Post Your Tank Pic Please

[Anonymous]

latest pic of the 20 long-the pair of t.r. skunks is in the middle of the tank- just starting to get comfy

 

[Anonymous]

heres my 20 8)

 

[Anonymous]

i want mine to look like vitz ...WoW 8O



8)


Tell me how do you do it....???

 

[reefland]

Hey Reefland,

Great tank shot, love it. What is the size of the tank.

Thanks, it's a 180 gallon. It was sad to take it down when I moved to my new house in May. Going to start over, new corals, new fish, (new algae, slime, and other problems to I bet.)

 

[mountainbiker619]

Here is RC's tank of the month. This is such a beautifull tank that I wanted to share it with you all.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/totm/index.htm

 

[reefland]

BTW - If anyone is interested I have a few movies of the tank on-line:

http://users.rcn.com/sparkyjjd/

 

[Micah00]

Posted these in the photograpy forum a few days ago, but for those that don't visit. Here's my 135 FOWLR, 55 and 40 reef.

 

[mountainbiker619]

Micah,

What are those lovely things I have inside the yellow box below?

 

[Micah00]

They are Protopalythoa grandis (sun zoanthid), but I'm only about 90% sure on that identification. The are zoos from deeper water.

 

[saltnmyeye]

I like all the tanks thus far, but you got it happening. When that tank gets fully dressed it will be a real piece of artwork. Job well done!

 

[delbeek]

I guess having worked with public aquaria displays ... the thing that really leaps out at me when I look at home aquaria now as opposed to when I did this as a hobby is how little attention is given to aesthetics by the majority of hobbyists. For example, the lack of a pleasing background ... be it bare glass, coralline spotted glass or a bad paint job. Also it appears little attempt is made to hide things like powerheads, heaters, overflows, airlines etc. With just a little more attention to the details when planning your aquarium, you could make an ordinary aquarium look so much better.

Aloha!
JCD

 

[Anonymous]

I guess having worked with public aquaria displays ... the thing that really leaps out at me when I look at home aquaria now as opposed to when I did this as a hobby is how little attention is given to aesthetics by the majority of hobbyists. For example, the lack of a pleasing background ... be it bare glass, coralline spotted glass or a bad paint job. Also it appears little attempt is made to hide things like powerheads, heaters, overflows, airlines etc. With just a little more attention to the details when planning your aquarium, you could make an ordinary aquarium look so much better.

Aloha!
JCD

Hey, look at my tank up there and tell me if you can think of a way to cover up those giant white drains. I have been wracking my brain for months, but all I can come up with is hanging a seashell on them which would be slightly hokey

thanks

Bryan

btw nice tanks everyone

 

[Aquarist20]

Saltnmyeye. The 20 gallon has been running since May this year. Sorry so long to respond.

 

[bar]

my old in wall tank. (moving to a new tank...)

 

[Anonymous]

I guess having worked with public aquaria displays ... the thing that really leaps out at me when I look at home aquaria now as opposed to when I did this as a hobby is how little attention is given to aesthetics by the majority of hobbyists. For example, the lack of a pleasing background ... be it bare glass, coralline spotted glass or a bad paint job. Also it appears little attempt is made to hide things like powerheads, heaters, overflows, airlines etc. With just a little more attention to the details when planning your aquarium, you could make an ordinary aquarium look so much better.

Aloha!
JCD

Mr. Delbeek if you have any suggestions as to how to hide my Stream powerheads I'd love to hear them - Tunze makes a fake rock cover but I'd just as soon not use that option.

I went back and forth with closed loop vs streams for just this reason and in the end went with streams due to the flexibility in placement and the cariety of wave options offeredwhen paired with the controller. I want to make the tank as aestheticlaly pleasing as possible while not sacrificing optimum conditions for my animals - if I have to choose a healthy tank wins out over a pretty one anyday - I am actually making this one strictly Indo-Pacific to start with and am trying not to go with a 'garden' reef as I have in the past. Even to the point of pulling out all my gorgonians and ricordea rocks and throwing them in my small carribean tank.

BTW the streams normally point at each other across the tank - had them there while cleaning / rearranging.

Nice tanks everyone - BAR I guess living so close to the Red Sea has its advantages - you have/had a gorgeous selection of soft corals!

 

[bar]

technoshaman - thanks but,

all of my corals comes out of israel.
we dont permitted even to take dry stone from the Red Sea !!!

 

[danny@]

this is mine

 

[delbeek]

Hey, look at my tank up there and tell me if you can think of a way to cover up those giant white drains. I have been wracking my brain for months, but all I can come up with is hanging a seashell on them which would be slightly hokey

Well Knuckle ... to begin with, I would have never done what you did ... for a wedge shaped tank like yours I would have built an overflow box in the back corner with one of those bulkheads on each side wall. This way you could have covered the top of the back corner so no light could get there and with a black overflow box ... you would hardly see it.

In your present situation you could have two small black overflow boxes, one over each opening, get rid of the white pipe! You are asking for a flood with that design ... slots too small and pipe too small.

Drill a hole in the side of the overflow box large enough for the bulkhead fitting to fit through. Lower the water level below the bulkhead, remove the bulkhead and remove the gasket. Insert the bulkhead into the overflow box, then replace the rubber gasket so that it sits between the overflow box and the tank wall. Insert the box-bulkhead combo through the hole in the tank and screw it down in place. Be sure the box is wide enough that you can get the bulkhead in. Otherwise purchase an identicle bulkhead and build it into the box, that way the box can be smaller.

To hide this either add more rocks to hide it, or attach zoanthids and/or star polyps with cyanoacrylate gel and they will eventually cover the entire box.

Another option is to get a good sized piece of live rock and using drills and picks make an opening so that the white pipes you have fit inside and then glue the rock in place with some marine epoxy. Use some sections of PVC to prop the rock in place until the glue dries (about 24 hours). You can do this in the tank, underwater no problem. Then attach corals at will. 8)

Anyway ... just a couple of ideas off the top of my head.

The point I was making in my earlier post, which I guess did not come across, is that one needs to PLAN your tank with aesthetics in mind from the get go ... not as an afterthought when all the holes have been drilled and the tank is up and running. You will learn as you go along and avoid these types of mistakes in the future though.

Aloha!
JCD

 

[delbeek]

Mr. Delbeek if you have any suggestions as to how to hide my Stream powerheads I'd love to hear them - Tunze makes a fake rock cover but I'd just as soon not use that option. BTW the streams normally point at each other across the tank - had them there while cleaning/rearranging.

Well as I suggested above you could use live rock or rocks and either make a hole in there that could fit around your Tunze streams or glue several small pieces up to make it look like a conglomerate, then attach some corals that will eventually cover it all and make it look natural.

I can't really see where they are in your pic but maybe you could glue up some rocks or corals on the glass in front of the Tunzes??

I want to make the tank as aestheticlaly pleasing as possible while not sacrificing optimum conditions for my animals - if I have to choose a healthy tank wins out over a pretty one anyday -

I couldn't agree more.

Aloha!
JCD

 

[Mikef1]

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