jimmybling31
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I posted before in this forum, but I actually live just outside brentwood now and actually live in the area of the forum. I'm planning on coming to the next meeting and hope to meet some of yall.
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schooleyosis
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Can't wait to meet ya. Welcome.
jimmybling31
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due to a crash from moving, I'm redoing my whole tank. I'm even buying a new stand, sump, skimmer, and pump to power everything. I've been using led's for over a year and have kept sps, lps, and all types of soft corals as well. I tend to lean towards sps and lps corals, but I have a deep love for zoanthids as well leaving me always having a rock in every tank that is just zoas. I have a tank thread, but it's pointless now since I'm redoing it and almost everything from that tank is dead now. I don't want to go into too much detail on why my tank crashed, but all my fish and rock were stuck in a truck for 4 days because of a moving issue.
schooleyosis
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Nice equipment list. What size tank will this be?
poolkeeper1
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We have a Premier Sump builder in the club Synergy FYI is a cutting edge high quality acrylic sump, reactors, ATO's Etc. He can build you anything you could want and he is local. JMHO
Bill
jimmybling31
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120 gallon reef ready marineland tank.
jimmybling31
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I've been following them for a while now myself, but I have seen them both in person and just personally preferred Trigger Systems. I ended up going with a Ruby 36 elite by Trigger systems and I'm looking forward to it coming in this week. I need to go pick up my stand now and stain it. If I can find help moving my tank this week I'll be finished getting the main pieces in place by friday.
schooleyosis
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Nice. I have a 4 foot 120. If you are interested in a canopy for it let me know as I am selling mine!
schooleyosis
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There are several in my build thread but I'll snap some of it specifically tonight when I get home and post here.
jimmybling31
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I thought I would give an update on what's going on with my tank since I have made some purchases for it this past week and got my tank moved into its final resting spot.
I moved my tank onto my new glasscages stand and I'm very happy with how it looks and sits. The tank's total height now is 5'3" when I ordered the stand I asked for it to be 36 inches tall. Well it came out a bit taller, but to my liking.
I have my lights hung over it currently, but I plan to put a hood on the tank soon.
I purchased a Vertex Omega 150 protein skimmer immediately after it was marked down to 250 dollars for sale.
I will have my new sump in early next week
My new mag drive 18 pump came in and it is pretty. I can't wait to run my tank with that pump. I'm no longer going to have a pump for each function in my tank. I now will be using a biopellet reactor on a mag drive 5 and aside from that my return and carbon reactor will be run off the mag drive 18. My refugium will also receive approximately 150gph from the mag drive 18.
I'm going to need to buy chaeto for my refugium soon. I'm going to use sand as a substrate in it.
I have a mild concern that my tank overflow is leaking that I need to investigate better. Depending on if it's a major leak or not will determine if I do anything about it right now, but there is no visible sign that it's anything more than just some water I splashed into the overflow while filling it.
I found 2 more zoanthid colonies that are alive while I was putting my rock back into my tank. made me pretty happy to know that more than I thought survived on coral. I still love a major colony of acropora, but I can grow again.
And that's the updates. I'd be happy to answer questions about what I'm doing.
I moved my tank onto my new glasscages stand and I'm very happy with how it looks and sits. The tank's total height now is 5'3" when I ordered the stand I asked for it to be 36 inches tall. Well it came out a bit taller, but to my liking.
I have my lights hung over it currently, but I plan to put a hood on the tank soon.
I purchased a Vertex Omega 150 protein skimmer immediately after it was marked down to 250 dollars for sale.
I will have my new sump in early next week
My new mag drive 18 pump came in and it is pretty. I can't wait to run my tank with that pump. I'm no longer going to have a pump for each function in my tank. I now will be using a biopellet reactor on a mag drive 5 and aside from that my return and carbon reactor will be run off the mag drive 18. My refugium will also receive approximately 150gph from the mag drive 18.
I'm going to need to buy chaeto for my refugium soon. I'm going to use sand as a substrate in it.
I have a mild concern that my tank overflow is leaking that I need to investigate better. Depending on if it's a major leak or not will determine if I do anything about it right now, but there is no visible sign that it's anything more than just some water I splashed into the overflow while filling it.
I found 2 more zoanthid colonies that are alive while I was putting my rock back into my tank. made me pretty happy to know that more than I thought survived on coral. I still love a major colony of acropora, but I can grow again.
And that's the updates. I'd be happy to answer questions about what I'm doing.
schooleyosis
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Sounds good man. I take it the stand fit in the car? I've got chaeto for ya when you're ready. No cost, just come get it.
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