70 gal Tech Tank

[aquawolf]

I like it when things come together, and wish I would have been creative enough to come up with a way to tie a couple of my systems together as well. Having the wall between them to make them look like totally separate systems is a very nice touch.

Hopefully the slow leak is just dripping into the sump anyway and won't be anything to really worry about until you can get it corrected.

[Paramecium]

We have rock!!! And lots of it. A friend told me he had a buddy with some live rock left over from when he used to be in the business that he would sell for a dollar a pound. I figured it would be the leftovers but at that price you really can't go wrong. The rock turned out to be awesome and I imagine I got about 150 to 200 lbs. No scale so we just eyeballed it and he let it go for $140. So less than a dollar a pound. It's all in the tanks right now and in a few days I'll lay it all out and decide what I want to keep and the rest I'll either sell or keep in a Rubbermaid for the inevitable upgrade. Lots of good size pieces, a really neat slab and some cool Marshall pieces, the rest is Fiji. Here are some pics of the tank loaded up. Keep in mind this is not aquascaped and I will be using much less in the tank.

[aquawolf]

Great score!

I see a whole lot of potential with that rock.

[Paramecium]

Got some goodies today. Chiller, wavebox nano, 2 Phos reactors from 2 lil fishies, 2 pumps, 1 for the chiller the other for the reactors and lots of dry sand. I'll post picks later but it was a fun and expensive day. Going to thin out the rock this weekend and then set up the rest of the new gear so we can officially get cycling!

[tman23]

did your standpipe help with overflow noise? PM back, if possible.

[Paramecium]

Some updates. Sand is in and the rock has been thinned out some. Still need to scape it but I got rid of a lot of the plain pieces that were taking up tank space. Still looks really full and I sold off 60lbs. Probably will need to take out another 50. I did order 20lbs of fresh LR to seed the tank. The stuff I have has been cooked for so long there is nothing on it at all, just clean rock.

Mounted 1 power strip in the stand for all the pumps and such that don't need to be on the controller. Have another couple of strips in place until the Apex gets here to run all the controlled items. This week I will be plumbing up the reactors and chiller which are all in place and ready to go. I also ordered a JBJ ATO to help make things less of a daily chore. I'll try to take pics in the process of the plumbing etc. I also need to hang the reflector for the frag tank soon. Not in a huge hurry as there are no corals in the tank.

[Paramecium]

So how about some pics of the scape with some lights running? This was just with actinics and the rocks are staying this way for a bit I think. Everyone seems to like them so far.

[aquawolf]

That looks very nice. Good job.

[quader94]

top left rock looks like the mouth of something!

[Paramecium]

Haha ya, I agree it does. I had quite a few interesting pieces and it was hard to narrow it down to a few. I really like the slab and the piece of Marshall on the bottom right as well as the mouth haha. It made some nice ledges that I hope will be a good place for some Acros as this will be a mostly sps tank.

It is still cycling at the moment. the rock on the top right is live rock I ordered and added to seed the other rock I had as well as the sand bed. So far no diatoms but I did have some ammonia, trite and trate the other day. I need to check again and see how things are going.

~Danny

[Paramecium]

Been slacking on the updates. Everything is running and doing well. Cleanup crew went in and knocked out all the algae in about 3 days. Picked up my first fish today, pair of Onyx Percs both misbarred. One has almost no noticable orange the other has just an orange nose. I'll get pics tomorrow. I threw a hammer and some Zoas from the 14 gallon in the other day to see how they would do and they seem happy so I'm going to be migrating corals over here shortly.

The reflector is hung and wired up on the frag tank and tomorrow I will be installing two fans in the frag tank stand and cleaning up the wiring. Other than that it's time to relax and watch things grow.

More updates with pics soon.

~Danny

[ericgreg]

Nice looking light fixture from what I can see. What is the brand that you are using?

[Paramecium]

Lights are current outer orbit 2x250w with T5's. I swapped out the 10k bulbs for 14k Phoenix bulbs.

[Paramecium]

Here's the latest pics with the whole setup running and some of the new fish. I threw some of my sps frags from the 14g into the frag tank to see how they like it as well.













~Danny

[aquawolf]

Looks very good. How are the sps corals doing in the new environment?