Seth's 225g Peninsula Reef

[justingraham]

I wasn't digging the rockscape till the water cleared nice job man what's the dimensions of this beast?

 

[justingraham]

And I don't understand the shelf thing why did u do that?

 

[diablomaster9045]

This rocks , I love branching live rock and marineland DD tanks.

Thanks! In a week I ill be putting in a few tester SPS and maybe a powder blue tang. One of the LFS's arround me has a bunch of powder blue tangs.

 

[diablomaster9045]

I wasn't digging the rockscape till the water cleared nice job man what's the dimensions of this beast?

4ft x 3 ft x 30"

 

[diablomaster9045]

And I don't understand the shelf thing why did u do that?

Which shelf thing? The one on the right?

 

[justingraham]

No the bottom piece of the stand

 

[diablomaster9045]

No the bottom piece of the stand

Ahhh! So there are many reasons, it's so my sump is not sitting on the carpet, so I could put a pvc liner to keep spills inside the stand and not on the floor, it has to be removeable as I will be moving in a year and a half to 2 years, and the stand is so deep that I have to be able to take it apart to get it through standard home doors. The stand dimensions are 39" x 51" x 38"

 

[john.m.cole3]

that's a 120 on steroids... and I like it. That scape will look pretty rad once filled out and it's not robbing swimming space either. I'm following!

 

[diablomaster9045]

that's a 120 on steroids... and I like it. That scape will look pretty rad once filled out and it's not robbing swimming space either. I'm following!

Oh yah! I had a 120g before I moved from Colorado and I loved it. But this thing is on a whole other level. I will finally have a tank I can have more than 2 tangs.

And with my previous tanks I went theme based but this one I think I am going to wing it and not limit myself on what I can put in it. There were so many fish I couldn't have in my previous tanks because they "didn't fit my theme". So this tank, if I like it, its going in .


Pic of my old 120g if anyone would like to see:



Oh and Found a video of it! Bonus!

 

[justingraham]

Interesting so that stand is built to come undone
Smart

 

[diablomaster9045]

So update time!



Tested the TDS in my RO/DI reservoir and it was at 185 TDS. So decided to change my filters as this is probably what was causing my Diatom problem. While I was changing my filters I was thinking about how the hobby has changed and how I have changed how I participate in the hobby and I realized I was getting too caught up in the "high end corals" and trying to make money from the hobby. This is causing me to skimp on focusing on making my display all that it can be instead making room for storing frags.



Over the next month or two these are my goals for my tank:

• Rehome the devil wrasse lurking in my sump (Scarlet pinstripe wrasse: free to anyone who wants it. PM me if you're interested. Would be a good addition to a tank with puffers and the like)
• Clean up and sell/trade my zoa grow out disks
• Move my skimmer into the chamber that is currently housing my zoa colonies
• build a reactor for growing gracilaria to supplement my tang's diet
• get my tank to a rock solid 7.8-8 dkh constant (Currently at 7.2 and slowly rising)
• start culturing phyto so I can get some of the NPS gorgonians and a feather starfish. I still need to figure out an efficient container to grow phyto in. If anyone has any ideas post here.
• get acropower on a dosing pump so I can get a consistant addition to the tank. I have always done the glug methodology on this but I think if I get it more consistent I will get much better results. PM me if you have a BRS 1.1 ML/M doser that you would be willing to trade for coral/some other equipment I have.
• Swap my garbage DA float switches out for my Hydor ATO. My floats keep getting stuck causing my ato to over fill.

But over the years I have lost touch of what this hobby is really about. Providing the best care we possibly can for the creatures we bring into our lives. I used to give frags of corals I liked to people I was close to in the hobby in case I had something happen to my tank but I have not done this in the last 3 years. I need to start doing this again.



And video update and some pictures.





https://youtu.be/_8QAi9j1X-k

 

[revhtree]

Looking good!

 

[diablomaster9045]

Looking good!

Thanks!

 

[diablomaster9045]

So had my RO/DI reservoir solenoid fail last night. Thankfully I had the rubber lined bottom of my stand. All of it was in the stand and not on the floor. Apparently my stand holds about 15 gallons of water

going with a 24v solenoid this time and see how it goes.

 

[diablomaster9045]

Video update! So my alk has been laser stable at 7.5dkh and stuff is starting to take off in growth. If the growth continues I will have a tank full of coral by the end of the year!



#reef2reef, #worldwidecorals, #mywwccontest

 

[revhtree]

Frag galore!

 

[diablomaster9045]

Frag galore!

Yah they were all in the sump. So I am hoping my cleaners clean up the frags so I can pop them off the plugs and glue them down.

 

[diablomaster9045]

Well got sick of loosing fish to them stopping eating. So decided to make a QT system to make sure they are eating, and fat and happy before they go to the main tank. So adding a month in the QT tanks before going to the main system.

 

[revhtree]

Well got sick of loosing fish to them stopping eating. So decided to make a QT system to make sure they are eating, and fat and happy before they go to the main tank. So adding a month in the QT tanks before going to the main system.

Very cool! How are you feeding and draining the tanks?

 

[diablomaster9045]

Very cool! How are you feeding and draining the tanks?

Feeding will be all by hand. So all the tanks are plumbed together as it was not meant to be a QT for diseases, but more for observation. Making sure the fish are eating, adjusting them to the light schedule of my main tank, transitioning the fish to pellet food, and reducing the stress from shipment before going into the big tank. Each fish will probably spend about a month is this tank before getting moved to the main tank.

So water changes will not be any different from a normal tank, just pump water out of the skimmer chamber into buckets, and pour 5g buckets into the pump chamber. I designed the height of the first level high enough that I can easily pour a 5g bucket into the sump.

I am hoping this system will alleviate my problems I have been having with my yellow tang causing the new fish to stop eating. If this does not solve the problem, next step will be removing the yellow tang to sit in the QT tank for a few months while I get some other tangs into the tank and introduce the yellow at a later point.