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![]() Nice looking tank - I think we saw each other at Concept yesterday - I was the guy with the two kids waiting (im)patiently. I am thinking about the Speedwave my my new build so it is good to see the quick review here.
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Ahh yes! we did, pump works amazing! I have to say im really happy with it. Also saw the model below the one I bought today at another store for 30$ more than I paid for mine....so the Concept price is great. Sadly last night when finishing up the VERY LAST section of hard pipe, when pushing it in, I cracked the bulkhead right down the seam so I had to go buy a new one today. Hopefully I can start filling this tank by mid week ![]()
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![]() I took a quick video with my Iphone just to show how the tank is working right now.
125gal tank - YouTube Finally filled! I have to be honest im still worried about the weight of the tank but hey so far so good...*knocks on wood*
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![]() Looking good man
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![]() Well its been a long weekend for me, so I transferred all the stock from my old 35gal setup, which has been running for 2+ years. Everything went great minus the loss off 1 clown, 1 emerald crab. I checked the tank and have been all weekend, no cycle happened but the clown wasnt looking so hot when I transferred him. As for the crab, well he got stuck in the sand of the old tank, and I thought I got everything out, but alas I found him legs up not moving when i went to clean the sand out of the old tank.
Here is a shot of the tank with the LED's on about 50% White, 40% Blue ![]() Here is a shot of just the White's on. ![]() So officially this tank is gone ![]() ![]() But this one has just started! ![]() Long road ahead. For stock right now I have: 1 Clown 1 Yellow Tail Damsel 1 3 stripped Damsel 1 Coral Beauty 1 Six Line Wrasse 1 Banggai Cardinalfish 1 Longspine Urchin Looking to add, yellow tang, Blue tang, Kole tang and a Green Mandarin, that may change depending on what else shows up that I would rather have. Any suggestions are welcome. Im planning on adding 2 media reactors, one for Carbon one for GFO of course a bigger skimmer.
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![]() Had some ups and downs with this since the transfer. But its back on track finally... So few updated pics of the tank and a new stock list.
~~~~~~~~ ~Stock List~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~Fish~~ ~Foxface ~Blue Tang ~False Perc ~6 Line Wrasse ~Banggai Cardinal ~Yellow Tail Damsel ~3 Strip Damsel ~Coral Beauty ~~Inverts~~ ~2 emerald crabs ~10 hermits ~10 Astraea Snails ~5 Cerith Snail ~3 Nassarius Snail ~~Coral~~ ~4 Devils Hand Frags ~Pom Pom Xenia ~Colt Coral ~2 blue/green zoa frags ~Large Purple Acan Frag ![]() ![]() Full Tank Shot May 18th 2013 ![]()
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![]() Well it has been a few months so how about an update and some more pictures.
The tank transfer was just a disaster most of my coral sucked up and fizzled away and now almost 3 months later the corals are just starting to open back and colour up. What a long road this has been. I upgraded my skimmer and added a Dual Media Reactor which I scored of Kijiji for a great price. Running a SWC Xtreme 160 Cone Protein Skimmer and I have to say WOW. Before I only been using the hang on back remora skimmers for my old tank but after using this SWC I can see the difference in the nasty paste im pulling out now. Skimmer found here. Been running GFO and Carbon (BRS media reactor and media), never really run any sort of media before but I did notice the big difference it made within only a day of running it so I am sold on running this for the life of the tank. New stock list ~~Fish~~ ~Foxface ~Blue Tang ~False Perc ~6 Line Wrasse ~Banggai Cardinal ~Yellow Tail Damsel ~Yellow Tang ~Yellow Eyed Kole Tang ~Coral Beauty ~~Inverts~~ ~2 emerald crabs ~20 hermits ~10 Astraea Snails ~5 Cerith Snail ~3 Nassarius Snail ~2 Cleaner Shrimp ~GBTA (aprox 5 of the them 2" big each) ~Maxi Mini Carpet Nem ~~Coral~~ ~4 Devils Hand Frags ~Pom Pom Xenia (Fizzed up but is coming back) ~Colt Coral ~2 blue/green zoa frags ~Orange Zoa ~Light blue/brown zoa ~Green button polpys ~Large Purple Acan Frag ~small red acan ~3 frogspawn frags ~red mushrooms ~4 Misc SPS frags (testers) My frogspawn "died" when I transferred tanks, but I left the body in the tank just as a piece of Live rock. Well a few heads broke off the main body and I thought nothing of it. Until about a week ago when i noticed the main colony had a head on it. So I looked at the few heads that broke off and I now have 3 different frogspawn frags starting to grow. One head already has some pretty big heads on it and the other 2 are showing signs of 5 heads each. Once they start to grow more i will try and mount them on plugs. I cant believe that my favorite coral is making a come back when I thought for sure it was a lost cause. Now time for pictures! (Sorry iphone quality...) Zoa Garden ![]() More Zoas ![]() More Zoas ![]() Large Acans ![]() Red Acans ![]() Colt Coral ![]() Not so Dead Frogspawn ![]() FTS July (White LED's Only) ![]() FTS July All LEDS ![]()
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