Introduce myself & some pictures!

[Scythanith]

Hello all,

sphelps got me on here and I thought I'd stop lurking and post up a couple shots.

My equipment is a D200, 28-70mm f2.8 IF-ED, 50mm f1.8 ED, and a 105mm micro VR stabilized f2.8. I usually clean up the colour and sharpness on photoshop, but not always.

Enjoy,

Scott

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[ElGuappo]

great pics. if those zoos ever get fraged i like a chance to get some. they look tie dyed.

Oh yeah and welcome aboard.

[SeaShell]

Those are amazing pictures! Welcome to the board!

[Lance]

WELCOME! Very nice pics.

[clipperfish]

Welcome , and those picture are amazing . What is the fourth picture , would like to know what they are ,like to get some . Agin welcome to canreef .

[sphelps]

Hey Scott, welcome. Great Pics as always! Getting a little lazy with the watermark these days? Are those all with the 105?

Don't forget to enter the contest!

[Doug]

Welcome to Canreef :mrgreen:

[Delphinus]

Yes, welcome. And those zoos/palys/whatever-they-are ... wow. When you get a chance, please tell us a bit about your tank(s)?

[Scythanith]

Thanks for the comments all!

The tank is nothing special, an 85 gal (36"wx18"dx30"h) that is impossible for me to touch the bottom. Runs with a single corner overflow feeding a 40 gal acrylic sump with a QO 6000 for a return. I have a phosphate reator running 24/7 and drip kalkwasser every night. The top off is a tunze and runs like a charm. Skimming is a ER RC135. My lighting is 6 overdriven T5's with individual IceCap reflectors. 4 of the lights are on an IC 660 and the other two (my dawn and dusk) are on an IC 430. I do about a 25% water change every two weeks and am running an aquasafe RO/DI that cleans my tap water (170ppm) to 0ppm. I use Tropic Marin salt, which is good so far.

I keep 95% LPS and am dabbling in SPS but I prefer to keep my nutrients higher for the LPS.

Wendy and I just moved into our new home this January and have been developing the basement for our animals. I just ran two 20 amp circuits to the "fish room" and her reptiles have four 15 amp circuits, two on built in wall timer for the day/heat lamps, etc.

Our new reef tank will be a 72"l x 48"d x 22"h (~360 gal).

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k99/Scythanith/Tank%20Pics/old-vs-new.jpg

Should have a tank in place by Oct/Nov which I will then let run sans livestock until the spring.

Looking forward to learning from you all!

Scott

[Scythanith]

The overflow isn't going to be exactly as shown, I'm going with something a little smaller and likely on the non-visible side.

The Zoa's are 5 colour rainbows, my colony took a turn for the worse after our move but I still have 5 polyps holding in there!

[sphelps]

Hey Scott, glad to see you lowered your height from your original 30", I see you may have reduced it twice? picture shows 24" but you also stated 22".

For your overflow I have a suggestion. Don't go with an end to end design. Stick with something smaller like 12-18". You can notch the glass and go with an external overflow. From my experience the larger end to end overflows do not skim the surface as well. If you use a smaller one you'll be creating a higher velocity flow from the tank into the overflow which will increase surface tension and actually skim the surface water better. With the end to end you're not going to get a good velocity nor surface tension and as a result will not skim the surface as well. Think of it like a vacuum cleaner, with a huge nozzle it's difficult to suck stuff up, but with a small nozzle it's much more effective.

[wickedfrags]

Nice stuff Scott. Good to see you hear on Canreef. Dave

[Delphinus]

Those are some sweet dimensions for a tank..

[dsaundry]

Nice pic's...Welcome aboard!:biggrin:

[Scythanith]

I think 22" will be water level height, 24" will be the glass top.... to be honest I haven't quite decided. I would like to be able to reach the bottom in most areas of the tank but the 4 foot front to back dimension makes that difficult.

The overflow will be two smaller overflows at either side of the back pane most likely to surface skim from either side of the tank. And yes, they will be small to promote water movement.

There will be two or three returns with most of the in-tank circulation being taken care of by vortechs.

Haven't figured it all out quite yet!

Hey Scott, glad to see you lowered your height from your original 30", I see you may have reduced it twice? picture shows 24" but you also stated 22".

For your overflow I have a suggestion. Don't go with an end to end design. Stick with something smaller like 12-18". You can notch the glass and go with an external overflow. From my experience the larger end to end overflows do not skim the surface as well. If you use a smaller one you'll be creating a higher velocity flow from the tank into the overflow which will increase surface tension and actually skim the surface water better. With the end to end you're not going to get a good velocity nor surface tension and as a result will not skim the surface as well. Think of it like a vacuum cleaner, with a huge nozzle it's difficult to suck stuff up, but with a small nozzle it's much more effective.

[Scythanith]

Nice stuff Scott. Good to see you hear on Canreef. Dave

Thanks Dave, I have my eye on a couple of your goodies on the site. Might have to get another order together in a month or so.

[superduperwesman]

Scott buddy good to see you. I miss your beautiful face. What ever your new tank's final dimensions are I'm sure it'll be nice. Guy has got taste and he's also got 3/4 of a zoo in his place. What's that thing that was in the telus commercials, I think it can change color and has a huge tounge?