New 100G just setup

[witecap4u]

Just got my 100G setup, transfered everything from my 44 and 10G to it. The lights are just temp, for a day or two, but heres a couple pics and a quicktime movie of the sump/refug. to show the turbulance I posted about. I also plan on adding more flow in the tank itself.

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http://66.25.197.135/100G/P1010399.MOV

BTW, I should have alot of stuff for sale in a couple day.

Couple tanks, pumps, filters, skimmer, lights, car stereo's.....

[Henry]

wow, nice looking tank. Man that is a lot of turbulance in the 'fuge. Let me think of something. I don't think a little filter bag at the end is going to help any.

Henry

[Yano]

You lucky dog! Well I will always love my 10 gallon nano tank 8)

[scottz]

How did you go about transferring the stuff in your existing tanks to the new one? I've got a 20 and a 30 that I'm moving into a 55 and trying to get different perspectives on the move before I do it.

I hope to do it next weekend if everything proceeds as planned.

[witecap4u]

I had my new sand in the tank, and filled it with new salt water about half way, threw about half of my rock, and let the sand settle(the sand is all new, seeded with some of my old sand). I put all my soft corals, snails, hermits, star fish and shrimp in the nano, and my hard corals and a two fish in a 20G rubbermaid tub with tank water and a small powerhead. The clown/anemone and the blenny with his barnacle shell in a salt bucket with tank water and a powerhead. After the sand settled, I put the rest of the old tank water in, filled my refug. with the more sand from the old tank, and started the pumps and heaters. After the water was warmed up, and fairly clear, I started acclimating fish to it. The next day I put in the soft corals,snails and hermits, they all looked good last night, and are opeing up good again today, so I added the SPS's(all I have right now is frags) this moring, and they are already getting good polyp extentions and the ones that lost color are coloring back up after about 1-2 hrs. Hope that helps, I gotta go wire a MH up, so at least half of the tank has good lighting on it...cs

[scottz]

Thanks, it does help.

[matt]

I did almost exactly the same thing recently; set up a new 100 gallon, transferred stuff from my 45 breeder and 10 gal nano. One thing I've noticed is that the fish are MUCH more comfortable in a bigger tank. As far as the turbulence into the refugium goes, try putting some live rock rubble in the chamber where the water drains from the tank. I did that and it really knocked out a lot of bubbles.

About the only thing different about my sump set up is that I have the drain from the tank going into one side with a tee and ball valve, so I can divert some water into the refugium, which is on the other end of the sump. Then both the refugium area and the the main drain area flow into a central chamber where I have the bulkhead for my return pump. This way I can fine tune the refugium flow.

Matt