Steveg's Office wall tank

[kien]

Originally Posted by steveg

Thanks for tagging along, I chose 18" as 24" looked very very wide in relation to the room and the wall. In retrospect it was the single biggest mistake I made in this build, still I have learned a lot and will be putting this in to use next time, assuming there is a next time of course.

If I did it all over again it would be at least 24" wide and perhaps even 30" wide, still I am nonetheless very pleased with how things have been going lately. I will post more pictures in the next day or 2.

Thanks

Steve

Go 30" ! Going 24" wide on mine was the single biggest mistake of my build Wish I had gone 36"

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by steveg

Thanks for tagging along, I chose 18" as 24" looked very very wide in relation to the room and the wall. In retrospect it was the single biggest mistake I made in this build, still I have learned a lot and will be putting this in to use next time, assuming there is a next time of course.

If I did it all over again it would be at least 24" wide and perhaps even 30" wide, still I am nonetheless very pleased with how things have been going lately. I will post more pictures in the next day or 2.

Thanks

Steve

I was wondering about that, now I know. I would definatly have a wider tank over a taller tank any day. Really wish my big tanks were shorter and wider, longer would be nice too.

However that being said the tank looks good.

[steveg]

Thanks for the comments, I am kind of lazy so when I looked at either relying on water changes or going zeovit I chose the water changes. I have seen so many amazing tanks that use the old school water changes plus ca reactor and kalkwasser that it seemed like the best choice for me.

Having said that the new NP Biopellets offer a relatively maintenance free method of reducing nutrients and I will definitely be trying it out. I belive there have been some encouraging results using the pellets and the cost is far less tha zeovit.

I like feeding a tank so any additional nutrient removal system that does not involve large amonts of effort will definitley get my vote:

[steveg]

Originally Posted by kien

Go 30" ! Going 24" wide on mine was the single biggest mistake of my build Wish I had gone 36"

So when are you going to upgrade to the 36" wide tank?

[steveg]

Well it has been a little while and things have changed quite a bit now, my skimmer collection vessel that theoretically should prevent overflows did not quite do the job, something happened overnight and when I came down in the morning there was a large stinking mess of skimmate and tank water over the new carpet....

Needless to say my shares at home took a major plunge if you know what I mean!

I cleaned up as best I could and then tried to make sense of it all, cut a long story short I decided to change skimmer to something a little more conventional and ended up with a vertex 170 cone, best decision I have made in a while for sure:



The build quality is superb and within a very short period it has started pulling out some really thick skimmate.

I would like to say a big thanks to Kevin at RC for helping me through this major problem, I did not loose a single coral or fish despite the disaster with the old skimmer and a lot of that is down to the first class service that I received.

[steveg]

I have been slowly stocking the tank and now feel it is starting to show some promise:

View from the TV side:






View from the office side:




I may have to consult the section on photography so that I can get the colours right but it gives a rough idea of what has happened in the last few months.

[Zoaelite]

Great looking tank, I love the idea of bringing the liverock all the way to the surface. Very excited to see this thing packed with coral!

[bauder1986]

I always loved built in tanks. Tagging along!

[snow1]

I like your tank it looks really good so far indeed.