270 Gallon SPS tank for JBNY - Page 30

keith1569 · #**726** 11/07/2007, 04:43 PM

i love the way the tank looks in the room man..great job with everything

keith1569 · #**727** 11/07/2007, 04:43 PM

i love the way the tank looks in the room man..great job with everything

invincible569 · #**728** 11/09/2007, 11:14 PM

Wow, looks great overall! I love the aquascape. very unique. I think you need to turn that couch around.

eaglesrx · #**729** 11/19/2007, 03:07 PM

Love the tank so far. I'm sure it's going to be even better than your previous tank!!!

question: I can't remember what you stated earlier in this thread. how deep is your sandbed and what maintenance do you plan with it (i.e. stirring, changing portions out, etc?) if any at all? In addition, what inverts do you plan to keep it clean?

Thanks!
Phu

lastlight · #**730** 12/03/2007, 02:10 PM

Quick question for you Joe...

Why did you choose to show the surface of the water in your design? I rarely see this and was wondering.

Amazing job btw. I hope to build something very similar in the near future.

Brett

crab0000 · #**731** 12/03/2007, 05:02 PM

Do you have any pics of the coral and fish?

JazzMan · #**732** 12/14/2007, 08:28 PM

Hey Joe, where ya been???

Elliott · #**733** 12/15/2007, 09:53 AM

wow, outstanding, wish I had your DIY skills

Graf-X · #**734** 12/15/2007, 07:37 PM

subscribed and taking notes...

Graf-X · #**735** 12/15/2007, 07:37 PM

subscribed and taking notes...

JB NY · #**736** 01/02/2008, 11:27 AM

Happy New Year everybody!!

Sorry for no update in while. I made the mistake of starting the Master Bathroom renovation, right after finishing the canopy for my tank. I guess I am just a glutton for punishment.

So absolutely nothing has been done with the tank, in the last two months. I've got a few corals in the tank that were given to me about 8 weeks ago, they are all doing fine. I've put some fish in the tank, but have been having a real hard time keeping certain fish. I lost a whole school (13) of splitfin anthias, (they just disappeared one day never to be seen again). I also lost a school of banggai cardinals (10 as well). I've got a bunch of other fish in the tank and they are all doing well though, so I am unsure what is the cause of my fish woes.

The tank is having some hair algae issues in a few places on the rocks, but other than that it is doing good.

Really the bathroom renovation consumed all available free time since early November, sorry I haven't posted much.

crab0000 · #**737** 01/02/2008, 12:00 PM

He lives!

Happy New Year!

marino420td · #**738** 01/02/2008, 01:35 PM

Then lets see pictures of the bathroom

melev · #**739** 01/02/2008, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by marino420td
Then lets see pictures of the bathroom

Right. As long as this thread has a pulse, we're happy.

customclimates · #**740** 01/02/2008, 02:32 PM

Hey Joe,
Man, what a nice set up! I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this entire thread. The experience shines through with all the unforgotten details. I don think you missed a thing. I just subscribed to this one & look forward to the future progress of this reef. Nice Job!

chrismhaase · #**741** 01/02/2008, 03:04 PM

Joe, happy new years. I have read this whole thread awhile ago so I don't recall, but do you have a remote deep sand bed? If not would you ever consider implementing it? Why or why not? Also, have you reworked your lights? I am going through the same problem of light racks. I made a single rack w/ the MH and VHOs only to find that I can't get into the tank and around vhos without burning my arm. So I am thinking of taking them off and installing a cabinet drawer roller to move them above the tank.

chrismhaase · #**742** 01/02/2008, 03:04 PM

PS - I asked about the RDSB because you mentioned a algae problem.

invincible569 · #**743** 01/02/2008, 05:01 PM

I think we would love to see some pics with those new corals in your tank

tbone28 · #**744** 01/02/2008, 05:05 PM

Yes, I *think* so, too!

maxxII · #**745** 01/02/2008, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by marino420td
Then lets see pictures of the bathroom

As long as its not being used during the photo.....

Ewww.......

Nick

Lunchbucket · #**746** 01/02/2008, 08:29 PM

Wonder how you loose 25fish??

Lunchbucket

IMPERATORFAN · #**747** 01/03/2008, 05:13 PM

I'm wondering the same thing. I have a feeling that the 25 disappearing fish story is going to turn out to be very interesting.

bguile · #**748** 01/03/2008, 07:52 PM

Sounds like fish poisoning to me. To lose 13 fish at one time (no timeline specified so I'm assuming) sounds too "fishy" (forgive me...couldn't think of anything else) to me. Even if there was a predator in the tank, they couldn't disappear that fast and it not be big enough to notice.

JB NY · #**749** 01/07/2008, 12:21 PM

Hey guys,

Really I don't know what happened on the fish. I had a school of 13 splitfin anthias in the tank. They are about 1.5" long, so they are pretty small. They were in the tank about 2 weeks. It took them about 5 days to start coming out and then they were out all the time and schooling in a tight formation, so they looked pretty cool. I was trying a lot of different kinds of food to get them to eat. I think they were finally eating cyclopeeze though. Everything seemed to be fine. after about the two week mark, I noted that only about 5 of the fish were out for two days, then I only saw 3-4 fish hiding under a rock. Then two days later I saw none. About 1 week later one fish showed up dead on a tunze.

That's it. the other 8 or so fish are doing fine. I don;t know what happened.

I'll post some renovation pictures later this afternoon.

JB NY · #**750** 01/07/2008, 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by chrismhaase
Joe, happy new years. I have read this whole thread awhile ago so I don't recall, but do you have a remote deep sand bed? If not would you ever consider implementing it? Why or why not? Also, have you reworked your lights? I am going through the same problem of light racks. I made a single rack w/ the MH and VHOs only to find that I can't get into the tank and around vhos without burning my arm. So I am thinking of taking them off and installing a cabinet drawer roller to move them above the tank.

Quote:

Originally posted by chrismhaase
Joe, happy new years. I have read this whole thread awhile ago so I don't recall, but do you have a remote deep sand bed? If not would you ever consider implementing it? Why or why not? Also, have you reworked your lights? I am going through the same problem of light racks. I made a single rack w/ the MH and VHOs only to find that I can't get into the tank and around vhos without burning my arm. So I am thinking of taking them off and installing a cabinet drawer roller to move them above the tank.

I don't have a remote sand bed. I don;t think I would use one. With my old tank I found that I had much better coloration with the corals that were in the main tank with a sand bed. The corals that were in the frag tank, even though it was plumbed into the main system, the corals did not look at colorful, the only thing different was no sand bed.

I have not reworked the lights. right now it is just the MH on the tank from 12 PM to 9 PM.