Alan's 450g Peninsula Tank - Page 2

alanmorehead · 07/21/2016, 03:15 PM

Ordered 400 lbs. of rock from Marco Rocks. Marc was really helpful and offered some size suggestions for this size of tank:

mtlreeffreak · 07/21/2016, 06:40 PM

looking good!

jctello · 07/21/2016, 10:24 PM

Hi Alan, that looks a fantastic project. Great planning and organization!! I'm looking forward to see more progress. I would like to ask you, where did you get your Aragonite Sand? From BRS?

JaySchulz · 07/22/2016, 01:33 AM

Following along. Must of been an awesome feeling when you found out you won the raffle.

Are you concerned at all about not having a center brace on your stand?

UncleSalt · 07/22/2016, 08:52 AM

Following along!

ADVRESOURCE · 07/22/2016, 10:14 AM

Congratulations on your win!!! It's just a win to get that monster down to your basement. Other BIG winner....

LFS, Bulk reef supply, Marine Depot and whomever else you will purchase material and livestock!!! Been there, done that, for sure!

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jctello

Hi Alan, that looks a fantastic project. Great planning and organization!! I'm looking forward to see more progress. I would like to ask you, where did you get your Aragonite Sand? From BRS?

I ordered them from the LFS

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JaySchulz

Following along. Must of been an awesome feeling when you found out you won the raffle.

It certainly was!

Quote:

Originally Posted by JaySchulz

Are you concerned at all about not having a center brace on your stand?

I actually added center braces when I started to do the fill. I wasn't too concerned about it, but I needed the framing for the drywall/outlets anyway.

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 01:57 PM

Here is the start of the framing for the fish room. Removed all my shelving from the back corner, so it could moved outside the fish room. I picked up an exterior door, which has all the weatherproofing that I wanted built in.

Added two 1.5" drain lines that run back to the fish room:

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:01 PM

Sealed all the sill boards of the fish room and cleaned up the floor in preparation for the epoxy shield.

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:06 PM

Installed vapor barrier and OSB wall panels

Sealing the concrete walls. I also sealed the ceiling framing against the concrete, so no moisture leaks would get through there:

First coat of paint:

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alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:08 PM

First coat of paint all done:

Sealed the wall cracks and another layer on the floor with the epoxy down:

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:10 PM

Built some basic stands for the pair of 100g Rubbermaid stock tanks:

A couple coats of paint on the stands and they were ready for service:

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:13 PM

Aquascaping begins. I marked out the tank footprint w/ some masking tape.

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alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:17 PM

The rock is in!

Back to the fish room:

A temporary setup while I'm moving stuff around:

RODI mounted w/ (hopefully) plenty of salt on standby:

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:19 PM

Starting to work on the return feed line. Cut the hole out of the wall:

Painting the return line that will be submerged:

Return line installed:

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:22 PM

Plumbed in the return pump:

Return feed is online!

Added some cycled rock:

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:26 PM

Picked up a pair of 44g brute trashcans, a 60g storage tank, and a couple 30g tanks. The 30g is currently being used to establish a separate pod population.

Skimmer is online

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:35 PM

I still need to plan out the fish room equipment layout, so the wiring/tanks/lighting is temporary. I've considered doing a some shelving above the stock tanks and I will be adding a utility sink to the RODI corner.

I also purchased one of these 200-250g water storage tanks. My plan is to put it in the garage, then have a line running down into my fish room w/ a spigot

My first skimmate

Back-side of the fish room:

Recent tank pic:

alanmorehead · 07/25/2016, 02:38 PM

Picked up a Maxspect Gyre XF-150

McPuff · 10/25/2016, 08:23 AM

What's the status of this tank now? I assume it's all up and running, yes? Got a sneak preview from the "Rubbermaids as sumps thread" but need more. :0)

McCarthy1984 · 01/18/2017, 04:18 AM

Bump.

shanebc21 · 01/18/2017, 05:02 AM

Did he just disappeared in July of 2016? Its like watching a movie with those cliff hanger endings and your like "WTH".

alanmorehead · 02/17/2017, 03:02 PM

Sorry about the lack of updates.
I was planning on getting all the corals mounted and then posting pics after that. Everything was going really well and I had almost all of the fish I wanted, plus a decent set of hardy corals to fill the tank. Then, disaster struck about 2 weeks ago and my tank now sits completely dried out.

Here are a few pics from about 2 weeks ago when everything was going great. Fish that I had:
orange shoulder tang
yellow-belly blue hippo tang
vlamingi tang
naso tang
chocolate tang
powder brown tang
kole tang
desjardini sailfin tang
foxface
pair of bluejaw triggers
blue-spot jawfish
3 purple firefish
dartfish
anthias
blue fairy wrasse
yellow hogfish
misc. clownfish

2 weeks ago, everything was doing so awesome. I got about 1/3 of the fish in mid-December. They went through a couple weeks QT, then added to tank. No symptoms at all during QT. Then added to tank, where some fish were bullied as they established territory. I did some tricks with lights off, extra feedings, moved a few rocks, etc. After a few days, all fish seemed to have settled and didn't really have any problems. Everything was good for a few more weeks with no symptoms of disease.

Here are a few pics of fish a few weeks ago:

Around the 1st of Feb, I lost my blue-spot jawfish and chocolate tang. Around the same time, I noticed white spots starting to show on some of the fish. Since I had not mounted corals yet, I decided to split corals into a separate system and run hypo in the main to get rid of the ich. It took 3-4 days to bring down to 1.009 and more spots were showing up. I lost a couple more fish, but was hopeful once the salinity was low enough that it would start relieving the fish from ich and begin the healing process. Over the next few days, I just kept losing fish and the hyposalinity does not seem to have done anything. I've researched diseases and couldn't match it with anything I found. I'm unsure what the disease is and unsure how to treat the remaining fish. The only tangs I have left are my larger orange shoulder and blue hippo. I still have the yellow watchman+shrimp goby pair, a melanurus, a blue fairy wrasse, 1 purple firefish, 1 dartfish. All the other fish have died

Needless to say, it's been completely devastating. It's heartbreaking having to pull out dead fish almost every day for the past week. I can't make sense of the disease. No new additions had been made since around Christmas. All the fish were doing great with no symptoms for over a month. That was even after the fish went through their stressful tank introduction. Then, the symptoms showed up and the disease has been extremely lethal.

I moved the remaining fish to a hospital tank and kept them in hyposalinity. Since I had to remove all the rock to get the fish out, I decided to just pull the sand out and drain/dry it. Since it was run in hypo, I figured a lot of the biofiltration was lost and might as well just bleach the rock/sand

As it stands now

alanmorehead · 02/17/2017, 03:13 PM

If anyone can help ID diseases, I'd like to treat the fish that are left.

* Fish showed no symptoms for 1+ month, then started getting spots/blotches/fin damage and dying over another week
* Hyposalinity did not seem to have any effect
* 6-7" blue hippo has shown almost no problems. light discoloration spots on face (still alive)
* 6" orange shoulder has not shown spots, but does have multiple blotches/rashes on the sides (still alive)
* blue fairy wrasse, melanurus, yellow hogfish, yellow watchman+shrimp - Have not shown any problems (still alive)
* None of the 3 purple firefish showed any signs, but 2 have died (1 in main, 1 in hospital)
* foxface got COMPLETELY covered with white spots
* Naso had fin damage and cloudy eyes. was one of the last ones to die
* Sailfin tang had spots, lost color and was really patchy looking
* bluespot jawfish and chocolate tang died first (didn't see any symptoms)
* Fish seem to be breathing ok (no rapid breathing or toxic water/high ammonia like symptoms)
* male trigger had mucas-like stringy stuff on top of head, fin damage, a few spots

Here are pics:

07/21/2016, 03:15 PM	#26
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Ordered 400 lbs. of rock from Marco Rocks. Marc was really helpful and offered some size suggestions for this size of tank: __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 01:57 PM	#34
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Here is the start of the framing for the fish room. Removed all my shelving from the back corner, so it could moved outside the fish room. I picked up an exterior door, which has all the weatherproofing that I wanted built in. Added two 1.5" drain lines that run back to the fish room: __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:01 PM	#35
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Sealed all the sill boards of the fish room and cleaned up the floor in preparation for the epoxy shield. __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:06 PM	#36
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Installed vapor barrier and OSB wall panels Sealing the concrete walls. I also sealed the ceiling framing against the concrete, so no moisture leaks would get through there: First coat of paint: [IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/B7CCdfaszRPBW2-WpPQqaLSHH3BXoMMeEdlIS21Kftw7mPnO9-kQR4MRMzLt1q8iitfa7NJIUNDe7meqdL5eCYXRjLCCxXzP3bUdISAXemgol6EFFTccPdjNmCjfNMWbPeDbXZDTnXegp5uZ2uMfmo kcIuFnlHajB3wzCB6mt52NeLR20oiJcDdjgvGZ3dD8SgSCp2Ynvb2mxN2joqdKrg_TQ3SnfsAI5N7jqIhcmEZYRSFiVuEOiUWnvI _49EL5rqajC_OmH4JNoHbKd7rKtnVnbkD7zyA_-y0M6f0bU88Z02Hw9zBcAHTSFfoxmURlzoPv5NbPyGAY1_uY38G-kxEvHLCIfeb3mrVTQ0B4Uhfms_cShbJjRc9UOVzu713HDjF7BWiMIPI5hlwH_up9RDqkdehKUks4hJraLHOzsXx1hAQKFtIi_HTX p9wGZQCSxnwPnvIHibHDIaxvRfsb-FrYFPMuXgj2***blGy4Z598w7XetnDvMYVVUnBar_kqwnlNFkWNFo9H6nmYygvi-Y80tTCriQ6mL1zFKsZcuVejVZ6XGKqSWWylHqj0xTBuZJ2FQ5tdUnOirY-toaZPX-m1jhtuKDCE=w574-h1019-no[/IMG] __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:08 PM	#37
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	First coat of paint all done: Sealed the wall cracks and another layer on the floor with the epoxy down: __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/21/2016, 06:40 PM	#27
mtlreeffreak Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 266	looking good!

07/21/2016, 10:24 PM	#28
jctello Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2015 Posts: 1	Hi Alan, that looks a fantastic project. Great planning and organization!! I'm looking forward to see more progress. I would like to ask you, where did you get your Aragonite Sand? From BRS?

07/22/2016, 01:33 AM	#29
JaySchulz Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: The Woodlands TX Posts: 440	Following along. Must of been an awesome feeling when you found out you won the raffle. Are you concerned at all about not having a center brace on your stand?

07/22/2016, 08:52 AM	#30
UncleSalt Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 185	Following along!

07/22/2016, 10:14 AM	#31
ADVRESOURCE Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: TUCSON Posts: 569	Congratulations on your win!!! It's just a win to get that monster down to your basement. Other BIG winner.... LFS, Bulk reef supply, Marine Depot and whomever else you will purchase material and livestock!!! Been there, done that, for sure!

07/25/2016, 02:10 PM	#38
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Built some basic stands for the pair of 100g Rubbermaid stock tanks: A couple coats of paint on the stands and they were ready for service: __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:13 PM	#39
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Aquascaping begins. I marked out the tank footprint w/ some masking tape. [IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/h2iEALJvl9zFKIQvfRSxzxmjpOKqN2928JGLSCZc9RePKLvxh1CinuhLsMicnoUMpPjfEC7IIsjUGVAFk7MD3noRu9tQ3RbIY6M2 cOXnn9YWM2kyq57kQ4bkchGoqd-F78pb01EOmxhvRu7b8vK9qh6g3Sm1LtYJVwhRnsk5_Cg-ZRkH_VZxtRbvdMVUzOzywyc6J5oRSjlf_XW1rF96RKWsTgJehZ62cm0nG49aZBh4xdbMRyjDApYgq0wbvW8o3qQSOTOpNZXO0ncN MZkXbzDdIOhXjWNM4TRk4IvyQqUnu5sOPeAYIyVLuigzrKWn6Hgj80mhj8***gn_jZBia65-4t5RCsVvuRdtHYLIztb75r8hFOTPNeZWT2wEz06Pm1HZjLgGlLJSx3A3yTWW4X1DTvH1Nhyq5AcNFq7wuTLVW9SIzPymSA0l-uYjs_uG5bv_gMK5cwOKw-zApz5virWdNhzUr_5szcKOd6iSS_2n0JlJ1JlJeqys6da-V6ObC7k-sKLaNEmiKU-lhfRCCiOS-C_KCff9uU0b7dgn57DU_k9hnQ6RPd-w-pPuEE_diaGhL--oxQkPZOJQFu9GVwr_WOJElea9=w1812-h1020-no[/IMG] __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:17 PM	#40
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	The rock is in! Back to the fish room: A temporary setup while I'm moving stuff around: RODI mounted w/ (hopefully) plenty of salt on standby: __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:19 PM	#41
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Starting to work on the return feed line. Cut the hole out of the wall: Painting the return line that will be submerged: Return line installed: __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:22 PM	#42
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Plumbed in the return pump: Return feed is online! Added some cycled rock: __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:26 PM	#43
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Picked up a pair of 44g brute trashcans, a 60g storage tank, and a couple 30g tanks. The 30g is currently being used to establish a separate pod population. Skimmer is online __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:35 PM	#44
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	I still need to plan out the fish room equipment layout, so the wiring/tanks/lighting is temporary. I've considered doing a some shelving above the stock tanks and I will be adding a utility sink to the RODI corner. I also purchased one of these 200-250g water storage tanks. My plan is to put it in the garage, then have a line running down into my fish room w/ a spigot My first skimmate Back-side of the fish room: Recent tank pic: __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

07/25/2016, 02:38 PM	#45
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Picked up a Maxspect Gyre XF-150 __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

10/25/2016, 08:23 AM	#46
McPuff Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,735	What's the status of this tank now? I assume it's all up and running, yes? Got a sneak preview from the "Rubbermaids as sumps thread" but need more. :0)

01/18/2017, 04:18 AM	#47
McCarthy1984 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 11	Bump.

01/18/2017, 05:02 AM	#48
shanebc21 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Honesdale, PA. Posts: 331	Did he just disappeared in July of 2016? Its like watching a movie with those cliff hanger endings and your like "WTH".

02/17/2017, 03:02 PM	#49
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	Sorry about the lack of updates. I was planning on getting all the corals mounted and then posting pics after that. Everything was going really well and I had almost all of the fish I wanted, plus a decent set of hardy corals to fill the tank. Then, disaster struck about 2 weeks ago and my tank now sits completely dried out. Here are a few pics from about 2 weeks ago when everything was going great. Fish that I had: orange shoulder tang yellow-belly blue hippo tang vlamingi tang naso tang chocolate tang powder brown tang kole tang desjardini sailfin tang foxface pair of bluejaw triggers blue-spot jawfish 3 purple firefish dartfish anthias blue fairy wrasse yellow hogfish misc. clownfish 2 weeks ago, everything was doing so awesome. I got about 1/3 of the fish in mid-December. They went through a couple weeks QT, then added to tank. No symptoms at all during QT. Then added to tank, where some fish were bullied as they established territory. I did some tricks with lights off, extra feedings, moved a few rocks, etc. After a few days, all fish seemed to have settled and didn't really have any problems. Everything was good for a few more weeks with no symptoms of disease. Here are a few pics of fish a few weeks ago: Around the 1st of Feb, I lost my blue-spot jawfish and chocolate tang. Around the same time, I noticed white spots starting to show on some of the fish. Since I had not mounted corals yet, I decided to split corals into a separate system and run hypo in the main to get rid of the ich. It took 3-4 days to bring down to 1.009 and more spots were showing up. I lost a couple more fish, but was hopeful once the salinity was low enough that it would start relieving the fish from ich and begin the healing process. Over the next few days, I just kept losing fish and the hyposalinity does not seem to have done anything. I've researched diseases and couldn't match it with anything I found. I'm unsure what the disease is and unsure how to treat the remaining fish. The only tangs I have left are my larger orange shoulder and blue hippo. I still have the yellow watchman+shrimp goby pair, a melanurus, a blue fairy wrasse, 1 purple firefish, 1 dartfish. All the other fish have died Needless to say, it's been completely devastating. It's heartbreaking having to pull out dead fish almost every day for the past week. I can't make sense of the disease. No new additions had been made since around Christmas. All the fish were doing great with no symptoms for over a month. That was even after the fish went through their stressful tank introduction. Then, the symptoms showed up and the disease has been extremely lethal. I moved the remaining fish to a hospital tank and kept them in hyposalinity. Since I had to remove all the rock to get the fish out, I decided to just pull the sand out and drain/dry it. Since it was run in hypo, I figured a lot of the biofiltration was lost and might as well just bleach the rock/sand As it stands now __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula

02/17/2017, 03:13 PM	#50
alanmorehead Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 461	If anyone can help ID diseases, I'd like to treat the fish that are left. * Fish showed no symptoms for 1+ month, then started getting spots/blotches/fin damage and dying over another week * Hyposalinity did not seem to have any effect * 6-7" blue hippo has shown almost no problems. light discoloration spots on face (still alive) * 6" orange shoulder has not shown spots, but does have multiple blotches/rashes on the sides (still alive) * blue fairy wrasse, melanurus, yellow hogfish, yellow watchman+shrimp - Have not shown any problems (still alive) * None of the 3 purple firefish showed any signs, but 2 have died (1 in main, 1 in hospital) * foxface got COMPLETELY covered with white spots * Naso had fin damage and cloudy eyes. was one of the last ones to die * Sailfin tang had spots, lost color and was really patchy looking * bluespot jawfish and chocolate tang died first (didn't see any symptoms) * Fish seem to be breathing ok (no rapid breathing or toxic water/high ammonia like symptoms) * male trigger had mucas-like stringy stuff on top of head, fin damage, a few spots Here are pics: __________________ Alan Current Tank Info: 450g Peninsula