Ryans 240 gallon tank.
 

Well I will start off by telling every one all the tanks I had in the last year. I started up my old 29 gallon biocube in may of 2009, in september I got a red sea max 250, then in like february i got my 220 gallon tank. About 3 weeks ago I found out that I had to move so i decided to get an new tank again. lol I bought a 240 gallon 96 x 24 x 24 tank from marine aquaria. I set up the tank on may 29 and moved everything the following thursday.
This picture was taken on the 1st of june.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/P6020001.jpg
This is another picture taken on thursday the 3rd
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/P6030002.jpg
and a couple on saturday
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/P6040021.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/P6040022.jpg
and my crosshatch trigger
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/P6030012.jpg

With the rush during the move I accidently put a few of my sps to close to the top and they bleached. If they dont make it that will be the only casualties of the move. There will be many more pictures to come later on.

Awesome setup

no messin around eh!! that was quick, looks sweet!!

Nice setup! I wish I had a tank of that size...

Thanks for the nice comments. I will be getting some new corals in a couple of weeks to replace the few that I lost and I have more room now for them.
Here is a picture of one of my dead corals.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../deadcoral.jpg
and a picture of my pylei fairy wrasse
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...yanst/fish.jpg

Wow! Beautiful tank. Looking forward to seeing it progress. The bleached corals are beautiful in their intricacy even when they are dead.

- Joe.

Ok well the tank has been up and running for 2 weeks now everything looks pretty good. Here is some updated pictures.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../tIMG_1472.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../tIMG_1476.jpg
Some side tank shots
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../tIMG_1489.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../tIMG_1491.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../tIMG_1488.jpg
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http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../tIMG_1482.jpg
I currently am running the zeovit system and it seems to be working really well. The lighting is 4 double ended 250watt 13000k geisman bulbs with t5 actinic supplimental lighting.

I forgot to say that I also added a couple more peices of rock.

Looks great! How big is the crosshatch?

Its probably around four and a half inches maybe a little less.

I dont know what to do with the glass on the back. Should I paint it or just leave it clear? I eventually want to have just vortechs so there wont be as many cords running down the back. Its nice to be able to go back and see stuff i want to suck up during a water change.

A couple pictures of my new addition a marine betta

http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_1550.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_1553.jpg
and a few more pictures

http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_1558.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_1561.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_1556.jpg

I will post some pictures of my Achilles tang and Powder Blue tang when they come in.

I got my marine betta to eat some mysis shrimp and chopped mussel today. Hopefully pretty soon I wont have to spot feed him way inside my rocks. Everytime i stick the tongs in to try and feed the marine betta my trigger eats half the food before I get it in the rocks.

Well I have flooded my basement twice in the last week. The one last night was pretty bad though. I left my 200 gpd rodi on last night and a quarter of my basement is wet. So right now I am trying to soak the water out of the rug and I have big fans set up to help it evaporate. I was pretty lucky though the water was just at the powerbars and stuff behind my tank when I noticed it was still on.

Welcome to the flood club ! Probably won't be your last. Seriously though I hope it all cleans up Ok. I had one myself today with my 33g set-up, never have had a water disaster with this set up, so you just never know.

Well I have now purchased a timer for my rodi so that it doesnt overflow again. Today I decided to upgrade my rodi with a couple more filters I now have 2 white prefilters and 2 di resin.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_1585.jpg
here is a picture of my fish room i will be installing shelves so that i can organize a little more.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_1587.jpg
and this is my new addition still in quaranteen a powder blue tang.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_1584.jpg

Uh Oh. Somebody posted the wrong pic. :mrgreen:

just hook up a float valve to the tub and then your ro/di will stop when the float valve is topped off.

One thing I notice when I do my weekly manual topup of my reservoir...there is TDS creep every single time. That is weekly. I can also turn the ro/di off for 10 minutes and still get creep.

So what I do is bypass the DI resin for a minute or two until the TDS after the membrane is 3 or less. then I run it through the resin and into wherever I want good water. This saves your resin from a constant butt kicking.

In my opinion doing manual fills in this way will allow your media to go much further. Not that you asked for my opinion but...:biggrin:

Fish room's looking food btw!

Agree with Brett except that the fish room doesn't look like food at all to me. But I'm tired and maybe just not seeing it. Plus I just loaded up on some beef jerky so I'm not all that hungry, no salty snacks for at least 10 more minutes.

looking food. what the heck am I smoking?

Ok I finally fixed the picture problem. lol

I was thinking of getting a float valve but i have been filling up these tubs for a while now and 3 and a half hours is pretty much perfect and the timer was only 10 bucks.

That is a good idea I have noticed that whenever i turn on my rodi without a brand new di it always starts at like 5ppm then goes down to 0ppm.

I can't quite follow your RO/DI plumbing, but tell me you do not have your DI before the membrane.

haha no. lol. I attemped to make a paint drawing but it failed badly. lol the water comes from the one sediment filter on the right unit then into the sediment filter on the left unit. Then i took the line from the ro and ran it to the di on the right unit then back to the left one so that the inline tds meter still works. I dont know if this description is better then my drawing or not but whatever I could always attempt the drawing again. :biggrin:

Ok i made another drawing just in case my description wasnt good enough. It kinda looks like my ro out is waste water but it isnt I just took the line the one di and brought it to the other. The waste line goes out the window.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...drawingpic.png

Its starting to make more sense now. How does the membrane tie in?

This is how the membrane ties in.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...rawingpic2.png

I have the same Vertex RO/DI unit and I notice your middle chamber also has air in it. While its running have you ever bleed(loosen the clear canister then retighten) the air out and notice how much better it runs ? I find the booster pump cycles on and off lots untill I bleed the air out and also my TDS readings will also fall. I'm sure that it is not normal for the air to be in there, if the unit is sealed properly where would it come from, what do you think ? As a note I've been sent a new canister, o-ring and mounting plate with no change.

If the are gets lower then it is now I usually bleed it so not as much air goes through the booster pump. After I bleed mine their wont be any air in it till I change either the carbon or a sediment filter. Mine still sometimes runs really loud though even when there is no air in it.

Wow that was a quick set up... Wish mine could go that fast.
Do you find you have any problems with the bare bottom?
Tank looks great.

I like the barebottom I have never had any problems with it. It is very easy to clean and you dont have to worry about sand storms.

Well I thought I would give everyone an update on my tank. I have been battling a brown cyno/algea outbreak for the last 2 months. I just couldnt get rid of it for the longest time so I switched salts to reefers best and after the first water change the algea was pretty much gone and now 2 weeks later it is completely gone. The water had some stuff floating around in it because I moved a rock to save a frag that fell off its rock.
Here is a full tank shot I dont know why but the rock work always looks really bright in pictures.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/canreef4.jpg
Here is a couple pictures of my Powder blue tang
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/canreef2.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/canreef1.jpg
And here is a picture of the 2 frags I picked up at fragfest today.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/canreef3.jpg

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that I am looking for tons of colorful sps frags to fill my tank with, so if you have some for sale let me know.

See Dez if you want high quality SPS

got any pics of your new frags ?

Here is a couple full tank shots
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1882.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1879.jpg
There is a bit of algea growth in my tank right now but I think its becuase I dont have very many algea eaters in my tank. If any one has any suggestions on smaller really cool looking algea eating fish let me know.
Here is some pictures of the frags I had before I went to bluetangs and got some.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1872.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1851.jpg
this one almost died on me after the move but is pulling through
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1860.jpg

Here are the frags I got from Wes aka bluetang>3.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1875.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1867.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1865.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1863.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1855.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1836.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1835.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1834.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1832.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1830.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1829.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1828.jpg
This one didnt look very healthy once I got it home but I think its coming around.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1827.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1820.jpg
This is my favorite frag
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../cIMG_1818.jpg

You have some nice pieces there, tank should look real nice when it grows in.

Thanks I have a few more frags I just couldnt take any good pictures with them. Hopefully the algea clears up over the next month.