Hooch's 120G

With the copper absorbing stuff will I need to put it in the sump( will there be enough water flow, I have a large canister filter i could use it in. how long do i need to use the stuff, indefinitely?

 

buy a test kit, and once the test results are zero, take the filter media out, as far as placement goes, i would personally reccommend the canister filter

 

Alright guys I've finnaly made some more progress. The new stand is built, the hood built, the old sump converted into a fuge, plumbing and electrical both done also. Now comes the fun part filling it up and turning the pump on for the first time.... I love that sound! Pics are on the way real soon guys.

 

If you don't hurry up with the pics we will be forced to send Luna your way to arrest you.

 

Ok guys here are the updates as of now...

The stand without the doors.
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Inside of the hood
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stand after compleation.
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Lighting for refugium. (Still need to get another 96w bulb)
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Plumbing, pump, refugium, skimmer after the tank was all together...
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Some more...

The refugium that i made out of a wet dry filter... i still want to buy a new refugium down the road but this will do the trick just fine for now






The hood front and and the whole thing all put together... Water and a little reef rack I built. I still don't know if I am going to use it.






got everything running almost a week ago got the heather and test kits in the mail. I have also started the cycle using cut up shrimp.

 

looks good can't wait to see it filled with livestock.

 

Alright guys it has been a while, I finally have time to get some pics up of my tank. It is One year and 10 days old today. I keep a mixed reef (mostly LPS) 50 corals or so, 6 fish, a CBS, 1 pepperment (used to be 3, lost two to the CBS) 2 sand sifting stars and a myriad of snails and hermits. I've changed my original setup a little, i now have a 55 gal. refugium and took the 250 W. metal halide out. Over the past year i have acumulated most of my corals from crashed tanks and frags. A lot of ppl would say not to take in dying corals because of disease issues but eveything has healed very well and no disease spred to any other corals(knock on wood). In the past year I have lost 2 corals and 3 fish. First coral I lost was a euphilla anchora frag that was already in bad shape when i got it. The second was a red Goniopora still not sure what species, lost this one because lack of avalibe small particulate food (i believe) it slowly died over about 2 months. First fish i lost was a Gramma Loreto jumped out and i found him too late. Second was a Zebrasoma veliferum about 2 inches bough it in the bag from the LFS that got it in that day and had not even aclimated it to their system (after 3 days i found him sucked up against my Korilla 4 circ pump). 3rd was a Acanthurus pyroferus this one upsets me the most because i really liked this fish, basicly it just stopped eating for me after 3 or 4 weeks of doing fine (also my Naso Vlamingi bullied it around quite a bit). so here are the pics i have of my losses R.I.P.









no pics of the hammer coral sry guys.

 

Next is my Naso Vlimingi she absolutly loves getting her picture taken or maybe she just caznt stand me paying attention to the other tank inhabitants. She is probably the most inteligent animal in the tank, eats from my hand, and she grows outrageously fast. I have still not found out what the issue with her lateral line is. The tank is grounded by a grounding probe and a Titanium heater. I also feed a vast variety of food such as nori, calurpa, Mysis, and Formula II(also soak at least one meal a day in Vitachem). She has had the lateral line issue since i got her when she was only about 1 1/2 inches. It does not seem to bother her but it is getting bigger as she grows. If anyone has any info on what this might be plz let me know.

 

Next is the Signus Magnificus. She has great color and can hang with the Vlimingi bullying her. the naso kind of learned her lesson the first time she got a big mouthfull of poisonous spikes. Although she is very beautiful looks arent everything, she is pretty dumb contenuously rubbing against stinging coral and eating other fishes feces all the time. Her name is Magnolia. ohh yeah and the naso's name is nitro.