Nicks 120 Gal work in progress
 

I figured that with all the fun stuff i have been getting and doing lately i would start a bit of a build/upgrade thread(somewhere i can post my rantings, nonsense, and a place to show off my new goodies).

I will start here:
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Above is my tank not to long after switching my Coralife MH out for a could D120 LEDs. Definitely a good choice(especially since i was never fond of changing bulbs on any type of schedule and always would let them go to long).

And a few of my little friends:

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I guess the next thing would be that i dropped the mag 12 and went with a dc5000.

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Quite happy with the pump. it has been up and running a while and has been reliable, quiet, and it is quite nice to have the feed mode and speed options.

More recently i decided that i wanted to make a light bar to hang my lights. I ended up using some aluminum angle and flat bar. I ended up using cotter pins to attach lights to light bar so i can pop them out if i ever need to quite easily.

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Love the codder pin idea!

Thanks Myka, i definitely felt smarter then i am when i thought of it :)

Check out these handsome/beautiful faces..

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Very nice Nick...about time you gave us some shots. :)

So, my fuge has been sitting with some cheato and a mangrove in it not doing a lot for quite some time now. So i made a little (or big) upgrade from a 42watt cfl clamp on light to a 70 watt S2 Refugium LED pictured below: (and ordered up some mangroves, since i really like how the one i had was doing and looked).

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Shortly after the mangroves arrived and the roots started growing out of control in a matter of a week i decided to spread them out and split up the cheato in hopes to have the fuge bottom/sand covered in cheato(in between the mangroves) as to stop and nuisance algae from forming around edges as i have had in the past with just a ball of cheato in the middle.


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It has only been like this for a few days now and the cheato is spreading out well. It seems as though i will have bottom fully covered by the weeks end.

Nice light bar!

Thanks Cubeman.

Next is my frag/qt tank setup. I found a little 3g acrylic aquarium kit at the discount store for cheap (due to scratches). Below is Painting the back pannel and drilling for water in and out.

I have the pump and return easily moveable. Either drawing from my main system for frags or if i wanna use as a qt i can just drop pump and return hose into a 5g sump i have. For now i just have it on main system so i can keep frags.

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Bulkheads installed

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Hooked up

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luckily as the frags started arriving so did my new frag light. It is a S2 nano/frag light. Here are a few pics of the light and the frags it is helping to grow:

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