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Big_Pun

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 12:30 PM

ok so I finally got to start over and do the stuff I wanted to but needed an excuse to tear down and start all over. I'm finally happy with rock work and most important with organization of equipment and wires.

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Mr Cob

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 12:38 PM

nice job Chris. Corals look great and it Looks like it's already time for another upgrade dude! Love the room in your stand. What's the height? What's the dimensions on everything?

Big_Pun

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 12:47 PM

-70g dsa tank 36x18x25
stand is also DSA
-6 bulb t5HO(for now)
-filtration is just bio pellets and octopus skimmer
-reef keeper lite
-jbj auto top off
-vortec MP40 es

txg8gxp

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 12:50 PM

looks good

Mr Cob

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 01:05 PM

T5 for now? You going LED or MH? How tall is the stand? looks like you you have a lot of room in there...kind of like my 85g stand which is 40" tall (DSA also).

CoryDude

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 01:16 PM

New tanks are fun! Hopefully everything will transition to the t5's without any problems. No more cheato in the sump?

TexasTodd

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 01:28 PM

Nice Chris, yeah, what lights are you looking at?

Europhyllia

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 01:29 PM

I like all of the stuff on the overflowbox. Very nice :)

Big_Pun

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 01:42 PM

stand is 33". as for lights i would like to go back to a pendent lumearc or a sunlight supply, t5 or vho for actinic. my biggest concern is heat. I am trying to stay away from a chiller. the color is great from the t5 and the tank is staying at 77, i have 2 additional icecap fans in hood and extra Wally world one controlled by the RKL. no more cheato! I miss the shimmer so LED might be in the works.

Europhyllia

Fri, 24th Dec 2010, 01:46 PM

I miss the shimmer so LED might be in the works.
Yeah I've been very happy with the T5s on the big tank but now that the seahorse tank has LEDs it does look a little dull without that 'shimmer'. Darn Stephen...

Big_Pun

Thu, 30th Dec 2010, 11:42 PM

ok took some pics tonight finally got most of the coral glued down

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Europhyllia

Thu, 30th Dec 2010, 11:52 PM

finally a nice white non-blue tank ;)

CoryDude

Fri, 31st Dec 2010, 01:50 AM

You still got that famous blue milli?

Big_Pun

Fri, 31st Dec 2010, 10:07 AM

finally a nice white non-blue tank ;)
just camera tricks lol

You still got that famous blue milli?

yes its with the clam but i was messing with cam settings so blue got filtered out, thats why i need your skills to come snap some shots. that mili is a lot more blue in person.

Big_Pun

Mon, 10th Jan 2011, 02:29 PM

moved to appropriate forum

alton

Mon, 10th Jan 2011, 05:57 PM

Nice looking tank and that is a bunch of corals. I really like the acans.

Big_Pun

Fri, 14th Jan 2011, 12:51 PM

night shot acro frag

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hobogato

Fri, 14th Jan 2011, 12:56 PM

nice one chris!

Big_Pun

Fri, 14th Jan 2011, 01:51 PM

nice one chris!

Thanks, i really like how the polyps look extended out

ErikH

Fri, 14th Jan 2011, 02:31 PM

That acro looks sick! :)

Regric25

Fri, 14th Jan 2011, 03:02 PM

Hell yea its nice! Its gonna be all mine in about 19 hrs :D :D

Big_Pun

Fri, 14th Jan 2011, 03:17 PM

Hell yea its nice! Its gonna be all mine in about 19 hrs :D :D

LOL see you in the morn.

Big_Pun

Sat, 12th Feb 2011, 11:38 AM

starting to restock my tank picked this up from Gabe 2 days ago. ORA semi Picasso, hosting all ready.

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aquasport24

Sat, 12th Feb 2011, 12:39 PM

You only get one? It looks alot like Grade A Picasso.

Big_Pun

Sat, 12th Feb 2011, 02:02 PM

You only get one? It looks alot like Grade A Picasso.

yea Gabe has had it a while,the other one that came in with it died, this lil guy has been looking lonely,so at least he's got a anemone. he's a mean bugger attacks the mag float when it gets near it. it does look like a grade a actually ,Ora doesn't show the semi Picasso on the site anymore. here's a better pic

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Big_Pun

Mon, 21st Feb 2011, 11:00 AM

took this last night first vid is of acro crab eatting, kinda funny after watching him a while i noticed that every once in a while he would steal lil particle cought by the acro polyps. he never caused any damage to the polyps. second vid is just my tank under moonlight

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Big_Pun

Tue, 3rd May 2011, 01:38 PM

Trying a new bulb setup: 3x ati blue plus, 1x ati aquablue special, 1x ati purple plus, 1x geisman midday. i have to say its a nice mixture has a nice crisp white look with enough blue to pop colors.

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some pics from yesterday before the bulb change

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hobogato

Tue, 3rd May 2011, 02:48 PM

everything looks healthy and happy chris. that pink chalice really grows fast once it settles in huh?

Big_Pun

Tue, 3rd May 2011, 02:58 PM

everything looks healthy and happy chris. that pink chalice really grows fast once it settles in huh?

oh yeah as soon as that thing settles it takes off!!!!

bigsby

Wed, 4th May 2011, 09:28 PM

Doing it right...

CoryDude

Wed, 4th May 2011, 11:05 PM

Blue milli (drooooool)

Didn't know you had a starry blenny. Very cool.

Big_Pun

Thu, 5th May 2011, 12:53 AM

thanks bigsby..... yea Cory I got him when I bought the tank, funny story actually. when I went to tear down the tank as we where about to move the tank off the stand I noticed it in the overflow. it was in about 2 inches water just looking up at me. owner didn't even know it was there.

Big_Pun

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 01:47 PM

Just noticed i havent up dated in over 2 months. Still running bio pellets no fuge also. Been fighting hair algae problem also and its pretty much all gone, thanks to better husbandry.

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SinisterLou

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 01:50 PM

nice tank:shades:

LuckySingh

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 01:53 PM

gud job chris:)

LuckySingh

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 02:00 PM

Big_Pun

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 02:07 PM

And some fish shots

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the happy couple
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And my new shoes under actinics lol
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Europhyllia

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 02:12 PM

You and Allan... just give me this urge to come by your house some time with an Easy Blade in my pocket. lol

I want to scrape you sides!!! Please let me scrape the sides of your tank.

alton

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 02:51 PM

Wow that last picture spooked me until I read the header

Big_Pun

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 03:28 PM

You and Allan... just give me this urge to come by your house some time with an Easy Blade in my pocket. lol

I want to scrape you sides!!! Please let me scrape the sides of your tank.

your more than welcome. funny thing is my girlfriend gets frustrated about it too.

danvan75

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 08:39 PM

cool blue milli and nice kicks.

hobogato

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 08:52 PM

looking good chris (and the tank aint bad either) :D cant believe how much that little scoly has grown!

Big_Pun

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 11:06 PM

thanks everyone for the comments. still waiting for Karin's pm to schedule scraping.
@ace: yea and it was eatin in half twice by a blue hermit.

Europhyllia

Wed, 20th Jul 2011, 11:07 PM

lol I am trying to get Allan's coordinated with yours so I can do it all in one trip! ;)

FireWater

Thu, 21st Jul 2011, 11:41 AM

Big_Pun

Thu, 21st Jul 2011, 12:43 PM

Karin, you need to pack extra scrapers after looking at the pics. LOL

Chris, nice tank man. Would look even better with that skimmer you can't get. Nice shoes. Is that the volt yellow on a pair of Nike?

hey hey coraline is a sign of age and wisdom like wrinkles. ugh don't remind me of the skimmer :(. yes that's volt yellow on air max's

FireWater

Thu, 21st Jul 2011, 02:28 PM

I know, that was a low blow with the skimmer. Sorry dude. When did you say you could get one ordered?
I have a pair of lunarglides that glow like that too.

ErikH

Thu, 21st Jul 2011, 02:31 PM

I'll take one of each please. Looks really really good man!

Big_Pun

Thu, 21st Jul 2011, 03:42 PM

I know, that was a low blow with the skimmer. Sorry dude. When did you say you could get one ordered?
I have a pair of lunarglides that glow like that too.

really no big deal, I'm thinking of downsizing and plan on keeping my old skimmer.

Big_Pun

Wed, 10th Aug 2011, 11:55 PM

ok last sat i decided to pull out my devil damsel. in the process i pulled out all my live rock and un-mounted all coral. then i rescaped and reglued. All this in hour half :applause: sorry pics are so blue but my iphone picks it up, need to get my buddy Cory over. also my algae prob has gone away, after talking with my buddy nick and reading on net: i think i found my prob i switched salts from reef crystals to kent marine(nothing else has changed in my tank except age of lights so who knows)

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CoryDude

Thu, 11th Aug 2011, 12:04 AM

I bought one of those damsels from the same batch, and it's nearly as agressive as yours. Guess it shows how hit or miss fish personalities can be.

You didn't get the skimmer?! That bites! Whenever you're ready, I want to trade something for a piece of your blue millie (good thing you're sweetheart isn't named Millie)

Big_Pun

Thu, 11th Aug 2011, 12:06 AM

just give me a call cory before monday(back to work) and ill break you off a piece

Big_Pun

Sat, 17th Sep 2011, 06:49 PM

ok so I've been battling algae again, and bryopsis. my fault i let my bad habits foul my tank(slacking on water changes, other husbandry stuff). so i physically removed as much as I could, which included scrubbing inside and outside my overflow. i also put a fuge back in place.

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this box has opening to skimmer area at bottom and water is from reactor with just carbon. still need to figure out another way to get flow into it may have bio pellet reactor feed into it also.

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Big_Pun

Sun, 20th Nov 2011, 03:03 AM

so my tank has been finally showing improvement, colors have finally come back. Algae is controllable. now I need to wait for my easy blade junior to come in so I can scrape the back glass(lil at a time)

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Europhyllia

Sun, 20th Nov 2011, 08:03 AM

I always said I'd never have anybody else do maintenance on my tank -the exception would be scraping coralline. It's such a pain. I need to get a new Easy Blade too...

Big_Pun

Tue, 22nd Nov 2011, 08:29 AM

I always said I'd never have anybody else do maintenance on my tank -the exception would be scraping coralline. It's such a pain. I need to get a new Easy Blade too...

yes it's pain how fast it grows....... wish there was easier way to clean it

Texreefer

Tue, 22nd Nov 2011, 09:25 AM

The thing about Coralline is,...... the faster it grows, the faster it grows!!!!!

Mr Cob

Tue, 22nd Nov 2011, 09:38 AM

looks great Chris, some very healthy looking SPS colonies.

Big_Pun

Tue, 22nd Nov 2011, 09:46 AM

looks great Chris, some very healthy looking SPS colonies.

from biocube's to SPS tank... one thing for sure this is a lot easier than 5 cubes!!! I do miss having a nano, getting itch for a 3-7g sps nano........ ;)

Gseclipse02

Tue, 22nd Nov 2011, 10:20 AM

what happen to the red cap on the overflow box .... i liked the look of it but it seems like it would block a lot of light

Big_Pun

Tue, 22nd Nov 2011, 10:34 AM

what happen to the red cap on the overflow box .... i liked the look of it but it seems like it would block a lot of light

sold it last week.. ok so here's the story of the cap(with pics) I got it from mrcob when I had my cubes, then glued it to over flow when i got the 65. then when I got the 70g DSA Gabe was able to get it off with very lil breakage. after that I could never get it glues again so it just took up too much room, I have a frag that will be mounted again on the over flow.http://img.tapatalk.com/a6934f95-c073-8ad3.jpg

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Big_Pun

Sun, 11th Dec 2011, 01:06 AM

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ok my buddy nick came over to help catch my purple tang, afterwards he has me find a scraper and cleans back glass. what a friend!
upgraded sump tonight, trigger system. gotta say it's worth getting a good quality sump. next ill be adding a shelf for dosing pumps!!!

BSJF

Sun, 11th Dec 2011, 07:37 AM

I love my dosing pump! I'm horrible at remembering to dose.

Big_Pun

Sun, 11th Dec 2011, 11:05 AM

I love my dosing pump! I'm horrible at remembering to dose.

that's good to hear I was on fence about if they really work. I'll be using it for two part and my trace element

Texreefer

Sun, 11th Dec 2011, 11:44 AM

that's good to hear I was on fence about if they really work. I'll be using it for two part and my trace element

I would love to have some dosing pumps.. i just cant justify the cost.. are there some cheaper options I don't know about?

Big_Pun

Sun, 11th Dec 2011, 02:13 PM

I would love to have some dosing pumps.. i just cant justify the cost.. are there some cheaper options I don't know about?

well the bubble magus one I want is 299. three pumps and it's own controller. now if you have a reefkeeper you can also buy the 80 dollar BRS dosing pump and have RK turn it on and off.

SantaMonicaHelp

Sat, 21st Jan 2012, 07:42 PM

That's a very beautiful tank! Kinda like ours....Like it!

Big_Pun

Tue, 7th Feb 2012, 10:32 PM

picked up a new wrasse at aquadome this weekend! it's in the anampses family, blue spotted tamarin. so far he has been picking all over the tank and has healthy apatite.

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KING

Wed, 8th Feb 2012, 12:12 AM

cool looking fish.. i like the color..
so is that place worth the drive?

Big_Pun

Wed, 8th Feb 2012, 07:05 AM

cool looking fish.. i like the color..
so is that place worth the drive?

all the stores in Austin are worth the drive. very nicely set up, great staff and good selection of livestock and goods.

Big_Pun

Tue, 28th Feb 2012, 11:15 PM

picked up a new lil fish today. this will be my tang for my 150 I'm setting up soon. it's eating mysis and picking all over tank after one hour in my tank.

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CoryDude

Tue, 28th Feb 2012, 11:44 PM

Nice clown tang!

Big_Pun

Wed, 29th Feb 2012, 09:50 AM

Nice clown tang!

hopefully he's a good tank mate, he's the smallest besides the clowns. but I know how these guys can be.

Big_Pun

Fri, 16th Mar 2012, 06:04 PM

Love the clown tang he eats bryopsis and hair algae, also eats frozen.......
this guy is priceless!!

notice the bald spot under the acro he working on clearing it up!!
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