My Betta 1000 upgrade

[joolie]

hiya folks just joined so thought i better put a tank thresd up :smile:
Will try and start from the top then ..lol
decided to upgrade from my red sea max back in feb 2009, so after a wee trip up to my LFS and a few long chats i came away with a Betta 1000
after struggling upstairs ( thanks Phil n Cliff) my living room looked like this oh:

Painted the back of the tank with Royal blue tile paint ( it did exactly what it said on the tin lol)

and set to work an the cabinet

my sump looked like this - no good for the miracle mud system i had in mind ( here is Archie my cat checking it out )

in the mean time i filled the tank to just under the weir with salt water and put my new sand in ( pacific black) and my new live rock

yip also started to play about with the acrylic rod n live rock n drill ..... woo hoo ... boy did this make a mess :lol: - ended up with one side kinda done

Next........ set about making a frame for my Aquarays out of egg crate and 25mm pipe with some 25mm 90 degree bends and some cable ties ( all very technical... not !.. lol...

sump ended up like this

added a deltec phos reactor and a UV

Left this all to do its thing for 3 weeks ..................
Then came the transfer...........

 

[joolie]

here is how the tank looked 7 months in

 

[Blackhawk Fan]

Beautiful! I really love your scaping!

 

[joolie]

a few pictures of my stock

 

[joolie]

hmmm... yep busted - i have an acan fettish :tongue:

 

[joolie]

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[Blackhawk Fan]

wow.... some of the nicest acans I've ever seen.

 

[joolie]

new Moseleya latistellata? i think
and new bleeding apple scoly ,

and a few updated full tank shots sine i introduced the anthias a week ago

tank lights had just come on so some of the corals dont look thier best - should have really waited an hour or so :squigglemouth: oh well never mind you get the idea
thanks for taking the time to look

 

[joolie]

Beautiful! I really love your scaping!

hi and thanks for the kind comments :smile:
Julie

 

[revhtree]

Very beautiful! I love your aquascape!! Welcome to R2R!

 

[Reef 5etup]

The pic with the gobie on top of the scoly? is amazing!
Welcome to R2R

 

[rng_pw]

That is a gorgeous tank. I like all of the acans.

 

[cmjreef]

Let me ask you, as an Acan addict, do you think they like a lot of flow or a little? A lot of light, or a little? To be hand fed regularly, or every so often? Just curious, mine always look a bit pinched. Thanks.

 

[gilmour01]

what size tank is this?

 

[joolie]

Very beautiful! I love your aquascape!! Welcome to R2R!

thanks for the warm welcome :smile:

 

[joolie]

That is a gorgeous tank. I like all of the acans.

thanks it has taken me a long time to track down some of them but im a big fan of acans so its all part of the fun :smile:

The pic with the gobie on top of the scoly? is amazing!
Welcome to R2R

cheers :smile: yeh its one of my fav pictures too, he is very cute

what size tank is this?

Overall dimensions 1036mm x 586mm x 1478mm (LxDxH).
Tank: 100L x 69H x 55D cm
Sump: 79L x 40H x 36D cm
Cabinet height from floor: 82cm
aprox 85 gallons

 

[joolie]

Let me ask you, as an Acan addict, do you think they like a lot of flow or a little? A lot of light, or a little? To be hand fed regularly, or every so often? Just curious, mine always look a bit pinched. Thanks.

hiya :smile: i target feed mine one a week but the get plenty pod life etc from the mud and algea set up most of the time anyway, most of mine are in a medium flow as the mp40w kicks out a fair bit all around the tank, and as for light , i have some on the sand bed low down and some on the rock work near the top, i have never found bleaching to be a problem even high up the tank but then again i am running the tank on LED'S. so quite a mix,hope this helps
cheers Julie

 

[Braves Fan]

LOL, I like the pic of the cat, Looking at you saying, How am I going to stretch out in this thing. The new tank looks nice and all of those corals ought to do good in their new home.