kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[kien]

For lighting I decided to go with an ATI fixture. I originally wanted a Sunpower but my LFS informed me that the supplier was out of those and it would be a few weeks before we could get one in. Instead, he offered a Powermodule at an unbelievable deal so I jumped on that.







Here's my hanging rig. Nothing fancy, just a strip of wood run accross the ceiling so that I could anchor it to 3 beams in the ceiling, and punched a couple of holes in the strip to drop down the hanging wires.




Lights are:

KZ Coral Light New Gen (14K)
KZ Superblue (22K)
KZ Coral Light (10K)
KZ Fuji Purple
Hamilton Tech Actinic (460nm)
KZ Coral Light New Gen (14K)

[kien]

When I knew that I was going to set up a FOWLR back in January the first thing I did was run out and buy some live rock so that I could start to cook and cure it. Here's my cooking and curing setup.



By the time I was ready to use the rocks (3 months later) they were nice and clean :-)

Other than the live rock, here's what else I needed to aquascape.



If you've followed this thread from the beginning you may remember that I used acrylic rods and zip ties for my 150g aquascaping. Well, I pretty much did the exact same thing. I had a fairly dynamic structure that I wanted to build so I added the use of epoxy, lots of epoxy..

Here's the main base structure which supports mostly all of the weight. A very very heavy piece of travertine rock anchors the whole thing. A single 3/8" rod rods through the centre of all the rocks to hold them in place.





Additional structures are similarly held in place by slightly smaller rods and zip ties.







Then finally I added this arm structure to the base structure to get something like this.



Nothing is secured at this point because I actually have to assemble the whole thing inside the tank as the entire structure is way too heavy to lift. There are 3 sections that just hang loose on their joining rods. Once assembled in the tank the they will be secured and joints filled with epoxy..

Here I am assembling the structure in the tank. Photo courtesy of the wifey



Here's what the final structure looks like. Epoxy is also used to cover up all the zip ties.

[kien]

Time to fill the tank. It took quite a while to make up enough water but I did use water from the cooking and curing bins as they tested out to be quite good by the time the rocks were ready.



What better way to wait than to surf canreef on this..



I have to say, canreef is great on the iPhone but it is damn sexy on the iPad.

[kien]

There's more, but let's take a little break and see what Mr. Blue Starfish is up to these days.

Oh look, he seems to have taken up liverock climbing.



and after a climbing session he likes to crash and chill out on his zoa couch.

[TJSlayer]

Looks amazing kien, love the way everything is setup, can't wait to see it in action, looks very cool.

TJ

[lorenz0]

So hold the phone.... you got a power module for a fowler????

love the set up man, its going to look killer once everything is done

[freezetyle]

Kien... we need to talk.... You gotta stop setting up reef tanks so the rest of us can have a chance for TOTM. Seriously, Its getting out of hand...


Love the scape, gonna be a beauty for sure

[kien]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

So hold the phone.... you got a power module for a fowler????

love the set up man, its going to look killer once everything is done

The phone is off the hook! I know that I am going to throw some corals in this tank, probably SPS :-) (hence the "reef" in FOWLR reef ).

Originally Posted by freezetyle

Kien... we need to talk.... You gotta stop setting up reef tanks so the rest of us can have a chance for TOTM. Seriously, Its getting out of hand...


Love the scape, gonna be a beauty for sure

word ! I seriously need to stop setting up tanks.. no seriously ! Although I am in the process of installing a separate power circuit on the main floor with its own dual 20amp breaker so I think I might be good for at least another couple of tanks? Really what I should have done is just enclosed my entire dining room with 1" acrylic and turned that whole space into a tank.