jcdeng's Elos 120

[jcdeng]

Finally got the 120 up and running after 4 long months, a lot of hiccups along the way, stuff missing, not working, not instock, hurricane Sandy, etc. I am just glad its completed now so just thought I'd share some pictures with you guys/gals.

Old tank (55g) before the move and break down:

Equipment List
Elos 120 tank and Stand
CoralTheory custom acrylic sump
Super Reef Octopus 2000ss space saver
Pacific Sun Metis Hyperion R2 light 2X150W
Neptune Apex with WXM
Vortech MP40Wes (X2)
Tunze ATO
Eheim Jager Heater
TLF 150 Phosban reactor




New tank in basement, 120 was the biggest I could have fit down the narrow staircase.

Egg crates on bottom glass part

BRS dry ECO rock, took some time to design but locking together pretty well

Transferred into tank, couldn't replicate it 100% even though I took like 10 pictures with different angles but I like the new one better

Top shot:

light hangers up

Fill sand bed and mixed salt water

Pacific Sun Hyperion R2 arrived:

Light up, heaters and powerhead in, then Hurricane Sandy came, tank was in this stage for 3-4 weeks, so I took the opportunity cycle the tank with a dead shrimp,

Thanks to my friends Jimmy and Vince at CoralTheory.com for building me the custom sump and set up the plumbing and equipment:

A mess of wires, clean it up the best I could during my free time:

Tunze ATO, very easy to set up can calibrate, didn't even read the manual

Neptune Apex, gave me the most headache trying to figure it out, and linking it to the vortechs. But after some trial and error, got it to work and LOVE THIS THING

Some final shots as of now:

arty:

 

[jcdeng]

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[jcdeng]

Reserved for coral pics

 

[jcdeng]

Reserved for fish pictures

 

[zoous]

Nice tank. Keep the pics coming. How big is the sump?

 

[jcdeng]

Nice tank. Keep the pics coming. How big is the sump?

Thanks, sump is 37LX18WX16H

 

[zibba]

Off to a great start. Beautiful aquarium!

 

[jcdeng]

Off to a great start. Beautiful aquarium!

Thanks, taking my time on this one, fish is currently in the 3rd week of QT and being medicated. corals are in the frag tank for the longest time but I keep on adding frags to it so the QT period keeps on extending.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Very beautiful new tank! Excited to see this progression.

 

[jtgordon20]

Looks great!!!
Can't wait to see how of it grows!

 

[buddythelion]

Great tank, can't wait to see what you do with it. Get a shot of it litted up already!

 

[jcdeng]

Very beautiful new tank! Excited to see this progression.

Looks great!!!
Can't wait to see how of it grows!

Thanks, I will sure put more pictures up.

Great tank, can't wait to see what you do with it. Get a shot of it litted up already!

I programed the lights already, that thing is bring as hell, and so many different settings you can use. Right now I am just waiting for Imagine an Ocean to ship me the extension cables so I can route them along my light hanger bars, the original one is too short and will be dangling behind the back ground which is very unsightly.

 

[r33fcrazy]

How many pounds of brs rocks did you purchase?

 

[ParkerB]

Nice equipment and tank. Stoked to see this thing come along.

 

[jcdeng]

How many pounds of brs rocks did you purchase?

I got 80 lbs but ended up only using about 70Lb cuz I want more swimming space for my fishes. still got 2 big ones left sitting in the box.

 

[jcdeng]

Nice equipment and tank. Stoked to see this thing come along.

Thanks, will try to update the thread with more pictures soon, just need to finish stocking my fishes (long process cuz I am QTing and medicating every new fish that is coming in). And my corals are kinda outgrowing my frag tank already lol.

 

[ParkerB]

Thanks, will try to update the thread with more pictures soon, just need to finish stocking my fishes (long process cuz I am QTing and medicating every new fish that is coming in). And my corals are kinda outgrowing my frag tank already lol.

Lol, corals tend to do that. Think it's about time to get a bigger frag tank.

And it's always good to be prepared and take the QT route.

 

[jeremyblu]

set up looks realy good going to be an awsome grow out following

 

[jcdeng]

Hmmm, thought I can edit posts to put more pictures in the first page, but guess not so here are some update pictures in the spirit of Chinese New Year:


FTS with lights on:

The Hammerhead, its so strong that I have to change out the velcro and replace it with pads made for acrylic tanks

Fish pics:

Maldives anthia male

female

Naoko's fairy wrasse

ORA BlackIce Snowflake (milk cow)

Some teaser shots of some of the corals. I didn't move them to the Elos yet. Taken under daylights.

Scolys

Chalices

TCK kratos

JF Crazy Fox

JF My Miami

Jailbreak

Cornbred's 3G trash Mummy Eye

Cornbred's Lemonade Acan

Cheers

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Everything is look great!