[SLAPPY]

Tank build photos.

Hole drilled in tank, drilled over the old hole to accommodate a larger bulkhead.
Plumbing will be a mixture of AK and VDL pipes, adaptors, elbows, unions etc.


Hole cut through wall.
Room insulated using 200mm Celotex insulation.


Consumer unit for fish tank, incorporating Orbis Data Micro 2 timers and contactor relays.



ATC800 and pH controller and plugbars.


Frame finished, tank is 3x2x2, frame is 4.6.x4x2


Glass weir removed and dumped in place of 10mm tinted blue acrylic.




Tank is a tad bit wet for rock cycling

[SLAPPY]

Tank is now full of water, thanks to Lindsay.

Just pressure testing the weir tonight and will pull out all the rock tomorrow to aquascape.

Hopefully by Wednesday all the stock can be shifted over then the sump 'n' stuff can start.

By weekend I can start on the new bar area where the old tank used to be.

[BOM8ER]

Looks like a top job Tony, am enjoying the thread keep it up mate.

[SLAPPY]

Thanks Martyn, not sure what happened on last thread, wiped the computer in case, I think I've may had a keystroke logger on it, as Paypal has had problems which they are dealing with at the moment, all passwords changed as a safeguard now.

Not taking anymore photos as yet as photos of water looks boring as everyone knows what a tank full of water looks like.

[lindsay]

Its getting there now tony.Should be good.

[SLAPPY]

lindsay, on Apr 7 2009, 12:33 AM, said:

Its getting there now tony.Should be good.

Slowly but surely.


I'll pick up my frags when the system is ready, I had frags from November's frag night which could have grown into colonies by now in your system

[SLAPPY]

Building the rock structure, after 1.5 hours of trying to aquascape, I've had enough and just plonked them in.

Corals and fish are moving over tonight.





Drilled a 12mm hole through the rock and put in a rod, then milluput together in the tank. this forms the central structure with approx 4 inch gap at the back to allow for flow around and through the rock.


Drilled 2 additional 12mm holes through the base of this rock to allow flow through it to prevent stagnant water building up inside it. This has a 10mm hold going through one of the holes connected to a small pump which will be on a timer to come on once a week for a couple of hours.







All rock plonked in and around the central structure. Rock is approx 14 inches at the highest point.

[SLAPPY]

UPDATE:

Refugium and cryptic zone connected and plumbed in.

One of a dozen 4"+ bristleworms I found from the old sump have also been dropped into the new refugium along with some old substrate to seed the new refugium. Approximately 20 Dove snails also chucked in for good measure.

Cryptic zone glass has been painted black on 3 sides and black removeable acrylic panel has been put on the front panel.


Full tank shot after aquascaping, another 15kg of rock yet to be jet washed to go in yet.




Sump has been placed into position, just waiting on silicone to dry off on the probe holders and float switches before filling with salt water.


The cling film on the front of the tank is to prevent plaster landing on the glass as the room is being skimmed at the moment.

There won't be any updates for a short while as I'm working on a storage rack in the garage for the Kayaks which have arrived from New Zealand.

[dave14]

Coming on nicely Tony

[SLAPPY]

dave14, on Apr 16 2009, 09:24 AM, said:

Coming on nicely Tony

Thanks Dave, just takes time though.

[SLAPPY]

Aqua Surge Wavemaker connected to 2 Tunze 6060 Streams

feeding timer set to 5 mins
wave patterns: channel 1 on 90 secs, off 30 secs, channel 2 on 45 secs, off 20 secs, channel 1 and 2 on 90 secs, off 10 secs


My Blue Linka taking shelter under the Euphyllia


One of 2 Hysterix


One of 3 Euphyllia's


Frags





My Scooter Blennie

[SLAPPY]

Full tank shot

[reefyman]

nice frags there m8

[lindsay]

Bet its good to get it up and running after all the planning put into it m8.

[Social D]

Yeh loads of planning has gone into this .. well done you

[SLAPPY]

Thanks chaps and thanks Simon for the frags.

It's been ages since the tank saw any SPS so glad it was worth the wait in the end. Several months with nothing to look at but bare glass was doing my head in.

The issue I have at the moment is heat loss as the garage isn't fully insulated as yet. So looks like more Celotex insulation, wrapped around the tank for the time being.

[Dave.I]

Nice one Tony.Any plans on future stock coral and fish wise? Nice wrasse that!

Dave

[SLAPPY]

Hi Dave

Probably not on fish, at least not yet.

Coral wise, I think I can only squeeze 3 or 4 more corals in there as it's looking packed already (want them to grow out).

Definate on the want list will be a Nana frag and some Millepora's, so if anyone local has any?

[dave14]

SLAPPY, on May 7 2009, 10:04 PM, said:

Hi Dave

Probably not on fish, at least not yet.

Coral wise, I think I can only squeeze 3 or 4 more corals in there as it's looking packed already (want them to grow out).

Definate on the want list will be a Nana frag and some Millepora's, so if anyone local has any?

What happened to the blue milli you had from Reefyman Tony? was that lost when you had the power cut?

[chriss]

SLAPPY, on May 7 2009, 10:04 PM, said:

Definate on the want list will be a Nana frag

Dumped a few bits on Lindsay last week in my bucket of 'crap'.

Chris