizz! Lots of vertical room for SPS to grow up up up... if you're into that sort of thing! :wink:

I'm liking the 'scape too
Tons of room for big colonies

Yet another build that's making me want to redo my 'scape

Keep up the great work Greg !

Looks good Greg. Lots if cruising room. Wholley crap...39 vials..My little tonka toy only using 8..

I hope to have lots of SPS as well as anything else that goes good with this system.

This was attempt 3 & naturally I am sure I will change something yet.

Tons of cruising room for my tangs :biggrin: 390 gals total water so far, it was a shock to see how little there was in the shot glass after I emptied the 39 vials into it. :surprise:

You do know your sposed to put it in your tank, not do shots with it right?:mrgreen:

:doh: That's what I'm doing wrong, didn't even get a buzz from that expensive cocktail. :drinking:

7 days now cycling with existing tank water and 39 vials of Prodibio Start up, full flow & lights off. Tested parameters are the following:

Sal: 1.026
Temp: 78*F
Calcium: 600 ( wee bit high )
Mag: 1400
Ph: 8.4
Alk: 10.4
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Phos: 2.50 ( don't like this one GFO going in tomorrow )

Going to add another round of Start Up as well tomorrow just to be on the safe side.

Loving the rockscape and black sand!

How's the fishies doing? Are they all ok still?

Thanks, should make the colors of fish & coral pop real nice.

Every one is doing just great, wife really loves the eel.

Looking good! This is going to be one sweet set up once it's got some life in it! Well done Greg!!

How soon after adding the rock did you add the start up?

I like that black sand bed look! More....:biggrin:

Thanks Sheena, hope to have some life in there real soon.

Rock was in there for a few days before I added the start up.

I like it much better then white sand thats for sure.

Looks good man! How bout a pic of the whole shebang?

Yea the black really makes the colors pop. I have the black sand and love it. Photos turn out way better to.

I will snap a few pics of the whole shebang tomorrow when the room is well lit from the sun. Still have to finish the section directly above the tank yet.

Well after 2 weeks of cycling its time to get some light on the subject today but first I had to get my Profilux 3ex all setup & tuned in. Was having some issues with getting my conductivity probe to calibrate. Turns out there was a problem with the board that the conductivity probe connects to, so................on went the repair mans hat. Opened up both my 2ex & 3ex, removed the board from both and took the one from my 2ex & put it in to the 3ex, updated the firmware to the latest & BAM.........we now have calibrated conductivity, pH & Temp probes.

With the issues solved with the controller it was time to get it back into the upper cabinet & plug in the control cables to the EVG cards for my LED's, program my 2 power bars, program my light cycle & tuck all the wires away.

Once that was all down it was time to move a few of the corals that I still have remaining moved over to the 300. Got my 5 maxi mini's removed from the rocks they where on as I did not want to take the chance of any colonial hydroids transfered to the new tank. Moved the small chucks of frogspawn, hammer & octospawn, orange plate & the few other frags that I have managed to save.

I don't believe you
No pics .... :razz:

They are uploading right now to photo bucket then I will post them.

Here's a few pics, plan to finish the rest of the cabinet this week & get the 60 gal on the stand.

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps0c4ac1c4.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps9ae46020.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psbac600e3.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps9acf638c.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps5f09cf00.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps53faf85f.jpg

You're crazy:lol:

Your point............:razz:

is it always that blue or is that the night time lights?

Steve

No that's just the one row of blues on, the whites where off by the time i took the pics.

Here's a few shot with the lights at there normal day time levels.

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps526670a9.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps7769c08c.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps3e05c3b2.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps43bda95c.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd8427342.jpg

Stellar as always grizz

Thanks Jeff :biggrin:

And now for the SPS test, my good friends Tony & Martin where kind enough to give me a few pieces to test out the tank. So far everything is looking good & that is very exciting for me.

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps6dc17bfd.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...pseb350c6a.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps6b097b02.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psf0f0c7db.jpg

Looking awesome!!! Will have to come see it sometime.

Thanks Colin, your welcome anytime.

Still looks so empty to me but getting the fish moved in soon will be better. Need to talk the wife into letting me do a big SPS order from Reef Wholesale soon to help fill it up. Would like to get a few Acro colonies as well as some milli's & digi's.

Got the back and the top of the canopy part on tonight, just have to do the front and the top & back of the very top of the stand, a few filler piece's and then move onto getting the 60 gal in place.

Nice starter collection Greg

And all that growth space is awesome

Both you and Wayne are making me want to do a re-scape

The setup looks great. I know when the corals grow it'll look spectacular. Good luck with that "patience" thing everyone keeps talking about with reefing. :razz:

Wish I had the space, time, energy & $$ to upgrade mine to a 300g display but that's just not in the works.

Looking forward for updates in the future.

Anthony

:jaw: did you call the cops yet, someone snuck in and ripped off most of your rock. man the nerve of some people. :wink:

Steve

The plan was for minimal rock in this tank as I have 10 tangs going into it and want them to have lots of swim room.

Might add a few more pieces of rock yet but I need to get some more acrylic rod first.

this one got the attention of the tech geek/electrician/led freak/diyer in me. I used inventronics drivers on my led build as well and i love them. do you have your driver setup documented anywhere?

As of 20 mins ago the 165 gal tank is now EMPTY!! All the fish have been moved into there new home & they look so much happier in there much bigger digs.

Not really but I should have put it in my LED build thread. Simply put from left to right, black divers are for reds & greens, small silver drivers are for the high noon white's, first 2 large silver drivers are for the blues & last 2 large silver drivers are for the cool whites. Each row of LED's are controlled by the EVG boards, 2 rows of LED's per board all controlled by my Profilux 3ex controller.