Ray Ray's 120gal-NOW WITH PICS!!!

[burrows14]

Over the next few weeks I will be upgrading from my standard 120 gal to a 5ft 120 gal tank which I purchased of a fellow canreefer. I really like my 120 but find myself restricted with what I can do and what fish I can keep. I plan on moving all my equipment over to the new tank and also adding a few goodies:biggrin: I am currently finishing the stand at my warehouse and planning on bringing it home on the weekend to do some final touches and plumbing by the end of next week. I have been cooking my current live rock for about 2 weeks now to get rid of some cyano issues I was dealing with and over the last few weeks I have also been cherry picking some nice peices of dry rock that is being also cooked. The new tank will have only 2 veiwable panels because it is side drilled. this will actually work very well for me as I can place the tank closer to the wall(space matters in our townhouse lol) I will post a pic of my current tank and a few of the new one. Reccomendations are welcome:mrgreen:

Cheers
Ray

The 120 gal
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab201/RayRayshobby/P1040016.jpg

The new 120 gal
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab201/RayRayshobby/DSCN2109.jpg
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab201/RayRayshobby/DSCN2110.jpg
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab201/RayRayshobby/DSCN2112.jpg

[burrows14]

So its been a while since I have updated this thread lol The tank has been up and running for 2 months now. I have slowly been piecing it together and I am very happy so far. I made a lot of mistakes with my first set up and made sure that they wouldn't happen with this tank. My maintenance on this tank is about 50% less than on my old tank which gives me way more time to enjoy it :) I ended up drilling another hole in my tank and going with a herbie overflow. My tank is almost completly silent and find the herbie very east to tune. I also ended up going with 100% dry rock instead of my old live rock. There was nothing wrong with my old LR I just thought new tank=new rock lol I ended up seeding it in my old 120 for about 8 weeks before moving it into the new tank. I have been very lucky and have not had any algae blooms or any cycle problems since I started the new tank. the only problems I have had was getting my kh, cal and mag all in check. I will post a livestock and hardware list below and get some picture up in the next day or 2:mrgreen: Gotta Give a Shout out to Viper901 all the help and Ian at Oceanic Corals for answering all my PM's and helping me get this tank up and running!

Cheers
Ray

Livestock list
-Emporer Angel
-Purple Tang
-Juv. Orange shoulder Tang
-Clarkii Clownfish
-Royal Dottyback
-Neon Goby
-RBTA
110lbs Dry rock

Equipment List
Lighting
48" Aqua Photon plus 2x250wMH(phoenix 14k's) 4 54w T-5's (2 ATI blue plus,1 Fiji purple,1 actinic+)
2-Vortech mp40ES
1-Iwaki 1400gph External return pump
Bubble Magus 180CS Skimmer
Apex Lite controller
Tunze ATO
Vertex UF-15 Media Reactor running Bio pellets
TLF 150 running carbon

[christyf5]

http://www.reef-geeks.com/forums/images/smilies/needpics.gif

[burrows14]

HAHA Im uploading photos as we speak!! will have pics up in the next 20mins! lol Tough crowd:biggrin: lol

[christyf5]

LOL, I was thinking that as I posted.

"Hmm, maybe he's working on uploading pics"
but then I thought, "nah! lets light a fire under him anyways" :razz:

[burrows14]

TANK SHOTS
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[burrows14]

THE GUTS
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab201/RayRayshobby/DSCN2235.jpg
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[burrows14]

THE FISH
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab201/RayRayshobby/DSCN2227.jpg
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[christyf5]

Great looking tank, I like the color temp of the lighting, it really looks good. That emperor is spectacular! :cool:

[burrows14]

Thanks Christy! The light is a little whiter in person. I am actually building another light for this tank. I going with a couple pendants with some XM 10k mogul bulbs and a couple led strip lights for actinics for a grow out period for my frags and then switch over to radium bulbs once they are colonies.

[tucks42]

tank looks great ray i love the new emperor, good looking fish

[Leah]

Tank looks great Ray. :biggrin: Loving the Emperor too, how has it been with your corals?

[burrows14]

Tank looks great Ray. :biggrin: Loving the Emperor too, how has it been with your corals?
Thanks Leah! The emporer has been great except he went right for my zoas and LPS when I added him to the tank. The zoas and LPSare now in my sump and look happy lol He hasnt touched my sps which Im really happy with:biggrin:

[Leah]

Good to hear about your angel. Debating whether I should move mine into my 120 or not. Hoping my SPS's will grow a bit, otherwise they will make some tasty expensive snacks. :lol:

[burrows14]

What kind of angel do you have? All my SPS are al still little frag but maybe when they get bigger they might be more tempting to him lol

[Leah]

:lol: Never thought of that. It is a Chrysurus Angel...my baby. :wink:

[burrows14]

I have no idea about those angels at all:sad: Its reef warnings are the same as an emporer. They will nip and LPS zoas clams but seem to be ok with SPS. Its all up to you... I was willing to take the risky and was lucky but who knows what yours will do. Flip a coin lol

[burrows14]

Over the past week my herbie and skimmer decided to a little crazy. I could not seem to match my flow with my herbie which I found weird because I have not adjusted anything. My skimmer decided after 4 months that it didnt want to run in 8" of water anymore. It overflowed for about 3 days until I raised it up 2" and not its skimming great again hmmmmm.

Im gonna startt on my lighting upgrade in the next week. I decided on 2x 400/250w switchable Lumentek E ballasts and Im currently trying to find some good reflectors. Right now its between the Lumenarc mini's and the Lumenbrite minis