Frenchie's 75 gallon build thread

[Doc]

looks great. love the color of the floor. My wife wanted something like that but is cost too much.

-Doc

 

[d.french]

i like the bamboo better than the hardwood actually, each box was 70 bucks and each box 23.8 sq feet. i had 24 foot x 12 foot living room, i bought 13 boxes, underlayment cost 200 bucks for whole room.

 

[Doc]

I got a steal on my light wood floors. I got lucky in that they were the ones with "25% more free" so it cut down on the number of boxes. How long did it take you to put it down? did you have any gnomes to help? :mrgreen:

-Doc

 

[d.french]

me and wife did it on weekend, just have bottom trim to do and it will be completely finished. we floated it in and shimmed around room to keep tight and allow for expansion, no glue or nails allow interlocking.

 

[Doc]

looks great

-Doc

 

[yote]

Think I'm just gonna call D and bobby when the wife decides she wants a new floor.:mrgreen:It looks great.
The tanks looking good too.

 

[bobby]

Tank looks great D! I see you got all the algae cleared up and look like alot of purple spreading. Did you do it with that STAT stuff? Floor looks awsome. I wanted to do the bamboo too but that stuff is expensive. Look awsome though.

 

[jhnrb]

Great pics, and thread. looking good. seems everything is comming along now. congrats on your sump and skimmers.

 

[d.french]

thanks john, now i researching a top off system for my 125 gallon and since this tank is in living room and not near my ro/di unit i'm think of putting a ten gallon tank under stand with jbj auto top off controller to take care of top off water.

 

[d.french]

so far so good with jbj auto top off, put a ten gallon tank under 125 gallon next to sump, alot nicer filling it up once a week than every other day.
Got a link to my new updated pics of of my 75 gallon tank but also have id problems with white spots on glass and live rock. whatever they are they are alive but do not move.

Reef Central Online Community - updated pics of new 75 gallon setup, and question about white spots on glass and LR

 

[yote]

The tanks looking great D.

 

[d.french]

more pics of my 125 with current hair algae problem and my 75 gallon which is doin great.
Reef Central Online Community - got bored and have lots of pics

 

[RyanG]

Looking good frenchie

 

[Piggy]

Got a lot of nice looking softies. The 75 tank looks great. Love the color of the rock. Love the name of the sea hare.

 

[d.french]

my new red chili coral opening up good, been looking for different color softies like reds, yellow, orange, green, anything different.

 

[LionFish]

dude Get a tang to handle some of the hair algae!

 

[d.french]

dude i got 2 tangs, yellow tang and yellow eye kole tang, not that easy tank was torn down to put in wood floors and add new stand and sump it takes time no big hurry have to let tank fix itself. In mean time i added 15 mexican turbos, hermit crabs, 6 of the real big striped turbos, got stomatella snails breeding like crazy in that tank, and got a huge sea hare last saturday.

 

[Bifferwine]

The sea hare will get the job done, they are eating machines.

 

[d.french]

this one i igot is different than the last blue spotted kind and this one is also freakin huge, the only thing that sucks is i have to turn off powerheads and use only flow coming from sump cause no matter what i do my sea hares in past always got stuck in powerheads. Biff you got any new pic of your tank in your build thread havent seen your tank in a while how is it doin.

 

[Bifferwine]

The other night I turned off all my pumps and took pics of my tank looking downwards, I'll post those soon!