Tyler's 120 fowlr.

[skinz78]

I'd try it and see what happens, I think it should work!

 

[tyler1503]

Thanks skinz! Looks like it's holding up so far. The real test will be when there's water in the tank.
Finished all the plumbing today! Just waiting for the PVC glue to cure and I can leak test and fill it up!
Another question, is it ok to place my return line directly into my overflow to test the plumbing? I don't want to have to fill 400L of water into my tank and have to siphon it all out if I can get away with only using 50.

 

[tyler1503]

In the process of filling it up at the moment. It's taken sooo long, but it's coming together so much for "up and running this week" lol.
I'm so stoked that today my fiancé asked me if puffy the valentini had to move downstairs to the garage (where the 120 tank is kept instead of in the house in his 24 gal). I said he could stay in the house if I kept the 24 running. I think that means I can strip out the 24 and start it all over installed of takin it down completely! There may be another tank build soon!

 

[tyler1503]

I had an issue with micro bubbles coming from my return. It was because the return hose wasn't submerged fully. The problem was, I couldn't fully submerge it incase of a black out, it would create a back siphon. So what i did was submerge it fully, but I added a small piece of airline inside the return hose so one piece was inside the hose and the other was exposed to air. When there's a blackout, it will suck up air instead of water and break the siphon I had to point the exposed end downwards toward the water surface though. It started spraying water while the pump was on lol. It doesn't look real pretty, but it's functional!

 

[tyler1503]

Live stock! Yay!!!
2 Tetractenos glabers or smooth toadfish for short
The bigger one is about 4 inches long and the smaller is between 1 and 2 inches long. I also added approximately 2000 shrimp to feed the puffers, but hopefully enough will live long enough to breed. Not a big deal if they don't

 

[revhtree]

Cool!

 

[tyler1503]

Caught a flounder while fishing last night. I netted him by accident. He's about half an inch long

 

[tyler1503]

I almost forgot! I found this little guy too. I think it's a baby whiting

 

[jokervueboi]

sweet tank! I love puffers.
Some questions if you don't mind...
Are you keeping that flounder? if Yes thats super cool! I saw one at my LFS and thought about getting one myself (just not me catching one like you did). Any care tips?
Where did you get all that shrimp?

 

[tyler1503]

sweet tank! I love puffers.
Some questions if you don't mind...
Are you keeping that flounder? if Yes thats super cool! I saw one at my LFS and thought about getting one myself (just not me catching one like you did). Any care tips?
Where did you get all that shrimp?

Thanks puffers are some of my favourite fish! I'll be taking my valentini out of the 24 and adding him to this tank soon. Unfortunately the larger toady refused to eat, he even turned his nose up at the live shrimp. I released him back into the ocean a few days ago.
I'll keep the flounder for as long as I can keep him in good health, if he decides to stop eating or gets picked on too much or something I'll take him back to the ocean too. I'm winging it with the flounder, so I have no real advice on keeping them sorry. I'm treating him a bit like a mandarin at the moment because of his size. He's eating bits of mysis, but as he grows I think he'll need something meatier, he's only about half an inch long at the moment. In the wild they'll feed on shrimp, crabs, worms and small fish, so if you get one and he eats frozen he should be pretty easy to look after. Supposedly once settled they're quite hardy
I caught all the shrimp in the lake near me. If I could do it again, I would have only added half that amount. They're quite aggressive and steal food from my other fish and the puffer that's in the tank now is too slow to catch them. It's pretty entertaining watching him try though lol.

 

[tyler1503]

The whiting and flounder both fell prey to the shrimp, the larval fish I posted pics of in one of my other threads disappeared without a trace and the 8 arm sea cushion I forgot to post pics of got cooked by my heater.
Not a good few weeks for my tank
The silver lining is I'm getting over the diatom bloom slowly, I never saw an ammonia spike from all the death and the little toady is still eating like a champ and looking healthy.
I guess with the good comes the bad, but the tank is still young and maturing so I was expecting a few hiccups along the way. I just didn't want it to end up with anything dying.
Soon enough I'll transfer my valentini and snowflake eel from my 24 to this tank.
I've started plumbing in my external fuge (pics to come). I just need to get some vinyl hose for the gravity feed drain and it'll be finished!
When it is finished, the livestock transfers are complete and I grab some extra live rock, my sump will come online and I'll be good to start buying some more fish! I'm thinking a fuzzy dwarf lion (if he gets along with my puffers, knowing the pros and cons I really need to do some solid research on that one), a foxface, a yellow eyed kole tang and something else that I can't quite make my mind up on.
On a side note, I'm making chilli powder so that's exciting

 

[tyler1503]

The external refugium is finished!

The green hose is the return line, from the sump to display. I've T'd it off and added a valve to control flow. The clear hose to the left is the drain into the fuge.

The fuge itself with the drain hose. I still need to trim the hose.

My homemade bulkhead (long story) on the side of the fuge. That clear hose goes into the back of the stand and gravity feeds back into the sump.

Clear hose inside the stand.

Clear hose gravity feeds into the return section of the sump

 

[tyler1503]

Got this little fella yesterday. His body is about an inch in diameter

Someone's hungry!

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Nice addition!!

 

[tyler1503]

Snoozing under the sand

 

[tyler1503]

You can really see the purple in this pic!

 

[Zero Nitrates]

Awesome Tank!

 

[tyler1503]

Nice addition!!

Awesome Tank!

Thanks!
Everything's coming together soooo slowly. I'm ok with that though. I think slow is a good pace

 

[tyler1503]

It's been a while since I've posted here. Time for some pics!
Please excuse the cloudiness. I'd just finished cleaning up sea urchin spines. Turns out toadfish like to live with them happily for a few weeks before devouring them. This one eats spiky balls of death, but not live shrimp. Go figure.

The sump needs to be reorganised. I've just sorta thrown everything in there for now. Hopefully by the weekend everything will be in order.

I'll be adding a lot more rock soon. I just need to figure out what I'm doing with the eel in my 24 before I can move the rock over to this tank. Anyone wanna buy a snowflake eel from an international seller?

 

[Zero Nitrates]

This one eats spiky balls of death, but not live shrimp. Go figure.

LOL!
Your tank looks great. Not sure what I would do with an eel, but I am sure someone will be interested.