Robb in Austin Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Just re-read this after 'discovering' this tank size on DSA's website yesterday. Love the dimensions. Can't wait to see this up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Talk about torture...got a delivery today...lights don't get here till tomorrow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share Posted September 25, 2012 TADA!! The unveiling. So far the only disappointment is that the new wireless controller has to be connect to some type of power source via usb cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardx322 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 are those the new ai sol vegas? man thats clean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 why yes they are. :-) Anyone have any suggestions on setting the intensity? just testing them I had to dial them down to 60%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Bio)³ Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Is the Vega model compatible with apex like radeon does? Your build is looking super clean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 I was actually thinking about getting an Apex controller in the near future. AI's site say they only work with their new controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Man, that would be a bad decision with the popularity of the Apex. Hopefully not. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted September 29, 2012 Author Share Posted September 29, 2012 Well, the build portion is pretty much done. Just need to work on organizing all the wires now. Hopefully it will be ready for inhabitants in a week or so. Now that I have the lights on I was able to see spots where I hadn't cleaned the glass...that's why it's a little cloudy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Are you going to enclose the back of the tank; i.e. with a false room? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted September 29, 2012 Author Share Posted September 29, 2012 nope, just leave it as is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 looks awesome dude. I intend to do something similar to this in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Well, so far so good. I moved a clown each on Thur & Fri. Today I moved my polyps. Even though we had a slight accident they seem to be very happy already! I'd put the bag in the water to start acclimating them and went off to do some other stuff. I came back 15-20 min later and apparently hadn't secured it well enough to the side and I guess the currents sunk it...don't know how long it had been under. Within about two hours they've all come back out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted October 21, 2012 Author Share Posted October 21, 2012 Last night I finally installed the skimmer last night around 8:30. After several tries I think I got the level right. Everyone says it normally takes several days to break them in. Can it happen faster? This is what I saw this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted October 21, 2012 Author Share Posted October 21, 2012 I just realized I forgot to post an update from last week (I'd started a thread in another section). I'd bought two bengaii cardinals, a sailfin tang and a hammer last Sunday. By Monday morning the male cardinal was dead. When i got home from work the female was dead and the hammer had pretty much dissolved. I tested everything and all readings were normal. I took a water sample back to the store on Thursday and all tests were showing normal EXCEPT the salinity. She tested 3 times and every on came back 1.044! Who knows how the clowns and tang were surviving but they seem to be thriving and eating well. I came back home and tested my refractometer and re-calibrated it and I was still getting 1.025. I'd bought this in mid Sept because I'd broken the plastic cover off my original one. I'd been using it from the beginning of filling the tank. Luckily I hadn't thrown the old one away yet. I tested with it and sure enough I got the same crazy reading the store was getting. I'm now in the process of slowing reducing the salinity. Lesson learned here...always double check new equipment before getting rid of the old stuff. Luckily Friday was the last day to request a return so that sucker is already on it's way back!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bige Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 That's lucky you kept the old one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted November 19, 2012 Author Share Posted November 19, 2012 Updated tank pics. Finally got a new camera...still learning how to take pics with it. Still gotta get a macro lens too. ummmm...sorry for the large files...just realized how large they were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 That rock cave on the right. Is there passage all the way through? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted November 19, 2012 Author Share Posted November 19, 2012 Yes it is. there are 3 or 4 holes all around that the fish can go through. There's also a cave in the left side too. You can barely make out the entrance in the second pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Grog Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 Looking good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchavez Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 Nice tank Jimbo! Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted November 25, 2012 Author Share Posted November 25, 2012 Thanks, it's slowly making progress. Picked up a great frogspawn today from Juiceman and a hulk ricrodea from Chad and Belinda. Waiting to pick up a warpaint scoly from Texasnano. Friday I picked up a nice little torch from Aquatek. I'm hoping to get a macro lens this week so I can get some better pics of everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 Here's the 4 new additions I picked up over the weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esacjack Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 jimbo in the pics I see quite a few snails laying around. Are these just shells you've added or did your salinity spike wipeout your snails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted November 27, 2012 Author Share Posted November 27, 2012 spare shells for the hermits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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