SeanCallan

Awesome looking tank! You've got 2 sets of fans clipped onto the back of the tank, where did you pick those up?

What about the picture that best represents nature? No frag plugs, equipment, hands, or other assorted things in the shot.

Well, consider the places you find really colorful vast expanses of corals. The water temp is usually high 70s to mid 80s. The Red Sea in summer months is ~79 in the north and ~86 in the south. The winter only brings a variation of ~3 degrees. The Great Barrier reef is ~85 in the summer and ~70 in the winter.

I'll be providing autographs and high fives for LE frags.

If I say no, can we still be friends? No, I did not put ball valves on the front closed loop because: it's flex tubing and if I needed to shut it off, I can actually pinch the tube closed (I've tried) and zip tie it for longer periods. May not be the smartest move, but honestly at the point in the build I'm ready to get it running. There were a number of delays that offset getting this tank running by 4 weeks! So I'm to a point where I can make the changes later if I really thinks it's necessary or I can just live with them.

I will post a bigger update with pictures later, but the remaining loc line has arrived. I installed it and the tank has finished filling up with RO/DI so now I'm going to add the salt! Hooray! It's all finally coming together, hopefully I'll be able to pick up cured LR from one of two members of the forums and be well on my way to having the tank I've always wanted!

Really depends on the rock you picked up I guess. I added 80lbs of dried base Hawaiian rock to my old 75 gallon that had been running for a year+ and it didn't cause a spike at all. It does take a while to color up.

I've never had to dose Interceptor thankfully, but I do have a concern about dosing to the entire tank. At what time do you know that the interceptor is no longer in the water column? Specifically, when can you begin to add back inverts? I know with dosing in a QT or secondary setup it's safe to rinse the coral and place them back in the tank, but now that you've dosed the entire tank, can you ever be sure that 100% of it has been removed? Maybe carbon?

I did have one, but the more I think about it, the less I like the idea. I am trying to go for something a little different from your average pile of rocks with coral on top. Something LIKE this tank, but not exactly what he has. I can't figure out a good way to draw it and get across my ideas. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthre...ighlight=bonsai

Delays, delays, delays! This tank has way exceeded my expected timeline. My loc line order which should have taken the same amount of time as the last one and therefore been delivered on Today has been delayed till next Monday. Draining the tank is taking a while, I'm trying to do my best to save the majority of the water and use it to waste my laundry. The two don't happen to be near one another and I don't have hose long enough Hopefully the old adage "Good things come to those who wait" will hold true for me.

I've done my fair share of fragging corals, baby pigs, cats, and frogs. The trick is having a clean, clutter free workspace, a sharp blade (REALLY sharp), and the surface you're cutting should be pulled tight. Some people refer to stretch it out, pin it down, and make the necessary cuts. If you've got a sharp clean blade, it'll be like butter.

Alright, I've already done that a couple times to make sure. I just wanted to be 100% sure before I went forward. I'm planning on draining the tap water out of my tank and cleaning out any of the plastic in there and beginning to fill it with RODI. I remember the warning that said not to make more than 75 GPD so I wasn't sure what that meant specifically. Thanks

Cool! Well I have the Typhoon III and according to AWI's website it has one of these: It's supposed to be a flow restrictor and fast flush. So is it safe to just turn on the unit and let it run as long as necessary to fill the tank?

I should have clarified better. Right now I'm just going to be doing the initial fill up of the tank, so I am going directly into it. After this initial fill up I'm going to be using a top off system.

Yeah, definitely Hit or miss. On my hunt for the part I went to a number of Lowes and Home Depot but none of them carried the part. You might be better off trying to find a local shop that specializes in filtration for the home.

Alright, so I've got this Typhoon III RO/DI unit which does 75GPD, it says to never exceed this amount. So after I make 75 gallons in one sitting I need to wait 24 hours to make anymore? What are the rules or best practice on these? Also, how exact do you need to be? My tank is ~80 gallons in the display and I have no way to measure the water coming from the RODI unit, if I'm over a little what kind of harm am I looking at?

Very true! It's amazing that even that deep where so little life survives we find creatures adapted to such a harsh environment. Vampire squids are another amazing create found in the deep dark areas of the Ocean. Absolutely amazing.

A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible's camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and

Would you have the skimmers linked together so the water has to pass through 8 before it's back in the tank or would you have them so all 8 pulled directly from the tank?

I've never seen that done, but that actually got me thinking. Do you think it would be successful? I don't see why it wouldn't work and it actually would dampen the effects should a skimmer go down for any particular reason. Have you seen that kind of setup before on a commercial scale?

Fantastic, you've provided a link to a video on the internet as proof of what exactly? We don't know the size of the tank, the bioload, the cost to build the skimmer, the components, absolutely nothing. You've managed to show that a skimmer can create bubbles and can hold skimmage in the cup. Congrats! For all you know that skimmer is hooked up to a septic tank.

I doubt that :D

I know exactly what you were talking about. But considering that the ocean is ENORMOUS in comparison to our tanks and the reefs are such a tiny fraction, they don't push the bioload of the ocean nearly as much as our tanks do. At home you have such a small portion of water pet fur and dust can be measurable in your tank (without skimming), but in the ocean they would be completely lost.

The world's oceans have approximately 350,000,000,000,000,000 US gallons. WAY beyond 1/1000 or even 1/10000 http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/SyedQadri.shtml As for facts? I could get some if you'd like. I studied biology extensively in college and even did some time in the marine biology labs studying clams and the reefs off of Savannah. Remember that every single time the wave crashes to shore it's working as a mechanic filter and removing a portion of what we refer to as skimmage. It may not all be clearly visible at one given time, but it's occurring everywhere all the time.

Following all your comments with ", sir" doesn't make them any more disrespectful than his comments. His comments are about politics which are not allowed, your large hand comment either refers to a fictional giant or God, which is religious and therefore off-topic as well. I'm a "right wing whacko" and I am less offended by his comment than yours. Your comment either assumes we're just too dumb to know that a big hand doesn't clean the shoreline or you were looking for someone to get fired up about it. Either way it is as deserving of a post on the thread as his comments. If everyone just contributes something of substance, regardless or wrong or right, there shouldn't be a problem. But egging on people is going to further derail the post. Can't we all just get along?! Think about the corals!