FishBeard's 180g Wall'o'Tank!

KeishaKornbread said:
Any updates, George?
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I have an fr-45 hydra Biopellet reactor now filled with 3 cups of ecobak pellets, and have flooded the bottom of the stand when my ATO hose slipped out of my sump and pumped about a gallon of water over a day. Then had a mishap with my skimmer overflowing before I had the cup connected to a collection container and it splattered skimmatey water all over in the stand thru the vent holes in the lid. Still fighting the new tank algae bloom since I was foregoing gfo while getting the Biopellet reactor seeded. But this next month should be a good one. Pellets are topped off, seeded with mb7 for the last 2 weeks, algae bloom is dissipating, chaeto growth has tapered off, and I'm about to start running BRS high capacity gfo on the system.
 
FishBeard said:
I have an fr-45 hydra Biopellet reactor now filled with 3 cups of ecobak pellets, and have flooded the bottom of the stand when my ATO hose slipped out of my sump and pumped about a gallon of water over a day. Then had a mishap with my skimmer overflowing before I had the cup connected to a collection container and it splattered skimmatey water all over in the stand thru the vent holes in the lid. Still fighting the new tank algae bloom since I was foregoing gfo while getting the Biopellet reactor seeded. But this next month should be a good one. Pellets are topped off, seeded with mb7 for the last 2 weeks, algae bloom is dissipating, chaeto growth has tapered off, and I'm about to start running BRS high capacity gfo on the system.
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Oh geez..one of those days. Sorry to hear about the flood, but great news on making headway with the algae bloom battle!


I love reefers...
 
WooHoo! Productive weekend! Spent all my overtime money at LFS's!

All this has been added over the past few days:

Rock!
- 3 LARGE pieces of tonga that only weighed in at 7 pounds!

Fish!
- 3 Dwarf Angels: Potters, Bicolor and Keyhole
- Large Lawnmower Blenny
- Filamented Flasher Wrasse
- Pair of Pearly Jawfish

Inverts!
- 30 more nassarius snails
- 20 more margarita snails

Corals!
- Rock of neon green zoas
- Devils Paw leather
- Alveopora (White center, purple ring, green fringes)
- Alveopora (Lets call this one the St. Patricks Day coral, dark green, mint green, and more green)
- Two paly frags, one looks like a sweet speckled lunar morph
- 2 head frag of awesome bi-color hammer
- Orange beaded Disco shrooms (pickup today)

I think this weekend has been the most expensive "livestock" purchase I have ever made collectively.
 
Thanks. You have made Tank Envy set in big time. Lol.:high5:

That is an awesome tank. The scape is amazing and the background really set it off. Almost like looking into the ocean. Keep it up.

What are your plans for a sump and all that? Not sure if you mentioned it before or not.
 
Tethered_Limbs said:
nice tank, needs more btas tho.
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I agree completely. Unfortunately there seems to be a BTA trend going on, and its harder and harder to source nicer ones without artificial price inflation on them. I dont want a tank full of rose btas just for the sake of having a ton of nems.

I am still on the wet/dry converted to a chaeto sump. Ive got the 40b sitting out in the garage waiting to be bafffled. Will have a full dedicated macrotope fuge / acclimation area, and built in bubble towers and sock holders so everything stays clean down below.
 
If you go with local importers you can get them without the price inflation. A lfs by me has some deep green and blue ones for like $60, which for the size is pretty darn good. According to him, BTA's aren't in "high damand."
 
FishBeard said:
I agree completely. Unfortunately there seems to be a BTA trend going on, and its harder and harder to source nicer ones without artificial price inflation on them. I dont want a tank full of rose btas just for the sake of having a ton of nems.

I am still on the wet/dry converted to a chaeto sump. Ive got the 40b sitting out in the garage waiting to be bafffled. Will have a full dedicated macrotope fuge / acclimation area, and built in bubble towers and sock holders so everything stays clean down below.
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Nice.
 
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FishBeard said:
I agree completely. Unfortunately there seems to be a BTA trend going on, and its harder and harder to source nicer ones without artificial price inflation on them. I dont want a tank full of rose btas just for the sake of having a ton of nems.

I am still on the wet/dry converted to a chaeto sump. Ive got the 40b sitting out in the garage waiting to be bafffled. Will have a full dedicated macrotope fuge / acclimation area, and built in bubble towers and sock holders so everything stays clean down below.
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yea ive definately been victim to that as well. although my 75 is pretty full with my 8. theres no reason at all to pay 100$ for the same old rose. 100$ for something nice on the other hand... such as your avatar. you get a few of the same ones and all of a sudden they are 8" wide and your whole tank looks the same. do you have your mp 40's not lined up for a reason? do you get nicer flow that way? or just ppl running into it all the time?
 
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