The Reef Central Corner Club Thread - Page 12

sdoggssf · 01/11/2009, 03:22 PM

I love your guys 92 corners I wish i had the room for something like that.. The canopy that you guys set up for your lighting look great. My lighting set up isn't as nice as your guy's but i was just looking for way to spread light to the whole tank.
I used a lumenarc reflector because it seems like it spreads light evenly throughout my tank.
This is an older picture but shows my light setup:

I use to run a lumenmax reflector from sunlight supply and it was significantly brighter the the lumenarc, but the light wasn't distributed as well throughout the tank.

I do appreciate this thread because i use to look for info on corner tanks and it was nowhere to be found...

Misled · 01/11/2009, 06:05 PM

Cut my old electric panal in two. Got them put in today.

kelso1980 · 01/11/2009, 08:09 PM

WOW! sdoggssf! I LOVE that ric garden! I saw one at a LFS in buffalo, NY and i just fell in love with it. I have never seen one before and then you posted. It's just incredible. Now I can think of nothing else but building myself a ric garden. Any tips for me? How should I go about it?
My family came to visit for the weekend and I just spent the last hour catching up because I'm afraid to miss out on anything. ha ha.
so Cheers to my fellow Cornerownerians

Here's a camera phone pic of the ric garden in buffalo.

Husky_1 · 01/11/2009, 08:41 PM

Hey everyone, thanks for the kind words. I especially enjoy hearing the open space comments. For those of you that have seen my build thread, you will see that it was not always that way. Over the past year I removed as much rock as possible.

I also wanted to give my appreciation to the thread starter. This is a great thread and gives us corner owners something to shoot for. We always hear how hard our tanks are to maintain and photo, but this thread shows that it can be done with a lot of planning, hard work, and above all devotion.

Hookup, The frags are for a frag swap we have coming up. The rack its on is one of those expensive fake rocks, but I think it looks ok compared to the eggcrate I had before. In the future I hope to replace with an open brain and maybe a clam. I definitely understand the sand thing, but for me its convenience since i like to have about 60x+ Flow. I did have the one sized down magnet and felt like it did not work well so I bought and kept the big one, adding the razor blade thing to it.

gawf4fun,
They are the modded maxijets, I had a closed loop before but pulled it out after a failure. Right now I have 3 MJ mods, the two in the front and once behind the bigger acro colony that points straigt down to get the detritus. As for future, I hope they provide enough flow. I hate seeing them there hope to get a pair of vortec's this year, but price to value ratio of the MJMods is unbeatable.

Bernie,
Looking forward to meeting you as well.

Michael, I am with you on the coralline, but I found it to hard to keep up with the sides without moving rocks around so I got lazy.

btb72 · 01/11/2009, 10:15 PM

Jesse, I'm glad to see that you have water in the tank. Can't wait to see that sucker all set up.

Misled · 01/11/2009, 10:39 PM

It's about 2/3rds full. RO unit really slows down when the water is 45 degrees.

btb72 · 01/12/2009, 12:26 AM

I am going to try and get some pictures up of my tank this week before I add my new corals this weekend. I have a problem. My MH keeps coming on and going out. I took it off the timer to see if it might be that or if it was the ballast or the bulb. Can you guys think of anything to test which one it is,

sdoggssf · 01/12/2009, 12:49 AM

Kelso1980 thanks for the comment. My only advise would be to put them in a spot with low to medium current, medium lighting, and far away from any corals that you intend to keep because the ric will win the battle. Good Luck..

P.S. Bring your wallet because they are pricey....

phish guy · 01/12/2009, 01:29 AM

i havent been online in 2 days and wow, THREE new pages!!

sdoggssf- very nice ric garden=sweet. nice to see another 54, cant wait till my SPS grow in like yours.

kelso1980- love the new aquascape. dont think ya need to remove any. its nice n open. if any thing maybe put a small island near the front. oh, or a clam.

Misled · 01/12/2009, 06:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by btb72
My MH keeps coming on and going out. I took it off the timer to see if it might be that or if it was the ballast or the bulb. Can you guys think of anything to test which one it is,

Both can do this if bad. Try a different bulb first.

Hookup · 01/12/2009, 08:16 AM

Misled, no one commented yet (that I saw) on your electrical. Looks awesome to me. I like the organized look. Where do you get those boxes? Do you bend the metal yourself, or have it made? I'm very interested in how you got this looking sooo nice.

Misled · 01/12/2009, 08:26 AM

Hookup, they are made of wood. Tried using larger plastic boxes but they don't work well when so many things have to fit the coverplates. This is what it looked like before I cut it to fit this tank.

I have plastic straps, that I'll run under the bottoms to keep the wires straight.

thanks!!

Michael · 01/12/2009, 08:53 AM

very neat job jesse, i should sort mine out reall as well, i need to make room for a future fudge and the electrics are a right mess

Bernie21 · 01/12/2009, 09:55 AM

I gotta agree w have a nice thing going over here w this thread.

Hey Michael, did you look into speaking w the mods to see if they can lock this thread on the top part of the forum for people to be able to find us, since understandably, they cant give us our own thread, let me know what they tell you.

One of the many things I love about living in Fl is that Ricordias are not that pricey, I started a ric garden & a shroom rock. The store by my house, sells them at $10 per ric, regardless of color, size or how many mouths. So when ever I see a color I like or a Ricordia w 3 or 4 mouths w like a 2-3" diameter, I jump on it for my ric garden for only10 bux!!

I see some of my recruits have posted their pics, Nice job Sdogg!! I really like your tank, I want to turn my frag area into a fuge, but I dont know if it is worth it?? I dont know...

cczarnik, I like your tank, It look nice and spacious, some thing I am a fan of.

The very next thing I'm tackling in my tank is modding my canopy for easier access to my tank. I can access my entire tank w the way my rocks are set, but my canopy inhibits me, that has got to go, it defeats the purpose of having no rocks touching the glass...

gawf4fun, you have some really nice color in there, I love the flame, Im contemplating one, but am unsure as I already have a few angels in there, I'll see, i have time.

Michael, Im like you, I dont like Koraline growth on my glass, so I scrape it off.

Jesse, the tank is looking good, your almost there.

Michael · 01/12/2009, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bernie21

Hey Michael, did you look into speaking w the mods to see if they can lock this thread on the top part of the forum for people to be able to find us, since understandably, they cant give us our own thread, let me know what they tell you.

dont think its worth asking buddy, theres already 4 stickys and they wont think theres enough interest for the vast majority of peeps on here to make it a sticky, we will just have to keep it going for now and see how many eventually join and re-assess again another time, i thought my other thread running would have been a good bet but thats got no chance either

thought that one was a good idea myself as well

still i suppose you can only say hello to newcommers so many times cant you

Misled · 01/12/2009, 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Michael
still i suppose you can only say hello to newcommers so many times cant you

Ya Think!!!!!

MasterDrazhar · 01/12/2009, 10:24 AM

Hello, Add another for the corner tank crowd.

Running a 54 Gallon non-drilled corner tank. Been running for about 3 weeks or so now.

http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i...nitial%20Setup/

I'll have to start back at the beginning of this thread to catch up

~Draz

gawf4fun · 01/12/2009, 10:36 AM

"gawf4fun, you have some really nice color in there, I love the flame, Im contemplating one, but am unsure as I already have a few angels in there, I'll see, i have time".

Thanks Bernie21, I'm trying to focus a little more on adding SPS to enhance the color more, but I've heard and read that softies have a negative effect on water quality which may inhibit my SPS coloration and growth. We'll see how it goes.

The Flame Angel is new. I've never had one and was concerned about coral snacking, but my LFS ran a great deal at $25 so I figured I'd pull the trigger and see how he does. It's early days, but so far so good.

Michael · 01/12/2009, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MasterDrazhar
Hello, Add another for the corner tank crowd.

Running a 54 Gallon non-drilled corner tank. Been running for about 3 weeks or so now.

http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i...nitial%20Setup/

I'll have to start back at the beginning of this thread to catch up

~Draz

hi-draz, welcome aboard, the link doesnt work for me mate, quick tip heres what i do, when your on photo bucket move the cursar to the pic you want to show and a bar will appear under it, click on the img bit at the bottom of the bar and paste and copy to the post you are writing ,the picture should then appear and not just show a link, if your unsure about paste and copt another way once you have highlighted the img link is to press ctrl and c together on the computer and then ctrl and v together to put the photo on the post, this is a cheats way, but works as well

Bernie21 · 01/12/2009, 11:31 AM

Thanks Michael for checking, hopefully if we get enough members. We should do a club count and see how many we have so that when we reach a large number we can try again.

MasterDrazhar, welcome aboard, Im surprised Michael didnt blast you w his welcome sigh, lol. The link isnt working for me either, but if you do what Michael said, it'll show.

gawf4fun, I too have heard that, so Im keeping my softies to a minimal (An ORA Toadstoal & a simple colt), the rest LPS and SPS. I have seen several successful tanks and certain TOTM that are mixed tanks. I wouldnt worry about the flame to much, you got a GREAT deal (They're $50 everywhere I've seen them) and although they're hit or miss w the picking, the bigger the tank, the less damage & they are one of the better "reef safe angels".

Michael · 01/12/2009, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Misled
Ya Think!!!!!

Misled · 01/12/2009, 07:33 PM

Ok I wanted to explain something I hit on earlier. My overflow will feed my skimmer directly. I know my skimmer, (asm g-3), pulls more than my overflow will be putting out. That was the reason I wanted to do the recurculating mod. Because of lack o room this wasn't possible. This is my solution.

This requires all water to flow through the skimmer, then to the fuge.

IT FITS!!!!!

Hookup · 01/12/2009, 08:32 PM

Wow Jesse, nice setup... i've wanted to have a total-flow into skimmer system but just havn't worked it out...

but i'm confused, how does this solve you problem of not having enuf over-flow volume to feed the pump?

And, what are the two holes in the elbow for? Obviously water will escape there and make a mess, unless that is underwater and then allows your sump-water to also get pulled in and...

WOW, I get it, I think. That is a very impressive MOD to make a pseudo-recerc! WOW! WELL DONE!

Misled · 01/12/2009, 08:38 PM

That's funny. I like the way you talked yourself through it. You are right, it's under water. The holes will allow the skimmer to draw enough water, even if it's not comming from the overflow. Since the overflow water is already in the pipe, all of it should get sucked in.

Hookup · 01/12/2009, 09:08 PM

Yeah, i was confused and did type my way thru.. then figured I'd leave the post... made me laugh at myself.... haha

01/11/2009, 06:05 PM	#277
Misled RC Mod Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 11,440 Blog Entries: 11	Cut my old electric panal in two. Got them put in today. __________________ Jesse I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying nobody has ever seen me and Batman in a room together.

01/11/2009, 10:39 PM	#281
Misled RC Mod Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 11,440 Blog Entries: 11	It's about 2/3rds full. RO unit really slows down when the water is 45 degrees. __________________ Jesse I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying nobody has ever seen me and Batman in a room together.

01/12/2009, 01:29 AM	#284
phish guy Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: South NJ Posts: 1,003	i havent been online in 2 days and wow, THREE new pages!! sdoggssf- very nice ric garden=sweet. nice to see another 54, cant wait till my SPS grow in like yours. kelso1980- love the new aquascape. dont think ya need to remove any. its nice n open. if any thing maybe put a small island near the front. oh, or a clam. __________________ Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Current Tank Info: 150 Gallon Reef, Reeftech LEDs ( on their way out for reefbreeder Photons), Reef Octoput NWB250, Custom made Sump/Refufium, Mp40wES, Koralia's. SPS, LPS, Zoas/Palys

01/12/2009, 08:16 AM	#286
Hookup Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,281	Misled, no one commented yet (that I saw) on your electrical. Looks awesome to me. I like the organized look. Where do you get those boxes? Do you bend the metal yourself, or have it made? I'm very interested in how you got this looking sooo nice. __________________ Spellking is an art form to which I have no brush. I'm not sure FOWLRs actually exist, I think they're like unicorns or platonic girlfriends. A FOWLR is just a reef tank that doesn't yet hold any coral. Current Tank Info: 180g display, 150gallon sump in-wall 4-side viewable sps dominated tank, ATI Powermodule, MRC MR-4 skimmer, GHL controller, Baling Method, Ultralith Reactor, Carbon & Phosphate Reactors, and general time consuming money pit that I live for.

01/12/2009, 08:26 AM	#287
Misled RC Mod Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 11,440 Blog Entries: 11	Hookup, they are made of wood. Tried using larger plastic boxes but they don't work well when so many things have to fit the coverplates. This is what it looked like before I cut it to fit this tank. I have plastic straps, that I'll run under the bottoms to keep the wires straight. thanks!! __________________ Jesse I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying nobody has ever seen me and Batman in a room together.

01/11/2009, 03:22 PM	#276
sdoggssf Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: South San Francisco, CA Posts: 127	I love your guys 92 corners I wish i had the room for something like that.. The canopy that you guys set up for your lighting look great. My lighting set up isn't as nice as your guy's but i was just looking for way to spread light to the whole tank. I used a lumenarc reflector because it seems like it spreads light evenly throughout my tank. This is an older picture but shows my light setup: I use to run a lumenmax reflector from sunlight supply and it was significantly brighter the the lumenarc, but the light wasn't distributed as well throughout the tank. I do appreciate this thread because i use to look for info on corner tanks and it was nowhere to be found...

01/11/2009, 08:09 PM	#278
kelso1980 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Syracuse NY Posts: 583	WOW! sdoggssf! I LOVE that ric garden! I saw one at a LFS in buffalo, NY and i just fell in love with it. I have never seen one before and then you posted. It's just incredible. Now I can think of nothing else but building myself a ric garden. Any tips for me? How should I go about it? My family came to visit for the weekend and I just spent the last hour catching up because I'm afraid to miss out on anything. ha ha. so Cheers to my fellow Cornerownerians Here's a camera phone pic of the ric garden in buffalo.

01/11/2009, 08:41 PM	#279
Husky_1 Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South FL Posts: 1,541	Hey everyone, thanks for the kind words. I especially enjoy hearing the open space comments. For those of you that have seen my build thread, you will see that it was not always that way. Over the past year I removed as much rock as possible. I also wanted to give my appreciation to the thread starter. This is a great thread and gives us corner owners something to shoot for. We always hear how hard our tanks are to maintain and photo, but this thread shows that it can be done with a lot of planning, hard work, and above all devotion. Hookup, The frags are for a frag swap we have coming up. The rack its on is one of those expensive fake rocks, but I think it looks ok compared to the eggcrate I had before. In the future I hope to replace with an open brain and maybe a clam. I definitely understand the sand thing, but for me its convenience since i like to have about 60x+ Flow. I did have the one sized down magnet and felt like it did not work well so I bought and kept the big one, adding the razor blade thing to it. gawf4fun, They are the modded maxijets, I had a closed loop before but pulled it out after a failure. Right now I have 3 MJ mods, the two in the front and once behind the bigger acro colony that points straigt down to get the detritus. As for future, I hope they provide enough flow. I hate seeing them there hope to get a pair of vortec's this year, but price to value ratio of the MJMods is unbeatable. Bernie, Looking forward to meeting you as well. Michael, I am with you on the coralline, but I found it to hard to keep up with the sides without moving rocks around so I got lazy.

01/11/2009, 10:15 PM	#280
btb72 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: KY Posts: 657	Jesse, I'm glad to see that you have water in the tank. Can't wait to see that sucker all set up.

01/12/2009, 12:26 AM	#282
btb72 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: KY Posts: 657	I am going to try and get some pictures up of my tank this week before I add my new corals this weekend. I have a problem. My MH keeps coming on and going out. I took it off the timer to see if it might be that or if it was the ballast or the bulb. Can you guys think of anything to test which one it is,

01/12/2009, 12:49 AM	#283
sdoggssf Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: South San Francisco, CA Posts: 127	Kelso1980 thanks for the comment. My only advise would be to put them in a spot with low to medium current, medium lighting, and far away from any corals that you intend to keep because the ric will win the battle. Good Luck.. P.S. Bring your wallet because they are pricey....

01/12/2009, 08:53 AM	#288
Michael NTTH Rookie Help Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gloucester, England,UK Posts: 7,808 Blog Entries: 6	very neat job jesse, i should sort mine out reall as well, i need to make room for a future fudge and the electrics are a right mess __________________ Don't be afraid to ask questions, we in the new to the hobby are here to help you [For My Tank Spec,Photo Album,Articles and website, click on my name] MY Very Kindest and Warmest Regards , MIKE Current Tank Info: I have a 92 gal Corner Tank, and way too many pieces of equipment to list really, (proud member of the reef central corner club)

01/12/2009, 09:55 AM	#289
Bernie21 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Miami, Fl... Posts: 2,161	I gotta agree w have a nice thing going over here w this thread. Hey Michael, did you look into speaking w the mods to see if they can lock this thread on the top part of the forum for people to be able to find us, since understandably, they cant give us our own thread, let me know what they tell you. One of the many things I love about living in Fl is that Ricordias are not that pricey, I started a ric garden & a shroom rock. The store by my house, sells them at $10 per ric, regardless of color, size or how many mouths. So when ever I see a color I like or a Ricordia w 3 or 4 mouths w like a 2-3" diameter, I jump on it for my ric garden for only10 bux!! I see some of my recruits have posted their pics, Nice job Sdogg!! I really like your tank, I want to turn my frag area into a fuge, but I dont know if it is worth it?? I dont know... cczarnik, I like your tank, It look nice and spacious, some thing I am a fan of. The very next thing I'm tackling in my tank is modding my canopy for easier access to my tank. I can access my entire tank w the way my rocks are set, but my canopy inhibits me, that has got to go, it defeats the purpose of having no rocks touching the glass... gawf4fun, you have some really nice color in there, I love the flame, Im contemplating one, but am unsure as I already have a few angels in there, I'll see, i have time. Michael, Im like you, I dont like Koraline growth on my glass, so I scrape it off. Jesse, the tank is looking good, your almost there. __________________ Reefing is an addiction rehab doesn't work for... Current Tank Info: Downgraded to a 0 Gal non Mixed Reef - Direct sun watts & 1x moon Actinics. RIO 00 return, no skimmer Skimmer.

01/12/2009, 10:24 AM	#292
MasterDrazhar Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Colchester, CT. Posts: 79	Hello, Add another for the corner tank crowd. Running a 54 Gallon non-drilled corner tank. Been running for about 3 weeks or so now. http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i...nitial%20Setup/ I'll have to start back at the beginning of this thread to catch up ~Draz

01/12/2009, 10:36 AM	#293
gawf4fun Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Lake Oswego, OR Posts: 342	"gawf4fun, you have some really nice color in there, I love the flame, Im contemplating one, but am unsure as I already have a few angels in there, I'll see, i have time". Thanks Bernie21, I'm trying to focus a little more on adding SPS to enhance the color more, but I've heard and read that softies have a negative effect on water quality which may inhibit my SPS coloration and growth. We'll see how it goes. The Flame Angel is new. I've never had one and was concerned about coral snacking, but my LFS ran a great deal at $25 so I figured I'd pull the trigger and see how he does. It's early days, but so far so good. __________________ Beware the naked man who offers you his shirt... Reef Central Corner Club Current Tank Info: 38 gl Cadlights AIO lit by AI Sol Blue, 24 gl aquapod w/150 watt pendant at the office.

01/12/2009, 11:31 AM	#295
Bernie21 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Miami, Fl... Posts: 2,161	Thanks Michael for checking, hopefully if we get enough members. We should do a club count and see how many we have so that when we reach a large number we can try again. MasterDrazhar, welcome aboard, Im surprised Michael didnt blast you w his welcome sigh, lol. The link isnt working for me either, but if you do what Michael said, it'll show. gawf4fun, I too have heard that, so Im keeping my softies to a minimal (An ORA Toadstoal & a simple colt), the rest LPS and SPS. I have seen several successful tanks and certain TOTM that are mixed tanks. I wouldnt worry about the flame to much, you got a GREAT deal (They're $50 everywhere I've seen them) and although they're hit or miss w the picking, the bigger the tank, the less damage & they are one of the better "reef safe angels". __________________ Reefing is an addiction rehab doesn't work for... Current Tank Info: Downgraded to a 0 Gal non Mixed Reef - Direct sun watts & 1x moon Actinics. RIO 00 return, no skimmer Skimmer.

01/12/2009, 07:33 PM	#297
Misled RC Mod Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 11,440 Blog Entries: 11	Ok I wanted to explain something I hit on earlier. My overflow will feed my skimmer directly. I know my skimmer, (asm g-3), pulls more than my overflow will be putting out. That was the reason I wanted to do the recurculating mod. Because of lack o room this wasn't possible. This is my solution. This requires all water to flow through the skimmer, then to the fuge. IT FITS!!!!! __________________ Jesse I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying nobody has ever seen me and Batman in a room together.

01/12/2009, 08:32 PM	#298
Hookup Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,281	Wow Jesse, nice setup... i've wanted to have a total-flow into skimmer system but just havn't worked it out... but i'm confused, how does this solve you problem of not having enuf over-flow volume to feed the pump? And, what are the two holes in the elbow for? Obviously water will escape there and make a mess, unless that is underwater and then allows your sump-water to also get pulled in and... WOW, I get it, I think. That is a very impressive MOD to make a pseudo-recerc! WOW! WELL DONE! __________________ Spellking is an art form to which I have no brush. I'm not sure FOWLRs actually exist, I think they're like unicorns or platonic girlfriends. A FOWLR is just a reef tank that doesn't yet hold any coral. Current Tank Info: 180g display, 150gallon sump in-wall 4-side viewable sps dominated tank, ATI Powermodule, MRC MR-4 skimmer, GHL controller, Baling Method, Ultralith Reactor, Carbon & Phosphate Reactors, and general time consuming money pit that I live for.

01/12/2009, 08:38 PM	#299
Misled RC Mod Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 11,440 Blog Entries: 11	That's funny. I like the way you talked yourself through it. You are right, it's under water. The holes will allow the skimmer to draw enough water, even if it's not comming from the overflow. Since the overflow water is already in the pipe, all of it should get sucked in. __________________ Jesse I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying nobody has ever seen me and Batman in a room together. Last edited by Misled; 01/12/2009 at 08:48 PM.

01/12/2009, 09:08 PM	#300
Hookup Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,281	Yeah, i was confused and did type my way thru.. then figured I'd leave the post... made me laugh at myself.... haha __________________ Spellking is an art form to which I have no brush. I'm not sure FOWLRs actually exist, I think they're like unicorns or platonic girlfriends. A FOWLR is just a reef tank that doesn't yet hold any coral. Current Tank Info: 180g display, 150gallon sump in-wall 4-side viewable sps dominated tank, ATI Powermodule, MRC MR-4 skimmer, GHL controller, Baling Method, Ultralith Reactor, Carbon & Phosphate Reactors, and general time consuming money pit that I live for.