Gimmito's 450 Gal L-Shaped Display

[gimmito]

I dragged out my 300 gallon rubbermaid trough to start making some saltwater (I'm using salinity salt).

 

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Update: The saltwater has been mixing for a day and is still a bit cloudy. I'm looking for Tropic Eden sand, but everyone seems to be out of them. :sad:

 

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Update: John at Ready Aquatics was able to locate 300 lbs of the Tropic Eden AragaSnow for me and will be shipping out this week. :xd:

 

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While I'm waiting on the sand to arrive. I thought I'd take some pics of the water circulation within the display. Here's a pic of the left rear (3) tunze 6205's and a 1" sea swirl.

 

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Here's a pic of the right rear of the display. A tunze wave box, 6205, & 1" sea swirl fill in that corner. I was able to place the magnets within the overflow boxes.

 

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I know was going to have a major dead spot in the right front of the display w/the rockwork. My solution is a tunze 6100 in a tunze rock (hopefully it doesn't stickout like a sore thumb).

 

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Shot of left side...hopefully you don't notice the pumps too much.

 

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Shot of right side of display (sorry about the glare).

 

[Troylee]

Love that rock man nice big flat pieces should look great soon when it's covered in life... great job thus far man...

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Looking great bro! I love the rock!

 

[gimmito]

Thanks Troylee...I hope to start cycling the beast soon.

 

[gimmito]

Looking great bro! I love the rock!

Thanks Brutha ! The large pieces are truly unique and I have to thank Fingerwrinkles for them.

 

[gimmito]

The Reef Octopus SR-140 media reactor came in today. I'll be using the new bio sphere pellets in it.

 

[gimmito]

I just got back from vacation and had some things waiting for me.

6 buckets of Tropic Eden sand that John from Ready Aquatics was able to get for me from his buddy (some guy named Anthony Calfo).

 

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I also received my bacteria & ammonia from Dr. Tim. I've been listening to various podcast and spoke to him regarding cycling the tank. Apparently, many large public aquariums use his products to cycle their tanks.

 

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I also picked up a Davey Jones Skimmate Locker from my buddy Mike.

 

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I took Anthony's and Frankie's advice about discarding the old batch of saltwater. This time I utilized a panworld 200ps pump for circulation, no heater, & added the salt over a couple of days.

 

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I also started placing the sand in the tank.

 

[gimmito]

This is far as I'm getting today...300 gallons sure goes fast. Although, I was able to fire up the 4 Tunze 6205's, 1 Tunze 6100, & Tunze wavemaker. I'm really happy the way the flow is thus far. The only part where I have some sand movement is at the right front where the 6100 is at...I'll add some larger grain sand in that area to take care of it.

 

[bige]

Looks good. Used 300 gallons and still not full. Crazy.