A while back I decided to rebuild my tank for many reasons. the main ones being: to much rock(about 130lb in a 90gal), to many types of coral in one tank(I counted over 50 diff corals), invasive softies, red flatworms, unwanted fish that were impossable to catch, deep sand beed that had accumulated tons of crap over the years, I could go on forever but i'll spare you that.
 
so I decided to take a chunk of my taxes this year and go for it. I purchased lot's of new eqipment including: 2 SE lumenbright pendents, 1 250w galaxy balist, 1 lumatek 250/400 balist, via aqua titanium heater, octopus 200 skimmer, a new RR tank, and I got a sweet deal on two mp40s that are only 2 months old with a extra wet side, also a new olympus stylus 6000 digital camera so I could give you guys pleanty of eye candy to look at, also a new lap top. Anyway here are a few pics to start this off.




I wired up une of the lumenbrights to test it and man they are bright!

also ordered a mess of plugs got to make back some of this green!

I decided to leak test the tank and test out the mp40s at the same time. I filled the tank up to about 5in from the top and instaled the mp40s about 2in below the water and set them up in slave antisync mode ( this is the mode to make waves) and turned the master pump all the way up and and then started to mess with the pulse rate and lo and behold a wave started up. it was about 2in to start with but quickly grew to reach the rim of the tank which was 5in! so i freeked and pulled the plug before my floor got wet.

bought this beast from waverz but still not sure if i want or need to use it. got the regulater off reef central.

got these from a friend of mine cheap.

now for some tank shots.

I have had this stand and canopy for about 3 years now but the tank itself is new.
you can see behind the tank there is a net with shells and stuff in it. the wife likes it got to keep the misses involved!


 
a few shots of the plumbing. i put threaded unions in key spots so it will all come apart. my wife says were moveing in the spring but she has said that the last two years but it never happens because she can't find a house she wants.

sump is a 40gal breeder and no skimmer yet it's on back order at aqua cave.


heres where i mounted the heater controler. it's upside down because thats all the farther the cords would reach because I put the heater in the overflow area. i figure it will be more out of the way there and get plenty of flow.


I decided to go with crushed coral insted of sand. For any noobs that might read this make sure you rinse crushed coral very well. a friend of mine set up a tank a few months ago and didn't rinse it at all and his tank crashed very quickly. This bucket is only about 1/5 full of crushed coral and you get around 6 or 7 buckets of this nasty stuff before it starts to clear out.

here is some of the crap that came out off it.

we all live in a yellow submarine a yellow submarine. one of my sons bath toys was in the back of the tub ops. rince that off before the wife sees it.


spilled a little putting it in the fuge area of the sump.
well that's enough for tonight i'll put up some shots of the corals (there all in my frag system for now) tomorrow.
well maybe one teaser for now.

Posted By Matt on 02/20/2010 11:19 PM
Those heaters are really nice. I have on in my nano, and love it. Seems to be pretty spot on with temps. Looks good too!

Posted By Shaun on 02/20/2010 11:20 PM
Just so everyone knows I am the one who did not rinse my crushed coral before setting up my tank. I had algea so bad I was cleaning the glass three times a day just to see the furry rock. Many thanks for the thread Bill. Looking great so far. Shaun

Posted By Bela on 02/21/2010 12:55 AM
Is that the same 90g you had before? Where is all your livestock hiding? Surely it didn't fit in your frag tank?

Posted By AJ on 02/20/2010 10:59 PM
Looking good Bill! Thanks for doing a build thread!!

--AJ

Posted By phishcrazee on 02/21/2010 09:56 AM
Yay, glad to see this thread up! Looks good, some nice stuff there The 5" wave would have freaked me out too, lol!

A few more pics. I tryed to shoot a video of the frag set up but when i loded it up to my computer I don't know where it went
I'll try again tomorrow.



this one shows the color of the tricolor valida more accuratly



with the flash on



ORA joe the coral


pokerstar monti


ora green birdsnest

sorry for the blurry pictures still figuring out the camera.

Posted By phishcrazee on 02/22/2010 09:29 AM
Nice! Can't wait for my frag of valida to grow out as big as your colony!