Murdoch's 160G Tank Build

[doch]

Today I put together a shelving unit from Canadian tire to store all of the fish gear. It's in the bathroom right beside the fish room.
After that was done, I cleaned the rest of the disaster area, and properly ran oll of the cords and dosing pump tubing inside the fish room.

And....

Some more pics for anyone that likes to... um... see pics! lol

Here's my Tailspot Blenny and his favorite hiding spot


Here`s the `fish room`. Notice that my skimmer is too tall for the stand? Damn. My frag tank will be on the middle level (apparently on a 2x4 frame so that the skimmer will fit), and the water change tank will be on top. The lights up top are for sale, but if nobody wants them, I'll use them for the frag tank. I'd like to go DIY LED though. And, yes, that is my little beer fridge that's built right into the wall conveniently located right beside the foos ball table.


Shot of the 'Man cave' now that the mess is starting to subside.

This is a shot of the amount of plumbing and electrical that had to be run. The plan is to put 2x4 pieces to support the pipes, and then cover it up with either tile or wood. It will be used as a little beverage shelf for aroun the foos ball table.


And as I had promised earlier, here's 2 shots of the 55 in it prime (before the move)

[doch]

Well... the second casualty of the tank swap is now somewhat official. I haven't seen my flame hawkfish (one of my favortite fish) in about 6 days. I've been holding onto hope, but I'm no longer optimistic. Crap.

[phi delt reefer]

very nice;


whats your bulb combo? Love the greens you have in the tank. Normally i HATE green for almost every damn coral is green or brown but you got the good greens

[fishytime]

Sorry to hear about the flame.... I have one and he's one of my fav fish

[doch]

Originally Posted by phi delt reefer

very nice;


whats your bulb combo? Love the greens you have in the tank. Normally i HATE green for almost every damn coral is green or brown but you got the good greens

Well, I guess that the answer depends on which pic you're refering to. The 2 most recent pics are of my old tank before we moved to Fort Mac. The lights were 2x kz Coral Light II, 2x KZ Fiji Purple, and 2x KZ Super Blue. The pics before that are of the new tank whick I'm running 9 bulbs (broke the 10th). 4 New Gen, 3 Super Blue, and 2 Fiji Purple. The other bulb that broke was a fiji purple... I'm kind of leaning towards another New Gen to replace it.

[doch]

Well, I sold a few pieces of equipment today. One of them is the lights that I had on my 55. Since they would not have fit my new tank or the frag tank very well, I just purchased a cheap ebay LED fixture for the frag tank. This fixture apparently got the Dez seal of approval, so... I'm in! Hopefully it works out well.

[chris88]

wow it looks great. You have lots of room now to let your corals grow in. Keep in touch and when your tanks settles in i would love to come take a look and ill bring some frags for you.

[doch]

As far as I'm concerned, she's settled in. Everthing that took a hit from the swap is in recovery mode now. I'm actually getting better polyp extension in my milles than I ever had before!! lol. Anytime you want to come check it out, I'm ready.

[doch]

Well, we're on vacation in bc right now, and had the chance to stop in at oceanic, and j&l so far. At oceanic, I put my name on a 'chilli pepper monti'. It's awesome.... Kind of a mintgreen with bright red polyps! I went to bed that night thing about it, so I had to call back and hold it.... We'll grab it on our way back. J&L.... Wow! phase don't tell my source how much I spent there! Got a majestic angel juvi, a PAIR of dracula shrimp gobies, some shrimp, a rainbow monti frag, and hopefully a few more thumbs to come in the shipment they expect on wednesday! On the way back, we'll stop in at ocean aquatics! My wallet it's happy that we don't live here! Lol