310 GALLON BUILD

[Jrod381]

Ghost ribbon eel just swimming around, he is acclimating nicely. Kids love to see it swim, thinking about getting a blue one now as well or at least another eel that is reef safe.

 

[Jrod381]

And finally we have light!!! For now just have 4 G5 XR15. The other 4 coming soon. Pics do no justice it is not that blue at all. Amazing color pop

I have had quite a few people on me asking me what I used to build this canopy so here is my breakdown

3- 2x4x8’ spf studs

1/2” 4x8 Sheet of cabinet grade ply wood

20amp outlet

1”x10”x8’ premium select appearance grade pine for the front and sides

1”x10”x8’ white wood for the back panel

shallow 1 gang electrical box


10’ galvanized strut

2- 1/2” x10’ galvanized all thread rods.

1/2”stainless nuts and washers used about 12 nuts and 25 washers

Krylon black Spray paint for the rods and acorn nuts securing the rods to the bottom of the canopy

valspar cabinet grade paint (color matched to the paint provided from planet aquarium)

 

[Jrod381]

Started placing some frags today and transferring some of the corals from the 75 over as well. Everything is looking happy, just need to get my automated controls ordered so I don’t have to keep testing myself. Sorry for the poor picks using an iPhone with a lens filter and glass is a little dirty. Flipper max to arrive on Saturday. Also picked up a couple new additions today that are in quarantine Whitecheek tang, naso tang, vrolik wrasse, diamond goby, green coris wrasse and a chalk bass. Took the yellow belly blue hippo and ring tail tang out along with the arc eye hawk out of copper qt tank and placed in the frag tank. 2 more weeks and they will join their brothers and sisters

 

[Jrod381]

Current live stock

Tangs
yellow tang
Desjardini Tang
Tomini tang
Vlaminji tang
Orange shoulder Tang
Yellow belly hippo tang
Ring tail tang
Choc tang
Naso tang.

Wrasses
Timora
Green coris
Red coris
Ruby Redfin
Blue sided fairyLubbock fairy
Carpenter flasher
Yellow candy hogfish

Others
2- zebra barred
Foxface lo
Magnificent foxface
Chalk bass
2- lyretail anthias
2-Picasso extreme clowns
Pyramid butterflies
Ghost ribbon eel

 

[Jrod381]

Finally received my Flipper max cleaner now I can enjoy the view

 

[Jrod381]

Just received my overflow cover from melevs reef. Wow almost dead silent after placing it on. I’m sure as I tweak my return line I can make it much more quieter. Very happy to be able to reduce some noise and protect from fish or eels getting into the overflow.

 

[Jrod381]

Received my new Corals coral lens today. I must say I am impressed as to what this thing can do. Still need a better camera becaaue iPhone XS sucks but it will due for now.

 

[Jrod381]

Finally home and able to focus on the tank did some maintenance. Added a ground probe but realized now it was the UV that had fallen I believe the bulb might have shattered which is causing the stray current. I will check tonight. Added some of my old rocks and opened up my aquascape just a little on the left side very happy with the outcome more real estate for corals and more caves for fish.

 

[Jrod381]

Picked up another new toy today

 

[Meista_Flya]

Whoop whoop !

 

[Jrod381]

Well unfortunately my AC went out during hottest week here in central Florida. I usually keep my temp at 76-78, the tank reached up to 88.5 so as you can imagine it was not a good outcome. That I know of all the fish survived I just haven’t seen a tube anemone and a Christmas wrasse, I’m hoping they are still hiding. Half of the corals died unfortunately and most of the expensive ones. I lost a red lips cynarina, kungpao monti, all of the sticks I had so about 5 in total, and 2 torches including my jokers torch.

Temp is now at 82 still trying to bring it down slowly. Thank heavens for the apex which helped me to see where I was at and where I’m going now.

in my qt tank all survived except my checkerboard wrasse.

currently have the house at 70 to continue to bring the temps in the tanks down slowly and of course using frozen bottles of water.

on a good note I received my replacement UV, and I also picked up a Klir filter. I’m thinking of buying another one and run two.

 

[Jrod381]

Picked up a trident today from wwc. Gonna hook it up tomorrow and start working on the control board build.

 

[Jrod381]

Been working on the control board

 

[Jrod381]

Last 4 radions finally being setup. Also lots of coralline growing. Picking up my DOS on Tuesday. Ready start filling up the tank with coral.

 

[Jrod381]

Control board finally complete getting my dos on Tuesday. Man I had a mess down there lol

 

[Jrod381]

Went out and picked up some frags this week to start adding corals again a couple no name acros they just got in at wwc and couple other goodies. The wife surprised me and picked up a nice graphed monti the next day

 

[Jrod381]

Full tank shot

 

[txreefer]

looking good. How are liking the aquaforest products ?

 

[Jrod381]

looking good. How are liking the aquaforest products ?

I actually stopped using them and switched to reefpro A&B I’m liking them a lot. AF was good but it felt so diluted I was dosing a lot for this large of a system.

 

[txreefer]

Thanks for they reply. Thats exactly why I was asking to see how far it went in a large tank. I have not heard of reefpro I will have to look them up.