ssm05rsx's upgrade to Oceanic 90g Bow

ssm05rsx · Feb 12, 2009

Recently upgraded to a 90 gallon bow from a fellow member.. Thanks Terry and Ant! Primarily posting this for you guys to see.

Used to have a 55 Gallon

Now to the 90!

Lighting: 2 175 Watt MH I believe 12k bulbs and Actinic PC's
Flow: 2 Koralia 4's
Battery Back up for return pump: Geek Squad GS-1285U

adding sand and new water!

Installing new fan into canopy

Built my sump with pressure locking baffles, they work o.k. I have Random pieces of Egg Crate supporting it. But if I ever upgraded I could easily sell it as a normal tank. Just more of a pain right now lol.

Also father built little T-5's on the top of the stand for the sump.

Coral Vue Reef Octopus NW150
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Mag 9 Return pump. and Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor

Not to many pictures of the 90 running cause its only been up for about 8 hours now, but..
these pictures came out pretty bad. New ones soon as everything is opened.

Looking into buying the Reefkeeper lite soon. And some moon lighting. suggestions?

majormaz · Feb 12, 2009

Looking pretty good. Goodluck

adesimone1 · Feb 12, 2009

Looks good Dan, you did a nice job on the sump. We have to get moonlights in our new tank also

ssm05rsx · Feb 12, 2009

thanks!

What moonlights are you guys looking at picking up? I'm looking at Digital Aquatics, and also the Reefkeeper Lite3

Sump is pretty good, it has a bunch of brackets of Egg Crate holding it together.. Need to raise my Skimmer though, in to deep of water.....

ssm05rsx · Feb 14, 2009

Our 35 gallon tank is gone, ............... TBA

ssm05rsx · Feb 14, 2009

Update on 35 Gallon FOWLR Tank.

Last night at 1am, mother wakes me up saying the 35 in the kitchen overflowed and went all over her kitchen floor.

Water was everywhere, on the kitchen leaking through to the basement, underneath the tank in the stand. When I opened the door smoke poured out of the stand. The surge and everything under the tank was flooded with about an inch worth of water, the air pump. So from this point the k1 seems destroyed, and the maxijet, heater, filter. (all the prongs on the plug are black.. I tested the power heads light night and they seem to work fine but don't know how safe it is.

Now my brother Ralph and I were trying to figure out what caused it, as we pull up the air pump we notice its siphoning water out onto the floor. So the air pump must have malfunctioned and broke, and began to siphon water some how. It was rather old used back when we had little freshwater fish when I was like ten with our old twenty gallon tank, but worked fine on our tank for over a year and a half.

Really scary, glad there wasn't a fire.

onefish2fish · Feb 14, 2009

yea that sucks but thats what check valves are for. your lucky you didnt start a fire. your live stock is alright?

ssm05rsx · Feb 15, 2009

yeah the 35 didn't have anything important in it but the new 20 lbs of live rock I bought that day, two blue damsels and a small cleaner crew... Everything is now in the 55 gallon til we set the 35 back up.

ssm05rsx · Apr 5, 2009

Just came back from Aquarium Center, Brother bought me a fish for my birthday, and I bought two frags, Some Fire tang, Don't know the full name they called it, and a blasto and zoo frag.

Looked on Live Aquaria, and it looks like Bristletooth Tomini Tang

I'll get better pics when the fish is in the Tank, right now its just drip acclimating.

He is huge compared to our other fish. Hopefully everything will be good.