New house, new tank. 290 Gallon Build

[dusty16]

Originally Posted by Wretch

Looks great so far. As for how loud the pump is the whole house is empty and everything will seem loud until furniture, carpet and what not are in. Give them a little break in time and see if that helps.

Guess Ill worry about the noise closer to when we move in.

Originally Posted by mseepman

It's looking awesome! This reminds me so much of my own build (I even did a 290 as well) and built the house around it. I like the design. You will love Starfire as long as you take care of it.

Hopefully I can get mine looking as good as yours. As for the starphire I just hope I dont end up scratching it when I put the rocks in.

[dusty16]

Got bored today so I decided to play around with my rock.

Here is what Eli had done for me when they sent me the rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs4301O8p_0

Heres my attempt at something a little different. Just stacked them in whatever way they would stay in place.

[dusty16]

Question. Is it ok to have a lot of places for fish to hide or does that just create dead zones where debris will collect.

[jason604]

Originally Posted by dusty16

Question. Is it ok to have a lot of places for fish to hide or does that just create dead zones where debris will collect.

both! places for fishes to hide is good, but yes it does cause some dead spots. You should keep that rockscape tho its rly nice

[dusty16]

Originally Posted by jason604

both! places for fishes to hide is good, but yes it does cause some dead spots. You should keep that rockscape tho its rly nice

Thanks. Hopefully I have the rock in the tank within the next few days. Currently cleaning a bunch of rubble that was extremely dirty.

[reefwithareefer]

Originally Posted by dusty16

Thanks. Hopefully I have the rock in the tank within the next few days. Currently cleaning a bunch of rubble that was extremely dirty.

Must be really dirty if you have not had time to post anything..

[dusty16]

Originally Posted by reefwithareefer

Must be really dirty if you have not had time to post anything..

The rubble is clean. Been busy with final exams the past few weeks. I have spent a couple hours using Fijicrete to do up my aquascape. Still have some work left to do which will probably have to wait until after all exams. So probably another week and a half before any updates.

[Dearth]

Originally Posted by dusty16

Question. Is it ok to have a lot of places for fish to hide or does that just create dead zones where debris will collect.

I've found the more hiding spots you have the more your fish will tend to stay in the open as they aren't so busy defending limited hiding spots. Also there will be more detritus buildup in those areas but I found my CuC does a fairly good job of cleaning up those areas as well

[The Guy]

Wow very impressive set up. More pictures.

[dusty16]

Finally got some work done. Figured I would wait a little while for all the workers to finish making their mess and the dust to settle.



Just have a few pieces of rubble that I want to use to fill in some gaps and then ill probably fill it up. May also be putting up the lighting sometime this week. Want to use a pulley system to raise and lower them. Hopefully its not to hard to figure out.

Meanwhile I have been without any fish for a while now. I was thinking about starting up my 30 gallon with some saltwater and throwing 2 clowns in there. I will probably be using that tank as a quarantine tank once I have the other up and running. I was wondering if I need to do anything special or will a heater and HOB filter be enough?