xmetal's 75 gallon upgrade (2/22/12)

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Hope you heal quick..... You can't leave the plumbing unfinished!

 

ouch man wow you really give a whole new meaning to the term blood sweat and tears into the hobby pics of the update and maybe even the finger?? hope it heals quick

 

I finished the plumbing a few hours after I got back from the ER. It is almost impossible to plumb a tank with 1 hand. Almost...

I don't have any photos of the cut after the hospital except for on my non-smartypants phone. So, I can't upload those to photobucket. A current photo will show a big baby running to the ER with a mere flesh wound like the black knight in Monty python and the Holy Grail.

Photos uploading to photobucket right now.

 

Fuge:


Reactor (I love the NextReef MR1 Reactor and will recommend it over the TLF every time) :


Angled shots of tank:



A Few of My Chalices:






Some Acans:



Ever Popular Zoa Rock:


Candy Cane Frag (Seems to only split when I feed it) :


Tube Anemone (a cool non-photosynthetic anemone that is very bright) :


Some SPS:






I am slowly getting better with the whole taking photos thing. Hopefully I will have more photos tomorrow.

Future additions to be received when the weather gets better:
Strawberry Shortcake mini-colony
smurf tricolor acro mini-colony
crazyberry tort mino-colony
sunset milli mini-colony
Arnaol Palmer Milli mini-colony
Paid $140 for all

 

That new set of images shows how clean and tidy that DT of yours is Xmetal

it looks really bright in there

Steve

 

Tank is looking great!

Really like the zoa garden and SPS. Keep it up! :thumb_up:

 

Thanks for the kind words.

 

Man that tank is gorgeous

 

Very nice!!!! I bet you're proud.

 

Thank you very much.

I am extremely proud of the tank. However, like all tanks, it is still a work in progress. I plan on adding WM EcoBak, a Vortech MP40W ES, and an APEX AquaController by the end of the summer.

I believe I did a good job showing that you can have a nice tank on a college student's budget. Now the college student budget is no longer needed and I plan on putting a little more money in to the tank coral wise as well.

I wish to turn the upper half in to SPS only and bottom to middle LPS and softies. I know some say you can't have all of them, but I plan on trying.