Travis Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 First off I want to apologize for how long this has taken haha, I've been promising to start the build thread since i started the tank in December. I purchased the tank, stand, sump, sand, 3kgrye, skimmer, and heater as bundle from someone who never got setup. Sand, heater, gyre were all brand new. After i put everything together i realized the skimmer and sump wouldn't work together so i found a trigger systems sapphire 26 sump and 10g ato, i upgraded to along with purchasing a syncra SDC 6.0 return pump. For lighting i found a set of 3 AI hydra 26 HDs, 2 work great and are over the tank now. the third one is for the frag tank and needs a new power supply cord but works other than that. I used Dr. Tims to cycle the tank, and added the first fish in February a bangii cardinal i purchased from Lori at Aqua Culture in Toledo. In April I moved my blue hippo tang, yellow watchman goby, and pair of bullet hole clownfish from the holding tank to the display tank. Sadly I lost most of my coral during the tank transfers, however my tank is pretty full now. An old friend of mine was getting out of the hobby and i purchased most of contents of his tanks in May. ill upload some photos of the tank from my phone in a few minutes and ill try and get a current picture of the tank after i clean the glass today or tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 This picture proves that my girlfriend is a keeper as she didn't leave me after this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 This is some of the equipment that came with that tank, and also the new sump setup I picked up for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 My little mermaid was so excited about the new tank she just couldn't stay out of it music 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 The rockwork I decided to go with, used a piece from my old bio cube made by westmaricultre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 Then I added water and found another rock I liked. Also got my lights put up, yes I know the shelf looks goofy, but it's from the old tank and adds a little support to the light fixture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 This is all the wiring and plumbing, sadly I have to redo some of the wiring my double sidded tape didn't hold. And I'm having trouble getting the ATO working properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 This is the first time I had the lights on over the tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 I won the 2 montis in a free raffle and then bought the frag of utter chaos for $20. They were the second things added to the tank first was the bangii cardinal and a mushroom from Aqua Culture. Flounder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley000 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Wow looks great. I’ve never figured out how to move tanks without making a huge clutter! Thanks for sharing it! Travis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Thank you! The misses definitely wasn't happy with the clutter buy likes the way the new tank looks, so I'm forgiven for now lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Here's some shots from today crimsonvice and Muttley000 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonvice Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Looks real good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 22, 2021 Author Share Posted July 22, 2021 Thank you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted August 1, 2021 Author Share Posted August 1, 2021 Added a yellow tang, pink goni, Neon green toadstool and a trachy yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 Sold the big chalice and added a few new pieces. And my toadstool is fragging itself! The scoly showing skeleton I got for free to try and save and it's doing great! The green I got for 25 was showing a little skeleton, doing great! The orange and the mini I traded for and are both doing great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watdachuck Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 How's this tank coming along? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 Tank is doing pretty good! A few slight ups and downs. I lost the small green brain, my pistol shrimp dropped my space invader pectina on it. However the larger brain and rescue scoly are doing better, we'll the scoly is doing phenomenal. I also added another nice brain to the tank, but my damn tangs were picking at it. Now it's only slightly because I have a gourmet nori feeder to keep them distracted. Added some zoas, frogspawn, a new hammer. Super excited to have been able to acquire a WWC OG bounce mushroom and a walt disney frag. I also made way too many frags so if anyone is interested hit me up haha here's what I have fragged, I have others just not ready. Oh and not to mention I may have 2 different types of unknown bounce mushrooms I'm just waiting to see if the bubbles keep growing or go away. Fingers crossed haha The list Purple and green hammer- Purple and green Candycane- Green Monti frags and colony- Mycedium Elephantotus chalice- Blue spotted mushrooms- ORA Grubes Gorgonian- Neon green toadstool- Hollywood stunner- Ice blue chalice- Mint green zoas- Radioactive dragon eye zoas- Armor of God's zoa- Iced Armageddon zoa- Mohawk zoa- Utter Choas zoa- Stargazer zoa- Valentines day Massacre zoa- Rastas zoa- Eagle eye zoa- Pandoras zoa- Blondies zoa- crimsonvice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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