Doug's 250, now 300, in wall build

[David S]

Hmmm,that tank would look so cool in my wall!!

 

[Gti_Leo]

atleast the nem is still bubbled, are you sure its an RBT and not a pink one?

what has the girlfriend or wife said abotu the hole in the wall not being finished yet?

 

[mr_X]

lol..this is a bachelor pad homey.....i answer to no one (as long as the money holds out)!

 

[kurtyboh]

lol..this is a bachelor pad homey.....i answer to no one (as long as the money holds out)!

Heres to hoping your wallet can take a pounding! Mostly selfish here but i want to watch this project come together.

 

[Gti_Leo]

oops i thought you said it was your girlfriends place my bad

 

[Gti_Leo]

any updates if you are goign to build a plywood?

 

[mr_X]

definitely going with the larger tank but it's not gonna happen till after the winter. meanwhile, i'm going to need to cut down on the humidity in the rest of the house, so i started closing the wall tonight....

 

[mr_X]

btw, the anemone looks better since i focused the LED fixture on him. maybe it was just enough, but he's definitely more colorful now.

 

[Gti_Leo]

is that pic with the ATI lamps? any pics of the anemone

and do you plan on puttign an exhaust fan to help keep the humidity downwhen you close up the room?

 

[mr_X]

ok..so what's been going on with the tank? i've got some weird looking bacteria and/or algae growing on things. this is a koralia -

think it's cyano? dynos?

here's the wall so far, from a different angle-

and here are the corals, some growing rather quickly and others losing color. i think the spongodes frags from the gym tank are just losing color due to more light than they are used to-
on one side of the tank

on the other

anemone....which definitely looks better-

and here is a flash pic of a black sun coral given to me to rehab (it's in the rubbermaid sump)

 

[Bige]

There is a build thread on another forum about a 20,000g concrete build in his house. It explains how to do it in detail. I don't know what the rules are on posting the name but I'm sure you could google it.

 

[mr_X]

oops....for got this guy-

and this guy

 

[mr_X]

by the way, for the close up pics of the corals i bought a canon powershot D10.
it's waterproof to 33 feet! i even took it scuba diving.

 

[Bige]

Is the camera under water in these shots?

 

[mr_X]

yes. i don't use the zoom.

 

[Gti_Leo]

is the sun coral under a 6500k compact or do you have that 150 watt MH on it?

also that anemone colored up much better, but it was still bubbled in the original pic that leads me to believe it just lost a bit of color but was still pretty happy

but yeah i think that could be cyano, there is alot of gas bubbles coming off, is there enough aeration?

 

[spideybry]

How is the wall coming along?

 

[mr_X]

The sun coral is in my sump with no light. The light you see was produced by the flash on my camera. I should have the wall done by the weekend and a door on the room as well.
Leo- I don't believe that the fact that the BTA is showing bubbles is any indication that its happy. I have kept many assorted BTA's and some of them never bubbled, but didn't relocate and grew to massive sizes. This anemone was clearly in distress.

 

[David S]

That black sun coral is very nice,would you feed that live brine shrimp or frozen?

 

[mr_X]

i feed it a mixture of chopped fish, shrimp, squid, and clam from the supermarket. my home made food.