The Mac's 180 nem tank

GrampaDon · Nov 22, 2012

Nice looking tank.
Curious how well you like the MP40 box over the tunze box.??
Nice job on the box also.

Emac909 · Nov 23, 2012

GrampaDon said:
Nice looking tank.
Curious how well you like the MP40 box over the tunze box.??
Nice job on the box also.

To be honest. I'm really happy with it. I do like to tunze wavebox but when I had one on my 135 I hated that I didn't have much control over the pump its self. On or off that's it and the light sensor was stupid. With the mp40 in the box I love it. I have full control over the speed of the pump, frequencies of the pulse, and with the ecosmart live through the radion's I have full control of my night mode.
I have spent many hours playing with the mp40 in the box to figure out what gave me the best wave. I have found that I get a larger wave when the pump speed is towards the lower end and the pulses are at the forth light from the end.
I have a buddy that wants me to make him 2 boxes for him mp60's. I told him one would b plenty.
Ill do a DIY build when I get started on that.

coraltastic · Nov 23, 2012

Yah I would really like to see that build! Can u show us a pic of the one u have now? ( up close pic )

bige · Nov 23, 2012

I would like to see this box as well.

Emac909 · Nov 23, 2012

Here are the only close up pics I have right now.
http://www.socalireefs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33981
Due to me not backing up my iPhone4 be for switching to the iPhone5 I don't have these pis on my phone or PC.

Emac909 · Nov 29, 2012

Well the hair algae is but all most gone. 1 patch left

Emac909 · Nov 29, 2012

The ATS is helping the job get done

revhtree · Nov 29, 2012

That's good news! Great job and it's looking good!

MarvinsReef · Nov 30, 2012

awesome! looking forward to what you do next. :bigsmile:

Emac909 · Dec 3, 2012

The other day I was reading up on upward algae scrubbers (UAS), and how much people that run them love them. I was get sick of all the splashing caused by the falling water, so thought I'd try an UAS. Well I don't have a side panel on my sump that I could attach an UAS to. So I made a flat lying ATS. I made a 1" by 18" by 24" acrylic box. I left one of the large sides of the box off, so that I could put a large screen on the open side. The screen side faces up and made a venturi inlet pipe so I could get water and air in the box. The idea is to have the air and water pass through the screen holes.

Emac909 · Dec 19, 2012

Last weekend at the reef club get together. I got my sohal back from a buddy who was watching him for me while I was upgrading. Sad part is the sohal was the fish I wanted to add last. But had to put him in first. He had killed 2 of my buddies fish and my buddy had to segregate the sohal by using egg creat.

Yesterday another buddy gave me a purple tang cus he needed to lower his bio-load. Well yesterday the two were at it like cars and dogs. Today is a completely different story they r schooling together.

Lilmatty5dimes · Dec 19, 2012

thats some great scaping there. love the one huge rock on top. love the two tangs you have. wish i had a big enough tank.

MarvinsReef · Dec 20, 2012

good to know that the tangs are co existing together. those two from what I've read are two of the most aggressive tangs out there. good luck.

Emac909 · Jan 1, 2013

MarvinsReef said:
good to know that the tangs are co existing together. those two from what I've read are two of the most aggressive tangs out there. good luck.

Thank you. So far so good. The purple has even tried antagonizing the sohal now. The sohal only takes so much then he put the purple back in his place.

Over the weekend I picked up a GBTA and a few maroon clown. They r misbared maroons. I thought they were pretty bad A when I saw then.

MarvinsReef · Jan 3, 2013

good deal. what's the nem count now? so you're going with a pair of Maroons to house with the nems?

Emac909 · Jan 7, 2013

MarvinsReef said:
good deal. what's the nem count now? so you're going with a pair of Maroons to house with the nems?

If got 8 total right now. All bubbles.
I'd like to get a few types of clowns in the tank. But had to get these maroons when I saw them.

Emac909 · Jan 7, 2013

Made a new vid of my wavebox last night. Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yyHqu8iXYM

Emac909 · Feb 18, 2013

I made a canopy for the tank a week ago

I also picked up a beautiful anemone from reef raft USA

Emac909 · Mar 27, 2013

Well it's been a month sense I've updated so here's a few nem shots

This 1 just split on 3/15

I also changed out the MH for a AI vega that I won @ the SCMAS/MarineDepot Demo Days.

Emac909 · Apr 10, 2013

Yesterday I was able to score a nice clown tang. So now someone is going to call the tang police on me. Current tangs in the tank are and added in this order
First was Sohal tang, then purple, later the yellow and blue were added at the same time. Last would b the clown tang. I would love to get an Achilles tang but I think that would be pushing it.
Will I added the CT yesterday around 4pm. Watched them till 6 with not much fighting. Took the family to the movies, when got home the lights were out but I did notice the CT had a little cut on his back. Got home from work today and saw that he got tagged pretty good. But he also did tag the sohal