lockrookie's 50g tank build

[gregzz4]

Oooo, new goodies
And holee long-time between posts

Hope it comes back to life soon

[lockrookie]

Yeah this tank was running flawless until it just decided to crap out last fall nothing was added or removed so nothing was to report lol. but it's time to rebuild and renew. I just hope I can bring the nems back to life they are hurting right now may move them to my refugium in the 180 till they recover.

[gregzz4]

I bet ya if you just keep up your water params and feed them a bit they will be fine where they are, as opposed to being moved around
After they recover some, back off the feedings before they split and voila !

[lockrookie]

Starting a quick project at midnight turned into a 4 hour endeavour ..... Gonna be hurtin tomorrow I mean today. Anyways hooked up a Reefkeeper light to the tank I had layin around. Still need another power bar. But that went smoothly enough. Issues started when I decided to replace the halide bulb In the fixture and clean the fan out.. The fan was a Goner so in my infinite wisdom at 1 am I cut it out and threw in a new one.

The new one wouldn't start try another still nothing tinkered for 40 min to realize the old fan was 6volt and the new ones are 12 volt. So after some fancy redneck wireing the halide should not overheat. But I did contemplate throwing the radion on and be done with it but regretfully I have to do some reworking of the hood to mount it.

Will take pics of the mess this tank is in so we can add me to the hall of shame lol

[lockrookie]

Video update for this tank it's changed a bit since the loss of my rose bubble tips. Hope to replace them this year.

Purple Kenya tree anyone?

http://youtu.be/GOg6xNHvbME

[gregzz4]

Wow, a whole year already

Lots of changes since last years pics

[lockrookie]

Yeah I haven't messed with this tank so much but can you believe those monti caps wher only 1 to 2" in December