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Hi I'm New here sort of. I have used many of the great articles posted on Melevesreef.com for a few years now, and The DIY section for building Sumps. So here is a little back ground. I began keeping salt water aquariums around 1995. so for the last fifteen years I have had several FOWLR tanks and Three reef tanks two with moderate success. My Current tank is a 150 gallon reef tank that has been mostly DIY. The tank is glass 72x18x28 I drilled the end of the tank and installed ...
Updated 05-07-2010 at 02:53 PM by melev
Tank: 29 Gallon with w/wood hood and stand. Filter: Rena Filstar xp (Will hopefully add sump soon!..looking for used one now!) (No pic yet..need lighting in stand) Protein Skimmer: (all of y'alls favorite) SeaClone 100 w/maxi-jet 100 by Intant Ocean. Talked with LFS about the problem i'm having with it and they said they will come out to my home ...
I wondered how it would feel to have an actual display tank again....... Today, that ocurred!!!! It's not tied in yet, but my sand and rock went into the main tank tonight. It'll take a few days/week to settle, but we're in business!
Our tank is set, the stand has been completed, plumbing finalized, and WATER is going INTO the tank!!!! And coming right back out, of course, lol. Leak in two fittings on the closed loop, Jon's working on redoing them now. Before I go to bed tonight I'm going to have fish moved into their new home. I still have to go back in next weekend and finalize rockwork, but I don't care. My fish will finally be back in a proper sized tank, which is long overdue. When I went downstairs ...
This site seems like its going to awesome. tank AGA 65g RR 36x18x24 lighting: 250w reeflux 12k filtration: fuge cheato, barebottom, octo 110 skimmer new semicone movement: 2x koaralia evo ( soon to be on wave maker) i have sps,lps softies inverts: max clam, GBTA, rock anemone, 4 mini carpets(thx mark) fish: green mandarin, purple fire fish, sailfin tang, pygmy angle, yellow corris, chromis, twin spot goby, false perc clown ...
Updated 08-24-2010 at 10:22 AM by stangchris