My 75 Gallon, Start to Finish....

[Tonyscoots84]

u r lucky! in good time i see you moving to a 90/125, then a 180, then 220

120 gallon maybe but when i move out 220+ gallon def....

 

[masterswimmer]

u r lucky! in good time i see you moving to a 90/125, then a 180, then 220

Scrap that $hit......go straight to the 220. :tongue1:

Tony, gotta tell ya again. I was looking at your pix one more time and it really looks killer. I like it a lot. :goldfish2

masta

 

[Tonyscoots84]

thanks masta... it means alot comming from the master himself.. lolz..

i think the parental unit will have a prob. with a 220 gallon tank in there/my basement.. i claim it as mine cause i have done all of the work.. lolz.. but a bigger tank is commin i say by the end of this year beg. of next year... i wanna enjoy this one for a while.. lmao

 

[masterswimmer]

I was just playin' with ya. Going from 75 to 220 is a major $$$ step up. Additional lighting, bigger skimmer, larger sump/fuge. Bigger electric bill. Forget about stocking it. LR alone can break the bank. You'd need about 300 - 350 lbs of LR alone.

Settle into this one for a week or two :thrash: :beer: then start planning the monster.

master

 

[Tonyscoots84]

hehehe :Up_to_som :idea:

at least i no what skimmer i will be using say hello to asm g6 with recir. mod...

 

[jhale]

:bump:

 

[jhale]

time to rename the thread? the tank is here, lol

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Updates on my 75 gallon..

here ya go guys some updated pics... ive become a little better with this POS digital camera i think... but im batteling or actually its batteling me (brown algae) but its cycling so ill let nature play its course.. ill just skim the crap out of the water.. hahahahaha....

added the 2 250 watt metal halides 14 k hamiltons.... the color looks great... im very happy....

building the canopy as we speak.. its approx. 50% done the rest gonna get done this week.... the height of the canopy is 20" high... i hope its gonna look good.. mah pops said to do it that high why i dunno... but ill take pics of the canopy tom... other then that everything is doing great....

 

[noodleman]

nice looking center piece there tony And what you tlaking about i dont see any diatoms on your BB

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Thanks alvin... thats my very 1st coral started out as a baby frag.. and is turning into a colony.. its about 40+ polyps on that piece of rock.. they are there... brown algae on the bottom u will see it in the pics as little brown spot but theres alot there.. and on the return inside the tank...

 

[noodleman]

all i see is a super astro white bottom...you should try putting down that:beer: :smash:

 

[Tonyscoots84]

hehehe no alvin there is brown algae (diatoms) there unfortunately.. it might just be that im a good photographer so it didnt pick up the brown crap on the cutting board.. LMAO..

 

[noodleman]

or you just a bad photographer and cant pick up on the details of the diatoms :fight2: :givebeer:

 

[Tonyscoots84]

:funnypost Maybe i dun wanna pick up on the details did ya eva think about that huh did ya.. lmao..lolz :tongue1: ... :scratch: :Up_to_som

 

[masterswimmer]

Tony, looks nice my friend. Really coming together. Before you know it, you'll be fragging things and saying, damn, I need a bigger tank. lol

Keep up the good work,
Russ

 

[masterswimmer]

BTW, update your post count already. You're really falling down on the job here!!

 

[nanoreefer22]

Looking good Tony.....how come you made the canopy so high? You halides are gonna be far far far from the water . When its all said and done see if you can get your halide down to 8-10inches from the water.

 

[masterswimmer]

Looking good Tony.....how come you made the canopy so high? You halides are gonna be far far far from the water . When its all said and done see if you can get your halide down to 8-10inches from the water.

Kris, just because the hood is 18" tall doesn't mean the MH's will be that high. Tony's father might have done that for air circulation around the MH's and cooling. Just a guess since I don't know. But it wouldn't be a bad idea, since the lights can be hung at any level within the hood and they'll still be hidden.

master

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Kris, just because the hood is 18" tall doesn't mean the MH's will be that high. Tony's father might have done that for air circulation around the MH's and cooling. Just a guess since I don't know. But it wouldn't be a bad idea, since the lights can be hung at any level within the hood and they'll still be hidden.

master

russ no's his stuff... yea thats wat me and the pops are doing. were adding the 2 - 3 fans on the top pushing air out.. and 1 on each side for pushing air in.. im not gonna have the halides hang cause it will be another worry on my head but what im gonna do is put a 2X4 horizontally on the sides and one in the middle and then run a sheet of wood to fit the reflectors on it so i can screw in all the holes. i like that idea better then hanging em... thanks guys.. any other suggestions..

 

[masterswimmer]

I built too many homes to not know this one Tony. Was kinda easy. lol

master