Chaloupa's 10 foot build

[Chaloupa]

Originally Posted by BlueTang<3

What are you using to cover the tank?

Each side is covered by glass.....the tank is in 3 sections up top, so the middle section is only covered with glass on the back half...then I built a cap for the tank to hold lighting and a gazillion cords for the powerheads and lighting etc. will try to get a pic up over the next few days ....

[Chaloupa]

Monday....tank went back together...of course it looks NOTHING like it used to. I liked it quite a bit before as I had time to plan, add corals here and there, move stuff where I wanted etc. But, I'm sure in time I will get used to it and hopefully love it like I used to. Wasn't at the store long today so no new pictures but I should be taking some tomorrow to post for a "new look". I'm just experiencing a huge sigh of relief that it went back together, only had 1 rock fall and knock the Porities and Mille colonies on it OFF and into quite a few pieces...oh and the Red Convexa that I was sooo in love with as it was taking off....it's very very tiny again *sigh* as the rock it was on fell also...anyone needing any red convexa frags, or yellow porities?! LOL

[Chaloupa]

Here's another video of it set up again....pardon the birds in the background, they just don't listen to "quiet, I'm filming"!! LOL

http://youtu.be/QSyTcgIUXMM

[Chaloupa]

[lastlight]

whoa you did a fantastic job with the new scape (I had previously missed your video)!

I was wondering about your new 'background' but you shot at night =)

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by lastlight

whoa you did a fantastic job with the new scape (I had previously missed your video)!

I was wondering about your new 'background' but you shot at night =)

I was wondering the same until I saw the glowing Dollarama sign , absolutely love this tank makes me feel stumpy and undersized with my 6'.

[hillegom]

Beautiful. How much time per week do you spend on the tank?

[Chaloupa]

Thanks! Yeah, I shot them at night, and good ole Dollorama in the background getting free advertising LOL!!!!!

The scape was hard, really really hard, and at first I was really disappointed because it looked nothing like it used to...but I am slowly getting used to it, and finding things I like better with it! And...I "may" have room for more corals! I need some fun SPS or Zoanthids that are different than the norm...but they're few and far between.

ZoaElite...this was my complete dream tank, I had a 5 foot previously!.....Christy helped me to find it originally and I've been thrilled since. At times, I wonder what I was thinking getting one this long...but I do love it, and so do the tangs....unless they're hungry or we're standing on the left side. Then they make use of all of 2 feet of the tank, swimming back and forth in front of us, begging! I would change a couple things if I were to do it again.....mostly make it 10 x 3 x 3 but otherwise I am pretty happy, and pretty proud. Our SPS grows soooo fast!

We really only spend about 5-7 minutes a day on it...if we're doing the skimmer maybe 10.....and on water change day, we drain out the door into our parking lot and refill with a LARGE pond pump so it takes us about 8-12 minutes MAX; water out, water in. We do about 100 gallons per change as we have around 450 gallons total with the sump. We've got it all pretty simple in case we go away, the staff can take care of it easily. We have a large Mag-float on a painting extension handle to do the back of the tank as it's very close to the windows, one of our staff fits back there but she doesn't love going back there if she doesn't have to LOL!!!! I think we spend the most time feeding..it's FUN!!!!

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by Chaloupa

unless they're hungry or we're standing on the left side. Then they make use of all of 2 feet of the tank, swimming back and forth in front of us, begging!

I know that drives me nuts. If I'm in the basement (visible to the fish) they might as well be in the old tank. All crammed into the feeding end of the tank lol.