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Long overdue update.
Tank Upgrades
Return Pump: Varios 4 controllable DC pump (1050 GPH) Reef Octopus
Lighting: Finally got around to replacing the existing lighting setup. I added two 2x24W Aruba SUN V T5HO-Hamilton. Each T5 ballast has one 24W ATI Coral Plus and one 24W ATI Blue Plus. I also added two TrueLumen Pro LED Strip Light, Actinic Pacific Blue with Canopy. My two 250W metal halides remained in the current setup. This lighting upgrade required me to build a whole new canopy that is not quite finished yet so when I look at the tank it currently blinds me from the front lol.
Dosing Pump: Jebao Auto Dosing Pump DP-4
Dosing Product: Aquaforest Component 1+, 2+, 3+
UV Sterlizer: Added 25W Pentaire UV sterilizer
I broke down my 29G nano upstairs and migrated all of my corals, 2 clowns, 2 damsels, RBTA anenome, and my CUC to this 90g.
(New Lighting Canopy)
(FTS 4/5/17)
(Dosing Pump)
(Varios Return)
(UV Sterilizer)
(QT Tank)
(Only Trulumen LED strips)
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Water is just about cleared up now.
Here is a night shot with the two lunar leds on.
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New Sump additions: Skimmer (Nyos Quantum 120), Added Tray filled with Fiji Mud in Refugium, LED grow bulb (No Macro algae yet though), and added some carbon before the return section.
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Thanks everyone for the kind words, I just finished my aquascape. I went with a more open style aquascape to give the future inhabitants more room to swim. The water is still cloudy as I haven't finished filling, I ran out of RODI water and had to make more.
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Hard plumbing completed today. Leaked tested and all went well. Moving onto aquascaping in the morning.
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Finished installing the soft close hinges. Trigger systems emerald 34inch sump arrived today. Now I can move onto the plumbing.
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I went to Ocean Blue last night with a friend and can honestly say this place is the real deal. Congratulations on this accomplishment Capital Aquariums! The tanks are simply amazing and stocked with some pretty sweet fish. It's pretty rare when you bring a lady friend to a restaurant and they have ZERO negative things to say about the food, drinks, and atmosphere. They've got little sushi boats that continuously sail by on a looping lazy river, it's pretty sweet. I would definitely go again and recommend others. Only thing to note is if you plan on going during the evening you better make a reservation or you won't get a spot next to the tanks.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQYGTQxhDoIto0fYGDn23qDQJgyIbAfcX_Je2k0/?taken-at=1595315350790455&hl=en
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Finished the black coat, now onto the poly-acrylic finish.
New bulbs arrived today from Drs. Foster & Smith.
34 inch emerald trigger system sump to arrive in the next day or two. Slowly but surely getting there.
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can't wait to see the zoa garden grow in, looks great!
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What brand halides were you going with?
I was going to go with Hamilton.
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I just added up what it will cost me to swap out all the existing bulbs in the tank.... $233.86 Yikes!! Does WAMAS have any kind of membership with Drs. Foster & Smith to get some kind of discount?
x2 Halide Bulb - 250W 10,000°K $119.90x2 Compact Fluorescent Straight Pin Bulbs Actinic 65W $59.98x2 Compact Fluorescent Straight Pin Bulbs 10,000°K 65W $53.98 -
That could definitely work Jon. I would have to drill an additional hole in the canopy top and the tank stand for the return pipe, but those are easy changes. However, the two existing holes in the tank are 1 inch and 3/4. Do you see an issue with having the emergency overflow being 3/4?
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I decided to do a quick drawing of the plumbing design I will use for this tank.
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Hi everyone,
I finally decided to upgrade to a larger tank . My current tank is a 29G biocube, which I plan to keep operational even once the 90G tank build is complete. I purchased this 90g tank for $250 and judging by the old equipment associated with the tank I must venture to guess it is almost certainly older then 10 years old
. That being said I have my work cut out for me over the next month or two, which is great because I haven't gotten my hands dirty in quite some time. I will be updating my progress all along the way.Here is a picture of the tank when the seller actually had it filled with water, but no longer maintaining. I arrived to the tank broken down in the garage.
I began curing the live rock as soon as I brought it home as it had been dry in the seller's garage for quite some time. The smell from the bacteria die off for only 3 days of curing almost triggered a gag reflex. This will take multiple weeks of 100% water changes till no more die off is present.
Removed sand from tank to trash. Seller tried to convince me to wash sand and reuse it, but honestly there was way to many dead snails and organics in it for me to reuse. Decided I am going bite that bullet and purchase new live sand.
Had to hit every glass panel with a razor blade to remove the coat of algae which was caked on the glass. Still have more cleaning to do on this front to get the glass shimmering.
Removed old bulkheads and internal plumbing from tank. I honestly don't feel comfortable with bulkheads that have been in a tank this old remaining in place. Not to mention, I felt the return bulk head wiggle a bit.... I will be redoing this tank with all brand new hard plumbing.
Applying rust remover to the light mounts in the canopy. I am not sure how well the rust remover is going to work. I plan on repainting the two panels with a metallic paint after the rust remover does it's thing.
Using the belt sander to sand down the stand, canopy, and tank trim to prepare for primer and then paint with a black semi-gloss finish.
Stand is primed. Ready for the black finish
canopy contains two metal halides, four T5 bulbs, and two nifty moonlight bulbs
these moonlight bulbs are actually quite bright haha
Small pic from my biocube. You can just barely see my rose bubble tip behind the frogspawn haha
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I see you were able to create an imgur account and upload your pictures.
Now in order for you to make the size acceptable and not super large make sure you select one of the smaller sizes below before copying the BBCode.
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Nice build, in regards to the image problem. Go create a free account on imgur and upload your images there. Once that is done you will be able to copy the BBCode that is used to correctly display images into the forums. You can watch the video below for help.
How to upload images to forums using imgur
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Thanks for sharing Seth. I wouldn't be surprised if your leopard wrasse is the big dog in your tank even with the tangs haha. He looks crazy! I'm digging the clams as well.
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Good old Santa Monica upflow scrubber. I recommend taping up the plug on the light so it does not get eaten up by salt creep. Those work awesome in nanos if you have a place to hide them out of sight in the tank.
Thanks for the tip! How's your 70g Wrasse sanctuary doing? i'd love to see a updated pic of it for this year
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Decided to make my own algae scrubber after wasting countless hours on youtube watching how well they worked for other people's tanks. All in all I only spent about ten bucks on this project as I already had all of the tools, air pump, and LED to make this work. The LED light would definitely be the most expensive part of the project, but I am no longer running a refugium on my tank resulting in my magnafuge LED not being used. Sorry for the large images
. Hopefully I get some algae growth soon so I can update with pics!
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Pville - willing to help?
Doug, I also live in Pville so I would be more then willing to assist in whatever way I can. I will be at the meeting this weekend as well.
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King of Corals in Frederick, MD is definitely worth a trip. Owner hand picks most of his corals in FL.
https://www.facebook.com/King-of-Corals-82802206043/?fref=ts
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So, three reactors on a 29 cube?
Yeah, I have them all daisy-chained together as as one. First seachem matrix, then carbon, and finally gfo.
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Welcome! Post some pics when you get the chance. Love seeing other nano tanks
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awesome! the white is crisp looking.
LoCoReefer's 90G Revival
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Can anyone help tell me what the white specs are in my refugium? I hope it's a copepod population beginning to blossom, but they don't seem to move at all.