Progress of my 44Gal custom corner.

[BlondNasoTang]

I decided to post the progess of my set up. I will be updating every few days.
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0178.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0184.jpg
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[BlondNasoTang]

Time to start the custom hood:)
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0193.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0196.jpg
Here is the bare bones coated with a heat retardent primer. I will be picking up my cooling system tommorow then I can instal the reflectors:)

[woodcarver]

Looking good :)
Nice shots ,keep them coming.
.....................Dave

[Skimmerking]

nice hood it seems short thou. Are you having a chiller installed for the tank?

[michika]

Looking very cool so far!

[BlondNasoTang]

I was planning to install six 40CFM cooling fans to bring air in and out of the hood. I hope this is enough air movment otherwise I will rebuild with 2ft of height instead of 8inches. I was trying to make the hood as compact as I can.

What height from the water is it sugested to have the bulbs?

[BlondNasoTang]

Alright I'm starting to layout the cooling, I went and picked up some heavy duty cooling fans two 100 CFM fans and two 32CFM fans thats a total of 264 cubic feet of air moving a min. here is some pics of a layout. any help would be great thx
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/Rise.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0202.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0215.jpg

[BlondNasoTang]

Lights up and running time for to fill er' up:)

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/Hoodmh.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0221.jpg

[BlondNasoTang]

Got my LS and some LR I still need another 50pounds of LR though
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0223.jpg
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[Midknight]

Looking good. Coming along for the ride.

[Skimmerking]

looks really good man make it a clam tank with a huge Squamosa right in the middle with rocks along the back...

Well done

mushroom and RIc's and Zoo.s plastered along the bottom.......:mrgreen:

[BlondNasoTang]

Here is a few pic's of the progress of my tank. I'm in the middle of some major changes and upgrades and i will post more recent pics soon.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0323.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/July10.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/tanksot.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/tanksep1st.jpg
the last photo is from early Sept.

[michika]

Big changes from last time you posted!

How are you liking your firefish? Are they getting along well?

[BlondNasoTang]

How are you liking your firefish? Are they getting along well?

They get along really well almost all the time they even share a bed (hole in the rock)

[RicePaddy]

Looks great.

Will

[BlondNasoTang]

Thank-you,
here is a few pics I took recently.
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/DSCN0879.jpg

[BlondNasoTang]

Updated shot, with my new attinics installed in the hood.
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/Jan2008.jpg

[04scoobysti]

Look Great! Hows the Yellow tang doing? And did you get rid of the starfish?

[BlondNasoTang]

The little yellow tang is doing great, he is just a young one and when he gets older hes going into a very large FOWLR. I still have the sand sifting star he's under the substrate somewhere.

[BlondNasoTang]

I did some aqua-scaping and made some more ledges and caves so that I can add more coral. I made a large cave at the top with a large ledge in front of it. I also added hammer coral and sun coral. I just have to decide on which coral I want next to sit on the upper center ledge. It is a med/high light and med flow area, any suggestions of a good piece of coral for this spot? I am saving the very top ledges for sps.
I am also planing on selling my yellow tang and replacing him with a flame angel, I have had success with a flame in my previous reef set-up which was a 90 gal but I am curious about the flame angel in a smaller reef set-up. Has anyone had bad experiences with a flame picking on their corals or presently have a well behaved flame in a smaller reef (30-55 gal)

Thank-you

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/jan20082.jpg

[Ken]

Very nicely done and well planned. Looking really good. Regards Ken

[BlondNasoTang]

here is a pic of my new addition to my reef. so far he has been very well behaved and hasen't touched any coral. It took a lot of shots to get a good one because he is always on the move but with a fast shutter speed I was able to finally snap a good one.
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/wfogixxer/flame.jpg

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Looks really good. I generally don't like the backs of tanks painted blue, but yours looks really nice like that. Have you added any other coras to the top rockwork shelf you created?

[BlondNasoTang]

Looks really good. I generally don't like the backs of tanks painted blue, but yours looks really nice like that. Have you added any other coras to the top rockwork shelf you created?

I've added two new corals an orange ricordia and a different type of frogspwan. I haven't added anything to the top shelf yet becuse I really haven't seen a really nice peice of sps yet but I'm keeping my eye out, mainly for the top shelf i'm looking for acro/table top acro and pink birds nest.