Wife's birthday present
 

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Built the tank, still need to install glass and acrylic and drill holes

Stand still needs the doors finished black and the handles installed (put blumotion hinges on it because I didn't have any other hinges for inset doors)

After all that's done I still have to build a 20"x20"x14" sump for it

Hardware on it will be:
a 20" maxspect razor led
Speed wave return pump
Modded tlf pb150 reactor for bio pellets powered by a mj400
Mp10es
Still undecided on the skimmer tho

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Sooo puurtty!

~Tony

nice good job

Not gonna lie its not what I wanted for size but its not my tank lol

I wanted to go 14" tall

She told me she wants me to fill it with my sps

its a very sleek tank. What kind of overflow will you be installing?

Coast to coast with herbie

That's a great looking tank!!

I take it your wife knows about this gift??? How many sps's do you have to gift her??? Not sure which is worse 2 tanks in 1 house or 2 reefers....lol

Lots of sps lol all acros and a Monti or 2

How about 4 tanks and 2 reefers

Very very dangerous combination!!!! At least its something you enjoy together!!! And fragging is cheaper...lol. Can't wait to see it salty!!!

Bout time for an update, so breaking my leg put a serious delay on this build but it's finally starting to come together

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In place and filling with water

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Water change hose was too short by about a foot so my preggo wife had to hold the hose while it was filling

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Still waiting on parts for the skimmer, pb550 reactor filled with hydroton pulled from my frag tank

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Liverock from my frag tank

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Weir with water

The light is temporary until its cycled and I can move all the sps and gobies from my tank to hers

She'll be getting my maxspect razor and I'm going to shut my nano down because of a losing battle against bryopsis

I see you've got your wife trained. She's laying down, sideways, holding a hose. HAWT.

What's the hydroton for ?

IMO it's the best liverock substitute/ bio media I've used

Ah, you're using it as bio/bacteria media. Cool!

Curious about the hydroton. I had never heard of it so looked it up. Seems pretty cheap, esp compared to either the fluval rings or the eheim substrat. Does the hydroton work as well as those but is cheaper, or does it actually work better? Sounds like it would be a great option for setting up a QT.

- Ian

Cheaper, doesn't plug up with detritus, it's very porous, perfect for a qt because you just boil it to sterilize it when your done and reuse it. I seed it with my big tank in case I need to setup a qt then just swap reactors, I have 2 vertex reactors full so I can pull one off to speed up cycling on other tanks

Starting to shut my nano down...
I lost the battle of bryopsis so ill be dipping and quarantining and eventually transferring all my brown/half dead sticks to her tank so they can recover

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Got the pump for her skimmer today

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I know you've made your mind up, but ...

If it's bryopsis, why not try some lettuce nudis ?
I put 4 in my tank last year and although I lost 2 to MP10 suicides, I still have 2 and have not seen any bryopsis since probably last x-mas
I guess there's either some unseen bryopsis, or enough other food for them to live on, and they're still green

I've been wanting to plumb my nano into my frag tank and I don't want to risk getting anything in my frag tank so I figure completely sterilizing it is the way to go

And the wife already called dibs on all my coral

Well that's that then :smile:

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Livestock so far:
Kole tang
Elongated dottyback
3 clown gobies



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Little kole tang

He will be rehomed once he gets a tiny bit bigger

Looks good man. You could'nt resist those kole tangs eh? Haha

Lol ya I grabbed 1 for my tank too

So last night I hooked up a diy ato to the tank to get me by until I get the parts for my super secret new design for an ato.

Skimmer is running a lot better now that the ato is on

Got 2 coats of paint on the doors and 1 left to go. Now all that's left is to clean up the cords and add more corals from my frag tank

My wife got mad at me last night for putting a frag rack in her tank.... She doesn't seem to understand why her tank needs a frag rack when I have a 112g frag tank...

Phhh... Women

I'm with your wife on this one. No frag racks in display tanks!!

I found the clown gobies like to hang out on the rack.... Without it the end up in the overflow

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Finally got a picture of one of my favourite fish

Good lookin scape Tyler

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Didn't like the rock work so I rescaped the tank last night, also new fish since I last updated


18 dartfish
Pair of clowns
Pair of cardinals
2 blue clown gobies
1 brown clown goby
1 elongated dottyback

Wife's birthday present
 

Double post

Looks awesome! Looks like you got another SWC 120 haha or is that the 160?

160 with a needle wheel

Looks good tyler, I like your second revision alot better as well.

Thanks, I can actually enjoy the tank now lol, the wall of rock was driving me nuts

Added some more sps, sorry for the crappy pics, wife took them and doesn't know how to turn the blue channel down on the light

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Thats where that blue sps went lol. I was looking for that. Looks awesome

So after last weeks power outage I lost all the fish but the corals are doing good, added more corals on Friday ( mostly to the frag rack)

The tank is coming along great Tyler, love the aqua scape.... You must've learned a lot watching Albert...;)

Thanks, yup Both Albert and Paul have taught me a lot

Also everything in the tank is from them