43g Rimless Miracles Reef

[cbort]

sweet!

very well done

Thanks for the kind words!

Finally got my fixture mounted and off the rimless edge.

Pictures will be later today.

 

[cbort]

Hung the icecap 24“ Reef Illumination from the fixed light bar:

And some pics of the corals:

 

[ZOAKING1]

Awsome build

 

[cbort]

Awsome build

Thanks zoaking!

 

[Alex T.]

This is really nice. Simple and well executed. Do you think the Alpha 170 is too much for your system?

 

[cbort]

This is really nice. Simple and well executed. Do you think the Alpha 170 is too much for your system?

Thanks Alex! The Alpha 170 is rated at 40-200? My tank is 43 gallons so I am good! :tongue:

 

[cbort]

:angry: $@&*%$#@@#$%


Well my beautiful yellow coris wrasse did not last long. She managed to carpet surf before i could get this project finished.


Anyway...Enjoy :angry:

 

[akma]

Man,
I absolutely love this tank dimensions. I should've gone this route instead of ordering a midi.

 

[cbort]

Man,
I absolutely love this tank dimensions. I should've gone this route instead of ordering a midi.

I suppose we can trade! Lol :) I love Elos tanks! I do love the dimensions of this tank tho. I am used to cubes, but these dimensions work very well more me.

 

[cbort]

New Update!!


My Elos Digital Osmocontroller came today!

I plan to drip Kalk and will be routing this through a Kalk Reactor.


More pics to come when everything is installed!

 

[bmac16]

Awesome build!....how do you like the fixture?

 

[cbort]

Awesome build!....how do you like the fixture?

Thanks a lot! Well I will put it this way. It was supposed to be temporary, and may now be permanent. :) I planned on going LED, but love the T5/LED combo. Colors are great, spread is great, growth is great. I still have tons of color combos of T5s and get great POP from all the Blue LEDs. The fixture was inexpensive, so I can still buy LEDs and try them out. I am really wanting to give the Marazzas or Radion a try. My ideal fixture would be a Sfiligoi T5/LED combo. Would like to do a fixture that had 6-8 bulbs with 2-4 LED strips. Would look nice and clean in white/stainless with my setup! But I think I could put 4 radions over my tank for that price! Lol

 

[MarvinsReef]

nice work on the screen. at least you won't have carpet surfers now.

 

[cbort]

nice work on the screen. at least you won't have carpet surfers now.

0 carpet surfers since adding the screen! Best investment so far!

 

[cbort]

Another Update!

Received my Media Reactors! I went with 2 Vertex UF-20 Universal Media Reactors.

Here is a shot of the Vertex UF-20 Reactor compared to a TLF 150 Reactor that I was going to use.

More Random shots.

Currently they are hard plumbed together keeping the Grey PVC theme going, but more than likely they will be plumbed independently in order to take advantage of the ball valves on each unit.

 

[Sahin]

Would love to see this thread updated. Thanks.

 

[cbort]

Ok, time for a long overdue update!


First off some pics of the upgraded gadgets and my temporary mounting...

Some updated tank photos. A few are from a few months ago and some are from last night.

 

[cbort]

Would love to see this thread updated. Thanks.

Just for you! :tongue:

 

[revhtree]

Looks very good buddy!

 

[cbort]

Looks very good buddy!

Thanks Rev!