Upgraded! to the solana. tank is up and running!

[OneTimer]

Nice that was quick- colors look good under the T5- Red looks open to me

 

[ctxmonitor]

Nice setup!! especially in the bedroom, haha.. Who doesn't want a tank in their own room, lol..

How's the noise of your solana so far?

 

[Border09]

Hey great pics!

Still deciding on lights over here. Read your thread about the Throtek and it seems as though they're not a good option! lol

Saw you were debating about skimmers.

I recently bought the sapphire and really like it, as it fits perfectly in the back and skims very well-- and i'm still in the break in period!

Let me know what lights you decide to go for!

Tom

 

[JonnyJ]

its directly infront of my bed lol. its great! noise is pretty low as long as you keep up with topping it off.

the overflow part i hang a piece of poly pad with a paperclip and it removes all the noise. but if you do it make sure water can go around it lol. because if it gets clogged you will have a mess.


skimmer ! hmmm not sure yet. do you have the new sapphire?

 

[JonnyJ]

also picked up some chaeto earlier - i dont have a submersable light yet for the back chamber so i bought a 3 way breeder and attached a 3 way suction cup from a pump to it. it has slots to allow flow so its good for me. kinda like an intank cpr refug which i was considering buying. anyways it cost me 5 dollars and it will do its job lol

some would say im crazy but i dont think it looks that bad. lol
:banghead:


the caulerpa lol -

 

[geomek]

Nice tank! I have been thinking about buying one just like it. Where did you pick it up?
Thanks,

 

[OneTimer]

Great idea on the cheato-

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Very nice!

 

[JonnyJ]

Thanks everyone, hopefully in a few months ill have it nice and stocked up.

Today i came home to a big mess. All of my live rock toppled over.

spent 3 hrs trying to get a scape but still dont like it ;(

its so hard when you have large rocks in such a small tank

 

[masterswimmer]

Today i came home to a big mess. All of my live rock toppled over.

spent 3 hrs trying to get a scape but still dont like it ;(

its so hard when you have large rocks in such a small tank

Jonny so sorry to hear about the rockslide. Without having seen your tank, I'm going to take a guess and make the very strong recommendation that you place ALL the rock ON THE GLASS BOTTOM, not on the sandbed.

If the rock is on the sand, any sand sifting fish or inverts and even the flow from a powerhead can move the sand and cause another rockslide.

I'm glad to hear this accident wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been.

Russ

 

[JonnyJ]

thanks guys

&russ i dug them real deep now straight on the glass!

heres a updated pic with the new scape, im not 100% in love with it but ill let the tank settle in before messing with it again.

and some shots of some new stuff

im loving the polys under the candy cane,

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Sweet!

 

[Imbarrie]

I like the last rock scape the best.

 

[JonnyJ]

couple more pictures, my calcium was low and i haven't been able to do a water change so i have been dosing purple up the past 3 days. alot of stuff has started to open up nicer. i relocated some stuff and fooled around with the scape so i can have some shelfs for future additions. Some of the frags are still adjusting from the move but all my fish are doing great. really excited to watch everything grow.

the toadstool looks really good compared to the last set of pictures. i never seen one so i thought that was normal lol. awsome little frag - thanks young reef!coraline seems to be darkening up and traveling to new places and the GSP that i thought didnt make the trip home seems to be coming out. !!

anyways enjoy and lemmie know what you think.

 

[JonnyJ]

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[Chiefmcfuz]

Lookin really good! I am impressed!

 

[OneTimer]

Nice work the shroom and candy cane look great!

 

[Oliver]

nice tank! where did you get that acan frag looks familiar lol?

 

[OneTimer]

It was the one I got from you Oliver - I had to many Acan's

 

[JonnyJ]

Went to LFS and seen a nice rock with Red macro algae growing on it, not sure what it is ! but the tank is really starting to look great. i love it