Marie's 300g build

[marie]

:mrgreen:
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It's going to go here
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[Leah]

This is exciting! Take lots of photo's for us. :mrgreen: :biggrin:

[Tom R]

Hi Marie

This is very exciting.

Good LUCK on the build.

I will be watching each and every step.

Tom R

[reefermadness]

wow...will be watching for sure.

[Dez]

I kind of have a thing for in walls :)

[Skimmerking]

im with DEZ you can do so much behind a wall right DEZ...


:lol:

[Bblinks]

Cool, I am in too.:clap2:

[Dez]

im with DEZ you can do so much behind a wall right DEZ...


:lol:

Except mine's 2 side viewable, so I do so much in the basement :)

[reefgirl189]

Oooooh this is goin to be a nice one! Cant wait for more pics.

[fishytime]

Hey, that's great Marie!.....bigger digs for Doofus..... Hows he doing BTW?

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

That will be such a sweet tank.

[mseepman]

Very nice. Looking forward to how this takes shape!

[marie]

The trip home from Kelowna with the tank

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[Delphinus]

What the heck happened there?!

[marie]

We were 33km outside of Kelowna in the middle of nowhere when the radiator blew on my blazer and no cell phone service......nobody was going to stop to help even when we were standing in the middle of the road waving our arms.....I suppose I should be thankful they didn't just run us over :lol:

[Bblinks]

Jeez Marie, that musta been an expensive trip.:neutral:

[Doug]

We were 33km outside of Kelowna in the middle of nowhere when the radiator blew on my blazer and no cell phone service......nobody was going to stop to help even when we were standing in the middle of the road waving our arms.....I suppose I should be thankful they didn't just run us over :lol:



:shocked:

[marie]

Jeez Marie, that musta been an expensive trip.:neutral:


A tad more then I budgeted for, that's for sure :lol:

[Snappy]

Tagging along with great anticipation! :couch2:

[Tom R]

We were 33km outside of Kelowna in the middle of nowhere when the radiator blew on my blazer and no cell phone service......nobody was going to stop to help even when we were standing in the middle of the road waving our arms.....I suppose I should be thankful they didn't just run us over :lol:

Whats a road trip without a little excitement

Tom R

[wickedfrags]

you and me both!

wow...will be watching for sure.

[lastlight]

This is crazy exciting congrats! I'm happy for two reasons: it's been a long time coming plus I don't have to help lift =)

[Lance]

Whooo hoooo! Finally eh?

[marie]

The tank is in the building
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[Coralgurl]

That's one cute little fishy you have there!!

Can't wait to see this one salty, sweeeeeeet tank!!

[Bblinks]

I was just gonba say that is one cute fish. Captive bred I guess!:mrgreen:

[marie]

I was just gonba say that is one cute fish. Captive bred I guess!:mrgreen:

That is my granddaughter who thought it was hilarious when we called her a fish :lol:

[fishoholic]

Yay! This is exciting :biggrin: Now fill'r up!

[Lance]

Hey Marie. I just drove by your house and looked in the window. There's no fish in there yet! WTH is the hold up?

If you need a lift or any help with anything just give me a ring ok?

[Chaloupa]

Wooohoooo! Tagging along to watch this build...I can see it 3 months after setup FULL with SPS because you grow it soooo easily!!!!!!:biggrin:

[marie]

Hey Marie. I just drove by your house and looked in the window. There's no fish in there yet! WTH is the hold up?

If you need a lift or any help with anything just give me a ring ok?


The tank is now in place but the whole plumbing thing is a complete mystery to me so expect a phone call at some point :razz:

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[Mike-fish]

good plan with the crane

[banditpowdercoat]

PSSST, Your pulleys aren't equidistant from the edges LMAO

[marie]

ugghh, the mysteries of plumbing.

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I have set up the plumbing in the overflow the way it was set up before.......could someone please explain to me the concept? I get the returns and the main overflow to the sump with a ball valve attached but why 2 emergency overflow pipes, both the same height.
There are 5 holes drilled into the overflow 2 smaller and 3 large is there a better way to do this? anybody want to come over and do it for me :razz:

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

ugghh, the mysteries of plumbing.

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I have set up the plumbing in the overflow the way it was set up before.......could someone please explain to me the concept? I get the returns and the main overflow to the sump with a ball valve attached but why 2 emergency overflow pipes, both the same height.
There are 5 holes drilled into the overflow 2 smaller and 3 large is there a better way to do this? anybody want to come over and do it for me :razz:

I think you have 2 emergency overflows pipes in case something blocks your regular down pipe, they wanted to make sure there was lots of backup so water doesn't overflow your display. Usually its one-to-one, but added redundancy?

[marie]

I think you have 2 emergency overflows pipes in case something blocks your regular down pipe, they wanted to make sure there was lots of backup so water doesn't overflow your display. Usually its one-to-one, but added redundancy?


Wouldn't it be better if the emergency pipes were different heights though? The final pipe being kind of a last ditch effort to save the floor?

[lockrookie]

if you want you can do that with a final please dont flood my house hieght it may be a good idea in my opinion as long as your comfortable with this

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Yes, you can cut one of them a bit shorter if you wanted to. However, the height difference between the reg. & emergency standpipes isn't that much so I would personally leave it. Should work fine with no mod.

[marie]

I've had it explained to me so that it all makes sense.......Thanks Paul :mrgreen:

[fishytime]

as long as your at the "I can still change something" phase, you may wanna consider swapping the ball valve for a gate valve.....you will save handfuls of hair with one:wink:

[marie]

as long as your at the "I can still change something" phase, you may wanna consider swapping the ball valve for a gate valve.....you will save handfuls of hair with one:wink:

I messed up, it's not a ball valve it is a gate valve :redface: :lol:

[marie]

Busy day today
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unfortunately it has to remain fishless for 8 weeks :sad:

[lastlight]

woohoo looking great so far! shouldn't there be a lot more coral moving over?

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Looks awesome Marie. What are the dimensions on this beauty again? I think it was something like 8' x 30' x 2' tall? Sweet tank.

What your lighting?

[fishoholic]

Busy day today

unfortunately it has to remain fishless for 8 weeks :sad:

Waiting always sucks, but the tank looks great :thumb:

[christyf5]

Waiting always sucks, but the tank looks great :thumb:

how come? did I miss something or is this a pre-emptive ick strike?

[Skimmerking]

WHERE IS DOOFUS

[marie]

how come? did I miss something or is this a pre-emptive ick strike?

I figured if I have to transfer the fish I may as well treat the ich at the same time


WHERE IS DOOFUS

Doofus is fine, just a little ****ed because all his rock is gone :lol:

[marie]

Looks awesome Marie. What are the dimensions on this beauty again? I think it was something like 8' x 30' x 2' tall? Sweet tank.

What your lighting?

The tank is 8' by 24" by 30" tall and the eurobracing makes it very hard to work on
For lighting I'm still using my metal halides. There is one pendent waiting at the bus depot for me, another is still on the old display for the fish and there are 2 lighting the new tank in the pictures

[marie]

The first resident in the new tank,
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[fishoholic]

Nice :biggrin:

[Leah]

It looks so amazing...love how you did your aqua-scaping. Just Beautiful!!

[marie]

Fish have made it to the display tank.
Survivers of the quarantine process, copperband butterfly, female mandarin, solar wrasse.
Lost, achilles tang (I think the stress of being in a small tank finally got to him) male mandarin (starved to death) 2 other fairy wrasses and 3 flasher wrasses
I went with hyposalinity to treat ich.....In hindsight I should of just gone with copper and got it over with quickly :sad:

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[reefwars]

glad to see im not the only one sporting the towel for pics:P


tank looks like its coming along great, do you think you will get another achilles??

[gregzz4]

New tank is lookin' great
Keep the pics comin' :smile:
Sorry to hear about all your losses ...

glad to see im not the only one sporting the towel for pics:P
Mine's a black garbage bag :razz:


do you think you will get another achilles??
I'd love to see another as whacko as Doofus ... he was So cool ( sorry to bring it up again )

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Ouch Marie. So all the fairy & flasher wrasses I brought up on the last trip didn't make it out of QT. That's really too bad. Next trip up, give me a wish list of fish/corals & I'll drive them up for you.

Anthony

[marie]

Ouch Marie. So all the fairy & flasher wrasses I brought up on the last trip didn't make it out of QT. That's really too bad. Next trip up, give me a wish list of fish/corals & I'll drive them up for you.

Anthony

The solar fairy wrasse made it through fine.

[Coralgurl]

Beauty of a set up! Looks amazing! Sorry for all the losses, qting is hard and you did your best!

[christyf5]

Sorry to hear about the loss of Doofus (and the other fish of course). The tank does look wonderful though.

[michika]

Your new tank looks great!

I'm sorry about Doofus, he was pretty much the Canreef Mascot for years.

[PoonTang]

Beautiful setup Marie. It's going to warrant another road trip to Powell in the future I'm sure.
RIP Doofus, you will be missed. :(

[marie]

Tanks doing well I thought I would post a few pics of the new tenants

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[Northernseacorals]

Simply beautiful :mrgreen:

Could spend hours watching that tank!

[fishoholic]

Looks great!

[marie]

As you might notice from the following fish list I'm keeping most of the fish on the small size. I want to mimic a real reef with numerous small fish, all looking very busy :lol:

Fish list so far
blonde naso tang
copperband butterfly
12 green chromis
3 helfrichi firefish
solar fairy wrasse
flasher wrasse
female mandarin
6 orchid dottybacks
clown fish
Just added a lubbocks fairy wrasse tonight......I love that all the fish are peaceful enough, they never paid any attention to the newcomer at all and within minutes he was swimming with the rest like he had been there for months

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Looks great Marie. Nice fish list.

[marie]

My Fish stock is complete.....in fact I now have too many :redface:

Yellow tang
powder blue tang
blonde naso tang
copperband butterfly
13 green chromis
3 helfrichi firefish
2 regular firefish
2 solar fairy wrasses
lubbocks fairy wrasse
koi fairy wrasse
3 flasher wrasses
female mandarin
6 orchid dottybacks
Picasso clown fish
Sea Goldie anthias (Pseudanthias hutchi)
Lawn mower blennie
royal gramma
sharknose gobie

[fishoholic]

It's a 300g one more fish is ok :mrgreen: right? :wink:

[marie]

It's a 300g one more fish is ok :mrgreen: right? :wink:

That's what I said about 10 fish ago :lol:

[Lance]

It's a 300g one more fish is ok :mrgreen: right? :wink:


LOL Laurie!

[fishoholic]

That's what I said about 10 fish ago :lol:

Sounds about right.....to me anyway :razz:

[marie]

Sounds about right.....to me anyway :razz:


I knew someone here would understand me

It's such a novel experience to be able to add 1 more fish without it being persecuted......I just can't seem to help myself

[Chaloupa]

THAT's too many fish??? EEEEEEK.....I have 5 LARGE yellow tangs, Tennenti Tang, Sailfin Tang, Vlamingi Tang, Potters Angel, couple of Wrasses, Golden Dwarf Eel, Mandarin Dragonette, 3 Picasso Clownfish, and a few others......so I think you're all good!!!! Plus I have plans to add many more! It sure is fun being able to add fish and more than just a few!:wink:

[Lance]

It's such a novel experience to be able to add 1 more fish without it being persecuted....


I hear you Marie. I haven't added a new fish for ages because I know what the big bullies in the tank will do. They ripped up my 5" Chocolate Tang pretty bad in a matter of minutes. I got him out before they killed it but it was not at all pleasant. Big, mature fish may look nice but they sure are nasty!

[Mike-fish]

THAT's too many fish??? EEEEEEK.....I have 5 LARGE yellow tangs, Tennenti Tang, Sailfin Tang, Vlamingi Tang, Potters Angel, couple of Wrasses, Golden Dwarf Eel, Mandarin Dragonette, 3 Picasso Clownfish, and a few others......so I think you're all good!!!! Plus I have plans to add many more! It sure is fun being able to add fish and more than just a few!:wink:

How big's your tank

[fishoholic]

How big's your tank

Very big, her tank is 10 feet long.

[marie]

Some new "just because" pictures. The pic quality is lousy, sorry.....


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Can anyone identify this wrasse?
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[lpsreefer]

i love the power bar on the back wall

[kien]

Wow looking great Marie! Love how active your tank looks. Even in still photos!

[Xadieu]

i love the power bar on the back wall

A lonely power bar :( he has no friends

[Lance]

Marie, could the wrasse be a Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura?

[lastlight]

Looks awesome so far. Talk about tons of room for SPS growth. Clean looking setup with just the vortechs on the end panes.

[Leah]

Beautiful!! Can't wait to see it fill in. I love your idea of smaller fish. I tried it.. and then caved.

[marie]

Marie, could the wrasse be a Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura?

That's what I've been going with but it looks more like a Cirrhilabrus luteovittatus without the gold bar on the side......




Beautiful!! Can't wait to see it fill in. I love your idea of smaller fish. I tried it.. and then caved.

My original plan was all small fish except the copperband but when the brown wafer algae started growing I decided 1 naso tang would be alright. Then I took down my 120g so now I have 3 tangs in there and I am apparently in the process of caving myself :redface:

[christyf5]

Wow Marie, that looks great and so different from your last tank :) Loving it :biggrin:

[Leah]

It is hard to stick to! But OMG you have a huge beautiful tank, so why not add a few larger ones. :mrgreen:
I conquer... One more fish should be okay or a few! :biggrin:

What made you take down the other tank?

[marie]

...... so different from your last tank :) .....

After catering to an sps tank, fretting over majanos and algae in a zoa tank and attempting to make money by propagating rics, I wanted a tank that I enjoyed no matter what route it took. A complete reef, with algae, crabs shrimp, lots of fish and the corals playing a background roll. So far I'm enjoying it all.....although the cyano could leave anytime now :lol:

[marie]

.....
What made you take down the other tank?

It got boring :redface: all I was doing was maintenance so I am going to turn it into a paladarium complete with fish and frogs

[Leah]

Sounds Fantastic! I have a soft spot for Frogs, something from my child hood. I was always like Mommy those frogs are piggy-backing. :wink:

Can't wait to see it.

[Seriak]

Looks great! Make sure you do a build for your paladarium.

[marie]

I added about 50lbs of more live rock

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and the view from the fish room
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[kien]

Whoa! That looks killer, Marie!

[fishoholic]

:thumb:

[gregzz4]

Looks fabulous :biggrin:
And it's not even a year old yet

[Xadieu]

Awesome Tank!!!:mrgreen:

[Lance]

Very nice Marie. Must be just about time for a visit to see it live.

[Delphinus]

Looks great!

[lastlight]

nice nem! def digging the scape and how it's growing in.

[christyf5]

Looks great Marie! I love the mix of fish sizes you have in there too :biggrin:

[marie]

In a few weeks my tank will be celebrating it's first birthday :mrgreen:

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[marie]

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[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Everything looks so vibrant, colourful & healthy Marie. But of course, what else would we expect from you:biggrin:

See you in a couple of weeks. Felicia and I can't wait to check out your tank(s) in person.

Anthony

[Chaloupa]

STUNNING!!!!

[lastlight]

That's a bruiser of a yellow tang. Things look fantabulous :)

[marie]

That's a bruiser of a yellow tang. Things look fantabulous :)

The yellow tang is my oldest fish, I've had him for over 8 yrs now

[christyf5]

The tank is looking great Marie! I'm really liking what you've done with it :mrgreen:

[1986CJ7]

Absolutely gorgeous.

[Rice Reef]

That is one awesome tank! I wish I can have a big tank like yours. How many chromis do you have and how long have you had them? I use to have 7 in mine but now down to 2 as they seemed to have killed each other off over time.

[typezero]

Thats some serious progress for a tank only 1yr old! Love the big tangs and wrasses.

[marie]

Thats some serious progress for a tank only 1yr old! Love the big tangs and wrasses.

To be fair the rock and a lot of the corals came out of my 175g tank :mrgreen: