Nice looking tank! Could you show a close up of that trim you used please? I have a very similar tank waiting to be set up that is trimless and I have been brainstorming ideas for a lid. I was thinking of siliconing a tiny triangle of glass into each corner. That trim you found looks real clean though.

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Basically it's standard fish tank trim as seen in 1.

2. Sliced where it would normally lay on the top rim

3. The inside lip with the nice factory edge then lays on the top rim
And the cruddy cut edge goes inside as a lip.


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I did 3 sides this way and left the front alone.



One thing I should mention I don't regret going with the radion pros over the radion g2s as the colours just explode in the morning .

Thanks again for the love folks

I think I'm gonna eventually run pellets on this tank because I'm pretty stoked about this thing .

I drew this when pellets first were released.


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Product being released


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On a scale of 1-10, my jealousy of your tank stand is at a 12! Very nice work! :mrgreen:

Thanksj, I wish I could tell you who built it. I have no clue other then he's out of town.

Looks great! Great idea about the trim too. (*starting to scheme* ... I have a FOWLR tank that I needed to basically completely box in the canopy because it houses a Hawaiian flame wrasse pair and a golden dwarf moray and I'm utterly terrified they'll get out of the tank otherwise ... I'd much prefer an open top though, so this def has me thinking!!)

Great bromeliad too. Careful, they can be pretty addicting in their own right. I count reefs, orchids and broms as 3 of my current vices. :lol:

And .. sorry something I've always wondered. How is one supposed to say your Canreef name? Is the 4 like an "A" in l33t speak? Ie., "Kryptic Al" or is the 4 a 4? Kryptic Four-ll? Kryptic Forl? Kryptic For Ell? ???? Sorry for being totally clueless. :redface:

Nice Tank and stand :wink:

His name is kryptic, which means it is not for us to know..

Lol, crack me up. It's 4-L which stands for 4 life. It's a suffix I picked up 10 years ago when I was gaming lots from a small group of us who travelled from team to team usually as a package deal.

It stuck with me, simply for the fact I've never ran into the issue, this username is already taken please choose another.

Grrrr today, set up a nice qt for a mystery wrasse last night, I never used to set up quarantines just thought I would play it safe in a new tank. And my next to new Eheim heater over heated the tank to a nice 84 degrees.


That's 2 mysteries in two months. These new ebos suck. One is heating low on one tank and the other is heating way high

Alright brs order today, reactors will be in bid ness one I figure out how much and what kind of flow to run .

New screen top brs kit style showed up too.

And ..... Lost the lawn mower Blenny today :( guess I should whip out the test kits and see what's happening . On the upside this was the first task for my new aquatongs

Blue spot jawfish is Mia I've seen him once all week


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modified some floor drains today and cemented them in. so took the sump offline for the night. i was having trouble with the water jumping to the next chamber and making a ton of noise. so hopefully this will help keep the flow going through the socks. strange that the best fitting ones for my socks were the most expensive :)

great idea! did you get this sump from concepts? i had the exact same issue with my socks being slightly too small for the holes and so water was leaking around the rim of the socks and splashing straight into the chamber below.

what i've done for now is cut thin strips of filtration cloth and wrapped them around each sock to close those gaps.

Yes I did.

For once the project went better then expected only a very small drip remained afterwards, everything feels very solid in there. If I get peeved off enough about the drip I picked up a back up plan today. I've kinda been looking for an excuse try this out. But I will probably just leave it alone as things are much quieter now.

Running 300 micron brs socks. These things need to be pushed into place. But are solid once in place.


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The back up plan

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I see a bag floating in your sump... temp. acclimating something? :wink:

Couple mini carpets... And an Acan.:redface:

Fts

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Clownin around

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A stand off

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Mother f$@&er .......... Feeling very frustrated tonight.

I've had two tangs, one tomni and one PB marinating in the basement for over a week. They seemed content in the 50 gallon cube. The tomini hid all day in a pipe the pb could not get to, when they both were out and about they showed no signs of aggression towards each other.

They did very well during the first week of prazi. However did not seem very interested in food past the first 2 days .

Started cupramine two nights ago. After I found the pb crashing into a rock repeatedly. Measured the water did the calculations and dosed accordingly. Went and bought. A copper test kit, only to find out it wa not compatible with cupramine. Went to get another test kit tonight, before I administered the second dose. And found the tomini dead when I got home, and the PB on his last breath.

Just been feeling like every one step forward I take 5 backwards. the more I try and do things right, the more things are going wrong.

R.i.p PB, tomini, mystery wrasse, lawn mower man .

I had many fish come and go through the years, tonight's loss of the pb from mr happy go lucky to dead in. 5 hours. Is really hitting me hard, it's gotta be the big eyes.

sorry to hear about your losses man.

Sorry to hear about the loss, always sucks to lose a fish

I'm real worried about when I have to transfer my purple tang to its new tank

Sorry

I cant seem to keep a tang if my life depended on it buddy. Its pretty tough and frustrating to no end.

Sucks, sorry man.

Sorry for your loss buddy! I can understand that battle with QTing tangs.

I've got 2 Tangs in QT right now at the office. One Juvie Sailfin and One Juvie Orange Shoulder.

Both eat like pigs but both of them hide instantly as soon as I show myself in front of the tank. I think the Sailfin would be a lot better and less skittish if the Orange Shoulder wasn't in there as it is always the Orange Shoulder that hides first and then the Sailfin follows suit.

Makes it frustrating as I can never get a good look to inspect either of them.

Hopefully your luck turns around soon!

Thanks for the condolences :)

After much deliberation moving forward I will be changing the cupramine dosing moving away from their two doses as it was the initial dose that I believe did them in. As they never made it to the full treatment. I will do smaller daily doses over a weeks time.


Anywho as for the good, i finally got the skimmer dialled in, from what I've seen so far, it does not like being to deep in water and not to shallow. It's been stable however I hate the adjustments on this skimmer.

Got some gfo in a reactor , and carbon in a baggy.

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And currently waiting on FedEx ....... Stay tuned :)

Never mind FedEx showed up. Just as my order showed up.

From what I could gather experiences have been pretty mixed With this place, but most info was coming from group orders, which can be dicey info as there is more factors that come into play.

Anyways communication has been flawless so far, my original delivery date was pushed back two days due to heat pack issues. ( from what I could gather , this place didn't use heat packs ) Well if they didn't they do now.

One of my frags I ordered was not doing so well, I got a phonecall in the morning before he shipped, stating my options of refund, or a grab bag of others not even on the site yet. Pfft I'm going for the mystery box every time folks . He even offered to refund if I was not happy with the replacements.



Here's some packaging photos, they are currently warming up in my sump. The bags felt pretty warm considering the snowy weather today.

Everything so far a+


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This had a foam lid as well
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crock-pot for the win?

Are you not supposed to cook them before putting in the tank ? People cook live rock, so I figured why not throw some frags in the oven at 350 for an hour to sterilize. Before they go in my tank.

Anyways I think I identified that everything that was supposed to be there is there, funny thing is there is one frag, that is near identical to the cancelled frag.

Good enough for me, now we wait for them to get less ****ed off

So got a bunch of frags in today good thing and progress, must be counterbalanced with bad stuff.. Maxi mini decided to go for a walk into the mp40 , thankfully it's a maxi mini anenome , however I since I run my mp 40s at half speed, it didn't demolish him, he plugged it right up... And knocked it down. I think he will see another day.

Borrowed me a decent camera so maybe I can finally get some decent pics. On the go .

Well my OCD has subsided a touch, and I've started to enjoy other non fish related activities for the time being. I did finally get my water change system almost done now.

Got a couple speed waves to power the water upstairs, all plumbed using 3/4 inch line. Basically one line goes upstairs now and using valves I "should " be able to siphon / pump fresh and salt water.

Gonna test it out later today, as I would like to get a water change in tomorrow. And I'm really sick of hauling fresh water upstairs daily.

The make sense of everything in my head drawing.

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The reality of it.
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Still gotta drill the freshwater for the float valve as I never realized the inhearent danger of using a hang on float. As its constantly being pushed upward I guess the acrylic likes to break. Gonna use a kent, as I think the eshopps is a pos

tie wraps to the drain even! i've had enough mishaps to spot the really important details... nicely done lol!

Just following what the pros do :)

Anyways got the rest of the braided hose to go from the sink to the tank.

Turned on the water from the bottom most tank, so far no leaks from my crummy plumbing skills. And the water from the speed waves seems to be pumping through at a reasonable rate. Making up my first batch of salt water with the new system. Gonna add some supports to the plumbing.

So good and bad news today..... Found my blue spot dried up behind the tank, guess he found a small gap in my screen top. Wouldn't mind another at some point but I think I'm just gonna let the tank chill for awhile.

Got a lot of algae at the moment, I have a feeling the rock i got off a dude, is pretty high in phosphates. So I'm gonna try a box of bioclean, and eventually move onto bio pellets. On the upside, that much established live rock with no other apparent issues, is a good thing. I don't mind the phosphate battle over other bad things rock can have.


As for the good news, just finished my first water change with my system, everything worked out better then expected. Super fast draining and filling. And was the first water change I completed ever without spilled water. The full 30 gallons took about 10-15 mins..

The process was basically kill all power, let back flow. Empty sump the best I could, refill sump. Turn everything back on. Had a few gallons left of fresh mixed salt in the basement. But not enough that I feel like I wasted a bunch.

Siphon was easy to start as the line was filled with fresh water so I just kept closing the valve I have on the end of the hose. To move to each chamber. No siphon start required.


Super stoked to do water changes now . Just need to make some specialized attachments for the system. Like a strainer as what goes down, goes down. And I fear the day anything goes down that will plug the system. Valves with couplers would of been the better choice.

Aw man, that sucks about the jawfish. Sorry to hear.

What's Bioclean? I don't think I've heard of this stuff.

Just the prodibio system. Half box of this half box of that. Look at box crooked to try and follow directions...

Just wanted to post some updates, as its been awhile, Since I posted last.

I lost pretty much every fish in my tank, 2 clowns-3 anthias, a blenny, a powder blue, a mandarin a cleaner shrimp over the coarse of a weekend a few months back. so the tank had been sitting with just the ruby head wrasse the canary wrasse and the leopard wrasse.

Im not sure if it was all the base rock decided to cycle, or if it was ich that irradicated the tank, as I cant remeber if the cleaner shrimp dissapeared that same weekend. Regardless. New purchases came to a stand still.


I had been fighting with my skimmer off and on for sometime, everytime the cup got half full it just randomly overflowed within a night. and finally have now gone a month or so without this happening. However the skimmate production isnt half of what it was, im not sure if this is a result of a lowered amount of crap in the tank. Eventually I may look into getting another skimmer but for now its doing the trick.


Finally got into clearing a bucketful of caulerpa racemosa from my tank, This will be my on going battle of this tank I guess. Picked up a few emeralds recently in hopes they may help with this. Regadrless they will help with the crew.


Picked up two new clowns and a sailfin, both seem to be doing excellent in the tank so far. and always happy for feeding time.

The best thing I have done with this tank was my water change system, I have never been this ontop of my changes, best money spent by a longshot. No more buckets - less spills - 10 minutes start to finish for a 30 gallon water change. LOVE IT...



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sorry to hear of your issues :( Things are looking good though. That maze brain looks awesome!

Did you get that Maze brain at Ocean City by any chance?

negative, got it at golds before this adventure even started.


thanks :) not quite to your standard, but im sure ill get there in time :)

Quick update today.

Got a new toy. My ro system is in the basement. So I had to walk downstairs to turn on the pump to fill up my ro bucket. Or just leave the pump on and hope nothing ever happens to my gangster plumbing job.

Problem solved now I can just turn the pump on and off from anywhere with Internet theoretically I can fill up my ro while on vacation as well now.

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Also grabbed a radiant wrasse a couple weeks ago, he's a pretty rad fish

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