New site

[kjdeut]

New site looks nice. I cant wiat for Feb's meeting to become a member.

Ken

[Minnreefer]

Tank look good, tell us more about your tank.

Welcome to TCMAS and TRT

Jon

[roon21]

welcome to trt

[kjdeut]

Hey Jon, It is a Oceanic 92gal bow front corner. I upgraded to this tank in April 02 from a 55 gal hex. Along with the bigger tank I also upgraded to MH lighting (2x150 HQI & 1x96wPC actinic). I have a small, maybe 15 gal sump with an Aquac ev120 skimmer and I use a CSL T3 for my return pump.
My baby is the Sebae anemone whcih is the reason I upgrade. I have had hi for about 3 years now and he was taking over the 55 hex. For livestock I have a maroon clown whcih has been around for about 5 years now, foxface, flame angle, and hippo tank. I also have a baby squamosa clam, a cleaner shrimp and the various snails, and hermits. For corals I have colt leather, various mushrooms, gold crown toadstool, xenia, lettuce, trumpet, frogspawn, finger coral (the hard, not leather), maze brain, pipe organ and I just added by first acropora.
Next addition will be more live rock. I want to build the back up further so it sloops down more towards the front and will add more ledges to put different corals on.

Ken

[Minnreefer]

I have always liked those 92 corners. I keep pestering Dirk to sell me one cheap How do you like the tank as far as usability goes? Any thing that you don't like about a corner tank.

Looks nice

Jon

[kjdeut]

The one complaint I would have about the corner tank is that is it hard to work on if you need to do something towards the back. It is very deep both in depth from front to back and top to bottom, but otherwise I love it. What makes it a little worse is the fact that the Oceanic stand for this tank is also tall so I need to stand on a stoll to really do anything, espically if I leave the hood on. But hte filp side is that it is up a little higher so you are not bent over as much to look into it
It met my needs and now it is the first thing everyone looks at in the living room. Use to be they would say nice TV (46" Sony), now its wow what a tank.
Another thing about a bow front that I like is that the bow magnifies things, which I think is cool. I have been very happy with it and got a great deal from Something Fishy. No other LFS came close to matching there price. Another added feather with the bow front is that I point the return line at the front and the curved glass circulates (sp) the water around the entire tank so I have not had a need to put any powerheads in the tank.

Ken