43g Rimless Miracles Reef

cbort · Jan 22, 2012

DBarsotti said:
sweet!

JWorth said:
very well done

Thanks for the kind words!

Finally got my fixture mounted and off the rimless edge.

Pictures will be later today.

cbort · Jan 22, 2012

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

And some pics of the corals:

ZOAKING1 · Jan 22, 2012

Awsome build

cbort · Jan 22, 2012

ZOAKING1 said:
Awsome build

Thanks zoaking!

Alex T. · Jan 24, 2012

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

cbort · Jan 24, 2012

Alex T. said:
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 · Jan 25, 2012

: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 · Jan 31, 2012

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

cbort · Jan 31, 2012

akma said:
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 · Jan 31, 2012

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 · Jan 31, 2012

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

cbort · Feb 1, 2012

bmac16 said:
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 · Feb 1, 2012

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

cbort · Feb 3, 2012

MarvinsReef said:
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 · Feb 7, 2012

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.