reefwars 55g natural seawater custom build from scratch:*check out the new rockscape*

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by jphong

Hey Denny wheres the pics!

hahaha funny you should ask as ive gotten all my plumbing supplies today, wasnt easy i tell ya but its all figured out now....so tonight i will fill and test for leaks and then do the plumbng tomorrow.... herbie style overflow.


ill have some pics here right away, ive also built the stand and its now ready for what ever i decide. im thinking just tile nothing too crazy.


ive also got my light ready and its just a retrofit 250w metal halide so im going to mount the light to something cool me and a friend stumbled upon the other day.....its a giant curved leaf about 2' high and metal or steel in color....and is steel lol on the leaf will be mounted a small metal box the same as the leaf is made from and in that box facing down my actual light will go so it will look like the leaf is curved over the tank we hit just about every home decor store and department store on the island and took about 1000 pics of different things together before we came up with this its gonna lok pretty cool with the stone stand....



pics soonnot much hapened over the past week or so as ive been letting the tank harden so tonight i fill for a test cheers

[reefwars]

the number of pictures retrictions on this site is f ing stupid....two hours typing up **** and 60 pics and cant upload it.....bullshit!!!



p.s- to the maker of apple computers i am going to seriously burn my laptop in the woodstove tonight!! lol

[jphong]

Hey Denny use photobucket and just give us the link to the album, itll make your life a little easier

[reefwars]

Hey Denny use photobucket and just give us the link to the album, itll make your life a little easier [/quote]



yeah i use photobucket but i didnt put the link down i guess thats what ill have to do it just rots me that i spent hours typing up this stuff and it tells me i have 60 pics on there when i only had less than thirty but apparently it counts the " img" as a image plus any smiles so .....giant waste of time ....i tried splitting it up into 2 posts and i get nothing but question marks for my pics...grrr!!!


anyways heres the links if anyone wants to view through ....



http://s924.photobucket.com/albums/a...ustom%20build/

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by reefwars

the number of pictures retrictions on this site is f ing stupid....two hours typing up **** and 60 pics and cant upload it.....bullshit!!!



p.s- to the maker of apple computers i am going to seriously burn my laptop in the woodstove tonight!! lol

In mac's defence.... maybe its the user? Strong NF moonshine perhaps?

Lol.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by paddyob

In mac's defence.... maybe its the user? Strong NF moonshine perhaps?

Lol.

hahaha its def the user lol i do ike it im just use to windows lol you wouldnt believe how long it took me to even figure out how to copy and paste stuff

[nlreefguy]

haha.... my boss has this saying whenever there's a computer problem. He calls it a PIC problem, as in Problem In Chair!

[reefwars]

hey guys so i have a quick up date , ive went and did all my water tests but i cant find one around here for mg so ill have to hope for the best untill i can order one soon.



before i supplemented with instant ocean my water was as follows and this is natural seawater with me doing nothing but raising the temp.


salinity- 1.012
amonia- 0
nitrite- 0
nitrate- 0-5
phos-0
alk-7
cal-380
mg-???



as the salt was only at .012 i had to add some so i added instant ocean it was the only salt available to me here and after i added the salt this is where i stood.


salinity-1.025
amonia-0
nitrite-0
nitrate-0-5
phos-0
alk-9
calcium-460
mg-????(im assuming around where it should be)



today i started to run carbon in the tank and added a handfull of established sand to my refuge to kick start the bacteria into reproducing.


ive also added a couple yellow tail chromis as my tester fish and will be monitoring them closely over the next week or two. so far they seem very happy and are eating some flke food soaked in garlic. they were also very healthy looking and i got the two i thought were most active and responsive.within minutes after acclimation they were swimming about and eager for food and attention.they come to the top alot looking for flake so i believe they are familiar with people.



to help on the build up cost i am bying a tank from some one here locally its a 55g with all kinds of goodies including 75-100 lbs of live rock .....350 but a 7 hr drive so i will be taking lots of rubber maids with me and a heaters/ powerheads.....there are only two fish and no corals so im not worried to muc about casualties. the cost of the rock i need from an lfs is more then it is to buy this whole set up so i figured tim to start playing it smart


the pet store here has also agreed to get me some mangroves as i noticed they had some on stash out back but the are not for sale and after some begging he has agreed to order me in a bunch with their next order..... sweet so now i will be plumbing a mangrove trough into the tank and toilet sump



heres the pics hope you enjoy

[jphong]

Its good to see it coming together Denny, love the black sand

[reefwars]

thanks john shes a slow progress but its coming together, i have the stand enclosed now and im gonna start looking for some cool stone work for the shell. both fish are really doing awesome and i have a pile of stuff coming soon from another set up.

im gonna try my hand at a diy reactor and a diy fragtank now the once and my roomate is setting up her own tank she will use the 55g im buying next week and start from there.....



i also have something really really cool cooking up, my roomates mom has an old fishplant bin its about 6 ' cube and is sealed tight i want to cut it down in height to around 24" and set it up some how lol hehehehe

would go small rays if i did