Ace25's 75G Build Thread
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Still looks great. My only advice is to slow down on the corals, mainly since you already have quite a bit in there. I would allow what you have to grow for a while and you'll be surprised at how much and quickly the current configuration fills it in. Otherwise, you'll have a cramped tank with a lot of competing corals and constant fragging.
I completely agree Amphiprion. I am hosting the next reef club meeting at my house in Sept for a BBQ/Frag swap and I will be getting rid of most of my softies and LPS corals. Mushrooms, GSPs, Xenias, Hammer, Frogspawn, Yellow Leather, and clove polyps will all be going. I just want zoas for my softies, Duncans for my LPS, and the rest SPS corals. So that should open up some room. I am already having a hard time placing, and getting the correct placement of my new SPS corals.
Ace, I notice that the floating reef is particularly visible from the side, but less so from the front. Is this intentional, or did it just work out that way?
Do you find you're moving sand back to the area immediately around the floating reef to hide the PVC that becomes exposed?
If I haven't said it already, BEAUTIFUL WORKMANSHIP, WONDERFUL PLANNING, OUTSTANDING THOUGHT!!
Do you find you're moving sand back to the area immediately around the floating reef to hide the PVC that becomes exposed?
If I haven't said it already, BEAUTIFUL WORKMANSHIP, WONDERFUL PLANNING, OUTSTANDING THOUGHT!!
Hey Ace, very nice job there. I'm about to set up a standard size 55 gal marine/reef with fish aquarium and was wondering if you wouldn't mind helping out a fellow Californian get up and running. Greg
p.s. Heck, I'll take help from anyone who will join in. It's been some 30+ years since I had a marine aquarium and times and equipment have changed a lot.
p.s. Heck, I'll take help from anyone who will join in. It's been some 30+ years since I had a marine aquarium and times and equipment have changed a lot.
Yup, that is the idea. I admit, I have officially been bitten by the SPS bug. I have a ORA Red Planet tabling acro on order that should be here next week. I picked up a red sea ozone generator, pro model with probe and big air dryer yesterday for free from a fellow SPS reefer who went with the Zeovit route and didn't use the ozone anymore. I also got a 1/5th HP JBJ chiller that I need to plumb in. Still need to pick up a Litremeter, Kalk mixer, CA reactor, and AquaController Pro.. so still have a couple thousand to spend on equipment before I would call the tank stable and pretty self sustaining.Ah, that's perfect then. Are you planning on doing primarily sps afterwards?
If you notice how the 2 Koralia3's are placed on the back/overflow it bounces the flow off the tank, which one of the unfortunate side effects is it digs that area out on the sides of the tank to expose the floating reef. I don't bother moving sand back as it seems to not go any deeper than the picture. Plus my engineer goby is always rearranging sand all through the tank. I have found it pointless to try and compete with the engineer. He hides all his work plans in the rocks and I can't take them away so he keeps digging. :grinyes:
Sure, it would be best if you just make a thread and list the details of the tank and equipment you currently have, and what type of reef tank you are trying to make. Softies are cheap and easy, LPS get a little harder, and SPS is the hardest and most expensive type of reef to setup.
Heh, and I thought my doser was high-tech. That equipment will really bring it over the top. I am glad more sps nuts are appearing--that is what will dominate my tank. Well, sps and clams, anyway .
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