peterluber
01-12-2005, 03:11 PM
this thread is a zombie. i just brought it back up from the dead. i didnt post on it for months, but now that the tank is almost finished, i feel i should post some full tank shots. fooray for full tank shots!
Checklist:
I still need 3 more bulbs
2X96W fixtures
a fitting for my overflow?
live rock
I have tank, 90 Gallons, drilled, overfloe
stand
canopy
4X55W PC's
mag 7
mag 18
rio 2100 for in tank circulation
20 gallon sump
1 bulb
i bought a 10 gallon nano, and it is cool, but it is so hard to take care of sometimes. everybody said go big, and i was thinking 40 gallons first. then 55. then 60 from OG. then 80, so i could keep a mandarin and tang. i was going to buy new, but it was my birthday and christmas, and my parents had been looking too. on www.craigslist.com, they found a 90 gallon tank. It came with the tank, stand, canopy, 300 watts of lighting, skimmer, UV sterilizer, built in overflow, sump. i knew it was a fixer upper, but the price was just too good. new, that stuff would run over 1000, but i got it for $399. the killer was going to be cleaning out the dry skimmer. i had been stalling on cleaning out the tank when my dad met the owner of AquaC protein skimmers, www.proteinskimmer.com . he said he wanted me to come over and look at his 400 gallon reef and he'd give me a cosmetic defect skimmer. the birch aquarium at scripps uses these skimmers and highly reccomends them. i haven't been over there yet, but i am going to soon. that takes care of the skimmer, so i scraped all of the black paint off of the back of the tank, took it outside with a shop-vac, spray-hose, some sponges and rags, scrapers. i scoured it and wiped the reflector in the hood and vacuumed out the stand. i checked the bulbs, and i need a few new ones. i will probably just buy them all new, just in case, and so i know their life. i checked all of the pumps, and most of them didn't work because they had been dry for so long. i need to get new pumps for it, too. anybody who has any spare pumps would be greatly appreciated. i need little ones, too. within the next two weeks, i should be getting pumps. then im driving up to frag farmer in LA and getting two 45 lb. cases of fiji LR. that plus the 10 pounds i have now will be 100 pounds. i only weigh 80 :eek: . i already have 20 lb.s of aragonite live sand (probably why my 10 is so hard to take care of, you wouldnt believe the dsb i have right now) i will probably buy 20 more (its cheap. i got the 20 lb. bag for 25 bucks from AW. see they can have good prices) and spread that out and see the coverage. i might buy another bag or mix it with crushed coral or something like that and seed it with the 40 i'll have. so, buy two weeks it'll have started it's cycle. then, buy mid february, it'll be ready for some hermits, etc. then give it another week or two and ill get a damsel and maybe a clown or some shrimps. then, i'll add some more fish and buy st. patrick's day it should have corals, fish, a reef. also, does anybody want to buy a serpent star. he's pretty small, but i don't want him to eat any of my stuff. i have heard things. he is really cool though if you don't have anything that will get eaten buy him. it is awesome to watch him grap the cyclopeez. everything will be out of the little tank, so i'll do a 100% water change and pop in a damsel just to make sure the little tank is always livable as a quarantine. if anybody checks in, I'll just pop him in the big tank. it will be all very peaceful fish, so it should be fine. then, just keep adding frags and fish. i want to grow all of my sps (montis and stuff only. i don't have the lighting for acros or anything like that) and polyps and stuff from frags. then, by next september, I'll have a mandarin, my ultimate goal. i will post pics later. sorry if i bored you.
Checklist:
I still need 3 more bulbs
2X96W fixtures
a fitting for my overflow?
live rock
I have tank, 90 Gallons, drilled, overfloe
stand
canopy
4X55W PC's
mag 7
mag 18
rio 2100 for in tank circulation
20 gallon sump
1 bulb
i bought a 10 gallon nano, and it is cool, but it is so hard to take care of sometimes. everybody said go big, and i was thinking 40 gallons first. then 55. then 60 from OG. then 80, so i could keep a mandarin and tang. i was going to buy new, but it was my birthday and christmas, and my parents had been looking too. on www.craigslist.com, they found a 90 gallon tank. It came with the tank, stand, canopy, 300 watts of lighting, skimmer, UV sterilizer, built in overflow, sump. i knew it was a fixer upper, but the price was just too good. new, that stuff would run over 1000, but i got it for $399. the killer was going to be cleaning out the dry skimmer. i had been stalling on cleaning out the tank when my dad met the owner of AquaC protein skimmers, www.proteinskimmer.com . he said he wanted me to come over and look at his 400 gallon reef and he'd give me a cosmetic defect skimmer. the birch aquarium at scripps uses these skimmers and highly reccomends them. i haven't been over there yet, but i am going to soon. that takes care of the skimmer, so i scraped all of the black paint off of the back of the tank, took it outside with a shop-vac, spray-hose, some sponges and rags, scrapers. i scoured it and wiped the reflector in the hood and vacuumed out the stand. i checked the bulbs, and i need a few new ones. i will probably just buy them all new, just in case, and so i know their life. i checked all of the pumps, and most of them didn't work because they had been dry for so long. i need to get new pumps for it, too. anybody who has any spare pumps would be greatly appreciated. i need little ones, too. within the next two weeks, i should be getting pumps. then im driving up to frag farmer in LA and getting two 45 lb. cases of fiji LR. that plus the 10 pounds i have now will be 100 pounds. i only weigh 80 :eek: . i already have 20 lb.s of aragonite live sand (probably why my 10 is so hard to take care of, you wouldnt believe the dsb i have right now) i will probably buy 20 more (its cheap. i got the 20 lb. bag for 25 bucks from AW. see they can have good prices) and spread that out and see the coverage. i might buy another bag or mix it with crushed coral or something like that and seed it with the 40 i'll have. so, buy two weeks it'll have started it's cycle. then, buy mid february, it'll be ready for some hermits, etc. then give it another week or two and ill get a damsel and maybe a clown or some shrimps. then, i'll add some more fish and buy st. patrick's day it should have corals, fish, a reef. also, does anybody want to buy a serpent star. he's pretty small, but i don't want him to eat any of my stuff. i have heard things. he is really cool though if you don't have anything that will get eaten buy him. it is awesome to watch him grap the cyclopeez. everything will be out of the little tank, so i'll do a 100% water change and pop in a damsel just to make sure the little tank is always livable as a quarantine. if anybody checks in, I'll just pop him in the big tank. it will be all very peaceful fish, so it should be fine. then, just keep adding frags and fish. i want to grow all of my sps (montis and stuff only. i don't have the lighting for acros or anything like that) and polyps and stuff from frags. then, by next september, I'll have a mandarin, my ultimate goal. i will post pics later. sorry if i bored you.