Blown76Mav's 150 build

[Blown76mav]

Well Friday I was doing a waterchange on the 65g and thought I'd move a few pieces of rock to the 150.  On thing led to another and before I new it I had moved all the rock and fish.   The only problem I ran into was when I turned on the pump I had forgot to hook up one return line.   I flipped a breaker in the basement and proceeded to get a shower.  My wife yelled down "I think you have a leak"  Oh well if thats all that goes wrong I'm doing good.

[Blown76mav]

The only thing left is some T5's and more corals and fish. Oh and maybe a bigger tank.....

[rmstevensiii]

Awesome setup man!

[UD Flyer]

The tanks looking real nice. Hopefully one of these days i'll be able to move up to a big tank.

[jungliztkruger]

ive seen this tank in person. its gorgeous. im looking forward to seeing it as it progresses through maturity.

[Arcade_Guy]

Looks great man!

[Blown76mav]

Thanks guys.  I'll keep updating as things progress.  I hope it looks half as good in a year or so as some I've seen from this club.   

[MechanicalEngineer]

Awesome!  How do you like your Octo skimmer?  What size did you get?  

Just FYI...looks like you have some aiptasia anemones in your "fug"...whatever that is.    Unless you're purposely having them there to filter your water, I'd remove them asap so they don't multiply.  

[Blown76mav]

Nikki,
 
I went with the Octo 350 Extreeme. That thing is huge.  LOVE IT!!!! 

As far as the aptasia yep seen it, just figured it would filter the water in the refugium a little more.  Don't have any in the DT, so I usually don't worry about it.

[Amstar]

why the egg-crate underneath the sand?

[Blown76mav]

why the egg-crate underneath the sand?

The egg-crate helps distribute the weight of the rock, and keeps any sharp edges from cracking the bottom glass.  Read this somewhere on RC and I figured for 7 dollars it wasn't worth taking the chance on waking up finding 150g of water on my floors.

[lazylivin]

Looks really nice Lonnie and the Torch is doing very well.

[Blown76mav]

Looks really nice Lonnie and the Torch is doing very well.

The Torch is doing great, before the move it would open up to like 7-8 inches, there is also 5 mouths now, when I got it, it had 3.  Might have to frag it before long.

[jake]

Nice set up. Like the space and the rocks are nice

[hamiltro]

looks great love all the pics. you need to update your info and add 150 gallon.

[Blown76mav]

Well this weekend I got to do a little more to my tank.  I went to pick up some fish from a guy who was tearing down his tank and ended up with A LOT more.  I got 2 250W MH's, ballast's and reflectors.  Now I have light.   He also sold me a brain coral, a some kind of plate coral, some blastro (?) and a acon (?)  I also got some hammer coral from Slandis3, and a Carnation here localy.

Oh well here are the pics of some of the stuff.

[Blown76mav]

Once the fish get comfortable I'll get some more pictures of them.  I picked up a Yellow Tang, Purple Tang, Kole Tang, Six line Wrasse, Royal Gramma, Chromis, mating pair of Clowns, a Longnose Hawkfish and a pair of Green Serpent Stars.  The Gramma and Wrasse went and hid and never seen them the rest of the night.  The Gramma is almost 4" long and fat.  So far my Sailfin isn't liking the new company but I'm sure he'll get use to them.

I also scored two Korella 4's for 15 dollars

[jungliztkruger]

very nice lonnie. how is everything reacting to the new lights?

[Blown76mav]

So far so good.  Everything loves the lights.  Might have to add either another one in the center or maybe some 24" T5's to brighten up the center.

[aquavista99]

Your setup is very nice Lonnie! That skimmer of yours is a beast! Add any new SPS lately? 

[Blown76mav]

Thanks Tim,

but it pales in comparison to your tank.  No new sps lately, want to make sure I have this under control 100% before I try any more.  I am getting color back in the ones I have, but I'm noticing some cyano starting again (hopefully its a small cycle).  Everything is in check, Nitrates less than .2 Nitrites 0 Ammonia 0 Ph 8.2 Alk 8-9 cal. 450 mag 1300-1400.  Not sure on the PO4. Doing 40 gallon water changes every other week.

I'm thinking a GFO reactor is next on my list.

[aquavista99]

I'm thinking a GFO reactor is next on my list.

Lonnie,

I recently added activated carbon to my system and my water is much cleaner and the recent coral growth and colors are amazing. I know some debate the use of activated carbon 24/7 for reef tanks, but I have seen nothing but positive results and I now change my water once a month instead of every week or bi-weekly. I was running activated carbon when I hosted the Ohio Reef meeting last month as well.

[TechGuy]

Lonnie,

I recently added activated carbon to my system and my water is much cleaner and the recent coral growth and colors are amazing. I know some debate the use of activated carbon 24/7 for reef tanks, but I have seen nothing but positive results and I now change my water once a month instead of every week or bi-weekly. I was running activated carbon when I hosted the Ohio Reef meeting last month as well.

I have always run Carbon aswell. Crystal clear water!

[Joel]

Carbon;


http://www.ohioreef.com/index.php?topic=3550.0

[Blown76mav]

I have been running carbon passively for a while now, I think along with the GFO I'm going to start running it actively.  Still have a cyano problem, but the GFO reactor should be here Monday.