kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff - Page 12

Coleus · #**111** 08-10-2009, 04:38 PM

you are very creative Kien. 2 Thumbs up.
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2005 lexus cup

Delphinus · #**112** 08-11-2009, 06:42 AM

Great looking tank Kien. You've been busy!

fooser · #**113** 08-12-2009, 04:46 AM

Kien, this has given me a lot of great idea (your ideas that is :P) for my new build coming up. I almost feel like I should get your help doing it up. I will for sure steal some of your ideas for your baserock building. Just wanted to say your doing an awesome job. Thanks for all the pictures too! Really liking it.

Anthony

kien · #**114** 08-17-2009, 06:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fooser

Kien, this has given me a lot of great idea (your ideas that is :P) for my new build coming up. I almost feel like I should get your help doing it up. I will for sure steal some of your ideas for your baserock building. Just wanted to say your doing an awesome job. Thanks for all the pictures too! Really liking it.

Anthony

Hehe, thanks :-) Sure, ring me up anytime. Glad to help!

kien · #**115** 08-17-2009, 06:15 AM

Finally got around to skinning the stand last weekend, and it looks something like this:

There are seven 24" panels in total that skin the stand. They are simply cabinet doors that I got from Ikea a while back. Not cheap but they were the only things I could find that matched exactly the look I was going for. A nice smooth glossy finish. As you can see here they are simply held in place by 4 magnets. No hinges here.

Gravity also helps to keep them in place by resting them on the baseboard at the bottom of the stand.

kien · #**116** 08-17-2009, 06:19 AM

GFO and Carbon reactors daisy chained with a maxijet 900.

kien · #**117** 08-17-2009, 06:28 AM

So my overflow is/was rather noisy for a herbie. The herbie part of it was working fine but what ended up happening was the eggcrate grill of the overflow created 15 streams that poured into the overflow causing quite splash. It wasn't so bad when the water level in the overflow box was higher up, but when it was half way full it was quite noisy. I had to take action and this is what I came up with.

It is simply a cut piece of filter floss that I draped over a sheet of egg crate inside the overflow box. The water flows over onto the filter floss and then gently flows down. It is quite an effective silencer. No matter what the level of the water is in the overflow box, it is dead silent now.

Here you can see all those little streams that used to gush into the overflow box. Now they gently flow.

kien · #**118** 08-17-2009, 06:35 AM

Here are some full tank shots with the new light fixture. It is a 72" Maristar with three 250 watt HQI Ushio 14Ks with four 39watt HOT5s Aquascience 22Ks. I'm quite happy with this combination. The Ushios to my eyes are nearly pure white, then the Aquascience 22Ks give it that extra punch of blue, but not too much blue. The are driven by Galaxy ballasts.

South View..

South East View..

East View..

North East View..

North View..

Yes.. that is a heck of a lot of glass to clean

kien · #**119** 08-17-2009, 06:40 AM

Some random shots around the reef..

MikeP · #**120** 08-17-2009, 06:43 AM

Very nice! It looks great