75 Gallon Reef Build

[[WDT]TardFarmer]

I have begun the move from my 45 tall to a 75.

Equipment as follows:

48" aquaspacelight (2X250, 1X150)
Eheim 1260 return pump
75 gallon AGA, I drilled it myself (Found the tank at the dump a guys son kept fresh in it for 3 months and then moved to college and did not want to move the tank with him.)
Megaflow 2 sump (bioballs removed)
Turboflotor 1000
oceanrunner 2500
gla ss-holes.net 1500 gph overflow kit
Koralia 2
Koralia Nano
Maxijet 1200
150 stealth heater
I made a Fly guy acrylic rocklift
60 pounds of rock (have another 40 or so cooking)


I cracked my overflow due to my own stupidity, gla ss-holes.net sent me a new one today free of charge!! Great company, great products, I would highly recommend!

I have not had a chance to work on the rock yet, I just had to get it in there before I started losing critters.

Livestock:
snowflake eel
flame hawk
firefish
comb tooth blenny
two mandarin clowns
6 line wrasse
maxxima clam

2 favia brain
1 open brain
assorted shrooms
assorted zoas
cabbage leather
colt leather
toadstool leather
Kenya trees
GSP
pulsing Xenia
frogspawn
candycane

I plan on getting a foxface rabbit to combat the macro algae that is on my rocks.

pics are here: http://www.handsomefella.org/?aid=63

[WilyGuy]

That link crawls.....You should post a few pictures inline so we can see!

I posted this and it is still spinning with nothing showing up....

Hope it looks good?

[WilyGuy]

If you click on the Mountain icon, you can put the URL of the photo (where it is already uploaded) and hopefully it will show up here....LIKE THIS:

[[WDT]TardFarmer]

Better?

[[WDT]TardFarmer]

Well everything is looking great right now! The leak has stopped, www.glass-holes.com sent me a new overflow box for free, but now I am not sure I will need it. All the critters are happy as can be. I got all my pumps on one power strip so now I can finally just flip a switch and bam all the pumps turn off and I can feed the fish and coral and keep an eye out on how much I am feeding, I think my algae issues are really going to subside now. I aquascaped and it is getting there. I am not done yet but it looks tons better than before. Hansmatt and I are putting in an order to liveaquaria tomorrow so I will be adding some more snails, a brittle star, a foxface lo and some chromis.

FYI www.glass-holes.com is a great company all around I highly recommend if you want to drill your own tank to go there and buy your supplies.
Here are two pics, taken with my phone so the quality is pretty bad but...

[aquawolf]

I like the rustic look of the stand, that is pretty interesting.

Do you have all of that livestock in there already? If so I am very curious as to how your mandarins are doing in that setup.

[[WDT]TardFarmer]

Thanks wolf! It's a neat mixture of the two elements of water and earth.

I do not have any mandarins, I may try one in late summer after the tank has matured some more. All my livestock what was in my 45 has been moved to it though.

[aquawolf]

Sorry about that, I just re-read your list and noticed it says Mandarin Clowns. Ooops.

[Sndwave80]

Looks Good!

[jakecaps]

lookin good Josh. How many chromes did you get, and if you want 3 more I wont be needing them after I cycle my 29.

[[WDT]TardFarmer]

I picked up 3, I very well may be game to take the other 3 from you. I will have to see how my levels are, I don't want to overstock. It would be nice to have a school.

[[WDT]TardFarmer]

More pics tonight.

[[WDT]TardFarmer]

[carym]

Looking great, so you are going to host which meeting?

[Loverotties]

Very Nice!