My 90 gallon tank journey

[locito277]

Psycho cats! Lol. I wasn't being updated on posts with Tapatalk!

 

[justingraham]

I have told u more then once tap talk is horrible u have an iPhone this site is way better they safari

 

[Zack K]

I have told u more then once tap talk is horrible u have an iPhone this site is way better they safari

R2R app is my life [emoji6]

 

[Reduck]

Your thread is hysterical. Keep it up!

 

[locito277]

Tanks looking good! Time for yet more pics!

 

[justingraham]

Tanks looking good! Time for yet more pics!

I'm off today so I might as well update this thing

 

[justingraham]

Wow we are very far behind

Ok so I'll try to bring us up to speed

Looks like the last post was about the plumbing

So I wanted a floating canopy a real life floating canopy and to not be able to see any wires as wires stink

It's hard not a lot of info out there a lot of people hang it from their ceiling but no info on hanging it from the wall. So I thought on it for a while. @Dubs83 wanted to kinda hang his lights the same way so I shared with him my idea. And he took it to another level. And I then used some of his ideas as well. So my floating canopy is amazing to say the least. I can fully take it apart to change out bulbs. I decided on putting a 2x6 on the other side of the wall and held it in place with gas pipe and gas pipe fittings. So here are the pictures that people will look at.

Holey moley

Poley holey

Drawlings

Rough mock up

All up

No here is what I'm most proud of I can take the top part off which holds the lights just by disconecting some power wires

this is a little x rated because it's topless

and here is the top out and ready to work on

And the piece of wood that is holding up my canopy with my light ballast on it. The two pvc pipes on both sides are for my returns thru the sea swirls.

At this time I still have the ghetto garage tank up and running.
We went out for sushi and when we came back mag had passed away.

He jumped something scared him and I was so mad he was so beautiful.

He is gone but not forgotten

At this point it was onto plumbing the return pumps and then a rockscape then add the fish.

So that will be coming up shortly just got my battle box dropped off from @Battlecorals can't wait so I don't know if I shared this photo but to me this just cracks me up why why is she in a sink and enjoying it so much

Ah life of a hood rat cat meow

 

[Zack K]

We demand Answers. We want to know more. Just kidding. Looks like the build went well. (Up to this point at least)

 

[justingraham]

Alright moving in the right direction

I am using two vectra m1's as returns
Thru two sea swirls
one goes under my shelf and then up over thru a wall then a sea swirl
the other goes straight up ted into a manifold I don't particularly like or dislike and over thru the wall to the left sea swirl.
Wow u read that should have just scrolled down for the pictures

Pretty self explainatory questions cares or concerns just ask
I kept the pipe at 3/4 because well I have two vectra m1 on a 90 I'm not doing this for the turnover I'm doing it for redundancy but in saying that I have both of the pumps at 80% so I do have flow.

Ok I'm busy this was fun we will do it again another time
Justin

 

[Zack K]

Very Nice. Just one thing that needs some work....Wire Management.... keep up the posts. so far looking great.

 

[justingraham]

Very Nice. Just one thing that needs some work....Wire Management.... keep up the posts. so far looking great.

Look at the bottom pics I'm going in order from what I rember

 

[justingraham]

Very Nice. Just one thing that needs some work....Wire Management.... keep up the posts. so far looking great.

So this statement bugged me because well I'm OCD like that so I wanted to show u what my wires look like cause I hate wires there isn't even wires on my tv

Nor on my tank

I hate wires with a passion

So my sump room wire management

Is that good??

 

[justingraham]

My favorite view

The rest of the tank

I am really starting to enjoy the look of the tank rocks are aging the fish are amazing the anthias do there dance at night interlocking lips the clown Swims the whole tank the fox face has an awesome personality and since adding the anthias the carribian blue tang instantly turned yellow and the salfin tang follows me around the tank non stop i really look forward to coming home and watching everything in it

Be back with a coral photo update

Justin

 

[justingraham]

Just had dinner lucky me best view in the house

So here is my polop party. Weird thing is they are out everyday but as soon as the halides go out polops go in it's weird but o well

So yea I'm enjoying this hobby right now steady growth happy fish and corals
I'm doseing 10 ml of triton a day to keep a stable 7.84 dkh

Justin

 

[locito277]

Looking good bro! The mag jumped?

 

[justingraham]

Looking good bro! The mag jumped?

Mag number one did in the ghetto garage tank.
This is mag part two he's faster stronger and alive right now so yea.

 

[justingraham]

Also march the second I put a yashir goby and pistol shrimp pair in and until this week I did not see them well today for the first time I have ever seen they both came out to my surprise.

 

[Reduck]

Looking good!

 

[justingraham]

Looking good!

Thanks

 

[justingraham]

@scott021467 just came over today to video my tank for his YouTube channel. Had a blast the video should be up soonish Scott claims my tank is worth three episodes he's the boss so I believe him I would have been happy with two mins but he said no it's to good of a tank.

Everyone tells me who see my tank in real life that my pictures do not do my tank justice and I agree so hopefully with Scott's video everyone can see my tank the way I do everyday and enjoy my little piece of the ocean on his YouTube channel.

Couple of thank you's for my tank being able to look as good as it does.

@tsm corals for always having the best fish around
@Battlecorals and @aquavista99 your corals are amazing and it shows in my tank.

@locito277 for the Oregon tort that is front stage in my tank

Plenty of other people in this hobby as well Tulio at reefbrite and everyone who has let me pick their brain to make my system the way it is thank you so much and the knowledge I've learned from this website is priceless.

Thanks again Scott for taking time out of this holiday weekend to video my tank I had a blast and can't wait for the three month update.

As soon as the video is up I'll add it on this thread. For everyone to enjoy. Also check out scotts other videos on youtube

Set up on the First day

And well let's just say it looks a little bit better then that now

And aquavista the Pink Floyd came in awesome and with in an hour of acclimation was like the coral was always in the tank thanks for that drop ship. And the freebies as well. Order from him people he's the best.


And don't worry Scott got some close up pics of my cat. As I know half of u who follow this thread only care about the cat

Have a happy holiday weekend

Justin and Kelley