120g of Goodness (2/8/12)
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Topic: 120g of Goodness (2/8/12)
Posted By: Quickness
Subject: 120g of Goodness (2/8/12)
Date Posted: August 30 2011 at 2:40am
Well I thought I would post up a sneak peak of the start of my new setup. This time I will be doing the build thread the right way and taking pictures as I go. I currently have a 90g which some of you have seen. This I decided to get so I could have a bigger and deeper tank. And can learn from my mistakes that I have already made with my 90g. The new tank is only 30 gallons larger, but it is still a larger tank.  The build will not be starting right away, but thought it would be nice to post up a sneak peek of what my plans are for my next setup. After I get this ready to go I will be selling the 90g.
------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
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Posted By: pgravis
Date Posted: August 30 2011 at 8:34am
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Nice! That looks like a sweet setup ------------- See my house: www.eclecticvictorian.com |
Posted By: Jeremyw
Date Posted: August 30 2011 at 9:10am
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Nice! Why are you not setting it up right away? Excited to see what you do with it! ------------- Next meeting: |
Posted By: Kristine Woolsey
Date Posted: August 30 2011 at 9:29am
 I like the deeper tank. think this tank will look good when done.------------- Kristine | Layton, UT | e-mail: [email protected] |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: August 30 2011 at 11:49am
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The reason for not setting it up right away is I want to have new plumbing put in, really decide where I want this tank to go, and funds at the moment. I am pretty excited to get this one up and running. ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: September 21 2011 at 4:47pm
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Picked up a 6 bulb T5 fixture for the new setup, and will be bringing everything home real soon. Trying to debate on sanding down the stand and canopy to go with a different stain. I like the color of what it is now, but really like dark color stains.
Also thinking of what fish are going to go in the setup. I think when I start to transfer everything over I will sell my Yellow tang and Coral Beauty. That will leave me with Kole Tang Lawnmower Blenny Bi-Color Blenny Watchman Goby & Pistol Shrimp Cleaner Wrasse 2 Peppermint Shrimp 1 Cleaner Shrimp 1 Harlequien Shrimp 2 fish that I already have decided on are a Blue Hippo Tang and a Sailfin Tang. If anyone has any suggestion please chime in. Keep in mind I am only planning on getting reef safe fish. Will be staying away fish that are considered "with caution" ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: ptronsp
Date Posted: September 21 2011 at 5:03pm
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NO NO NO, don't stain it darker :)... I love the look of the stand and canopy the way it is now. Very nice! Pam ------------- The only clowns I like are in my tank! |
Posted By: DLindquist
Date Posted: September 21 2011 at 6:45pm
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I say go darker. We did with our 265 and love the way it turned out. ------------- A government strong enough to give you everything you want, is powerful enough to take everything you have. |
Posted By: ptronsp
Date Posted: September 21 2011 at 9:06pm
Maybe it's just me, but I don't tend to like dark woods..
------------- The only clowns I like are in my tank! |
Posted By: davser
Date Posted: September 21 2011 at 10:11pm
I would also go with a darker stain such as cherry not to dark but not to light ------------- It's not about what you know but about who you know |
DLindquist wrote:Posted By: BobC63
Date Posted: September 21 2011 at 10:28pm
Looks sweet! 
Take lots of pics and give lots of details!!! ------------- - My Current Tank: 65g Starfire (sitting empty for 2+ years) - * Marine & Reef tanks since 1977 * |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: September 22 2011 at 1:08pm
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Will be taking lots of pics and details for sure. This is not going to be a quick setup. I am going to do things right. I do think that I may coat the overflows with sand and shell but those would be the only thing that I do cover. ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: Tanuki
Date Posted: September 22 2011 at 3:05pm
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stain should depend on the rest of your furniture, wall color, and flooring. Do what you want. Looks like a good tank man. I can't wait to see the progress!
------------- Defending Reefscape Champion (I Think) |
Posted By: Akira
Date Posted: September 23 2011 at 1:28am
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Love the look of natural wood but if u like darker i also like the depth of a dark dark cherry . Looks like a beautiful set up :) |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: October 20 2011 at 3:06am
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So just a quick update.. I decided to keep the tank the color that it is. Just looks better where it is going to go with the lighter color stain. Plumbing has been started and hopefully this should be done this weekend. I will be taking some pictures and posting them up here pretty shortly. I will take pics of the plumbing and some of the new equipment going into the tank. We are going to have to reinforce the stand a bit before getting her all filled up. Had to cut a bit more then anticipated to get the 50g sump in the back. Makes me wish that it had doors on the both end for easier access to the that area. Oh well will have to make due with it and learn to work around it. Biggest worry is moving all of the sand and water. I really do not want to have a big cycle in the new tank and I have heard some bad things about moving sand beds. Any suggestion would be awesome for this. Pics coming soon... ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: Jeremyw
Date Posted: October 20 2011 at 11:23am
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Sounds great so far! Looking forward to the pictures! ------------- Next meeting: |
Posted By: ptronsp
Date Posted: October 20 2011 at 3:01pm
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Looking forward to seeing it come along Jared! :)
------------- The only clowns I like are in my tank! |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: October 21 2011 at 8:16pm
Here are a few pics from the progress that we have made in the last couple days. I got all of my bulbs for my t5 fixture. We are just about done and going to be doing a water test for the seals probably tomorrow.  Some shot of the plumbing    And my controller  ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: October 21 2011 at 9:11pm
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Cool:-) um if I remember right the probes need to stay wet or they are ruined. I could be wrong but make sure you find out. ------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: October 21 2011 at 10:02pm
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If that's the case they already were when I got it :( ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: DLindquist
Date Posted: October 21 2011 at 10:13pm
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Biggest worry is moving all of the sand and water. I really do not want to have a big cycle in the new tank and I have heard some bad things about moving sand beds. Any suggestion would be awesome for this. Pics coming soon... [/QUOTE]
I would suggest scooping up some of your existing top layer of sand for use in the new setup, then either use all new sand or throughly wash all of your old sand in fresh water repeatedly. Simply place a five gallon bucket under the faucet while stirring up your sand. Continue until the run over water is clear. ------------- A government strong enough to give you everything you want, is powerful enough to take everything you have. |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: October 28 2011 at 3:31am
Here are a couple more. The tank is done and we are just diong some water test on the plumbing. Should be very soon that the move starts!  Pretty excited to have this ready to go. More pics will come as we start the rock scapping and everything else. 3 fish are getting an eviction notice upon the move. My yellow tang, coral beauty, and bicolor blenny(Devil Fish) Yellow tang is leaving because he is rather aggresive towards my sailfin.. And I like my sailfin a lot more. Coral beauty is leaving because I am trying to move away for "with caution" reef fish Bicolor is lucky he does not get a funeral... This is a Devil spawn in a fish.. Eats clams and other soft coral.. ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: jaschall
Date Posted: October 28 2011 at 8:54am
| How much for the yellow tang? I would be interested |
Posted By: wick246
Date Posted: October 28 2011 at 11:56am
That's a great looking tank Quickness! You must stay up late working on them, all your new tank posts are late at night. 
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Posted By: ptronsp
Date Posted: October 28 2011 at 12:07pm
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Jared this new set up is going to be amazing! I know you are very excited about it, I look forward to watching the process. Pam ------------- The only clowns I like are in my tank! |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: October 28 2011 at 2:14pm
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Thanks guys! And no I just get off work at 11 so I have to do my stuff later in the evening. ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: ksmart
Date Posted: October 28 2011 at 2:27pm
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Looking really good! 120 gal is probably my favorite tank, this is going to be awesome! ------------- |
Posted By: Deluxe247
Date Posted: October 29 2011 at 5:26pm
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Sorry I didn't see this thread earlier. I don't know if you've decided on a plan of action for moving the sand bed yet or not. DLindquist's ideas is solid. There may be another safe way to do it that would save a little more of the good biology. Also, the age and maintenance of the sand bed is critical. If it's relatively new, and/or you've done a lot of gravel vac-ing, then it's already fairly safe. If not, and even regardless of the age, I would do a few good water changes before the move, and make sure you gravel vac really well. You could even do this after you remove the livestock and rocks to make sure you get the pockets you couldn't get to. ------------- 90G Mixed Reef |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 8:21pm
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Okay so here is an update of the tank. Sorry it has taken me so long to do this.. All Pics were taken with my old iPhone.. So quality is not there.. Anyone know someone up north with great camera skills please let me know.. Also all my lights were on for pretty much every shot.. Like to present what it actually looks like. Some of the pictures are already old and coral has been moved around a bit, but you will get the general idea of what is going on for now. Oh and almost forgot.. I did not have anything pass away with the move from the 90g to the 120g!  Here is what you come to the threads for!  Full shot  Left Side  Center  Right Side  And here are some pics of various Coral and Fish that I have in my system right now. I am pretty stocked on fish, but really enjoy watching them interact with one another. (I'm addicted to Tangs) Sail-fin Tang  Blond Naso Tang  Clown Tang  My Blue Hippo and Kole Tang were being a little camera shy.. Sorry no pics of them at the moment. Here are a couple of my newest additions. Solar Wrasse  Mystery Wrasse  Here are some of my current Chalice frags. I have another on my frag rack, but unable to get a good picture of the rainbow of colors in it so I am leaving that out. I got it from Gonzo at the reef fest.     And the biggest one that I have to date..  My welso (A large portion of this was bleached when I purchased it. Happy to say colors are coming back in great.) And there is my Powder Brown Tang  Can never remember what exactly these are called.. It is a type of Acan.. Acan Maxima  Clams  Here are some of my Zoas and frags on the frag rack (Some of which are for sale) Can't remember what these are.  Red People Eaters  Spider-mans  Candy Apples  Armor of Gods and my Aussie Blastos  Blue Tubs  Purple Death Palys  Here are some that are on the frag rack.. Eagle Eye, Sunny D's, Magicians, Lunar Eclipse, Chocolate Mint, Cat Eye, and Tyree Space Monsters     Here is a better picture of the Tyree Space Monsters..  Some of the SPS that I have right now, but can not get good pics of are.. Green Garf Bonsai, Pearl Berry, Tri color Vilda, Red Planet, Poker Star Monti, Orange Monti, Green Monti, Purple Haze Monti, Couple different types of Birds Nest one of them starts with a P and I can never remember how the heck to say it or spell it.. lol It is a rainbow color. There will be more to come as I keep going Here is my fish and invert List Watchman/Pistol Pair Blond Naso Tang Blue Hippo Tang Kole Tang Clown Tang Sail-fin Tang Powder Brown Tang Cleaner Wrasse Six-line Wrasse Mystery Wrasse Solar/Clown Wrasse Mandarin Fire Fish Rainfords Goby Blue Eye Anthias (I think) Blue Spot Jawfish(MIA Fear the worst) Cleaner Shrimp Fire Shrimp A bunch of snails and crabs Cucumber And I am probably forgettin something, but when I remember I will update.. ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 8:44pm
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Nice update:) Stuff is looking good! ------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: ptronsp
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 8:45pm
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Jared my friend, it looks amazing!
Pam ------------- The only clowns I like are in my tank! |
Posted By: BillyC
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 9:07pm
| Tank looks awesome man! I recently upgraded to a 120 also and love it. |
Posted By: pgravis
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 9:24pm
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things are looking sweet man. Nice work ------------- See my house: www.eclecticvictorian.com |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 9:29pm
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Thanks. The tank is still pretty new as tank standards go right now, but so far so good. Need a good underwater camera and some picture lessons. Still working on getting my controller up and working the way I would like and soon plan on purchasing a Calcium reactor to help maximize my corals health! ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: Brandon1985
Date Posted: November 16 2011 at 6:13am
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Nice
------------- 24G JBJ Nano with LEDS |
Posted By: Jeremyw
Date Posted: November 16 2011 at 9:10am
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Looks GREAT! ------------- Next meeting: |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 4:05am
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I will for sure be working on getting better pictures. Any suggestions on how to take better shots of tank and coral? Only digital camera that I have is a older Canon SD750 ELPH ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: Snowsrfr
Date Posted: November 18 2011 at 8:02am
I used to have the same Canon ELPH, and could take decent pics of corals with it. Things that worked for me. Turn off all other lights in room. Use a tripod. Whenever possible, use the macro setting, but for corals that are further in the tank, turn macro off. ------------- "A fish tank is not a pet. It's a TV that you gotta feed." - John Caparulo |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 12:52am
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Ok so I think it is time for an update. I have been able to take some better pics with my new phone. These are the first that I have shot with it so I will learn more about it and get better as I go. Full Tank Shot  And I'll just throw in some other misc pics.  CARs  This one will be super sexy when it gets bigger!  This one also  I will call him MINI me  My first welso  Hell Fire Chalice  The new baby  ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: Tanuki
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 8:04am
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Jared, this is looking good. I can't imagine the probs would have been delivered wet, but maybe I guess? I am sure you are fine. Looks like I need to bug you for some frags :)
------------- Defending Reefscape Champion (I Think) |
Posted By: Tanuki
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 8:06am
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I think I have a chunk of that blue/ red chalice too. Is that the one they call the super rainbow burst or whatever? ------------- Defending Reefscape Champion (I Think) |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 12:05pm
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Do't think they are the same. Might be close though. I will get more pics within a few days. I want to try and get a nice pic of my new wrasses. ------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: ptronsp
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 8:20pm
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Jared your tank looks amazing! Great photos. Thanks for the update! Pam ------------- The only clowns I like are in my tank! |
Posted By: BillyC
Date Posted: January 22 2012 at 8:38pm
| Dang tanks looking sweet my dude! |
Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: February 08 2012 at 12:00pm
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My New Additions! Flame Wrasse Pair. 
------------- Molon Labe Si vis pacem, para bellum |
Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: February 08 2012 at 12:03pm
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Very nice Jared!! ------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: Laird
Date Posted: February 08 2012 at 12:09pm
Whats the one on the right? ------------- Indefinite hiatus from sw aquariums. Once I have my glorious return I'll set back up the following. 50 Gallon rimless cube. 180 Gallons mixed reef paradise |
Posted By: fishnfresh
Date Posted: February 08 2012 at 12:20pm
| It is the male flame wrasse |
Posted By: ptronsp
Date Posted: February 08 2012 at 12:52pm
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Those are beautiful! Pam ------------- The only clowns I like are in my tank! |
Posted By: rufessor
Date Posted: February 14 2012 at 3:38pm
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What's with the perching on the bottom... are you sure they are not flame wrasse/flame hawk intercrosses?? Beautiful. Edit to propose that they are are Flame Wrassehawks
------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler -A.E. 57 Gallon RImless build in progress check the thread before if becomes boring and just full of nice pictures of colorful coral! |