The Zesty Cube!

Hmmmm?

 

oh my!!

 

A long weekend, but a successful weekend!


Before, last FTS.


Ahhhh, comin down!! It comes down too easy...


Holding tank


Helpers with the day!


The other helper and the scape


Prediction: Fog ahead


Cleared up!


Whoooa!


Side shot


The ugly... the stand that absorbed too much water...


Right to the pit!


Slimer


This poor fella, somehow he got into a bucket with just a little bit of water and it was cold when I found him, he was cold. I grabbed him and just said, might as well see if this will do anything, put him in the tank, laid him down and soon enough, started moving his legs! holy crap!!

This morning. Out and about!


The drain; which is quiet Todd! haha


I have much more rock moving and coral placing to do. It's kinda just in there haphazardly. But, everything looks like it's doing well, all the fish and inverts are accounted for. I did find an extra watermelon bubble tip when tearing down the old tank and now it looks like one is splitting again. Might be from the large addition of new water?

I had awesome help and owe some favors now! haha! All my body hurts, but I'm so excited for this tank! I'm already so happy with the cube!!!

 

Amazing upgrade. Ooooo rimless.

The scape came out very very nice for new set up, I would not change and thing, I do not post that lightly. Where did the new stand come from?

A big congratulations.

 

Stunning. Looks really nice Zesty. Congrats on the upgrade. The stand came out great.

 

woooo hoooo!!! your cube looks amazing!!! love the old stand straight to the pit shot lol - congratulations on the successful transfer zesty and on finally getting your cube up and running!

 

Thanks!! The stand is from a cabinet maker, I got from Jamie's dad/parents for xmas. it has so much room, I could put a frag tank down there! muhaha!

yup, I'll sell the tank, it doesn't leak. But I would never think of selling or reusing that stand. It is amazing that it was holding that tank up...

Jamie, (purposely) went home to visit her parents/friends for the weekend to give me the room to do this. She was the final noise test and it passed! The drain is really quiet on here, I like the x-aquas, very nice setup.

I'll be updating as we go. I want to get all the rocks off the glass and get rid of the frag racks or at least as many as I can...

I just signed up for a fragging class that was guaranteed a min of 10 frags... I better make some room! ahhhhh

 

Nice work Matt.

I'll be over soon to pick up Tom's bins (inside joke they were ribbing me about that night),
and see the masterpiece.

 

anytime, Tom! err I mean Todd! haha! good stuff!
Just let me know, all are clean and waiting for you

 

Last night, I started in on the tank, some.

First off:
Alk, 8.4dKH
Ca, 420
MAG, 1540

I started in on some rocks last night. I had a bunch of live rock that was about softball size, give or take. Well, with my old tank, a lot of these rocks got one or two frags put on them and placed in the tank somewhere. All fine and dandy until these little dark green palys start showing up...

This picture was taken on 12/10/12 and was one of the first corals purchased for the tank. (such a noob)
30$ for this polyp rock, what a steal... let us say that I don't spend 30 bucks like this anymore...


These little green bastards never die. They turned up on so many rocks, and they just kept spreading.

So, when I took the rocks out of the old tank, anything with a coral go put into the holding tank and the rest went to the frag tank sump. The rocks got put back into the cube to keep the corals alive. Well, I do not want these polyps anymore!
What I am working on is finding the rocks with them on there, chopping the coral off and putting the rock in the sump of my frag setup. I know there are going to be a couple that sneak by, I'll be on sniper alert with my kalk paste
I have been using my frag setup basically as a rock cooker for this transfer. I won a bunch of live-rock earlier this year and I got some big pieces from a local guy this summer. My frag tank is not anything but keeping some softies alive right now with a few fish.

So basically, I took big pieces out (frag tank) and the base was made, in the cube. Then a mix (liverock) went back to the frag tank, some of the rock I didn't use, some of the old rock from the main system. I'm 95% back to having no rocks on the glass, I worked only the right side of the cube last night. That is my goal, no rocks on the glass!

Last night, I placed 3 or 4 zoa frags on my zoa rock and off the frag rack. Cleaning up the frag racks!!

I'm still getting used to looking at things both from the front and the one side and then the other side! It's so cooooooooool!