My Elos 160 XL Build

[lakeviewink]

Very nice. Well planned to a "T". I'm a bit jelly

 

[Dre@m_reefer]

Wow amazing tank, lighting, and scape as well....

Good job man.

 

[mnat]

We are hosting our club's Holiday party tomorrow which means roughly 40 fellow reefers are going to be coming over to hang out and talk shop which is right up our alley. In anticipation we decided to drink some wine and clean the frag tank up a bit to make it all pretty. What do you do when you clean? You take some pictures. I am getting used to the frag tank lighting and setting it all up so the pics are ok. Santa might be bringing me a macro lens so we are going to have some serious fun come January. Without further ado:

Friday night in the life of a reefer:

Proof my wife is a reefer:

Sps Frags:

Bahamma mamma and a WWC rainbow:

Chalices:

Scolies:

Recovering Dendro:

WWC live sale fun (props to dnov99 whom I am splitting these with) The widowmaker and shockwave:

Ignition and situation (I believe)

A few acans for those acan lovers:
Happy Endingz:

ReefKoi solar flares (love these guys)

Just awesome ones:

Some pieces from fox:

 

[M&M]

Sand is in and this is pretty much the final aqauscape. We got some more tonga branch for the back corner part but we are going to leave it pretty open.

Right side:

Left side:

Couple of new live stock photos. We have not transferred everything over because we do not have the mesh cover on that, but the piece for that should be here very soon. Ethan and I are going to try something pretty cool so we will keep you all updated on that. The corals we are just letting get used to the system down in the frag tank under T5s which is where most of them came from. Once we are confident in the water quality we will adjust everything to the lights.

We will be upgrading to the mp60 soon as well.

I love your aquascape. Looks like one of those Amano tanks. Great job.

 

[mnat]

Thank you for the kind words. It took me a VERY long time and one whole heck of epoxy to create the aquascape, but to be honest, I did have fun doing it (yes, this is the nikkit part of (mnat).
The tank is way under stocked, but slow & steady wins the race, and so far, all the animals we have moved to the display are doing well. We are enjoying this build very much!

 

[mnat]

Been a while since I updated this so I finally took a ton of pictures to share with you all:
So I took 300 pictures today and trimmed it down into the 80s. That is what happens when you don't take pics for a while and everything is going pretty well. I will start with the DT:


The coraline algae is really taking off so the rocks are really looking good, not white like they first were.

Here is a close up of the screen top and how we put it on as not to ruin the rimless part:

Middle:

Right:

Left:

New Photo-synthetic gorgonian from Elos:

Both of our coco worms:

Sinlge coco worms:

Peach hammer from Elos:

Gold Plate:

Our old Gorgonian and sprialis:

One of our Helfrichi firefish, we currently have a trio. Basically I bought a single from AF and a pair off of DD. So far they like each other:

False Shepardi:

Joculator the true king of the tank:

Suburst Anthia:

Gold assesor basslet swimming sideways. This guy swims upside down as well:

Aurelentas anthia, really becoming our favorite fish. We are trying to source some females but they are hard to get:

Bells Flasher wrasse:

Big acro crab we got from DD

 

[mnat]

Right side of the tank:

Left side:

Flame wrasse:

Porcelin crab:

Barnacle Blenny:

Jarvis watching the tank:

Here is the water change station setup:

Now we get into the frag tank. For all you coral junkies out there, this will be fun:
First though, our whiteboard in the frag room that helps us keep track of everything:

Frag tank shots:

Here are our pair of borbonius, they are living in the recirc tank until they fatten up and get a little larger. They are just too small at this point to hang in the DT. Sorry it is really tough to get a picture of these guys due to the lighting, them running away, and the tank is a touch dirty.

Shazaams:

Bahamma Mamma:

WWC Rainbow chalice:

Reef Koi's crazy WM:

Micro:

 

[mnat]

JFox Arabella:

Solar Flare Acans:

Random Acans:

Others:

Cornbreds Double Helix:

Joe Knows reefs Steroids:

Emerald Mummy Eye:

4 color Watermelon:

Pink Watermelon. He got stung when we moved some things around so you can see him recovering:

Toxic Pie:

3G Mummy Eye:

Scoly:

Scoly two:

Master Scoly:

Aquaculuted Goni that is doing really really well for us. Better than any other we have ever tried:

Gods of war:

WWC Yellow eyed lepto, Very similiar to the fox piece. I have that as well but did not get a good pic:

Big Baby's breath favia:

Cat's Eyes:

Stawberry Shortcake from Jim:

 

[mnat]

Ponape birds nest:

Jason Fox Purple polyp scroll

One of our older acros that has been growing and coloring up amazing:

Tierra Del Fuego:

Rainbow Stylo:

Chalice:

WWC League of Legends:

Stawberry shortcake:

Convict Style. These are finicky and do better under low lights and flow:

Chalice:

ASD Ghost Rider, a really stunning piece:

CC Granulosa:

Acro:

Acros:

Birdsnest:

Sunny Ds:

Candy Apple Reds:

Pink Hippos:

Acans:

Acros:

The last photo, for the old school acro heads, True Oregon Blue Tort. Almost lost this piece but he is growing back very well. Bluer than anything else in the tank and no green on him at all like the Cali Tort:

That is all for me for now.

 

[M&M]

Thanks for sharing, you have really great system.

 

[lps1212]

Great looking tank and corals long time no see brotha I need me some helix acans and those scolies are Saweet

 

[mnat]

Thanks man, it has been too long. I need to get some zoas from you. The only corals that suffered the move were my zoas as I think the new system is too clean.

 

[lps1212]

Yea I hear you things happen but anytime u ready for some just lmk I got u bro looking forward to more pics

 

[nitrox36]

Nice

 

[mnat]

Yea I hear you things happen but anytime u ready for some just lmk I got u bro looking forward to more pics

Check NJRC, the meeting is at Dnov's this month. You guys should make a trip down.

 

[mnat]

I don't think we have updated the fish we have in the system so I figured now would be a good time:
Display:
Joculator angel
False shepardi angel
Sunburst anthia
Aurluentus anthia
3x helfrichi firefish
Bells flasher wrasse
pair of flame wrasses
Nahackeys flasher wrasse
Gold assesor basslet
Pair of clowns (one grade b picasso and one snow ice)
Blue spot jawfish
Wheelers shrimp goby
2x Yasha gobies
6 or so barnacle blennies

Recirc tank waiting to go into the display:
Pair of Borbonius anthias
Attenuatus wrasse

Frag tank:
Purple tang
Pair of wild caught picasso/onyx clowns
Melanarus wrasse
Yellow watchman
Bangaii cardinal (Tank bred)
Green striped goby

 

[Nuocmam]

Love the setup. Amazing stuff in that frag tank.

 

[tapout]

Great looking tank and fish room! sweet idea with the mesh screen on keeping the rimless look!

 

[mnat]

There are things you will need to learn about your build that you can only learn when the build is up and running. One of our lessons was that due to the height of the build, the lights hit you right in the eyes, especially when we were sitting on the couch. We had to leave the light really low which led to spotlighting and bleaching of our purple stylo and one of the reasons we were not bringing our corals up from the frag tank. Ethan and I brain stormed about what we could do and came up with a floating canopy which would attach to the light bar. I got all the materials and Ethan built it while we were away in Aruba. Needless to say it came out amazing, and Ethan put a lot of time into it so big kudos to him. So of course now the pictures:


The new full tank shot:

Some new fish that have been moved up:
Attenuatus wrasse from AO:

Lineatus Wrasse from Trop:

Borbonius Anthias, one from AO one from Elos:

Blue spot jawfish from Absolutely Fish:

 

[mnat]

Some corals from the frag tank:

Some Photosynthetic gorgonians which we picked up today at AO, go get these now.

This one is from Elos:

Space Invader Pectina:

One last picture of a barnacle blenny: