BL1's 75g upgrade

[ErinCahir]

I love it! One of my hermits has a shell that is covered in tiny red feather dusters... I think it's hilarious for some reason...

 

[d2mini]

haha, that reminds me of my last tank with my hair algae problem. Even my turbos were covered it in.

 

[BL1]

I won a picture contest last month on my local reef forum, here were the prizes I won and picked up yesterday.

Huge 3 color Monti

Here's a top down shot of it to see how big it is

I had a few little pieces break off in transport so, we'll see if I can grow them out

Multi-color Brain

Color Mushrooms

 

[BL1]

And, while I was there, of course I picked up some more frags

 

[Dana42078]

Nice! I. Need to save up for a new camera bad, love that multi colored monti rock

 

[BL1]

Thanks Dana! I've wanted to get a monti for a while now.

 

[Bifferwine]

That's a great looking monti! It looks huge -- how big is it?

 

[BL1]

That's a great looking monti! It looks huge -- how big is it?

Thanks Biff! At their widest points the green is about 2.5", purple about 5-6" and the red is about 4-5" across.

 

[BL1]

Over the past week I've managed to take my skimmer down, put on an overflow, and setup a sump, ATO reservoir, and cleaned up all the cables under my tank. I just need to get my ATO working and figure out how I'm going to build my algae scrubber and I'll be all set!

And of course since nothing can be easy in this hobby, my 20L didn't actually fit so, I had to be creative. I've got some lumber that I'm going to use to reinforce and patch that hole up with.

Unfortunately, I think either some sawdust made it's way into the tank or, just all the commotion going on around the tank caused all my fish to stress out because over the course of 2 days, I lost most of my fish to a bacterial infection. I think my FF is struggling now too because he's been hiding for the past 3 days and I haven't seen him. Hopefully him and my wrasse pull through though because they were some expensive fish :(

 

[BL1]

Here's a pic of the sump too, after I finished siliconing it. I made the first section big enough to accommodate most of the popular skimmer models. The second section has some live rock and will be where I place the algae scrubber. and I just used eggcrate to separate the last two sections since I don't have any sand or chaeto in the middle.

 

[Dana42078]

Looks really nice but dang that sucks to lose livestock. Hope the other fish pull through for ya. Btw that looks like alot of work!! Very nice tho

 

[BL1]

Thanks, it definitely was a ton of work it took me the better part of a week just to get everything under the stand, set it up, and get everything running.

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Looks good Brian. Good luck with the scrubber setup.

 

[Cathic]

Brian can you post some full tank shots for me?

 

[SaltwaterNoob17]

It looks good Brian, but sorry about your fish. Hopefully the scrubber set up will go smoother and your remaining fish pull through.

 

[BL1]

Brian can you post some full tank shots for me?

This is the last FTS I took about a month ago.

 

[BL1]

It looks good Brian, but sorry about your fish. Hopefully the scrubber set up will go smoother and your remaining fish pull through.

Thanks Samantha, I'm sure it can't get any rougher at this point :)

 

[KarenJax]

Sorry Brian! Is your mandarin in the 75 or the 28?

 

[BL1]

The mandarin is in the 28 for now, once everything turns around in my 75 I'd like to move him there.

 

[KarenJax]

The mandarin is in the 28 for now, once everything turns around in my 75 I'd like to move him there.

Oh good. I LOVE that fish