Nick's 90 gallon aggressive reef tank

lol. Patience is a virtue!

The reeflo blowhole pump came in today as well as the stunner strip for moonlights and the expoxy.
The rock work is all epoxied together now and should be sturdy



Compact and good head!



Unfortunatly due to how the pump is setup (in flow and outflow side) to be placed flat on the bottom of my stand you would have to cut out the backside of the stand...
Instead I am planning on making a wood stand to support the weight of the pump and I will run it inline. Hopefully I will get to it tomorrow, if not it may be a week or so.

Yay! Glad the order finally came in! Good luck setting the pump inline!

Size comparison between the two
PCX-30


BH1100


Here is the old external pump


Now it’s gone!


Now there’s a replacement!




The glue is curing for another hour and a half, hopefully it will work lol.

Looks good!

My new Koralias came in. Each are controllable 1400gph pumps.



The one on the top is the new one, it has the same output as the larger old one.


Controller for them


And here they are on the tank (Ignore the cords, that is one of tomorrows tank tasks!)

I'm jellous of those controlable ones. They look fun! wanna sell the old ones? lol

They are pretty cool! I have my pump shut off again tonight as I am going to put putty or silicone on the bulkhead. With the flow off for hours it stops dripping. SO the new koralias are the only thing powering the tank.

Yeah I'll sell the old ones, I'll list them tomorrow. One of them needs to be cleaned because it doesn't lock in place and I dropped the other on the carpet and the red stem broke that holds it to the magnet. Therefore they will be cheap lol

Sweet koralias!

Thanks! I can't say I care for the sound of them kicking on and off, but then I remembered the huge whining sound that my mp10 make when it was on full power and was happy with my purchase

The tank is pretty much compete now, from lights to pumps. Today I cut up the old part of the canopy into three strips and stained the sides of them and coated them with polyurethane. Then latched them to the top so all three lift independently.



The cords from the Koralias were almost too short to make it....




Ecoxotic led strip 48in. (my finger is pointing to it on the left)




Only the stunner/moonlight on

Lookin' good Nick! Gotta watch those wild shots though with the billiard table

No wild shots will be aimed towards it

Looks good!

Man, that would suck if a billiard ball plowed into that tank...

Thankfully people only seem to play when I play, be it with friends or family. I will make sure that doesn't happen

So last Thursday I went out collecting in sarasota with Mango and my friends Nick and Chan. I ended up coming home with 4 sea urchins, a filefish, and a wrasse. The filefish is now missing (not in the overflow, I checked lol).

Longspine black


Here is the wrasse


The bleached white is where the pincushion cleaned




Some crabs from the conference today that were free from Reef 2 reef, I still wont buy from them again, but gladly accepted free blue legs.


And my favorite... one of the pincushion trying to blend in by carrying a mushroom lol

Cool Urchins Nick! The Longspine looks a little like a pencil urchin.

Everything looks good!

really glad the urchins made it! do you think the file got through the pipes in the overflow? i had a fish go through the grate one time..

*rare reef. Reef2reef is actually a pretty cool site that's gonna be the next RC lol who cares though? its free crabs!

Sounds and looks like a pretty successful collecting trip! Love the pic of the urchin carrying around your shroom & co.

Btw, don't think that's a wrasse. Mr. Vargas said today that all wrasses have an unbroken dorsal fin.

Doratonotus megalepis

It has an unbroken dorsal fin..

Thank you nick!!

i guess it just looks broken.. this doesn't help when collecting. lol

Thanks for looking finding it man! I looked in the tank and the filefish poked his head out so he is still doing good .

I can't wait to go back, I'm ready whenever lol. It was a great spot. I'm bringing something for my feet next time though. The back of my ankle is still cut pretty good.

Lol me too! i'm going sometime this week while my brother's in town but we prolly won't go there.. he's not big on snorkeling.

Yeah something for your feet and something for my hands lol

Found my wrasse dead this morning btw

Good luck finding stuff man don't get too beat up lol.

Sorry about your wrasse. I've never seen any that behave like these, it just hangs around not doing much lol

Thanks
you want any more urchins if I find them?

lol that's prolly the reason why we caught them