90 gallons of fun

[SeymourDuncan]

I started to build the 90, as an addition to my system.

Essentially it will be like a water change so I won't have much cycling to do and because all I am doing is spreading my existing creatures.

So I am on my phone. As I get free time I will get into more details but here is the quick idea.

90g display to a 55g drilled trash can to a 10g submersed ATS to a 29g with my Giant skimmer to the 55g sump/frag tank where my peppermint shrimp make babies and some mollies reside to clean.

Here's the 90 so far heating and filling.

In using 1 reef breeder value to start with my Lps. Once the tanks where I want it I'm adding a 2nd for some sps.

This tank replaced a 55g non drilled.
Here is the water and life forms (no rock or corals)
They live in my water silo as I call it

That's basically a holding tank while I bust my buns to get this filled as I watch osmosis in reverse. Ugh so slow.

I have a large can on my lazy cart so the pump has a little less head height. Its just a crappy little power head

And here is my soon to be hidden light expandable light pulley so I don't get my light wet when working.

Within reach behind the tank is a cable that i pull and the light raises up. It was strong enough to hold my gigantic pc fixture so I am very confident the reef breeders light will be just fine.

I have one bag of dry and one bag of wet live sand in there to start. I will add the rock soon and then More sand around that so the rocks are less likely to collapse.

The only fish in the tank to start will be my baby pair of snowflake clowns. I'm going to do my best to only add expensive fish and take my time designing it as I would have an art piece. This will be hard. I'm impatient lol. But this hobby turned addiction has taught me to not rush anything.

Stay Tuned as the water clears fills an becomes the reef it is destined to be for the next 50 years hopefully.

 

[revsgirl]

Nice setup!

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Thanks! Still filling!! Haha. Also had a small leak in the return line (recycled from the old pond lol).

Now im filling water from the fish silo aka trash can fill of snails and clowns.

Hopefully there's enough to get to the sump soon. I am over waiting for ro. So slow.

Oh the joy

 

[revhtree]

Yes the initial fill up can be agonizing! LOL!

 

[Deezy D78]

Is that a cat in the top right corner of the last pic? Cool Set up... lets see some more :D

 

[ultracoralsinc]

nice!

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Hahahaha that's a fake rabbit! My cats aren't allowed in here!

So finally its full! Little cloudy since I dropped a pump in the sand but its clearing quick!

Got my critters up there too. Threw in a chaeto wad as well full of pods to populate the sand. The clowns don't even touch em believe it or not.

 

[SeymourDuncan]

I actually drained my skimmer tank to speed this up. Now I just need 29g and I can plumb it back up

 

[Deezy D78]

Strangely, my cats have no interest in the fish...

 

[SeymourDuncan]

So here's my aqua scape, I'm pretty sure its the best I have ever seen.

Here is my emerald crab who has recently adopted the hermit crab way of life.

Moonlighting, this is just dim blue channel. I'm making a moon strip soon to replace that need.

My sunrise will not be standard. I'm going to start with whites at their dimmest. Then the blues will kick on and then the whites will brighten all the way slowly.
I'm designing motors to spin te knobs for me as an experiment.

The the nooner

There will eventually be 2 fixtures someday when I want sps

 

[SeymourDuncan]

As you can see I should have downloaded a camera app. My phone is way to crammed but I will eventually get more visually accurate pics as te build grows.

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Mini structure 1.

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Don't you hate new sand. Cloudiness leave!!
Here is all my rock work with no corals. I'm waiting for that to clear up then its reef building for me!!!

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Here's my first large cave area. The shelf on top is packed with scallops which will be photographed once crystal clear.

It does look like the ocean I must admit

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Ok, so I'm finally at a resting point. The lights are off, the rock won't fall, and the animals are in the tank. I even got to visit my mom and eat dinner, it was a long butt busting day to say the least.

Time to talk about my equipment a little more.
Life revolves around the sun so I will start at the top.
Reef breeders value fixtures have been tweaked to a point now that they are pretty unbeatable, especially for the price! I asked about doing custom LEDs since that was an option but was personally convinced they are already at peak growth and color performance so I went with that and have 120 optics in it, which were intended for a 55 but I got the 90 while it was In the mail and it looks great so I'm keeping it as is until I order #2 with more concentrated beams.

Powerheads are the same 2 I have had for a very good while now. They are the village bicycles of my fish tanks. Koralia 900gph that has yet to reverse on me (cross my fingers) and a marineland powerhead that I mounted with a zip tie to the bubble trap tank clip from an old super skimmer 65 I used to own.

I have 2 inches of live sand mixed with pink dry sand that looks great.

The rock work in the display weighs 45lbs and I have more rock in holding with corals that I'm waiting to put in until I'm certain its fully ready.

The overflow is a stock off center megaflow, which drains to the dungeon.

Before going to the dungeon details later this evening ill just mention the return line is also drilled through the bottom and split into 2 directions across the tanks surface to agitate the water a bit.

Once the water clears up they will point down and the powerheads will point up, causing a bit more turbulence and sparkle.

Stay tuned for me to get off my butt and go downstairs where you will see
A)the war tank
B)the worlds quietest protein skimmer (sarcasm)
C)the feeder breeders
D)the dosing (elements and Ato)

Until then look at this meat.

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Moonlights!

8 blue LEDs duck taped together and screwed to the wall. This is just temporary while I build my "moon" cannon

 

[SeymourDuncan]

this is the war tank. Here is where I put any predators that hitch hike on new stuff. I've got a gorilla crab, an emerald crab the size of an elephant, a huge evil hermit, a Chinese egg, a bristle worm that's i see once every few months who's getting pretty long. And I have a damsel. He gets everything tht comes out the spillway! A wad of chaeto is in there as well.

drilled and plumbed to bubble trap in sump. The sump used to go to my 75 but increasing interest has made me add the extra tanks as volume. I can't fit big tanks down here so I bring a bunch of small ones haha.

Here's my once full of rock sump. Now it has just the uglier pieces and peppermint shrimp. I also have zoa frags scattered all over it.

I'm now working on adding this 29 inline from the war tank to the sump. This will house my skimmer which I robbed its plumbing from earlier. Another trip to the hardware store and that's good.

 

[SeymourDuncan]

I busted the ATO reservoir (empty thank goodness) so that's being repaired as well

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Here's my dosing station in the works. I only had the dial timers and I couldn't get the slow drip I wanted to stretch out for 15 whole minutes so I dilute my chemicals and that does well. I will add 2 more soon all on different timers.
The red fan cools off my hanging pc fixture and agitates the surface water I. The sump.

 

[SeymourDuncan]

Pretty soon this:

Will be routed here:

And suck out any humidity or smell and blow it out the chimney via suction

See as it sucks the flame from me "Easter themed" lighter. I'm pretty sure that's what the bunny is for.

I do not know why this is here but it makes for a good leaning post while watching the crabs fight