Yes no substrate, although it seems to be creating its own. Thus part of the reason for more rock.

Looking good Doug!

Can you easily remove the clown home if you find eggs and decide to try and raise them?

Its easier than currently, where its in the back behind rock. I doubt it though, as you can see above it, the overflow glass is covered by flat rock pieces. Neat wall if I may say so. Although not supported by the pipe, I would likely mess it up removing it. Im thinking making it easier to get at, I have never tried a batch before, although once I caught the hatch during the night. I tried shutting stuff down and trapping some in the sumo or overflows but none made the next day. Only ones happy were the acans..:lol:

Now that I have an extra tank and large refugium running, may give it another go.

I redid some of my rock structure today. Must say it looks better. And yes I made it a tad more open, but only a tad, whatever the heck that is. :lol:

Where's the pics Doug??

:lol:..coming

These are without lights, just room light and flash.

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The flat rocks are for my clams, unless I go with a substrate but that will play havoc with the flow Im going to have

New calcium reactor from Lifereef

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I still have lots of parts to put on yet. It has the new little baby Blueline pump. Ever cute.

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Plumbing running through wall behind the tank.

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Excuse the cords, still power filters running the tank.

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Other side, in my office. Running Mag 12 submersed. Still waiting on a decent external pump to run.

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Sump, top down,

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30in. Lifereef skimmer just breaking in.

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Thats a pretty rad looking cal reactor and skimmer. I like the tidy job through the wall, good stuff!

The skimmer is a beast. I better overfeed my tank. :lol: Thanks for the tidy comments. Tried to keep it somewhat neat, even though you cant see it in the living room, unless you go look behind. Between the tank and entertainment centre, its pretty well blocked out.

Looking good! Will you be using the reactors(other than the calcium reactor )?

Yes. I have two coming. I also have a TLF gfo reactor to run in the 3rd chamber. I have to much gfo to switch to Brightwell just yet. So carbon in one and dont have a clue what to run in the other yet. :lol:

Some of the corals awaiting transfer.

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Thats just the actinics on. I also added four more beautiful chalice frags from Fragcave, one he threw in...{Thanks Alex}, and a beautiful encrusting monti piece.

Anytime Doug:biggrin:

Removed and redid the rock today, to go with a bit more room and less rock. :wink:

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This is the poker star monti spot, suggested by Mark. :smile:

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New spot for the percs home

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Here it is behind the rock now, plus lots of swimming room and current room, both behind and in front of the rock.

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Lots of room in the front now for all my chalice and clams, if they go in the tank.

Sorry for the window in the pic, not sure what its doing over there. :lol:

Cannot wait to see how your going to fill it, and to see it filled out :biggrin:
Man I am still soo far behind in my build :sad:

Im not sure how Im going to do that now Eli. Less rock now and to many frags...:lol:

Big Kamloops sale I guess..:mrgreen:

Looking even better Doug. I think you will appreciate the room. Here is a video of that coral pegging I told you about.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbh4iEKlIUw

Rearrange your entire setup,...:biggrin:
From the couple picture you have I would do couple things a little different,...keeping in mind you want chalice SPS and clams to fit just perfect and maybe some Euphyllia corals later,..

You have few different sizes of shelf Some really nice Pukani and Premium Fiji I believe.

I would place the smallest Fiji in the middle bottom then place one or maybe 2 shelves over top and only going no more than couple inches of the bottom pane enough hiding and swimming for smaller fish.

I would upright the pukani in a cone shape over half the tank center going back almost the entire length,back laping them and enough space for the fish..Greg some more Fiji leaning towards the back pane creating tunnels and flat surface for more smaller pukani rock and build it all on a similar disign and in between have a couple more smaller shelves petruding outwards for chalices or SPS as now you have an almost 3D look as your front is semi full with the 1st shelves you placed and perfect for the clams or Euphyllia corals.
Your entire top of the rocks and all crevices in the Pukani is perfect for all your SPS.
YOU DON'T Need to use those beautiful pieces of shelf as covering for the overflow.
That's only one design in mind.

Another design as I call it mountain to ravine with a far hill.

Starting from the overflow box with again few smaller pieces of Fiji placed on the bottom then on top going length wise of the tank place the longest shelf petruding away.
Then build the biggest mountain style going centre of the tank with Pukani leaving the back overflow wall to be filled with Premium Fiji covering it entirely keeping in mind not too dense but backwards overlapping (keeping the 3D effect in mind)
Now you have the entire 3/4 of the tank to fill maybe one or 2 freee standing and almost the entire height on the tank with maybe smaller shelves in between or maybe grab a pukani and mold it to a hammer or an L shape piece ,...

I hope you don't mind my imput on your design as it is nice but with what you bought from me you could make it the craziest look lots of people only dream of,...:biggrin:

Thanks for the link Mark. You inspired the rock rework....:smile:

All input is welcome Eli. I still have all 50 lbs. of Fiji and all the branching and some shelf pieces, including the large mushroom style piece.

I have to read over your post a couple times yet. :mrgreen:

Mark, did you actually drill into the coral bottoms? If one removes all the plugs, then thats the only way, besides the epoxy route to.

Any updates Doug? I really love the look of your pukani, going to have to incorporate that into my next build I think.

I just ordered a 3rd also. Looks stupid in such a beautiful sump with my other gfo reactor in the way. I will figure out how to run my gfo in the downflow or switch to Brightwell. Not sure what I will run in the 3rd yet either but just looks better. :lol:

Its coming along. Been a slow last couple weeks. I just decided one day to get my stock away from the bubble algae before it grew on them.

I cut every plug/base from every sps with a hacksaw. Rock work was left as in last pic, as I wanted to move stuff. I did however not like the glass bottom on the chalice pieces and the clams, so they all sit on chopped up rock or bench pieces.

Scrubbed the clams all clean, although they never had much on them and all the snails that were not like a moving piece of bubble algae.

Skimmer is finally broken in and starting to skim well. Running one MP 40 and one MP 20 besides my return pump. Think I will add a second 40 however. Overflow working like a charm now. Very quiet. Just a little exciting when restarting because of my plumbing design.

One think that has peed me off, is I notice the other day a very slight cloudiness in my water, which of course meant a slight ammonia reading. For CRAP sakes. I have to much rock according to some and cycled for 85 years and used start up. Give me a freakin break. AND not that much of a fishie stock.

So doing some decent water changes and following Reef Pilots suggestion of MB7, which I was going to use eventually. Doing 2 caps every night for 2 weeks to help the bacterial filtration to get established. {Sheez, thought I did that}. Seems to be working well so far. Every coral and fish took the transfer well. Old missis perc seems to be impressed with her new larger home. :mrgreen:

I had to jury rig my 2 sets of led,s. Waiting for my new 2080 to arrive. My hanger bars from Grizz, arrived today. Very good work. Still awaiting my Apex gold package to.

I have my stand and 30g sitting beside my sump in the office. Just trying to decide if I should drill it for a rock refugium or not. I have some nice bench pieces and branching left, plus 50# of Fiji. I assume its all or closed to cycled in the last 2 months. :lol:.

Or may just sell it all. Getting to cluttered in the office and my tank is holding a fair bit of rock

Nick sent me a present. :smile: My Evergrow 2080 fixture.

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Very impressed with it so far. Superb control. Love sitting on the couch with the remote.....:lol:

This is on cloudy setting.

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Reef is finally starting to come along. All the Pukani has a nice green glow. :lol:

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Hey Doug,

light looks good. Any chance you wanna send a shot of what you used to hang it up? looks like brackets that attach to back of stand? curious to see what ya got since many are looking for ways to hang them other then from the ceiling.

I will do Nick. Forgot to take one for Grizz. They are custom made hanger racks from him. Great work and strong like oz. :lol: I could hang on them.

I still have to drill for an eyebolt or whatever. I wrapped a couple cables from my other leds for now and have my 2080 clipped to that until I get ambitious.

My sump is working great and the Lifereef skimmer is churning out nasty stinking crud.

Still have to add another MP 40 and my "gold" Apex package when it arrives. I guess apparently I bought that because I have to tend to my ego.. :lol:

Seems like a good idea Doug. If our lovely frinds at Apex would decide to make some conductivity probes one of these days i bet the gold packages will fly out the door. Just consider yourself lucky you didn't decide to try out a reefangel like i decided to do. It has arrived. But my simple mind is having a hard time getting anything going other then a temp and ph reading.

Should be out your way soon. Really wanna see all this goodness in person. Very curious about that skimmer and sump of yours.

Wow Doug that tank is looking awesome. The light is really nice looking too

Coffee is always on Nick.

Hey thanks Mike. Slowly starting to take shape. Seems like a good light. Happy I went with it.

Here are the hangers Nick. Please forgive the cable wraps for hanging until its drilled :D

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:thumb: but stinky.

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