DBR's Tank Thread

[ErikH]

AWESOME. Gotta love the hardcore. Welcome to the club. Where at in North Cali? I stayed in Eureka for a bit on my jaunt across the country when I was young. Where abouts in SA? Welcome to MAAST.

[DBR]

AWESOME. Gotta love the hardcore. Welcome to the club. Where at in North Cali? I stayed in Eureka for a bit on my jaunt across the country when I was young. Where abouts in SA? Welcome to MAAST.

Thanks ErikH... I lived in South San Jose about 40 minutes south of San Fran. I'm now in North San Antonio in the Deerfield area off of Bitters and Blanco.

[DBR]

Wow... forgot I started this thread. Needless to say I never got around to setting this up. The wifey wanted some new furniture and I no longer had a decent place to set it up. Plans not completely scrapped yet though. Moving to a new house in a couple months here and it will be game on again for a nice home system behind beautiful glass.

I still got back into the game though... Got tired of not having a tank a couple months after moving here so I built myself a 12' x 30' fish room and set up 4 x 300g rubbermaids and a 150 at my shop over in the Live Oak area. I guess the whole system has been up for about 18 months now. Three of the stock tanks I have up on some cinder blocks... I've got one loaded down with a deep sand bed and a couple hundred pounds of liverock. I have a couple of noisy 5 gallon DIY surges on this tank for the fun of it, One stock tank is a high flow SPS grow out tank with a few Tunze PH's and 3 x 400w halides, One tank has all my chalices and acans and some misc LPS and clams laying about with a couple Tunze's and some 250w halides and one tank I just use as a maintenance tank that's on the ground that has a long list of hardware going on in it. Also have a 150 rubbermaid on a stand with a tangled mess of a refugium going on in it. Have a Hammerhead gold on the maintenance tank pushing the water up to the other 4. Really no fish to speak of just some critters. I'd like to add a smaller stock tank this year to run as a zoo/zoa garden... Give me something new to collect. I also have a 150g stock tank I use as an observation tank (QT) that is mostly empty these days and I have a 100g sumpfuge tied in. The system is pretty low maintenance which is good with my hectic work schedule... but I typically spend a Saturday a month doing a big clean and maintenance day. I have a dosser feeding my corals and an auto feeder dropping a little food for the critters and I do about a 100g water change every other week. It's pretty tight in my fish room and nothing pretty unless you're looking under the water but it's my coral garden and I'm pretty happy with it.

[DBR]

Some shots from the LPS tank

Australomussa.jpgInvasion.jpgKryptonite Watermelon.jpgRazzleberry IronMan.jpg

[DBR]

Couple more...

Ultra Lobo.jpgUltra Symphyllia.jpgSymphyllia Wilsoni.jpgFavia.jpg

[DBR]

and a few more...

Monster killer.jpgPurple Pentagona Favite.jpgSunset Leptastrea.jpgSuper Red Acan.jpg

[CoryDude]

Love the monster killer and sunset lepostrea. Too bad on the other setup. That was going to rock.

[DBR]

Love the monster killer and sunset lepostrea. Too bad on the other setup. That was going to rock.

Ya the Sunset is one of my favorites in that tank. I'd love to see it get to be the size of a dinner plate. I've not touched it for fraggin in over a year. Long way to go...

Don't give up on me with the other set up. I got all sorts of great components sitting in some big containers just waiting for me to have the house space and the right size tank. Spent the evening tonight with the wife checking out house showings. Right up there with a big back yard and a modern kitchen is the requirement for a great space for a huge box of acrylic or glass. <- still haven't decided on that yet.

I did order a 50g rubbermaid stock tank tonight from Zoro Tools on ebay. Decided to go ahead and tie in a Zoa Garden into the system. Haven't done zoos of any kind in a few years. I was all sorts of stupid one time and decided to cook off a whole bunch of nuisance zoos from some live rock I had in a tank. One of the stupidest things I've ever done. Poisoned the whole family and the dog. We were beyond sick for about 12 hours. Worst than food poisoning. Needless to say my wife "encouraged" me to give away all my zoos no matter how pretty they were at the next frag swap. I didn't argue.

[DBR]

Signed final papers on a new house just south of the 1604 and east of the 281. Move in starts on the 8th of June. At least 3 or 4 different great spots for a nice size tank. Looking forward to setting some glass up and relieving some pressure out of my stock tanks.