setting up a new tank and want to do it right !!

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Re: setting up a new tank and want to do it right !!

Postby skinz78 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:28 pm

LOL I don't hide anything over at RC, you just don't go there anymore. I told ya about the black and white and the squamaxima lol. I just don't want to accept it to be a maxima just yet. I recently recieved two nice little maxima's from Barry but the first one died a week ago and I just lost the second one yesterday. I don't want to bug him about it I have had them for 3 weeks now. They just never seemed right from the beginning.
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Postby amashun » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:57 pm

Woo, a picture of you? but where is your missus? :mrgreen:
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Postby skinz78 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:14 pm

NOW Adrian, LOL you already got to see enough for one night.
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Postby amashun » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:33 pm

OK mate, i will wait for tomorlo then :mrgreen:
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Postby skinz78 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:42 pm

amashun wrote:OK mate, i will wait for tomorlo then :mrgreen:



LOL I love the accent.
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Postby chris&barb » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:07 pm

are you slacking off skinz? :mrgreen: we need updates
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Postby skinz78 » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:08 pm

LOL there isn't much to update. I have my sump now, It didn't fit throught the door so Bill and I drained my tank removed it from the stand, knocked the center brace out of the stand so we could drop the sump into the stand. Once installed in the stand I realized I had no substrate for the fuge. So after ordering it Thursday nite it should be here next Thurs. :shock: The tank is now back on the sand and refilled with water.

A great big thank you to Bill again!!!

I'll have to grab him up an awesome clam sometime as a thanks. I owe him bigtime!!!

I recieved 22 lbs of F&S Select Fiji Premium live rock yesterday from http://www.liveaquaria.com and it is awesome. I didn't have room in my curing tub for all the rock and most of the Tonga branch is looking pretty good so I put alot of it in the dt to make more room in the tub.

I purchased a new juvi orange shoulder tang yesterday to help controll the algae in my 120g. When I put him in there my yellow damsel decided he was an enemy so began to thrash on him. In the tank go's the fish trap with brine shrimp for bait. Stupid damsel was in there in less than 10 seconds. So he got the no acclimation for you introduction to the 75g. Now he is just kicking it in there with the single blue leg hermit. :mrgreen:

So I know the orange shoulder gets big, I plan on giving it, the damsels, and the false perc off on Bill to sell in his shop later on.
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Postby quicksilver » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:41 pm

I love your house and your fish tanks looks like its comming along nice.. :wink:
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Postby skinz78 » Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:17 pm

Thanks Mike and welcome to Reef Aquarium Forum!!!
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Postby eels&lions » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:46 pm

Hey Skinz the tank is coming along great bro.
I can't wait to see it all finished. I especially want to see how the aquascaping will be.

Man those Gold Crocea's are definitely something. I hope I can find a couple for myself.

I'll definitely keep you updated when I start on my new upgrade.
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Postby skinz78 » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:52 pm

Thank you eels&lions, I just got done doing a little playing arround with the 25 lbs of tonga branch I already have in there. I can't wait for the rest to get done curing, I wanna get some real critters in there. :D I don't know how I am going to effectively hide the Ocean Runner pump so I can get back to it to do maint but I will cross that bridge when I get there.
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Postby chris&barb » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:04 am

sounds good skinz, thanks for the update
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Postby chris&barb » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:05 am

welcome to Reef Aquarium Forum quicksilver
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Postby skinz78 » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:56 pm

So I recieved my mineral mud today, I managed to get it in the fuge and fill it with water with little to no mud getting into the display. I have been doing 90% water changes on my rock that is curing every two days. I plan on doing some tests on it tomorrow nite. My wife informed me that the 120g must be out of the house by Aug 30 so I gotta kick the 75g into high gear now.

LOL I have been having a great week with my rodi making station. I have only flooded my laundry room floor 3 times this week. :x Yeah I ruined about 20sf of figured maple hardwood floor this morning. :oops:

I will try to get some update pic's up later this week.
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Postby skinz78 » Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:27 pm

Ok so I have some new pic's to post. I added some lr from my 120g and some has some corals on it so I have a little more life in there. I also added some of the tonga rock from the curing vat. I added 2 36" single strip t5's with 1000k bulbs today as well.

Here is a right side of tank pic with a little arch I made

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Left side, nothing is for sure on this side yet so it will probably change again. The rubble on the right bottom corner is just temporarily sitting there. I haven't decided what to do with it yet.

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Right side of the fuge with chaeto, miricle mud, 2x mangroves and the return pump. I had to put the skimmer on the back of the dt, it is too tall for the sump.

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