Author Topic: My 75 (Read 4674 times)

joelbegt · « **on:** November 18, 2008, 18:50:55 »

I've upgraded my 40L to a 75. I have slowly transfered my livestock and now I have mostly fish to catch when i tear down the 40L. Figured I'd go into my systems specs while I'm at it. I didn't include all the livestock due to some of it being in either my 40L or my girlfriends 75 lol. I'd like to thank Lindsey and Dodd for there help through my upgrade.

Lighting:
- 8 bulb Current USA T-5 light fixture
- Havent got the bulb combo i want yet
- 10hr light cycle on a timer with moonlights

Flow:
*Soon to be*
- 2 controllable Koralia 4's
- photo cell to lower flow when the lights to out

Filtration:
- 29 gallon sump holding apox. 20 gallons
- Homemade acylic baffles made to hold Aqua-Pure Filter pads
- MDX-200 skimmer with mesh wheel
- around 400-450gph return flow after head loss
- 40Lbs of fiji dryrock
- Apox. 15Lbs of fiji liverock from my 40L
- 50-60Lbs of sugar fine white sand

Livestock:
- ORA Derasa clam
- Crocea clam
- Alot of varous brains and acans
- 2 pagoda cups
- 2 frogspawn
- 1 hydnophora
- Several zoa colonys and frags including Tub Blues
- 2 short tenticle plate
- 1 long tenticle plate
- 1 trumpet coral
- What i think is a Symphyllia not very sure
- Yellow tang
- Salfin tang

I'll post some pics a little later.

Amstar · « **Reply #1 on:** November 18, 2008, 21:02:41 »

TUBB BLUES .... nice... when you get enough I would love to get some off of you.

sounds like a very nice setup your going to have. cant wait to see pics

MechanicalEngineer · « **Reply #2 on:** November 18, 2008, 21:04:37 »

WOOOO!!! Can't wait for pix!!! (I can't read)

NORTHDIXIEREEF · « **Reply #3 on:** November 18, 2008, 22:11:13 »

YOUR WELCOME, JUST DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW MUCH OF A HELP LINDSEY IS

DID YOU GET EVERYTHING OUT OF LINDSEY'S TANK YET ?

YOUR CHROMIS SHOULD BE IN THURSDAY.

THANKS,DODD

POST SOME PICS OF YOURS AND LINDSEY'S TANKS.

joelbegt · « **Reply #4 on:** November 18, 2008, 23:30:03 »

Dodd do you mean this thursday or next? Well here are some pictures. I am just getting the algae under control so bear with me. I'm leaving my SPS in lindseys tank until my algae is gone. I also have a neon green brain in her tank.

For some reason all my pictures are really grainy looking. Hopefully I can get some better pictures with Lindseys camera. Crappy pics are better than none.

quicksilver · « **Reply #5 on:** November 19, 2008, 08:08:04 »

your need a higher ISO for less grainey pictures.

UD Flyer · « **Reply #6 on:** November 19, 2008, 13:37:05 »

Nice tank. The Pictures look great, not grainy on my screen at all.

NORTHDIXIEREEF · « **Reply #7 on:** November 19, 2008, 23:47:03 »

THIS THURSDAY, ALREADY TOLD LINDSEY. ARE THOSE THE PROGRAMABLE HYDORS OUT OF LINDSEY TANK.

I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE THE BRIAN IN LINDSEYS TANK TO SEE IF IT SPLITS. BUT THE PICS LOOK GOOD.
SEE YA TOMORROW

joelbegt · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2009, 19:42:53 »

UPDATE:

I've got my programmable hydro koralias now. picked up some duncans and a Symphyllia. My new project has been my 5.5gallon frag tank. I'm hoping to get a couple new zoas and some more LPS soon. here are some random shots.

aquavista99 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 24, 2009, 00:55:11 »

Very nice acans!!!

jake · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2009, 11:11:18 »

Looks good I've always wanted the 2 island look. Like the rock work

cyberwollf · « **Reply #11 on:** January 24, 2009, 13:22:56 »

I hate the way white balance never does you justice. Colors were so much more vibrant in person.

Thanks for the lights. Going to get that bulb after the meeting today.

joelbegt · « **Reply #12 on:** January 24, 2009, 23:17:26 »

Thanks everybody

joelbegt · « **Reply #13 on:** February 12, 2009, 23:42:43 »

Update: I started dosing BRS 2-part with great sucess. After getting my cal, alk, and mag levels stabalized The algae i had melted away. I also skimmed a bit wet to help remove it from the water column. I also replaced a 10K for an actinic bulb.

Here are some pictures. For some reason every time i load pictures on this forum they look grainy. they look great in my photobucket, but kinda horrid on this site. http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/joelbegt/2-12-09/101_0120.jpg Heres a link to my duncan for reference on the difference before i load it on the forum.

unfortunatly My Pinkish maze brain got stung by a short tenticle plate :'(

jungliztkruger · « **Reply #14 on:** February 13, 2009, 23:37:09 »

looks great. it has me anxious to set up my 75 as well

lazylivin · « **Reply #15 on:** February 19, 2009, 01:56:07 »

Very nice pics and tank

joelbegt · « **Reply #16 on:** March 03, 2009, 00:42:17 »

experimenting with a new uploader heres some pics if it works

joelbegt · « **Reply #17 on:** March 03, 2009, 00:44:20 »

those look way better than photobucket looked. I used my sisters D60

rmstevensiii · « **Reply #18 on:** March 04, 2009, 13:56:07 »

The color on these pics is amazing! Were they taken with or without flash? Under what lighting?

joelbegt · « **Reply #19 on:** March 04, 2009, 15:46:32 »

No flash. The iso was set to automaticly adjust. The camera was on macro mode too.

It was the first time I've used my sisters Nikon D60. That camera is amazing, and expensive. My sister is currently going to school for photography so I'm lucky enough to get to use her toys.

joelbegt · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2009, 15:43:58 »

I got a new zoa and a new mushroom frag this weekend from Lazylivin. I only got a picture of the zoa frag

I also got killer deals on a colony of green zoas, a hammer frag, and a nice favia.

Logzor · « **Reply #21 on:** March 08, 2009, 15:57:47 »

Nice and clean tank, I love it.

Also, nice job with the photos.

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Author Topic: My 75 (Read 4674 times)

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