chrismunn

that tank in discount electronics must be new because i just recently (4-5 months ago) installed new countertops for thier laptop bar. i deffinatly would have noticed a massive salt tank!

there's an 800g inwall fish only tank at the top of the hilton condos downtown. i was working in the guys condo and he was telling my how it cost him a small fortune to set it up. it was full of giant plastic cup sponges and stuff. there's also a 150 softie tank in the room behind the reception desk in the hilton condos.

there's also a pretty big soft coral tank in the office building at the north west corner of spicwood springs and mopac. its a black granite building and you can just walk in there and check it out cause its on the ground floor mezanine. there's nobody there to stop you. the tanks probably 100-120 or something?

i also came across a really nice 100 in a plastic surgery office in the medical offices at lamar and medical pkwy. the guy has this really unique white leather thats "supposedly" supposed to be one of the last of its kind. he's donated a bunch of it to various public aquariums for efforts to keep it alive. the tank is another soft coral tank, but this one has the biggest shrooms ive ever seen! its really nice!

did they say when they anticipate getting any corals in?

the way mine is mounted is just by being such a tight fit. i built it with zero play in the opening so that its fits nice and snug. i actually had to cut a bit off the tanks frame to get it into place because when i built it i was still using the hood and needed all the room i could get! since there is like NO room under the stock hood it had to be ultra low profile. the housing height was built to fit the components exactly with no extra room. i didnt use the suggested method on RC of the electrical box or whatever it was. i built a custon acrylic box.

you cant really tell from this view but it doesnt go above the rim of the tank. its on the back left corner.

i absolutley LOVE the JBJ ATO! its such an awsome little thing, i have nothing but great stuff to say about it! you literally just figure the height neede on the floats, plug the thing in and boom, there you go, simple as that!

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sorry, i forgot to update the thread.

everything is gone.

i guess your right about the evap. i might go that route now?

i have the JBJ ATO. it works great and the float fits just fine in the 3rd chamber.

i forgot there was a valve on the skimmer, i think i took mine off?

there is no kit for the swirler stein, you have to make the whole thing.

here's a pic i took last night...

i've modded my nano a bit, nothing too extensive yet but im working on it.

i got my fuge in the middle chamber w/ a 15w spiral compact flourecent and i've replaced my stock hood with a 150w MH. i also have my k-nano on a DIY swirler stein that rotates it back and forth 90 degrees. coming up here im thinking of drilling the back glass to add an over flow so i can add a sump. i like your idea of pumping water from the display up into the sump w/ a gravity feed back into the display. i would do it like that to save myself the trouble of drilling the tank, but that would mean that any evaporation would end up showing in the display and i dont want to keep the float switch for my ATO where it can be seen.

i also use the biocube skimmer and i dont know why people dont like it? ialso dont know how people "dial it in" ? there are no settings on it, you just stick it in the tank and let it do its thing. i used to change my airstone every month but im noticing that it works alot better after not being changed for 6 months. occasionally it blows the lid off the collection cup.

im retracting my RSVP. i got word that the goat wont actually be there so im out!

really tho, i dont think im gonna make it.

i wish i would have known that you needed some cheato when we met. i need to prune mine back a bit and wouldnt have minded doing it early and kicking down . i might have a little time on saturday if you wanna swing by and pick some up?

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i still have everything except the neon pink zoas if anybody is interested? looking for live rock

did i hear goat? sweet, im totally in! just playin'

but for real though, i think im gonna try to make it to this one so count me in.

i got those from www.yourreef.com out of roseville california.

i live in manor.

i figure that 1 colony of zoas is worth a small frag of SPS? nothing big or ultra extravigant. that or a few pieces of live rock? whatever your willing to part with that i dont already have? i probably wont be attending thge next meeting (typical of me ) and i work in Austin so im there everyday. im not always there all day though. normally only in the morning while i load my truck and head off to some other city.

at first i wasnt sure but now its for real. im breaking down my softie tank and starting up an SPS tank and i need to clear out all the softies. since most of the stuff is attached to rocks ill need to replace alot of my rocks, so i need live rock. and since im starting an SPS tank, ill need that too.

i have;

an 11" tonga branch covered in GSP, 5 green frilly shroom and some orange monti cap.

an 8" tonga branch covered in nothing but GSP.

a very large (4"dia.) green sanctithomea (rhodactis?)

a couple of fist fulls of tubipora musica. (pipe organ)

two large frags (3" dia & 4" dia) of purple plate.

a colonie of neon geen mouth brown skirt zoas. (15+ heads)

a colonie of neon pink zoas, (6 heads? )

a colony of orange mouth green skirt zoas (9 head)

2 colonies of red mouth green skirt zaos (both about 10 heads and need a little love)

1 large and 1 small blue shroom

4 big cinnimon palys (palythoa grandis)

im actually in need of live rock more than frags, but ide absolutely love me some SPS if ya got it? my tank is only a biocube 14 and wont need a ton of rock so you would probably be safe offering up smaller pieces. if your interested just shoot me a PM with whatever you have to offer and hopefully we can strike up a deal? and im fairly easy to negotiate with especially now that i need this stuff gone so dont think that i wont accept any reasonable offer!

ill try to get some decent pics up soon but ive been having problems photographing lately. not sure why exactly? sometimes i have it, sometimes i dont....

sorry, i just traded those. i do have an entire tank of other various softiesto choose from though. here's a link tomy thread on RC, let me know if you see anything you like and make an offer. everything soft must go!

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1401995&perpage=25&pagenumber=28

im trying to trade out just about everything soft in my tank. im trying to re-start my tank as an SPS tank and that means i have to get rid of 90% of the stuff in my tank. half of the stuff is in the trade forum and the other stuff i just havent offered yet....

also i'd like to get rid of two large rocks covered in GSP, one with 6 or 7 orange zoas, as well as about 75% of my pipe organ and a bunch of my monti cap.

also, i forgot to mention that ill only be available during the weekend because i work late most days during the week. this weekend (july 4th weekend) ill be home probably on sunday i think? if not this weekend, then i should be home most of next weekend.

ive got 7 zoanthid colonies that im looking to trade. ive had them for almost a year now without gaining more than one or two polyps on only a couple of colonies and im confident that its because i have such a sterile system. since the system is so clean i though i would try my hand at some more SPS. the SPS i currently have seems to be doing great so why not? im not really looking for anything too exotic, just pretty and somewhere in the easy to take of range.

ideally i'd like to get a frag for a frag, or one zoa colony for one small SPS or even an LPS frag. so make me an offer and well work something out.

what i have is;

9 polyps bright neon pink on pink

18 polyp dark pink on pink

24 polyp red mouth green skirt

7 polyp blue on blue

32 polyp neon green mouth brown skirt

7 polyp orange on orange

and a second red mouth green skirt colony with probably 7 polyps. i cant tell because of where its at in the tank.

here's some pics. the brown palys arent up for trade though...

thats a very beautifull cyphastrea! i found a nice looking one at RCA a while back, its orange and neon green. not anywhere near a meteor shower or ppe, but i like it.

do the solana or elos systems have lids? i like the fact that the RSM, BC and JBJ systems all have hoods which keep humidity down and also keep evaprotive losses to a minimun. when i took the hood off of mine i had to add an ATO just to keep up with evap! but not only that, if i forget to leave my AC on while im at work it makes the living room mildly humid by the end of the day.

the problem with the systems that have the hoods is that you cant really add any good high quality lighting to them without having to take the hoods off.

in any case im really happy with my bio cube, the appearance isnt "as good as it gets" in the world of top notch fish tank design, but its performance and whats on the inside that counts!

thanks

you know what, the inbox says i DID open the pm but the brain doesnt remember reading it i just sent you a reply on the subject though

i have a thread on reef central that has pics and descriptions of the tank since day one in anyone is interested?

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.p...14#post15205414

the tank is just over one year old now.