Michael's 168 build

[Chromis]

Neither would break or leak if made properly and supported with a good stand. I am leaning towards a custom crystal dynamics tank like the last one I have. The euro brace and reinforced seams have held up really well.

Oops I meant which is *less* likely to break/leak, if you are looking for deciding factors, or an interesting project. From the sims I’ve seen it seems like the bottom center seam on the long panels gets a lot of stress.

 

[H2OPlayar]

What's your biggest phosphate number? I just set a new record!

Anyone ever see their phosphate test water turn visibly blue?

 

[H2OPlayar]

Some shots of the tank from my last visit. Wet skimming with lanthanum chloride worked great for lowering the phosphate. Got it down to .2 from 1.4 over a couple days with 20ish gallons replenished.

 

[Darkxerox]

What's your method of addition? Also if you have any flatworms or feather duster worms curious if you saw any ill effects to them?

 

[H2OPlayar]

What's your method of addition? Also if you have any flatworms or feather duster worms curious if you saw any ill effects to them?

I dropped it into the skimmer neck, but I dosed so much at a time that the tank got cloudy. I then add 5 gallons of salt water to bring my skimmer level up and run a siphon from the skimmer cup to wet skim it out. I did not see any negative effects on feather dusters /tube worms.

 

[H2OPlayar]

 

[H2OPlayar]

Last pics of the tank before I start taking it all down.

The sphere doesn't look real when you see it in person.

 

[H2OPlayar]

Starting the teardown.

Here is the motor from my cooling fan

And the cooling fan blades.


Look at all these vermitids!!! That's not cleaning it for 2-3 years. It is a solid mass of vermitids.

 

[Srt4eric]

Starting the teardown.

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Look at all these vermitids!!! That's not cleaning it for 2-3 years. It is a solid mass of vermitids.
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What's the first picture?

 

[Srt4eric]

And second?

 

[H2OPlayar]

And second?

The cooling fan that was really noisy. It corroded over time, but boy did it move air.

 

[Darkxerox]

The cooling fan that was really noisy. It corroded over time, but boy did it move air.

Check out the new Tunze fan, it's super silent and can fall into the tank without shorting out. I've got it on my sump right now.

 

[derek_SR]

Terrible pic with the blue light, but this is the underside of a very large, yet very upset blue haddoni carpet anemone coming out of Michael’s tank!

In the bucket for transport:

This guy was at least 12-14” in diameter, it’s amazing how small they can shrink