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75G upgrade

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Topic: 75G upgrade
Posted By: SGH360
Subject: 75G upgrade
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 12:40am
well today it was the day i upgraded from a 29G to a 75GSmile. it just basically upgrading the tank and lights nothing else, everything was upgrade ready
 
Here is my 29G tank
 
http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=42655 - http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=42655
 
here are some photos of my progress I started since 2pm
 
This the only equipment i needed to do the transfer including the powerheads, syphon tubing and fish net
 
 
Here are the lights. They come from JasonSmile
 
 
The foxface looked stressed after i started to syphoned the water out he knew something was up
 
 
On the Left live rock and on the Right the fishes and corals and shrimp they sure know how to hide
 
 
 
Here is the tank empty took about 90 mins to take all of the stuff out
 
 
Here is the tank ready to be filled with water
 
 
Decided to add a background and not painted just in case something happened on the front and be swap without a problem
 
 
 
here is the live rock just waiting until the dust settle and begin my rock work
 
 
Here is the tank partially set up im acclimating the corals to the light, probably the tank will be full ready by next week, transferring was easy, i had a problem with the foxface it got stuck in the netting worse the face was caught in a hole on the net, i was panicking the fish was moving more into the hole making the situation worse. what I did grab him from behind and pull it out, i got stung by the foxface but manage to get it free. This is the second time but oh well, cool looking fish.
 
 
 
 



Replies:
Posted By: jrjones800
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 1:23am
looking good cant wait to see it all set up


Posted By: kellerexpress
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 1:45am
Looking good I only have one suggestion, For the back ground I woud paint it solid black. The pattern you have on there now will seem very distracting once the tank is full.

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IM 30L
Kessil A160we x2


Posted By: CapnMorgan
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 1:59am
+1 to that solid black looks great. Really brings out the color of everything!

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Steve
http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40637&PID=356246" rel="nofollow - My Old 180G Mixed Reef
Currently:
120G Wavefront Mixed
29G Seahorse & Softies
Running ReefAngel Plus x2
435-8


Posted By: Lewy
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 2:42pm
what's on the back of the back ground?  I've seen some that are solid black on the back.

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40 gal w/ 20 sump


Posted By: Jeffs_little_ocean
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 2:55pm
Im not really a fan of painting the glass. You can get poster board in black (or pretty much any other color ) and just tape it to the outside back of the tank. It gives you the same effect, but then if you decide to change color's, you can.

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Life is good....right?



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