madmax7774 October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 (edited) End of this month is the 1 year anniversary of my tank. I thought I would show off some pictures of the tank. here is a picture of the tank at 1 day old: here are some current shots: My tank specs are: 110g AGA display 40g GSA custom sump with built in refugium Deltec AP851 skimmer GSA kalkwasser 4 mj1200 powerheads on a red seas wavemaker 1/3 hp Teco chiller 2 xm 10K 250w metal halides 2 110w VHO actinics aquacontroller jr. 1 carbon chamber on mj600 automatic R/O topoff through kalkwasser controlled by AC jr. monlthy 30g water changes with reef crystals temp - 79' ammonia/nitrite/nitrate/phospate - 0ppm or ph - 8.3 calcium -485 pmm alk - 9.8 dkh magnesium - 1400ppm current "to do" list for my tank: swap out mj1200's for tunze's get a calcium reactor at some point replace my bulbs get a fluidized carbon chamber get rid of the anthelia !!!!! get rid of those pesky aptasia keep my xenia from growing out of control add some more rocks to use a places to put more corals ( you can never have enough spots for coral right?) As far as taking care of the tank and ongoing problems, the only real issue I am dealing with so far is that my alkalinity tends to be low (around 7 dkh) and I am currently slowly bringing it back up with baking soda. I have gotten it back to 9.8dkh, which is much better. I am watching to see how long it will take to start going down again. If it drops too fast, then it's time for me to get a calcium reactor. If it stays up for a while, then I can get by with dosing baking soda for now. Tank inhabitants: 3 firefish 3 clownfish 1 desjardini sailfin tang 1 powder blue tang 1 yellow tang 1 potters angel 1 chryserus angel 1 scribbled foxface 1 lyretail anthias 1 bangai cardinal 1 pyramid butterfly assorted corals, crabs, anenomes, and snails Edited October 16, 2007 by madmax7774 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason the filter freak October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 congrats u've come a long way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yauger October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 AWESOME! Good Job and happy Anniversary!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zotzer October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Beautiful job. What a difference a year makes!! Tracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dschflier October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 The tank has really come alive in the year. Very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoozilla October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Great looking tank... Congrats on the 1 yr anniversary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geofloors October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Looking good!!!! George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerseller October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Beautimuss. What is the piece on the far lower right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmward99 October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Nice tank .I love your stacked live rocks.Did you stack them with PVC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lletellier October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Nice tank .I love your stacked live rocks.Did you stack them with PVC? yeah I was gonna ask what keeps the towers from falling? great looking tank! Also, if you want to dump some of that anthelia my way when you get around to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogurnda October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Great job! Happy anniversary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmax7774 October 16, 2007 Author Share October 16, 2007 If you look closely at the top of the left tower in the 1 day old photo of my tank, you can see the clear acrylic rod that I used to hold the towers together. I got the concept of the rock towers from surfing various reef sites, and I got the idea for the rod from Dandy7200. I was talking with him last year about how to accomplish it with something thinner than PVC pipe. he had some of the rods in his garage, and he came up with the idea of gluing the rods into a plastic cutting board and using that as a base buried in the sand to provide stability. Using a drill press with an auger bit, I was able to bore holes through the live rock, and the rest is history.... One big advantage to towers is that there is good circulation everywhere, and no dead zones. Also this affords me more swimming room for fish, and is the justification I have used for overcrowding my tank as much as I have. As for the piece of coral on the far lower right off my tank, it is a huge leather coral that I got from BRK, and has turned a nice tan color, and has some interesting polyp extensions on it. I am actually thinking about getting rid of it, as it takes up too much space, and I would like that space for more SPS corals. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendalat October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Wow, very nice tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 wow your tank looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowardofNOVA October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Looks great! We have to do that lunch starting at your place first!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Magnolia October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 What a beautiful tank!! I remember when you first posted the tank shots. I liked the towers then, but boy do they look fantastic now covered with coral. You mentioned replacing the MJ1200 with Tunze. I just did that. Picked up a Nanostream 6025 from BRK this past weeekend and very impressed with it. I was pleasd to see my tank tmp drop by a couple of degrees, which is what I was hoping for, and the abilitly to point the Tunze in so many different directions is an excellent option. John had a quite a few of the Nanostreams in stock. Congrats on the 1 year anniversary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmax7774 October 16, 2007 Author Share October 16, 2007 Thanks for all the kind words everyone. I am going to have a tank tour sometime before Christmas, so you all are welcome to come see it when the tour happens. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanman October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 Tank looks great - nice and clean. And yes, those are some awesome towers of rock! Tell us how you did it. bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbuf October 16, 2007 Share October 16, 2007 (edited) Awesome job! Thats a nice pink poci you've got there . Now that its grown out, I might have to bug you for a frag back. Edited October 16, 2007 by jamesbuf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treesprite October 17, 2007 Share October 17, 2007 Way to go on such a nice tank - happy An! First thing I thought in the before picture was "sky scrapers" and wondered how they stayed like that. Looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txaggies07 October 18, 2007 Share October 18, 2007 Very beautiful tank. Good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal October 19, 2007 Share October 19, 2007 Beautiful tank. I love the aquascaping - wouldn't change a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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