lockrookies 90g main display tank (upgraded pictures and led moonlight bar)

[globaldesigns]

Gorgeous Tank!!! Great woodwork.

Don't use the background, if need be put a blue or black background in its place.

And welcome to Canreef!

[lockrookie]

Originally Posted by globaldesigns

Gorgeous Tank!!! Great woodwork.

Don't use the background, if need be put a blue or black background in its place.

And welcome to Canreef!

thank you my dad is a contractor he built it .. doors and all from scratch i was suposed to help but was busy with work soi i cannot take any credit other than i designed it

and i did change the back ground there is a pic there somewhere i used a sheet of black laminate so if i get bored of the color i can change it

[lockrookie]

So as some of you know I have been fighting with ich for a bit. I didn’t really post anything due to I was busy trying to find all info and ideas to battle this pesky infection.
I have been using kick ich and the first dosing I was an idiot and under dosed my tank… which is better than overdosing but all the same it wasn’t helping.. expensive mistake. I also have been feeding garlic soaked mysis and flake. And the fish seem to be eating like pigs, which is a good sign. All of this could have been avoided if I had listened to my inner self and just set up a qt tank/hospital tank. Lesson learned. So I am now setting up a qt tank. Now I figured if im going to be upgrading my 90 to a 120 sometime near the end of the New Year/ beginning of the next I should have a tank that I can hold my live rock in and or fish until the setup is finished. Down the road I also want to build a bigger tank in our basement but that’s another story, for another time.

So the other night I found on used regina a 50 gallon tank for 50 bucks…over kill… maybe but the price is right I will not be treating fish with copper in this tank but will do the hyposalinity treatment if the kick ich doesn’t do the trick this time around. Both treatments seem to work well, but if I ever want to do other things with this tank copper would crush the dream. If I need to treat with copper ill get a 20g. in the end it will be just a qt tank for now.maybe a fowlr…maybe predator.. oh the fun this could be… possibilities are endless
I still have to build a temp stand and a proper stand to follow just in case i need it asap.

Ps sorry for the long post….my mission statement

[lockrookie]

so a few things have changed .. my toadstool got the dreaded brown slime may it rest in peace. and a couple pink paly's got eaten and brain is a lil bleached but slowly coming back. but here are some recent pics now that im using ozone its a bit clearer water but i still havent figured out our nerw camera so pic quality is not the best.

[lockrookie]

and now that it finally uploaded a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSsVuOEllwo

[lockrookie]

a few picss for fun

[lockrookie]

well its getting close to my 1 year update for this tank so i may as well post pics now and a short video


the start



without the back drop



present day



short video
click on picture for video

[lockrookie]

just picked this up from pats yesterday and im sorry my photography skills are not so goodmy pics dont do this piece justice

so here it is my first elegance coral

[lockrookie]

its a sad weekend. friday night i had looked over to my tank to seeing my hellow tang swimming funny. in closer inspection he was breathing rapidly and pale faced. my regal was also. breathing rapidly. freakout mode ensued. parameters seemed fine. so luckily i had 10g of water pre mixed. and i mixed up a new batch of 25 g of water. did a 25g water change friday night and another 15 g water change saturday. my efforts seemed to help the regal. but by sat night my yellow tang had passed on.



the other tank mates. seemed un affected by this. other than the previous week my sleeper head goby and firefish whent missing. so im not to sure whats going on with this tank. but ill have to keep a close eye on things. nothing hasbeen added save for a coule sticks of sps. hopefully the tank doesnt nuke on me but as it looks now i think im passed the worst. fingers crossed.

jeff

[lockrookie]

so an update had a little mishap yesterday...

was helping the wife in the daycare and walked upstairs to smell burning electrical found right away that it wascoming from my lights needless to say my fixture was hooped. so after having a panic attack and posting my dismay on our local board.....i picked up a tek 6 bulb t5 from trrunner since he had an extra and was nice enough to offer it to me. and with a little bulb juggling from the ones that i didnt fry it lights up my tank like none other. i am very thrilled at the moment. thank you a million harrold you are a life saver.

but.. lol there is always a but... this light comes to me with a few challenges...
first challenge was the depth of the fixture my tank is 15"deep...20" from front to the the wall. the fixture is 16". so with a little adjustment of the brackets (which i love btw easy to adjust) i was able to set the fixture back a little bit and still will have room to feed once lid is opened. as a foot note my old fixture was only 8 and a half so thenew fixture is double the size.

whats life without its challenges right.. well second issue was the height of the fixture.. keep in mind this tank was designed, stand and all for a fresh water setup. itwasnt meant for salt so i didnt think to leave room for improvement.
my lid inside height is 6" but with braceing forstability i only had room to have my fixture sit 2 1/4 from the water.. yes ultimately the reason for the fried fixture.more so due to the fixture had no splash guard...oh well whats done is done right... anyways the tex fixture with its legsmake the light sit higher thus the top puts it at 5 1/4 inches. this problem i have not yet figured out, but i feel a trip to a hardware store is imanent.. im most likely going to have to tear apart the hood and make some major changes.

lastly and i know some ppldontcare to have them but tek lights dont comewith moonlights.. i find they are a great nightlight for those late night bathroom breaks lol... well im in theprocess tonight of tearing the moonlights out of the old fixture and will build a new dimable set. just have toget creative with the wireing.

but all in all i am very impressed with this light(it will come in handy when i upgrade this tank to a 120) as well as with trrunners tanks it was a wonderfull chat and dont forget i havea ric with your name on it.