StPatrick's 60 Gallon Solana XL

PaulKreider · Feb 13, 2013

The best place I'v found for cleanup crew is www.reefcleaners.org If you email the guy with your tank demensions specs, all that he will send you a list of what will probably work the best, thats what I did and I love my CUC, also its very cheap! And he ushualy sends a few extras just in case! Great service for sure.

Stpatrick · Feb 13, 2013

PaulKreider said:
The best place I'v found for cleanup crew is www.reefcleaners.org If you email the guy with your tank demensions specs, all that he will send you a list of what will probably work the best, thats what I did and I love my CUC, also its very cheap! And he ushualy sends a few extras just in case! Great service for sure.

Thanks Paul. I will check them out.

Stpatrick · Feb 13, 2013

grumpy-crab said:
Looks really good... :thumbup::thumbup: and how about gas struts to help hold the canopy open. That or locking hinge.

I would love a gas strut. Where can I find one to hold up around 50-60 lbs?

grumpy-crab · Feb 13, 2013

Stpatrick said:
I would love a gas strut. Where can I find one to hold up around 50-60 lbs?

Go to auto zone or other parts store they should have them in stock... im guessing you might need one thats about 12-15" collapsed. And one would be fine to hold up that weight.

bknapp · Feb 13, 2013

Looks great man, like the way you made the canopy work.

Stpatrick · Feb 14, 2013

So I have been getting to many micro bubbles. I decided to build a new and wider sump with three baffles.

Stpatrick · Feb 20, 2013

Tank has cycled. Nitrate is about 20 ppm. To high. I needed to start adding the corals I am keeping. They started to die off in my temp set up. Here is a a few pictures. First is of the first frags to go in. Keeping my fingers crossed. Three days in and I have great polyp extension and it appears there is new growth.

Stpatrick · Feb 20, 2013

Here are some shots with the lights on. The scape turned out great.

The is the view from the front. When your looking at the tank straight on it looks like a solid wall of rock work.

Stpatrick · Feb 20, 2013

I also forgot to mention. Everything that went into the tank in the last few days where dip in Bayer Advance Insect killer. I followed the instruction in the you tube video I added a few pages ago. Everything came out just fine.

Stpatrick · Mar 6, 2013

Long time know update. My take came into line. Params are Alk - 7.5, CA - 450, PO4 - .02, Nitrate is about 4 ppm. Down from 50ppm.

I recieved some nice peices from Copps on reef central. I have more coming in from Battle Corals and JAR-Z on reef central. I will update on those friday.

ScubaShane · Mar 18, 2013

I really wanted the solana 60 xl but apparently they were discontinued. Love your setup, looks great!

Stpatrick · Mar 18, 2013

shikashane said:
I really wanted the solana 60 xl but apparently they were discontinued. Love your setup, looks great!

Thank you Shane. If I were to do it again I would probably have had a tank built. I dont care for the Solanas over flow.

ScubaShane · Mar 18, 2013

I probably gonna go with the 60 cube from glasscages.com. I really like the 2'x2' cubes. Was considering the 3'x3' 150g cube by marineland, but those disappeared too! I can get that done at glass gages too if i dicide to go that large. Im running a 15g tall right now so that would be a monster upgrade project!!!

skinz78 · Mar 18, 2013

Nice looking sticks!

Stpatrick · Mar 27, 2013

Ok so I was in Encinitas tropical and picked up a couple great finds. I was able to score a Tyree war&peace and this acan. It has about 6 heads on it and was cheap. They are calling it the Root-beer acan. WOW. I have never seen anything quit like it. he didnt know much more about it. Has anyone seen one like this? Deep chocolate, greens, blues, and reds.