Pictures of my...Tank

[Troy F]

Well after more than a year of lollygagging around I finally added sand, water and rock to my 155gal tank.

Here are some preliminary pictures of the tank. I haven't done the aquascaping yet. When I put the rock in the tank was so cloudy you couldn't see your hand in there. Lisa and I had a good laugh the next morning when the water had cleared as we thought it didn't look to bad for a blind guy.

The lighting on the tank for these pics is 4x110 (3 actinic and 1 daylight).

http://members.shaw.ca/reef_tank/pix/tank_pics.htm

Darren is the photographer and web specialist.

[canadawest]

Congrats to the start of a great looking tank. (and it's about time I might add)

Originally posted by Troy F:
Darren is the photographer and web specialist.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Too bad Darren isn't a hair, makeup and wardrobe specialist too! LOL tongue.gif

[Aquattro]

Looks good, Troy!!

[christyf5]

The tank looks awesome. I love the aquascaping ;)

Christy smile.gif

[ruck'n'reefer]

Sweet! Congrat's to! Can't wait to see more pics as it progresses. You must be stoked.

[terryp01]

What sort of fish is that standing by the tank in the first picture? Icantus Identifyus?

[Islander]

Looks good! Maybe you can help me to do my plumbing too. :D

Ken

[Doug]

Nice looking set-up Troy.

[Troy F]

Thanks everyone (except Andrew). Terry the first picture is a recently discovered species called Holycrapus amieverbrokus, it's slow-witted and nasty tempered.

Yup Rob, I'm excited. I've been waiting a long time to put this thing together.

[titus]

Hello,

Hey Troy finally man. BTW, I notice something is run with the skimmer. The bubbles shouldn't be reaching the exit bulkhead area. Have you taken out the horizontal baffle?

Titus

[Troy F]

Hi Titus, I took the baffle out in favour of a 6" piece of 1.5" PVC and 45*. The bubbles coming out of the beckett were hitting the baffle and breaking thus forming larger bubbles which were making a mess in the mixing column.

[Acro]

Way to go Troy, Very nice workmanship. Your patience and thought will pay off in the long run. Enjoy stocking.

[Delphinus]

Congrats on the new setup!

Question: In the plumbing picture there appear to be two different lines. The more prominent line, the one with the union to a capped off piece, what is that? Is that a closed-loop intake perhaps? What's with the cap, is that your priming access maybe?

[DJ88]

Looks good Troy. Great pics. :D

Tony,

The larger plumbing is the ampmaster3000 closed loop. As for the capped off piece, you hit it right on the head. Priming access.

FYI That closed loop is so quiet I aked Troy to turn it on for the pics. He said "It is on". It it THAT quiet. :eek:

[SuperFudge]

:eek:

Looks Awesome Troy !

Nice n tidy,Extra stand hieght looks excellent too!

Whats the proposed coral type ?
Any Fishies in mind yet?

Marc.

[Troy F]

I'm thinking two powder blues and an achilles to cycle and then a couple of orange spotted file fish and a clown butterfly. That's it, I want to keep the bioload light smile.gif .

Truly though, I'm probably going to get a pair of either ocellaris or perculas and after that play it by ear. I'm really curious about having a group of Pomacentrus spp. damsel fish and maybe a mated pair of Fridman's dottybacks but don't know how those two species would do together. Maybe I should make up a stocking list and let y'all voice opinions and experiences.

As for the invert list, I am still leaning towards branching large polyped corals. We'll see what is available.

[SuperFudge]

Cool,Keep `em comin as you go. :D

Marc.

[Shadetree]

Holy cow where do I begin. Have you ever heard that saying that Christmas is coming too? Well I think we had a couple pass us during the set up. Is the tank that tall or are you that short? ;) tongue.gif :D
Looks great though.

Scott

[titus]

Hello,

Interesting. I ran the CS-2 and the Bullet-2 side by side and the CS-2 generated less of the larger bubbles with less turbulence at the surface. My guess is that the water is new, or your hands were in the system, or food was dispensed thus causing a breakdown in water tension. How long have you been running the system with the baffle?

[Troy F]

Hi ya Titus, truly I didn't give it much of a chance with the baffle, it seems to be breaking in and is working really well. In your view, where would you set the height of water?

[reefburnaby]

Hi,

Looking pretty good...that's a lot of actinics. 3 VHOs ? Very very nice stand and canopy.

- Victor.

[stephane]

nice tank troy Now it time to filled up $$$$$$$$

I just want to make you an advice I dont realy know the canreer skimer but as most becket they sometime overflow so maybe put your colection bucket in the sumps that way if he overflow he will in the sumps not on your floor!! :D

In my case I alway run the water level in my skimmer very hight the skimmer tend to stay much cleaner and more efficient see the photo below I run my water level just at the level of the botom of the collection cup

http://www.aquariumpros.ca/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1942

[Troy F]

Tigger, thanks. I actually have 4 110W actinic VHO running right now.

Stephane, thank you too. The skimmer has an overflow that runs to a small buckett. I don't have room for this anywhere else as I have a sump that pretty much fills the entire cabinet.

[stephane]

Originally posted by Troy F:
The skimmer has an overflow that runs to a small buckett. I don't have room for this anywhere else as I have a sump that pretty much fills the entire cabinet.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah so put the small buckett in you supms (higher than the water level)if the small bucket overflow he will do it in the sumps ;) saving your floor

if he overflow it will putt the waste in the tank but dont worry the skimmer will put it out azap when fix

I dump a coupe of time my entire bucket of junk in the tank and only see more coral extent they seem to fest on that junk and after have fix the
skimmer it pulled off that junk in no time

[DJ88]

Tigger, thanks. I actually have 4 110W actinic VHO running right now. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tigger? I don't see Tigger here. I see a Victor.. No Tigger tho. ;) :D You know Victor don't ya Troy? Getting old are we? Alzheimers? :D If you don't know him.. Troy, may I introduce Victor. Victor, meet Troy. :D :D :D

Stephane,

Simple solution for a collecting the skimmer junk. An auto-shut off waste collector. Easy to make. Saves a LOT of mess. No need to hide it in the sump either. ;)

[ 19 June 2002, 11:07: Message edited by: DJ88 ]

[Silverfish]

Looks very nice Troy, beautiful work on the stand and canopy!

Cool to see it up and running.. I can sense a reef meeting in your future.. (when everything has settled in of course!) :D