Smann

I'll look into where it is and let you know

Good you can figure theApex out then when I get one you can come over and help program it! Looks good so far, did you get the overflow set the way you want it?

"Patience Grasshopper"

Somewhere along the line i saw "cut the ruler" hope that's ok, you can still see the bottom line

Here's mine!

250 gal acrylic tank, 250 MH radium w/VHO, Calcium reactor, kalk, will put it about 250-300 par area (lower rock)

looks to be about 12mm

and yes he is always front and center when the camera comes out!

Do you have any idea why you lost the corals, I've changed set ups a few times and lost a Shrimp or a small fish but never any coral or large fish

My par with the par56 ten inches from the water start at about 400 and tappers of by about 50 par evey six inches I was about 150 at the bottom of my tank and my lps and zoanthids love it a little higher up at the 180 to 350 range is where my sps ar eand none seem to be showing any signs of needing more light in fact they are doing great with these levels of par and its only 21 watts =)

Where did you get the bulbs you have?

Great start, all nicely done! you may have to play around with the sump once you get it up and running if you have air bubbles returning into the display but its easy to solve with some baffles. Very nice woodwork!

Steve

Very nice fish! Tan looks great, post up some more pics

So are we supposed to wait and take the picture tomorrow? mines already grown since I got it in the tank, by tomorrow I'd guess another 1/2" easy

Looks good! can't wait to see it with water in it

Looks good Jeramy!, yeah mine live in the tubinaria, never shown any interest in the nems. Looks like you need some coral in there, let me know

Looks good Rashaan, Can't wait to see it up and running, Great choice on the light have seen some awesome sps tanks with that lighting. I would feel better with a piece of plywood also, maybe not necessary but if the ends and front/back bow on acrylic I have to imagine the bottom will bow as much if not more.

Nice map, Thanks

I think you need to upload them to photobucket then copy from there

Looks good, really nice colors, looks like things have been growing!

Looks good Frank, really like the rock work!

That didn't take long!, cant wait to see it up and going

cant wait to see it! Always a great meeting

Nothing wrong with a Softie tank,looks good!

Nice little set up, are you going to make a wave with the 10

Always nice to see a "new" tank, doesn't get any better than that! cant wait to see it all set up, keep us posted!

I'm sure you are good where you are to get it from Eugene, PM Impur he is handling it while it is down south, haven't seen a list for awhile so it may be available

I would love to see your tank sometime

You bet, let me know when you'll be down in this area

Steve

Yep, the snails and sally lightfoot crabs like to go back and forth, lots of food back there, a fish does end up back there on occasion but not often. The drains are screened so nothing can get into them, there is no dead space, the screens go from top to bottom so there is full water flow, there is no detritus in the right and left sides at all, it does accumulate around the drains but can be siphoned out or just stirred up and it will go down the drain and into filter socks.

As far as the size if I remember the original BeanAnimal designs were on smaller tanks, I did a 24" with a 3-4" overflow, as the design got bigger and flow increased in the larger tanks I increased the size/depth, the water level is about 3.5" above the siphon drain or it will suck air and about 1" below the weir line to reduce the water noise. Another good reason is just more water, the overflow holds 14 gallons, good place for macro Algae, etc.

If I were to do another tank I would do the overflow exactly the same as this one, there are a few other things I would do different but I very happy with this design