What is your fish list for this tank?
Grigor's 75g Soft Coral Dominate Tank Build (1 Viewer)
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As of today, 2 green chromis ( both were exiled from the school in the show ), 2 kupang damsels, lawnmower blenny, yellow tang.
The African exquisite wrasse went AWOL last Sunday and likely dead.
Wrasse likely went carpet surfing. Don't think exquisite bury themselves like a melanurus type would.
Sent ya a PM gauging interest in a hard to keep fish I am looking for a good home. Let me know. The damsels would need a new home though so maybe not a good fit.
Sent ya a PM gauging interest in a hard to keep fish I am looking for a good home. Let me know. The damsels would need a new home though so maybe not a good fit.
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I've looked all over in and around the tank, I haven't found a dried up body yet. The back is open but the other 3 sides are covered by canopy. I have some screen to put back there but just haven't done it yet, I won't add any more fish til I get that done. Have to take the canopy off to do it and don't have all my wires cleaned up yet to take the canopy off easily.
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Love the look with all the new things you've added!
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Orange lettuce like one ? or the tree like one ?
looked hard at both of those the one that kind of looked like a birdsnest was tempting.
I got a Red Finger Sponge from Beefs Reef. Love the color they add. Hope I can keep it alive. Never had luck long term in the past. Sponges look great in your tank. Look forward to seeing the tank in person at your party.
Hope you can keep all the sponges going. I want to pick the same ones up each time I see them at a swap. I've just always feared they wouldn't do well long term. Keep us posted :beerchug:
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Sponges experience is a fail. The large orange tree like one developed some fuzzy mold looking stuff on the bottoms. I fragged it up not expecting to save it.
The SPS looking one it growing algae on all the ends and looks to be causing to die off in those areas. Good random flow plus trying to turkey baster on it doesn't seem to help.
The orange lettuce looking one though seems to be just fine.
The SPS looking one it growing algae on all the ends and looks to be causing to die off in those areas. Good random flow plus trying to turkey baster on it doesn't seem to help.
The orange lettuce looking one though seems to be just fine.
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Tank is doing just okay. No real algae issues but came back from holidays in Texas and two different rhodactis type mushroom small colonies where falling apart and both have since died. Xenia melted as well but that is easily replaced.
I won the grand prize at the SWE Anniversary Raffle which was a reef ready 75g tank and stand. The used tank is structurally sound but does have several scratches and it drilling in the back which wasn't what I originally wanted. Planned to eventually replace the tank anyway and winning the tank is even better.
So with a 75g tank swap in the near future, I finally got off my lazy behind and built the new sump with built in ATS to plumb all at the same time. I'm going to use my existing stand/canopy because the new stand is black and doesn't match anything.
ATTS is all assembled and will let it cure a little bit. I made it from scrap pieces from A1, about $30 in acrylic and will be another $30 or so in plumbing parts. It will just be a 1 sided ATS for now because I have all the LED parts on hand for 1 side, will add another side if needed. I built the ATS section much larger than likely needed in case I need to tweak it better to be too large of enclosure and use a smaller screen than having to rebuilt the whole enclosure later.
Plan to do the swap sometime this week or at the latest next weekend.
I won the grand prize at the SWE Anniversary Raffle which was a reef ready 75g tank and stand. The used tank is structurally sound but does have several scratches and it drilling in the back which wasn't what I originally wanted. Planned to eventually replace the tank anyway and winning the tank is even better.
So with a 75g tank swap in the near future, I finally got off my lazy behind and built the new sump with built in ATS to plumb all at the same time. I'm going to use my existing stand/canopy because the new stand is black and doesn't match anything.
ATTS is all assembled and will let it cure a little bit. I made it from scrap pieces from A1, about $30 in acrylic and will be another $30 or so in plumbing parts. It will just be a 1 sided ATS for now because I have all the LED parts on hand for 1 side, will add another side if needed. I built the ATS section much larger than likely needed in case I need to tweak it better to be too large of enclosure and use a smaller screen than having to rebuilt the whole enclosure later.
Plan to do the swap sometime this week or at the latest next weekend.
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75g tank swap out and swap of 20Long glass sump to the new ats/sump acrylic combo starts first thing in the morning tomorrow. Hope to be done by noon. Since aquascaping is all rods, it should look almost the same when its all done as there isn't really anything I want to change with it.
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Tank swap complete. Completely redid all the plumbing and added the sump/ats combo. Only a couple items left to do. I forget to drill 1/2" hole in sump for the topoff float valve, Need to wire up the LEDs for the ATS. Paint the return plumbing black so it isn't as obvious.
Missing African Exquisite Wrasse from a while back was solved. It did jump and worked it's way under the stand so was never visable when looking for it. I found it when moved the tank from the wall for the swap.
Here is the final pic just before tear down of the old setup:
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All the corals, rock, fish stuff in a 40g breeder while doing the swap:
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After Pic of the 75g Reef Ready, still a little cloudy. The return plumbing will be black. I have 1 spray painted with the plastic paint and still drying. Aquascape is virtually the same setup as before. Only slight differences since this has 1 corner overflow. The right side the rock that was drilled into the overflow, I used epoxy putty and mouted a tunze magnet and is now attached to the back wall but can easily be moved for cleaning.
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Plumbing was completely redone was using 3/4" return now 1" which increased flow quite a bit. Actually getting more flow on speed 4 of the DC pump and I did with speed 5 and 3/4" plumbing. Return also supplies the flow for the carbon reactor. 20g Long sump was replaced with a acrylic sump/ATS combo that I built. Still need to wire the LEDs for the ATS. ATS will be a single sided for now. Can use as double sided if ever needed. Went with just single for now since I have all the LED parts on hand to do so. There is no outside plumbing for the ATS it flows at the bottom straight to the sump side.
The noise is more than I wanted. For the emergency drain I just used the durso like plumbing that came with the RR setup. The water level is lower in the overflow than I would like becuase of the height of the durso plumbing. I will likely cut off the durso pipe and just use a straigh pipe positioned just slightly lower than the teeth to cut down on the noise of the water falling in the overflow. Will tweak that later.
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Missing African Exquisite Wrasse from a while back was solved. It did jump and worked it's way under the stand so was never visable when looking for it. I found it when moved the tank from the wall for the swap.
Here is the final pic just before tear down of the old setup:
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All the corals, rock, fish stuff in a 40g breeder while doing the swap:
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After Pic of the 75g Reef Ready, still a little cloudy. The return plumbing will be black. I have 1 spray painted with the plastic paint and still drying. Aquascape is virtually the same setup as before. Only slight differences since this has 1 corner overflow. The right side the rock that was drilled into the overflow, I used epoxy putty and mouted a tunze magnet and is now attached to the back wall but can easily be moved for cleaning.
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Plumbing was completely redone was using 3/4" return now 1" which increased flow quite a bit. Actually getting more flow on speed 4 of the DC pump and I did with speed 5 and 3/4" plumbing. Return also supplies the flow for the carbon reactor. 20g Long sump was replaced with a acrylic sump/ATS combo that I built. Still need to wire the LEDs for the ATS. ATS will be a single sided for now. Can use as double sided if ever needed. Went with just single for now since I have all the LED parts on hand to do so. There is no outside plumbing for the ATS it flows at the bottom straight to the sump side.
The noise is more than I wanted. For the emergency drain I just used the durso like plumbing that came with the RR setup. The water level is lower in the overflow than I would like becuase of the height of the durso plumbing. I will likely cut off the durso pipe and just use a straigh pipe positioned just slightly lower than the teeth to cut down on the noise of the water falling in the overflow. Will tweak that later.
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What LEDs are you going to use for this ats?
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I already had a 700ma ballast that will drive up to 8 leds. So that is what I went with for now. I skipped the blues this time and went all red since the number of LEDs is limited. Can always switch out and run more if needed later, I just went with what because the parts I have on hand. I squished from algae from my main system screen onto the new screen in attempt to seed it quicker. It has only been 3 days since the lights when on so too early to know anything good or bad with the lighting.
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I noticed sponge growth was best on certain rocks and mostly on the underside or in the shadows where there was steady strong currents.
ofcourse sponge power helped too, but you already know that.
ofcourse sponge power helped too, but you already know that.
Looks Great David! But your tanks always do. Bummer about the wrasse.
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Really Stinks, the very first time cleaning the glass and I put a 18" long scratch in it. I told myself I wasn't going to use a magnet scraper, was doing it by hand and still scratched it. :brick: