Optimist's 72 thread!

Atleast you did it right, IMO.
Thank you for the compliments!

 

1. ATL Strawberry Monti. Cap. (Emster's)
2. Purple Monti Cap. (Ebay and was supposed to be Idaho grape!)
3. Green Slimer
4. Powder Blue Slimer (top right, right of blueberry mille)
5. Orange Digita (Emster's) behind my other Ebay "Idaho Grape" Cap. (different member too) both only have purple polyps.

 

A couple other corals and half views of what is in the 55 now. So you can see the difference when I put everything in the 72g.

 

The 10g was a tank that I busted and took the bottom off another tank I busted in order to make an easier way of changing out my berlin bags.

I am waiting until I have everything together and then I'm going to add baffles to direct the flow and keep from splashing.

I will have pics of this in action soon.

 

That is all I have for now...
I lost my USB chord so I guess that's a sign to finally buy a new/ quality camera.
I still have to put my trim on the stand to hide the finishing nail spots.
I just cut the door for the sump access and I have to trim that out.
I ordered my sugar sand from agag-alive and that comes in tomorrow so I'll get pics of that and I know I promised one member pics of my lighting so I will snag a pic of that too.

I did try the refrigerator method to cool the tank down... for those of you that remeber my story about helping my "friend".
I bought a mini refrigerator and got all my fittings. I coiled 50 feet of tubing in a 5 gallon bucket that I was going to put water in. I got the ends for adapting the tube to pvc and all the pipe. I had everything cemented together and ready to go. I started drilling the top of the mini frige for the pipe... yeah I didn't know there was some kinda radiator or condencer under the top! I heard the hissing and I can't see myself paying another 75 to fix that.
That would be:
$75 for the frige
$12 in coil tubing
$35 in misc fittings and PVC.
and now $75 to fix it...
That's almost $200 toward a new chiller!
I probably could have bought one used for less (which is my next option).

 

Edit: "agag-alive" is Caribsea Arag-alive.

 

oh....

I was asked how I filter the 55g since it was my sump before.

Here are some pics of the sump I threw together.

I Berlin bag it first,
it pumps up from there into my old frag tank that now houses a pair of Aussie blacks with a bunch of live fiji rubble.
The both drain into the 33g long with about 20g of bio balls and the rest of my sand that I couldn't get at first from the 150.
The skimmer is on the other side of the pump but I didn't have time to run another seperate pipe over there because I was rushing and didn't plan on the stuff staying there too long.
My next tank, not the 72, will have a BIG skimmer!

I hope you guys enjoyed the pics so far and I will try to get better pics up soon!

Thank you for looking,
Optimist

 

Omg

Wow!!!! Sometimes I would be reading and my mind would start wondering because it turned into a different language that you were speaking. I guess "man"-talk would be the best way to describe it...with tools and all that stuff.

But your set-up is going to be awesome!!! The 55g looks great, it makes me wonder how you move all those things!!!

 

cant wait to see the new pics. Nice work on the stand...

 

That's A.D.D. and they make drugs for that... lol. I don't think I said anything that wasn't in laymen. I always try to keep it simple, as long as my spelling is correct.. lol.

Thank you, I wanted to post the pics up of the before so I had something to compare to. Everytime I move it looks TOTALLY different and right now, everything in the tank is getting along with each other in their placement.

My only concern is when I turned my MH off completly, my Hammer and my metalic Frogspawn don't open as much... but they were fading from the intense lighting. Just weird. I am thinking of putting them all down in the sand. That's why I wish I had my 150 because I had a sweet sand bar.

I'll call you in a sec... my time zone for FL should be 3 ahead of yours and don't wanna call too early.