Scott's 270g aka Project Mayhem

[Scythanith]

I gotcha! Steve knows his fish

[asylumdown]

I want to live in your fish room. Is that weird?

[Scythanith]

Nope, bring a pillow

[Scythanith]

Not the greatest shots but you can get the idea from them

There is a valley through the middle of the tank and two dominant structures to either side. The left has a large cave under it and the right has a high arch and a bit of a cove feature. The water will flow in a counter clockwise direction when looking at the tank from the front. High energy from the lower left and top right (moving left). The lower energy will be the lower right hand side of the tank and the sand. I really wanted to add more rock to "join" the structures a little more but I keep telling myself "no, the corals will do that in time!"



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From the right viewing pane

[Doc_Polit]

Nice looking scape. I like it.

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

I love your setup
Man going through the pages making me want to start my build sooner than I am suppose to...

[Delphinus]

Nice work with the rocks!

Man, pity about the Emaco. Was thinking about you as I had some concrete to fix in my basement floor and I ended up using some of my R400 because I really didn't want to run to HD anymore that weekend. The bag's been open for 2 years and at the time I bought it at half price because it was past it's "sell by" date (who knew concrete had expiry dates). Anyhow the stuff is good as a filler but maybe on account of its age it was no good anywhere where I put it on thinly (just crumbled to dust after it dried). So it sucks but I think I have to chuck out the last bit of it. A bit disheartening to hear we can't get it up here in Canada anymore. That makes no sense .. but yet another thing to add to the long list of things that don't make sense "because Canada" like 30% more expensive whatevers. Sheesh!

But I digress... Awesome aquascape!

[Scythanith]

I shouldn't say I couldn't get it, more so I chose not to. BASF retailers wanted ~$1100 for one 55lbs bag and 4 containers of the polymer. The product itself was about $200 of the cost. Shipping was $900.

Thanks for the compliments everyone! I just need some coral to fill it up now

[Delphinus]

Wow that's crazy.. Yeah epoxy looks mighty fine. A wee bit less than $900 to ship too..

[Scythanith]

I am going to grab another mp40 and have two on the left side creating flow across the bottom of the tank from left to right. Then I am hoping by having the three returns on that side all aimed high they will continue moving the flow to the overflow weir. That should get as much of the surface skim as possible to the sump. The other three mp40's will be along the back of the tank pushing to the front.

I am hoping to take some of my corals from the 40g and transfer them to the 270g. I will have to wait and see if the peppermint shrimp have cleaned up my aptasia problem or not. I don't want to willingly add aptasia to my new tank if I can avoid it.

My nitrates are at ~10 and the phosphates are at 0.1. I have GFO in place for the phosphates, but decided not to run my biopellet reactor until my A200 for the bottom sump is installed. The Quietones 6000 didn't have the juice to run the reactors and the return tot he top sump. I bet if I had a ball valve on the return to the top sump I could have got the bio pellets churning a little better but that defeats the purpose. The cleaned water needs to get back into the top sump.

Also, I am going to pick up some tumbled marble tiles for frags. I am going to use them in the frag section of my top sump after soaking them to leach out any bad stuff.

I should be home in 10 days and get back to work on the tank when I can around the holidays. Right now my three fish from the 40g are transferred. A yellow tang, royal gramma and long nosed hawkfish. I also added a small clean up crew to start dealing with the small amount of algae that's starting. There are 4 conches, some cowries and some turbo snails. Oh, I also moved my long spine urchin into the 270g as well. Really all there is left to do is move the corals

Cheers,
Scott