There's no such thing as a free tank

[MissT]

As some of you know, I won the 50 gallon tank in the raffle at the meeting at prof's house last month. I installed in the overflow box, finished building the standpipe, scraped the blue paint off the back and painted it black, finished the plumbing and set up the lights. I also moved sand and liverock from existing tanks. My digital camera is pretty bad, but here's a picture of the rockwork:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a391/SmokeStew20/12-02-0750gfulltankshot.jpg

[tony]

wow, that looks awesome. i love that rockwork

[erikharrison]

It's about time you posted some pics! Looks great!

[lhoy]

Wow, that sure looks bigger than a 50 with the way you arranged the rock!!

Lee

[MissT]

thanks, guys!
And just for fun, here's some poor quality but updated pictures of my little 29 gallon biocube


from the top:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a391/SmokeStew20/topdownbc.jpg

from the front:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a391/SmokeStew20/bcupdated.jpg

[Belowh20]

Cool 50g & Bio-cube. You are definitely right...there is no such thing as a free tank!

[copperband]

wow awesome tanks what type of livestock do you have fish corals inverts ect ect

[MissT]

in the biocube?

fish:
3" Arabian dottyback

inverts:
variety of nassarius, cerith and astrea snails, 2 money cowries, scarlet hermits, red and blue legged hermits, 1 crocea clam

corals:
countless zoanthids and palys, several ricordeas, some "metallic" green star polyps, a green fungia, a green doughnut, a yellow millepora, some mushrooms, a kenya tree... that's off the top of my head...

[copperband]

both

[MissT]

so far in the 50, there's a red and green open brain, two blue goniopora, a 6 head frag of duncans, some zoas
3 pink skunk clowns, a foxface, and some green chromis.
assorted snails, and hermits, a blue linkia... i think that's all i transfered over...

[copperband]

wow thats an awesome set up i got some pink skunk clowns last christmas and didnt last long it stunk but ya are you planning on adding any tangs butterflies other clowns ect or just what else do you plan on keeping

[MissT]

going to get:
1- fourline wrasse
2- percula clowns
1- yellow watchman goby
1- yasha hase & pistol shrimp pair
1- royal gramma
1- fathead anthias
1- bluespot jawfish
1- bluespot sharpnose puffer
1- filamented fairy wrasse
that's pretty much what I've settled on so far, of course it can always change...
I really like tanks with lots of little fish that hide because everytime you look at the tank, you see something new. Makes for an interesting display, especially with how narrow this one is.

[MissT]

the 50 is going to be an all LPS tank with acans, blastos, goniopora, brains, etc. and zoanthids as filler. I'll probably end up putting rics in there too the way mine go crazy in that biocube.
I've been getting the equipment together and planning an SPS tank for a few months and it looks like that one should be running by the end of January. I have everything but the tank lol. Looks like it will be a custom 115 cube, but we'll see how that works out.

[copperband]

wow that sounds awesome how long did you cycle the 50 gallon

[MissT]

lol i used live sand,and cured liverock from existing tanks and a trashcan from my garage; also, brought home a bag full of pods and mysid shrimp from work... all that said, it read no nitrites pretty much from when i filled up with water, on. then i let it sit for a week or so before moving corals in. everything i had in 2 14 gal biocubes, and then some, got transferred in.

[copperband]

wow thats amazing once i get my money i want to get that 90 gallon tank and buy those 40 punds of live sand from hoho19 because i got a free suffering brain from him so i could try and save it and some of the sand from his tank got in their and their was a baby star in the sand

[dapettit]

nice looking tanks there MissT

[devonian]

great looking pics, dont sell yourself short! that looks like a lot of rock in the 50, where will the corals go!

[prof]

Awesome! I am glad to see that tank in a good home.

[copperband]

keep us updated with pics of tank and livestock

[MissT]

David P, David B, and devonian- thanks for the compliments

I'll update pictures as I add stuff... I'm having a little ich outbreak on one of the clowns but from this morning to tonight it is looking MUCH better. I love Garlic Extreme LOL
Hopefully next week when Jake goes to Cali to hand pick the stuff for the RCA holiday sale (sorry for the little plug :wink_smile:), he can get me a nice Coral Beauty and a few others.

[sharkbait29]

what kind of overflow box did you use?

[MissT]

black 2 sided acrylic. Thanks to prof, who supplied it, all I had to do was silicone it in!