my new tank!

[[d]3v|L]

nice tank!

[hsloo]

Nice tank and setup... and a very patient guy! 1 year for FOWLR?!

[je7170]

Nice Tank. How much u pay for yr cabinet.

[Hard Rock]

Hi Terry

I am sure many members would like to know how much you pay for the individual system.

Lot of them will want to upgrades and I sure it will smell business for your friend.

[jc85]

wow. great tank. Now i envy..

[Benz...]

very nice... so you din wash your sand huh... me wash mine till almost 4 in the morning... so yeah.. know the feeling.... hey can pm me your tankmaker contact..

thinking of an extension....

[terryansimon]

Looks like another top-notch setup.

Looking forward to when it is fully stocked up (but I am sure not as much as you)

huh what?

stock up. sure. one year time. need to give my tank the time to fully mature before I commit to expensive babies! haha (=

[FuEl]

Nice tank terryansimon.

Would be really nice to see it stocked up with sps. Maybe after cycling can place small little frags all over your liverock and observe them growing after a few months.

[terryansimon]

to everybody...thanks for the comments! hahaha its a small ego trip for me!

now as for the pricing. I made some sort of a non-verbal agreement *not contract. we didn't say this out, but I don't think my friend wants to be overwhelmed with orders or something. so those that want contacts, please PM me*

(= hope you guys understand. seriously, don't put me in a spot here! (=

[terryansimon]

tank as of 301103. notice the water is less cloudy? its probably gonna become more cloudy, due to the addition of live rocks soon. =(

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shot of skimmer in action. I wonder if its enough water for it.

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close up shot of skimmer in action.

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AquaC EV-180 powered by a Rio 3100. had to go to LCK 113 to get it today. selling for $78, so I got it! (=

and by the way this pump is recommended by AquaC themselves! (=

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a shot of my temperature and pH monitor.

temperature at 30deg. chiller not turned on mah. although when I turned the chiller on, temperature monitor accurately captured difference in temperature. (=

this monitor, named Aqua Sentry, can be bought from Petmart at a cheap price of $140. its a made in Singapore product, so replacement of parts will be damn easy. (=

[terryansimon]

reading of pH. its on the low side as I only added enough salt to treat 100g worth of water. what for fill it up specifically when still no live rocks to treat!

don't wanna add rocks to freshwater, thats why its running on saltwater now. (=

[terryansimon]

shot of my tower with filter wool. second compartment has a bag of carbon in it. went to petmart to get a ultra fine filter bag.

washed until the bag broke. had to put in another bag as a "buffer."

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shot of the amount of big particles caught by the filterwool. and yes that is my hand.

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input pipe for my chiller.

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image of messy wiring and output pipe from my chiller.

thinking of getting a wire coiler, or something plastic-ky to wrap around the electrical cables to make them look neater.

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a shot of my center overflow compartment with the close loop output. had to buy a small amount of pipes to stuff it into the elbow, due to the fact that if I didn't do that, I'll get a lot of water splashing around and a lot of bubbles.

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another shot of my overflow compartment, this time with durso pipe and all. notice the blu-tack to control the air intake? no plasticine. =(

[terryansimon]

chiller with pipings. thinking of ways to make the pipings straight and neat, without bending the pipes. any suggestions?

[terryansimon]

see the small amount of dirt in there? don't know if I should siphon out the damn thing. hahaha. the strong current from the close loop return is creating a small tornado effect on the particles. you can't see it, but they are actually spinning around and around and around.

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a close up shot of my sump's deep sea bed. intending to turn it into a refugium next time for nutrient export.

notice there are black sponges in between the water baffles? these act as a stopper for microbubbles from developing.

the green Eheim pipe is my chiller's input pipe. (=

[terryansimon]

notice on the right hand side, just beside the red coloured valve of the skimmer there is also a black sponge?

this is to prevent water from splashing all over the cabinet as the water exits from the skimmer. (=