Murdoch's 160G Tank Build

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Alright... here is the second attempt (more or less final) at the aquascape. I can't figure out why my pics look so blue... any tips? I may have already mentioned this, but I'm running 9/10 4' t5's (one broke, no replacement yet). There are 4 KZ New Gen, 3 Super blues, and 2 Fiji Purples. It's really not that blue. Anyways, here ya go!

Here is the left side:



Here's the right side:



Here's the semi secluded, and fully temporary (until my frag tank arrives) 'frag bed' (almost all of these frags have been accidental casualties of the 3 tank moves in the last 4 months) Anybody need some birdsnest? lol But seriously!


And last, but most importantly, the full frontal! Take note of the set up at the front right of the tank. There are 3 marco rock in a little island secondary to the main rock set up. There`s a smallish one on the left, then a really big one that is mostly flat, with a decent sized protrusion on the top, (in betwween these two is the green candy coral) and then on top of it is another smallish one that I epoxied to the big one with the protrusion. I really like how that part turned out. There is a sepertaion of about 4 inches in between this section and the main section.

[doch]

Got home last night to disaster!! Could have been much worse, but the was a water spill all around the tank. I checked the actual tank... all seems well and good. Checked the plumbing... dry. The only thing that I can come up with is that the waveboxes started to spash over the edge somehow. I don't understand how, but this is what I came up with. When I set them up, I was getting a pulse that was hitting every 3rd wave. The waves were fairly small, about 1/2"-3/4". The trail of dried up salt was over the one side right beside the wavebox that I've been having some troubles with. I wonder if there was an issue with the wave controller, and the pulses changed giving me a larger wave which spilled over??? Who knows. I wish I had a video camera on there to see what happened. Unfortunately, the puddle of water hit the drivers and the wavecontroller, so I don't know if I have wave boxes at all any more... :-( I'm going to let them dry out for a day or 2, and see what happens. I just wish that my 6105's were not on back order. All I'm running right now is 43 koralias (various sizes up to 750 gph) and my return pump which claims 2100 gph @ 4' - no way I'm getting that out of it. I'd guess that since I've got my 1.5" valve on the herbie choked back... I'm gettting about 1000gph out of it.

In other news, I now have my Zeo reactor running, and the Zeo dosing has begun.

Tonight (assuming that I have no more water on the floor) I'm going to set up my dosing pumps which will be fed from a 5 gallon water jug in order to keep maintenance down to a minimum. I'm hoping that 5 gallons will last me about 6 months. That's likely a little bit of wishfull thinking, but we'll see.

Also, Im' starting to get a little bit of a diatom outbreak. To be expected I guess. I should probably do a parameter check... especially for amonia and nitrites. Maybe on the weekend.

Oh... one more thing. I lost a coral in the switch. My orange M. Cap is on the way out, if not already out. Not really sure why, but it happened.