finch6013

Looking good Calvin! Your tank has made a come back from the last time I seen it.

stock it up. As long as you don't fill the tank in a weeks time you will be fine. Just keep an eye on things.

I'm glad we live close, so I can come awe over your tank when its set up.

Thanks for doing this! I'm sure it will help out a lot of us.

SOFTIES..... psh

I'm not doing fresh water steve. I changed my tank to a temperate marine tidal tank. And ya it's coming along. I need to start a thread about it soon.

your sps are looking great from the web cam.

Never thought I'd see this thread come back. I was using a sapphire aquatics skimmer made for the solana. The thing worked great. I'm not sure if they still make them anymore, seams like I heard somewhere that sapphire dropped the line when the economy tanked. I'd recommend tracking one down or looking into a Tunze 9002 as well.

Care for an update???

Oh yeah I've been wanting to get into acro's but have heard that they are high maintenance

If you should want to venture into sps, post a thread with any questions you have. Just my opinion, but sps is much more rewarding to keep and we have a few members that are quite good at keeping sps tanks.

Its just getting started as far as the cold water tank is going. The reef tank is no more, so I should probably close this thread and start a new one when I get the cold water tank going.

Looks good man. I like your milli colonies.

I plan to insulate the sump probably with foam board on all sides and maybe even the top partially. I might even try to insulate the back of the show tank. As for the drain plumbing I need to track down a place that sells the half inch approx thick foam rubber pipe insulation that I see plumbers and havoc guys use on jobs. HD doesn't seem to sell it. I'm open to ideas on insulating the tank and pipes. I think I might get an ecoplus 1hp chiller. It's the consumer model not the commercial, which is the only reason I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet. I'm still not sure about it's viability as a chiller for a coldwater tank. The DT is in the basement and it never really gets above 70-maybe mid 70's so I might get some condensation in the summer months but we'll see.

AquaticEngineer did the foam rock to replicate the local tide pool solid rock and granite. I think it came out quite well. One of the better Foam rocks builds I have seen. I have yet to see a reef tank that pulled this off though.

Consider dry rock. Check out marcorocks.com or bulk reef supply for good prices on dry rock. I think foam rock would defiantly be cheaper than live rock but it doesn't look as good in my opinion. Dry rock turns to live rock after 6 months and costs a third as much.

As quick as the sps envision went up, its turning to the darkside. Soon to be a Temperate tide pool tank displaying creatures from the pacific coast.

Nice tank! Those dimensions are great, I have 60x30 and could not be happier.

Is there a size limit for red rock like there is dungeness?

My wife and I might be going but it will probably be a last minute thing if we do.

Sounds like good times and one weird cop. I could just see an old drunk hillbilly cop doing just that.

I wanna hear this story

Ya he did cut it for me out of his tank. Travis will usually do this on some pieces but it costs more than out of the frag tank. More than likely it's the same coral.

I like the New life spectrum pellets, and most of the shops around here carry it. If you make a mix food it's really up to you and what your inhabitants need. There are threads on here discussing it.

I think the frag has actually colored up more in the past week from when I got it. Did your frag come out of their show tank?

I feed my fish a little of everything. I have a home made frozen mix that I feed once or twice a week. Then I normally feed New Life Spectrum pellets and occasionally Formula 2 flakes.

Naso tang from West Side Aquarium. I've had it about a week now and it's eating great. It's had ich off and on the past week but the fish is healthy enough, I don't think there is anything to worry about.

I don't need it anymore. Take me off the list