Bignose's 95G reef

mark · #1 01-17-2009, 11:28 PM

Will your sump flood if the power goes off (draining back from the tank), if it does, you need to do something. If your sump has the volume, no worries.

bignose · #2 01-18-2009, 01:05 AM

Quite a bit actually. I'm going to drill the holes today.

Tangman · #3 01-18-2009, 06:31 AM

Then I would address the power bar issue as well

bignose · #4 01-18-2009, 11:31 PM

I got about 40pnds of LR for free from a local reefer which was frozen... Yes frozen. There's a first for everything. He left his tank to a friend to take care of it while he was out of town and he ended up crashing the tank. He put the rock outside because it stunk and I was the lucky one who got it for free.

Here is the rock when I was cleaning it and cooking it.

Talk about a stink! I had to do this in my apartment. My girlfriend was ****ed!

I also bought about 37pnds of rock from other local reefers in the city. I paid about $5/pnd which is alot better than store prices.

A couple of months later the rock was cleaned and ready to go into the tank.
I also added about 7pnds of rock from my established tank

Here is a pic of the rock in the tank

At this point I was starting to get excited. All the searching for equipment and rock was starting to pay off.

michika · #5 01-19-2009, 12:08 AM

Looks good so far!

I was going to suggest some foam under your tank, but seeing as it full, and with so much rock (free rock is extra awesome rock by the way), I'm hoping you'll be fine as you are.

So what is your plan for this tank? Fish only? Reef?

Skimmerking · #6 01-19-2009, 12:10 AM

Thats looks good man , love the tank. but the stand looks like its bowing in themiddle and there is no styro foam either.... just plywood

bignose · #7 01-19-2009, 05:19 AM

I thought about using foam under the tank but I never did. What is the advantages of foam? I'm planning a mixed reef. Most likely will be softies and lps but I hope I can have some sps near the top of the tank. I'm going to transfer my fish from my nano tank but I haven't done much research on fish yet. I want some tangs for sure.
The stand is ok if you look at the top of the pic it looks like the tank is bowing up. Maybe my camera?

BlueAbyss · #8 01-19-2009, 09:12 AM

The assumed 'bowing' in the picture is the fish-eye effect from your camera's lens. No biggie, but the lack of some sort of cushion under the tank is a little scary... foam is generally used to cushion the bottom of the tank against any sort of imperfections in the surface that the tank is sitting on, so that there is no localized stress on any one part of the bottom panel of the tank. This reduces the risk of cracking over the long term.

That said, you seem to be off to a good start!

fishytime · #9 02-05-2009, 02:59 AM

Nice coral scores. Looks good. To soon for a clam tho imho.

bignose · #10 02-05-2009, 04:35 PM

Thanks for the compliment. I asked before I bought the clam if it would be ok and he said yes. I'm not going to name the store but it is a reputable store. I'll hope for the best because it was expensive.
On a different note this is where the hobby started for me. Here is a couple pictures of my 10 gallon nano.

This is when I had this tank in its prime. You can see in the back it was skimmerless

When I moved the tank crashed and it never recovered I lost almost all my coral.

So I thought to myself start a NEW TANK!!

It all started with a thought to upgrade to a 30 then a 55 then a 75. One day a 95 showed up on Canreef.