The Goose Tank

[coolhandgoose]

Let ther be light!!



The hydra 52 is awesome. I had to make my own mounting system because the one I bought doesn't fit or I'm totally not using it right.

My little helper making sure Nemo is okay.


Mostly finished


The gate isn't quite long enough so the bucket is holding it in place. I really need to make doors but I've run out of time.

All the plumbing is done, had two bulkheads leak on me so that took awhile to get them nice and tight. Slight gurgle in the herbie so I will have to make a gurgle buster for that. I also set up the tunze osmolator for the ATO and so far so good.

Need to do some major aquascaping but just wanted everything in. Looks I might need some more rock too.

I'm off to work so I won't be home for the next four days, I will be doing lots of FaceTime with my wife so I can make sure everything is running well.

[coolhandgoose]

I was home for one day and we went fish shopping. Here's my two new additions.



They are a little fast, sorry for the bluriness. I really like the sailfin tang.

The blue tang hid under a rock for about an hour, then I added some food and she came right out.
I also added two peppermint shrimp, but I'm sure I won't see them until night time.

Thanks for stopping by my thread and for the votes so far in the contest. I really appreciate it.

More updates to come as there's still a lot of work to do.

[coolhandgoose]

I figure I'd post a quick update.

I'm kind of stalled at the 90% complete stage, you know how that goes. Still have doors to do but we've been busy with yard work etc. at the moment.

The tank is really coming along. I'm using h2ocean salt now and the corals are really starting to thrive and colour up since their year of neglect in my basement.

Here are some pics.

Bubble coral (can't remember the name) with a finger leather frag.


Maxi mini anemone showing awesome colours with the led lights (colours I didn't know it even had)


As you can see I have some Kenya trees to chop down as its blocking some of the light getting to the nem. Also the acan is colouring up and has some new heads already.


Favia


Hammer coral starting to really come out, gsp in the background.


Torch

[Myka]

Looks like the transition went well!

[coolhandgoose]

A few new additions thanks to riceboy.

Blue Stag


Sitosa


Idaho Purple Grape Montipora



Bird of Paradise

[coolhandgoose]

It's been a long time since I updated this thread.

I created doors finally before Christmas so here's what they look like. Bought the glass from a stained glass shop. They look cool.





The tank looks like crap right now since I had a couple disasters. Doing a major water change tomorrow so hopefully things start improving. Obviously need to keep up on doing weekly water changes, but the other problem is not enough flow, so will be adding another pump too.

Made some improvements to my rodi system. Put on a dual tds meter. One measures output from the ro filter, the other from the di. Also added two shutoff valves so when I turn the water on, I block off the di resin until the ro water reads 3 or less, usually takes about a minute. Then I open up the valve to the di resin and close the other testing line.

[e46er]

i really like the doors