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excentric13
29-09-05, 14:39
Here we go we have been running a marine reef system for a year now and decided we dont like our old 4foot tank because of the angled sides.
So we bought a 5x2x2 and 3x15x15 sump.
My husband built the new cabinet and i painted it.
excentric13
29-09-05, 14:42
me painting
excentric13
29-09-05, 14:45
take a brake why not xbox it :lol: :D
excentric13
29-09-05, 14:49
tank and cabinet put in place i will do all the technical stuff another day keeps you on the edge :evil: :whistling:
looking good there fella :thumbsup:
Thats always the case you do the hard work and they watch :lol:
excentric13
03-10-05, 11:52
Another boaring bit but had to be done cutting 2 inch pieces of pipe for under egg crate
excentric13
03-10-05, 11:57
24 hours later when silicon set the egg crate goes on
the reason for the gap at front of tank is because we have a blue cheek goby that digs for england
excentric13
03-10-05, 12:01
this is him what a mess :P
excentric13
03-10-05, 12:04
and finally for now the first 1 inch of water this parts gona take ages sorry.
RO unit at dads saves on our water bill :P
:lol: and you said that you would not go bigger :lol:
excentric13
05-10-05, 10:27
:lol: its your fault Mark anyway just think of all the new corals we will be getting from you.
Hi - What colour paint have you used for the cabinet ? Where did you get it ? I think I'm after something similar.
regards in advance
Duds
excentric13
10-10-05, 16:19
Hi dudsy the paint i used on cabinet was light grey from focus and the doors were done with a can from same place. its got a rough finish different colour greens. i will get you the name if you want?. the pic does it no justis it looks better close up.
hope this helps val
wacowtequila
10-10-05, 20:27
excuse me. what are the " small white circle "??
what do they do ??
I am just a rookie @@ :blink: :ph34r:
from Taiwan not Thailand . :rolleyes:
excentric13
11-10-05, 11:43
The white circles are pipe cut into 1inch pieces then glued to bottom of tank to support egg crate on top of your egg crate you put the live rock so you can get circulation under rock also if you have a fish that digs in the sand it stops land slides hope this helps Val
excentric13
12-10-05, 11:14
Ok this was 4 days ago storing some extra live rock no where else to put it
excentric13
12-10-05, 11:17
we then added some new live sand what a mess didnt take that long to clear.
I also added some sand from old system to get new sand seeded.
excentric13
12-10-05, 11:24
We were having a bit of a mess around deciding what to use as back ground.
I dont know if any of you have tryed this screwed up paper inside black plastic bags the pic does it no justice.
When you look into the tank it looks like caves and black rock it realy looks good
I havent finished it yet.
Oh forgot this was day 7 as you can see it is now full of water
excentric13
12-10-05, 11:38
The sump in the left hand compartment is the return pump and bio balls then the next compartmentall bio balls then mirical mud and sand mix and calurpa the next compartment empty not sure what to put there any sugestions ? The right hand compartment has skimmer outlet from tank and a sponge to stop noise from skimmer water.
the piece of tape was to measure the hight of water when testing if we had power cut.
excentric13
12-10-05, 11:46
sump
excentric13
12-10-05, 11:48
skimmer
Can't get me head around the black bag idea - suppose its different.
excentric13
12-10-05, 11:58
This is as it is on day 10
Live sand in lights are on some rock in and yes polops growing already on rock.
The light just warming up 3 x 250w halides and 2 x blue atinics
excentric13
12-10-05, 12:03
Get the sunglasses love its a bit bright in here :dance: :lol:
And this is where we have got to just the big move now.
excentric13
12-10-05, 12:09
Now to get all this into new tank is a different story but it has to be done
Thank you all for looking i will keep you posted. any comments sugestions welcome thanks Val
excentric13
12-10-05, 12:11
Originally posted by jobr@Oct 12 2005, 10:52
Can't get me head around the black bag idea - suppose its different.
i will try get better pic when its all finished jobr
Ok I am being a bit dim today, but you have raised the egg crate off the base so that you can get circulation under the rock work yes??..........But you have now covered it all with sand so the gaps are filled in and the water cant circulate anymore??
Or is it just raised so that the pipe work can get under the rock and then it comes out of the egg crate between the rocks (if you get what I mean)??
excentric13
12-10-05, 12:37
Well to start with the sand was only at the front of tank where there is no eggcrate but the powerheads have blown it all around tank like you said it is mostly for the pipe work to go under. hth Val
I forgot to add that we have a blue cheek gobie that likes to dig a lot he has caused rock slides in other tank so this will help i hope.
Originally posted by excentric13@Oct 12 2005, 11:37
Well to start with the sand was only at the front of tank where there is no eggcrate but the powerheads have blown it all around tank like you said it is mostly for the pipe work to go under. hth Val
I forgot to add that we have a blue cheek gobie that likes to dig a lot he has caused rock slides in other tank so this will help i hope.
Cool its what I thought but just wanted to make sure.
Another quick question then.
Where did you get your egg crate from....I cant seem to find any.
PM me if you cant put it on here.
Thanks
Carl
excentric13
12-10-05, 14:05
we got our from an electrical supplier its also known as light diffuser its cheeper as well only paid £12 for 3 2by2 sheets they wont post though sorry had to collect. hth val
Originally posted by excentric13@Oct 12 2005, 14:05
we got our from an electrical supplier its also known as light diffuser its cheeper as well only paid £12 for 3 2by2 sheets they wont post though sorry had to collect. hth val
Thats a great alternative any any good electrical supplier / wholesaler will stock it.
excentric13
17-10-05, 10:25
Ok this was the day Sunday 16th Oct 2005.
Got up made breakfast and stared at the tank, then started to move sofa and Tv to other room.
Buckets at the ready.
Took 10 gallon of water out of new tank and replace it with water out of old tank,
Took out loose corals and placed them in buckets. drained more water from both tanks and and put old water into new system.
Took out large rocks and built left hand side of tank, some of the large rocks had corals attached to them so built the best way i could trying not to disturbe them.
Whilst all this was beeing done we had the blue attinics on to help see what we were doing.
This was the worst part ever catching the fish. but it was done quite smoothly. we had to take 1 fish to the LFS not to good .
A old watchman gobie looked very thin dont think he will survive.
Let the tank and new inmates settle for a while then turned on the Halides 3x250 god its bright. we only left them on for about 4 hours because they had been used to 150 halides.
and then that was that
excentric13
17-10-05, 10:27
Left side then blinking batteries run out :angry:
excentric13
17-10-05, 10:31
Here are a couple with just blue light on
excentric13
17-10-05, 10:32
another :D
excentric13
19-10-05, 10:59
3 days on Fish starting to settle in
excentric13
22-10-05, 10:24
This is how it looks now 1 week on all i need now are frags thanks for looking Val
Hello Val,
The tank looks excellent, really like the cabinet colouring so different from the usual beech!
Where did you get the lightsaber for an actinic ;)
Keep the pics coming
J :thumbsup:
excentric13
24-10-05, 12:31
Originally posted by jonifive@Oct 22 2005, 16:15
Hello Val,
The tank looks excellent, really like the cabinet colouring so different from the usual beech!
Where did you get the lightsaber for an actinic ;)
Keep the pics coming
J :thumbsup:
The light saber :lol: is a 5foot uv light from nettos and it give a great night light and only £9.99
excentric13
31-10-05, 15:11
Decided i didnt like the black background changed it for blue looks better dont you think.
instantsquid
31-10-05, 16:09
Originally posted by excentric13@Oct 31 2005, 15:11
Decided i didnt like the black background changed it for blue looks better dont you think.
Much, much better! Didn't like to say anything about the black background (each to their own and all that!) but I think your tank looks soooooo much better with the blue!
- Ian. :thumbsup:
excentric13
01-11-05, 16:27
Originally posted by instantsquid+Oct 31 2005, 16:09--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (instantsquid @ Oct 31 2005, 16:09)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-excentric13@Oct 31 2005, 15:11
Decided i didnt like the black background changed it for blue looks better dont you think.
Much, much better! Didn't like to say anything about the black background (each to their own and all that!) but I think your tank looks soooooo much better with the blue!
- Ian. :thumbsup: [/b][/quote]
yes i agree with you instant squid
So much better with the blue background !
great looking tank - i love the sun coral, do you target feed it?
excentric13
02-11-05, 10:25
we only target feed now and then there is a lot of flow on it so it gets food that way.
we use a turkey baster to feed it.
we have had it over 1 year now and doing great. looking for a black 1 now :rolleyes:
I read some things on here that make me cringe when people say they take it out the tank in a container to feed it.
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