Dyspnea's 120g tank build

[Dyspnea]

Plumbing coming up next!

hay those old holes in the overflows look like they are the old style of doing things PVC pipe with fittings and you had to use O rings on both sides of the glass to get them to seal proper but they worked fine. some people when they bought one of these old style tanks setups would silicone the crap out of them and hope for the best as they don't know the old ways. Bulk heads ain't as old as over flows are. I have an older style overflow box on top of a standpipe I would prefer a overflow box and conceal the return line also. This works fine and I can make a change latter. We use to do what ever we could to make overflows work or even a standpipe for that matter. This box on a stand pipe is alright take up less real estate and my bar Gobi's have setup home right at its base the have cleared out all the sand around the stand pipe. they must like the noise of the water flowing down the pipe to the sump.

Bill

[sitandwatch]

Looking really, the ghetto fake wood had to go.

[Dyspnea]

Originally Posted by sitandwatch

Looking really, the ghetto fake wood had to go.

Yeah it is a massive improvement over what it used to be

[Dyspnea]

A brief update.

My mated clown fish spawned on monday the 24th, This is their first spawn in the new aquarium, they had spawned previously however this is the first spawn in nearly two years. They laided a small patch of eggs, and are very defensive. The female nips at me when i pick up my fallen frags.

The female is so defensive, It looks as though my PBT got a too close to their hosting frogspawn, and the two must have had a small spat. The female has a small cut on her cheek. It doesn't look to serious, and she is still eating which is a good sign

I also found a health looking Mandarin goby, and brought her home, I had one previous on and old setup and had to get another one. They are one of my favorites My tank is only 3 months old now, but I think she will do just fine. I've had her for nearly two weeks now.

And a little teaser for my next update.

While visiting some family in Red Deer, I came across this little thread

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=64901

I jumped on the opportunity and came home with a couple frags and colonies

Simon tank was amazing! I only wish my wallet was a little fatter

[Dyspnea]

So as I mentioned in my previous post here are the item I was able to snag

Blue Milli


Loveslight aquagreen/deepwater blue


neon green suharsoni frag


And I got a decent sized frag of the apple green tortusa)

[Dyspnea]

The last few days I've had a few incidents...

To begin, I got tired of picking up my frags on a daily basis. I was going to wait until I had my new lighting. but I decided to just go ahead and epoxy everything down.

Heres how it turned out... (please forgive the photo, I don't take the best ones)





turned out pretty good and I'm happy with everything overall.

I epoxyed everything around 4-5pm. My lights turn off at 10pm. Everything was working properly before I went to bed.

Now around 3:30am, I woke up too a large noise, unrelated too my tank, as I tried to fall asleep again I heard a distinive sound of a pump running dry.

My skimmer had gone nuts, it was making clear skimmate. my carpet was soaked with about 5 gallons of water. My return pump was shotting bubbles like crazy into the display.

All because of the the stupid epoxy.

[Dyspnea]

Now since the minor flooding. One of my large sqaum, hasn't been doing well He's been pinching. Yesterday he had a 35minute freshwater bath. He looks better today, but still not fully expanding. Not sure whether all the bubbles that were shot into the tank or if the epoxy caused this. Or it could even be something else.

[fishytime]

You've got some sweet stuff there....and sweet pics......

um......not a suharsonoi.......more likely a granulosa or multiacuta......suharsonoi has very pointy tips

sucks that the house flooded.....have a look around for the DDs epoxy....it doesnt mess with skimmer nearly as bad as some...

[Dyspnea]

Originally Posted by fishytime

You've got some sweet stuff there....and sweet pics......

um......not a suharsonoi.......more likely a granulosa or multiacuta......suharsonoi has very pointy tips

sucks that the house flooded.....have a look around for the DDs epoxy....it doesnt mess with skimmer nearly as bad as some...

The epoxy I used was terrible, took forever to harden and it's not really sticky.

Yeah the flood sucked, I had a second flood last night from my Ro unit only about 2 gallons :/

Thanks for the id! My camera is pretty old, and I still haven't figured it out lol.