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Lowefx's epic journey in a 120!


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This will be my official thread for my 120 gallon, Zeovit tank. Here is a link for my previous thread (http://wamas.org/forums/topic/79277-finished-my-stand-for-my-120-48x24/?hl=%2Bfinished+%2Bmy+%2Bstand) when i was building my tank stand. I have a few more out there as well. This will not not start off too specific, but feel free to ask questions along the way.

I am using the Zeovit system in my 120 gallon reef tank.

Equipment:

Oceanic 4x2x2 Sapphire front glass, center overflow

40 gallong breeder sump for now

Vertex 150 skimmer

Vertex Reactor

Finnex 800w heater

2x mp40 powerheads

Lights-2x150w MH (Phoenix 14k bulbs) 4x54w T5's retro from and outer orbit 48" and a Aquatic Life fixtures. Replaced all ballasts too.

 

Water

Instan Ocean reef crystals (1.026)

Zeovit (1L Zeolite, ZeoStart, Zeobak, CyanoClean, CoralSnow, Aminos, K-Ballance, SpongePower.....)

 

Food

Reef Roids

New Life Spectrum Pellets

Fauna Marin LPS Grow+Color Pellets

Green Algae sheets

 

Fish and Snails

Blone Naso Tang

Powder Brown Tang

Yellow Goby (One eyed)

Snails

1 Cleaner Shrimp

1 Conch snail

 

Coral

Bubblegum Chalice

Pink Platygyra brain

Green Possi

Rainbow Possi

Tabling Efflow

Pink Lemonaide

Golden Eye Chalice

Rainbow Mille

JF Jack-o-lantern

JF Party Crasher

Galaxia

Frogspawn

Neon Trumpets

Green slimer

Blue Tort

Vivid Delight

Red Planet

Green Acan

Red/bule acan

Ponape birdsnest

Green Stylo

Rainbow Wilsoni

 

Live Rock was all dry and sand is Caribsea special grade

 

Im sure I'm forgetting a lot of things.......

 

anyways heres some pictures for the time being. Thanks for looking.

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9HPPTnSLsRlNnA5TS1YbnN4NUU

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9HPPTnSLsRlWHBjZzlDNXVxV28

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9HPPTnSLsRldm82SENGVGNpOEU

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9HPPTnSLsRldThtZWoxRThJcTQ

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9HPPTnSLsRlSzg0UTlEeG1qQXM

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9HPPTnSLsRleUczMktLNFB4Wnc

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9HPPTnSLsRlQng5Q29XaUJEQUE

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9HPPTnSLsRlTWRveFk0bng5c2M

 

Tell me how to fix these pictures...

 

 

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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEB6ukU_wL0

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Moved topic to the Dedicated Tank Build forum.

Can you fix those pictures for me also?

 

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looking forward to following this build.  Sometimes I do miss running zeovit.  My warning would be to be careful with using Reef Crystals.  It has a much higher alk content than regular IO or other popular salts in the zeo community and could cause an alk spike after a water change.  If my alk ever went over 7.5 I would end up with burnt tips running ULNS.

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Can you fix those pictures for me also?

 

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The first post can be edited in this forum. There's a tutorial here (somewhere) on how to upload an image to a Wamas gallery or to an image hosting service and linking to it here. I can't really "fix" your images unless I upload them to my personal galleries.

 

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I see you were able to create an imgur account and upload your pictures.  :clap: 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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Lol, looking on tapatalk, it seems sized correctly. Hahah. Thanks for the pointer, I hope you don't have dial up AOL. I was using my sister's macro lense. Other pictures will be from my Samsung Galaxy

 

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Just did another weekly water change. Here is some photos with all lights on. 2x150mh Phoenix 14k bulbs, 4 T5's (all ATI 2xsuper atinic, 1x blue plus, 1x coral plus) I'm open for recommendations. Thanks for looking.

Center

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From the right side

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From the left side

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  • 3 weeks later...

Does anyone have any advise on dinos or diatoms? ??? I've done all of the precautions and changed all cartidges in ro/di 2 weeks ago, still 000. I do weekly 15-20 gal water changes using reef crystals. I'll suck all of it out and 3 days later it's back. I feed light too.

 

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Hard to tell 100% in the pic, but I would lean more towards diatoms.  If so, it usually runs its cycle and goes away on its own.  You could try running GFO or other kind of phosphate/silicate remover and see if that helps. 

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I've made progress on the dinos. Here's some pictures of some new items. Who else is a Wilsoni fan??? Any house keeping advise is welcome!

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  • 3 weeks later...

Changed Metal Halide bulbs to the Hamilton 20k double ended 150w and now i have 2 ATI Blue plus, 1 ATI Super Atinic, and 1 coral plus. Its more of a blue color but thats okay with me, i want the more vibrant colors.

heres a few additions (dont mind me sharing the kids room)

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Some more pictures from my NEW Samsung S8+. What an amazing camera. All picture were on AUTO and not edited at all.6bfbe48e188b5cb1497fcb64eb17312f.jpg9ba748a73b72c9ae1aceda4701c51a0a.jpg06a8f782fb2f6348ab39ec7a35ccb7ef.jpg2a4b54456d5405e3d9a10142cddde6ef.jpg

 

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How about a current FTS?

Ask and you shall receive.

 

I like to keep the rock to a minimum and thinking about getting rid of the sand soon, going to bare bottom.252e566636fb7365ab20bfd7aea3e3d5.jpg9f512e26fc5b6c0ee718a7074a4d380c.jpg9ea17c258da0c8b5d2677d573b30cdba.jpg

 

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In water, night shot, with moonlight LEDs only. I love this new S8+e0ea6536425a62a873d19fd50dca43f0.jpg

 

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I miss those old school oceanic tanks.  they were built so well.  I have been trying to track down an oceanic 165 hyper bow to no avail. Great build thread.  going to follow along to see how it grows in.

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Little update this morning with the moon lights and the Aquaclip. More info to follow later..b86cde574b7bed381cb925d9c02b754d.jpgf7faabdf35f4c61c1682db2bed37aa5f.jpg5eeaa30357a37d1ce73af28d324ce13c.jpg784fd17e443ed0727f8582216e718ee2.jpgcc0b7e2c4aca4bd1116776d92c74c77d.jpgf148a455079148308ebb2bd8429ee535.jpgc22edfd0d5455fa73c952fae0acf7f48.jpg7dcab43f4db6ba9cff88c51c2eac554a.jpg

 

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