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75 to 300!! They grow up so fast these days.
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Grow up, be a man and at least get something bigger than Frank's DT, even if it's just this >< much bigger. Pretty soon Angie and her 8g will be passing you up. Think of the children James, think of the children.
I am doing this for the children. I am retreating into a 'manhole' that only Frank could be envious of. I intend to leave the main part of my basement for the kids to have slumber parties, play video games, watch TV etc. It seems as they get older, they want to have play time out of our view...who knew.
Part of the plan is to keep a 2nd tank for Fish only. I plan to also put my tube anemones in that tank. I will put my angels and a few other fish in it and everything else in the 300. I hope to run one system with the BK Super Marin 250 and I am currently planning to fire my ATS back up. I will run the 8 bulb ATI over the 300 with some LED supplements. Over the Fish only tank, I will run some sort of weak light or just 2 T5's. I am hopeful that I will actually be decreasing my electricity load by running only one reef light, but time will tell.
Proximity to the furnace room where the water mixing station etc is also should make my water changes easier. I am going to knock a hole in the wall between the rooms and run some pipe.
Anyway, possible build thread titles...
180G Transferred to 300
My manhole, Frank eat your heart out.
Marty's is bigger.
Tang Purgatory.
We'll see what I come up with when the time comes.
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MarineAddict
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Anyway, possible build thread titles...
180G Transferred to 300
My manhole, Frank eat your heart out.
Marty's is bigger.
Tang Purgatory.
We'll see what I come up with when the time comes.
Possible Thread titles...
"Gentlemen.. Size matters"
"300 - 180 = still greater than Larry"
"300 + 180 = still less than Marty"
sky's the limit on that
Fun cell phone picture during a water change in the moonlights last week...Nothing glows quite like that flashlight.
veloboy
Senior Member
Excellent pic. Can't wait to see the new XXL develop! With two larger tanks good idea to plumb them together like you said, might also consider plumbing in the ability to have two separate systems as well if things change down the road.
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Yes, that is essentially the plan.
I understand the point and it may well be ideal to have two separate systems. However, I want to do one water change, not two. I want to have one skimmer, not two, one gfo reactor, not two and one ATS running (don't have two!)
So, I am going to compromise and leave a sump under the 120 just in case with interchangeable plumbing. If it comes to pass that they have to separate either temporarily or permanently, I will be ready. I will be keeping around my Bubble King Mini 200 for this reason.
The 180 will be gone. Giving that space to the kids.
Thle009
Senior Member
I don't see the Moorish Idol in any of the picture. And how do you keep the Sea Urchins in your tank. Mine kept relocate everything.
Thomas, if you read back, you will see that the idol started going to town on acros in a big way one day. SWE found him a good home at the university of minnesota. Last I heard, he is doing great. Now that I will have a tank dedicated to angels and non reef safe fish, he could come back, but I'm sure I won't be able to talk them into it
Now that makes sense. Good plan. Life is so much easier with access to furnace rooms/sinks/drains. See if you can install a service drain (pipe to stick a hose into for siphoning into), I sorely miss mine.
Best of luck in the po4/fish/coral game. I'm making a ton of progress over the past few weeks with mine, affordable/maintainable/automated no3/po4 control. Pretty soon (if I can find the money) I'll be going coral crazy and stocking the snot out of corals in my system. Someone needs to teach Marty how to deal with yucky, smelly corals.
Let me know when I can help haul it in!
Best of luck in the po4/fish/coral game. I'm making a ton of progress over the past few weeks with mine, affordable/maintainable/automated no3/po4 control. Pretty soon (if I can find the money) I'll be going coral crazy and stocking the snot out of corals in my system. Someone needs to teach Marty how to deal with yucky, smelly corals.
Let me know when I can help haul it in!
He told me over lunch that he was putting a hole through the wall to pipe straight to the service drain or slop sink. Testing will need to be done to see how much that drain can handle.
Better plumbing, better stand, better light setup, easy sump access will lead to a happy James so he won't make any more mistakes.... And what are these mistakes Marty? James seems to be growing stuff right out of the water so fast he needs to upgrade tanks every year or two.
Better plumbing, better stand, better light setup, easy sump access will lead to a happy James so he won't make any more mistakes.... And what are these mistakes Marty? James seems to be growing stuff right out of the water so fast he needs to upgrade tanks every year or two.
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Random thoughts:
Avoid using floor drains where ever possible, they just don't work well (dumping buckets into is horrid, terminating a drain pipe would be ok but see next issue). When using a gravel vac straight into a drain pipe it's amazing how much substrate ends up in the pipe. I did this for a year and when I converted the service drain into a primary drain ~ 5+ pounds of substrate came out of it. I started using a small ~ 1 gallon pitcher to terminate the service drain into, the substrate would collect in that (water just overflowed into the sink) and I could pitch/reuse the substrate as needed.
Mistakes James has made- I just like giving James a hard time.
James has as long as I've know him (short time) had one of the more diverse livestock stocking tanks (corals/fish/inverts) which is what this hobby is all about. Ok, answering any of my PM's was his first mistake. No action on the 300 yet. Supposed to finally arrive tomorrow. Supplier put them on sale and then allowed their stock to run out. 6 or so weeks later, I may get my tank. I think it is 470 pounds, woo. I haven't done much prework, I wanted precise measurements before starting on the stand. Maybe something will get done this weekend, probably just ordering of pieces for the stands....I need to clean up the yard.
I need to change the title of this thread. C'mon, Dwight(dhummel) is subscribed, can't give that up.
I need to change the title of this thread. C'mon, Dwight(dhummel) is subscribed, can't give that up.
It arrived. We got it carried in. Many thanks to those that helped. With enough people, it didn't seem all that heavy. Stood it up on end, it doesn't seem that big....hmmm
When we carried in Marty's 450G tank, we had as many or more people and the sucker seemed twice as heavy as this one and twice as big...maybe someday I can play with the big boys. For now, I think I have just bought the largest standard size aquarium on the market. It will have to do.
Time to do some measuring and to find the paint. I'm going blue background again. I have blue on the 180 and I have black on the 120. I gotta say, I don't care for the black. One anecdote: I had a blonde naso tang, coloration was awesome. Took it into the store, they dropped it into the big tank with the black background and it was just 'meh'. Granted, the lighting was not the same, but I have seen those fish in a few tanks and never been as impressed as I was with it in my tank with the blue background. Gonna go blue from now on. You're my boy, Blue!
When we carried in Marty's 450G tank, we had as many or more people and the sucker seemed twice as heavy as this one and twice as big...maybe someday I can play with the big boys. For now, I think I have just bought the largest standard size aquarium on the market. It will have to do.
Time to do some measuring and to find the paint. I'm going blue background again. I have blue on the 180 and I have black on the 120. I gotta say, I don't care for the black. One anecdote: I had a blonde naso tang, coloration was awesome. Took it into the store, they dropped it into the big tank with the black background and it was just 'meh'. Granted, the lighting was not the same, but I have seen those fish in a few tanks and never been as impressed as I was with it in my tank with the blue background. Gonna go blue from now on. You're my boy, Blue!
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