KrazyKuch's & Michika's 180Gal Tank Build

[Marlin65]

Are you sure that they are large enough to begin with?

[Marlin65]

You are using the one that has the IMG in front not one of the others right??

[michika]

Yeah I am. All the pictures are over 1MB and I'm uploading them to photobucket with a 5mb limit. Photobucket has just responded to my inquiry and they think that there is a system glitch.

[michika]

Today was a good day!
- first day at my new job; little work, lots of pay, just how I like it!
- frags showed up today, I got 6, but did not get the ponape birdsnest I placed the order for
- RKE showed up, and cost $34 in duties.

Of course you all want photos....

The ozonizer finally arrived, and it was the wrong unit. Its just the AquaZone and not the AquaZone plus. However now that we have the RKE, we can use it to monitor the ozonizer.

Baking the beads to recharge them. For everyone who isn't colour blind, you can seem the starting to change around the edges.


Recharged beads


I use TMPCC to dip all my corals before they enter my tank, and they undergo an inspection for redbugs, flatworms, and nudibranchs. If I could I would treat all incoming SPS with redbugs, however it has become almost impossible to get interceptor here. Most vets acknowledge the existence of redbugs, but refuse to prescribe the medication even with a sample of the SPS and literature.

Anyways, I wish Tropic Marin would change the way the distribute their Pro Coral Cure. I think the bottle has a lot of issues. This is my second bottle, and its leaky! My first bottle somehow got air in it, and it dried out over the course of a month.


The RKE!




New frags;
Purple Bonzai


Orange Digi


Green Digi


Excellent Exquisita, I don't think this frag will make it.


Peach mille


Blue/green Lovelli

[michika]

Older frags & colonies;












New livestock;
one of two yellow headed jawfish


red sea raccoon butterfly

[sharuq1]

Sahweeeeet!

[Jason McK]

Looks Great. Love this thread.

My TMPCC did the same thing.

J

[michika]

Thanks guys!

So some somewhat big changes; I gave Kevin the go ahead to put a SMALL hole in the wall behind the tank. The room behind the tank is our "utility" room/storage/water making place. Over the next couple of weeks we are going to convert it to a water making place/ fish storage/dehumidifyer/ozonizer/misc. fish equipment storage aka a semi fish-room. We are also going to be making a few changes to how our top off is done, and possible even top off from the utility room.

The RKE is now running;
- top off pump
- kalk stirrer
- ozonizer
- skimmer
- ORP/ pH/ Temp probes

To add on;
- chiller
- heaters

We will need another power bar to do the lights. I am quite pleased though that we have not encountered any errors that I have seen in the DA forums. I still want to be able to sit down the play with the controller myself, as I have yet to do that, but things are seeming to be pretty intuitive, and the instruction manual is helping out.

The sump WILL be built either this weekend, or early next week. We finally have a space to build and dry the sump. The sump is what is holding up the remaining projects; skinning the tank, doing the final returns, and creating the storage shelving.

As well the beads in the ozonizer are exhausted already. The system was brought online on Sunday and they are needing a re-charge already. Melev from RC thinks its because of the high humidity where the ozonizer is located (under the stand).