Scott's 270g aka Project Mayhem

[Delphinus]

Wow that's crazy.. Yeah epoxy looks mighty fine. A wee bit less than $900 to ship too..

[Scythanith]

I am going to grab another mp40 and have two on the left side creating flow across the bottom of the tank from left to right. Then I am hoping by having the three returns on that side all aimed high they will continue moving the flow to the overflow weir. That should get as much of the surface skim as possible to the sump. The other three mp40's will be along the back of the tank pushing to the front.

I am hoping to take some of my corals from the 40g and transfer them to the 270g. I will have to wait and see if the peppermint shrimp have cleaned up my aptasia problem or not. I don't want to willingly add aptasia to my new tank if I can avoid it.

My nitrates are at ~10 and the phosphates are at 0.1. I have GFO in place for the phosphates, but decided not to run my biopellet reactor until my A200 for the bottom sump is installed. The Quietones 6000 didn't have the juice to run the reactors and the return tot he top sump. I bet if I had a ball valve on the return to the top sump I could have got the bio pellets churning a little better but that defeats the purpose. The cleaned water needs to get back into the top sump.

Also, I am going to pick up some tumbled marble tiles for frags. I am going to use them in the frag section of my top sump after soaking them to leach out any bad stuff.

I should be home in 10 days and get back to work on the tank when I can around the holidays. Right now my three fish from the 40g are transferred. A yellow tang, royal gramma and long nosed hawkfish. I also added a small clean up crew to start dealing with the small amount of algae that's starting. There are 4 conches, some cowries and some turbo snails. Oh, I also moved my long spine urchin into the 270g as well. Really all there is left to do is move the corals

Cheers,
Scott

[wickedfrags]

With a tank this size, once somewhat mature, get a copperband butterfly. Great looking fish, and eat aptasia. I had a CBB for about 3 years and never had one, and if I had one on a rock, I placed it out in the open and he made short work of it.

However - do NOT add a mandarin goby! They compete for the same food, my 3 year old CBB died in one week after adding one.

Looking forward to more updates. dave

Originally Posted by Scythanith

I am hoping to take some of my corals from the 40g and transfer them to the 270g. I will have to wait and see if the peppermint shrimp have cleaned up my aptasia problem or not. I don't want to willingly add aptasia to my new tank if I can avoid it.

[Scythanith]

Thanks Dave. I had a CBB in my 85g for a good 2 years until he disappeared into the rock work forever. That was a very well established tank with tons of pods, etc. I will give one another shot in the big tank a year down the road maybe. Like you said, once it has an established microfauna.

I can't wait to get home and see what the peppermints have accomplished. I want to move corals haahaa!

[Scythanith]

I got an A200 from Abyzz instead of an A100 since it wasn't ready yet. I pulled the Quietones out and adapted the 1.5" output of the Abyzz to the 1" manifold.



Here is the A200 on the bottom sump.



You may have noticed the large white zip ties holding the silicone connectors on to the Abyzz pumps. This is why I took the stainless shell hose clamps off.





And my little buddy was hanging around so I had him pose for a couple.



I still need to add two more MP40's. I have one running on the 40g coral tank that will be transferred once that tanks shut down.



I added some corals. I hope to get some shots this weekend. A nice green/orange scolymia, a pink wall hammer, an orange frogspawn, a nice acan colony, and a small zoa frag.

Cheers,
Scott

[BlueTang<3]

Wow nice job in the fish room very neat and clean, looks good

[Scythanith]

Originally Posted by BlueTang<3

Wow nice job in the fish room very neat and clean, looks good

Thanks! I originally wanted a 360 6x4x2! But there was an issue with having it built in the basement so I had to drop it down to 6x3x2

Cheers!