First marine tank build (New pics/changes Feb 3rd)

[Mr.nintendo]

New shots as of October 13, 2009:

FTS:


The fish all hanging out:


Royal Gramma:


Clean up:




Few additions:


Shrooms with Zoo's that hitched along with the frag:


TDS:

[argan]

nice bridge rockwork, keep up the good work

[Mr.nintendo]

So as I'm sure most people have seen I posted an Emergency tank needed thread becuase my tank decided that it was done living and is slowly falling apart.

One of the corners has crazy salt creep and a constant dampness ( cant visible see the seperation because the tank is painted black on three sides ) and also shows visible bubbles along the front edge seems. Ive aquired a non-drilled tank and am gonna head to J&L tonight for a cpr overflow box.

One bonus to this is I can now raise my water level to the top for better visual/ capacity. I wish I could just go buy a 50gallon or bigger but I'm pretty broke and not ready to buy more haha. I'll keep a detailed picture log of the switch over process. If anyone in the lower mainland sees this before 6pm that has done this before or wants to lend a hand message me! I certainly didn't think this soon after starting a new tank I would need to swap so wish me luck

[Mr.nintendo]

Failing on so many levels

off to rush to j&l hopefully transit gets me there quick enough

edit*

Nvm they close at 6, BAH

[Mr.nintendo]

So as it stands, everything is in the new tank...

Fail # 1

Funny part is when it was dropped off as a 33, it's really a 42. Actually not all that funny cause I was un-prepared for the extra water needed and almost couldnt cover all the rocks. Luckily I had another ten gallons-ish of fresh saltwater to add when I moved the rock back in and it just covered everything.

Fail # 2

I recently split off the small zoo's from the mushroom rock and at somepoint they disapeared during the rock move

Fail # 3

Filled the tank just to the bring of the new CPR overflow box, went to connect the hosing and realised mine was to small, no sump tonight I guess.

Fail # 4

One of my more rare and expensive snails is now a smoosh on my floor, fell off the moving rock and met my boot


all in all a rough ride, but considering how much of a newb I am and how little prepared I was to find the tank with a crack in it this morning instead of just a few bubbles in the silicone. I figured it didn't go half bad, the only issues present now are things that can be solved in the morning

Here's a pic of the new tank, I'll post a better one when it settles down and I can hook up the overflow and sump

[banditpowdercoat]

Well, better a boot than a bare foot. Then suckers can HURT

[Mr.nintendo]

So I've been looking a lot into what to add/ do with my tank

I'm thinking more lighting is gonna be needed, I originally was gonna have mostly all softies but there's a lot of LPS I'm loving and really wanna give them some good growth.

What I'm torn between is adding another dual t5 fixture to make it 4x39watt t5's or a single 150w MH pendant?

Any suggestions?

Oh I should add, the tank is now 22inches deep, not as shallow as it was when it was a 33

[TheMikey]

Originally Posted by The Codfather

Welcome to the most expensive hobby known to man.

Yeah. I'm just a year in and already I wish I'd just gone straight for the cocaine.

[Mr.nintendo]

The tank now:

[Mr.nintendo]

So it's been a week or two now since the tank switch mess

Here's some new shots of new additions and the tank settled and happy again: