Tbelt's 180 gallon build

Hey Tbelt good luck to you!

 

Thanks

 

Well the hand is doing much better. No more splint just a removable brace. Hand is still swollen but getting some movement back.

Here are some pics of the tank. Water is very cloudy and I do not know why. Going to try some charcoal and see what it does.

some before and after pics of the corals

 

thats good your hand is healing good. yea i can tell your water is very clowdy. O btw i just baught a 15g tank ima drill it and made the diy overflow so ima start a 15g hopefully an sps tank.

 

Great. Let me know how it goes. good luck

 

yea, i will have to study up on water chemistry a little more because i dont fully quit understand it on the alk dkh mag thing. so hopefully it will all work out.

 

hay T any recent pics of the tank yet?

 

I will try to get some more up this weekend. Been out of the country for a few weeks. Got tired of sitting around the house so I went to the carribean with the family. turks and caicos to be exact. Thought i would get some ideas by looking at a real reef. Right before I left i was giving the tank the look over when I noticed my sump was leaking at a seam. Bought a new sump to use while on vacation (much smaller then the old one. got the biggest I could find) and have to repair the old one this weekend. If it wasn't for bad luck i would have no luck at all. I am getting to the point where I have a spare everything.

 

Too bad you didn't have a spare set of hands!

 

ya no kidding but all healed up now and getting back to more then just maintaining the tank. Currently configuring things to use both the new sump and the old one together. Still in the planning stages but I have the room so i am going to give it a shot. That would put my total water volume somewhere near 240 gallons +/- a little. It will also decrease or eliminate any chance of spill over in the sump/refugium if the power goes out. Right now it will not spill over but it does get close. Water test on the repair this weekend and if all goes right I will pull the shoehorn out and start stuffing them in there. I'm on the road with work until friday then work work work on the tank.