Jiddy 220 *something clever*

[Jiddy]

:redcar: Would you believe me if i told you there is a passenger in the car?

Well here it is, my first SW tank. When i was a little kid my mother let me have a 10g with those big eyed goldfish. Thats how i got started in keepin fish alive. As i got older the fish turned into piranha's, community tanks *neons an rainbows* and the FW likes. Then i went to visit my cousin in Long Island, he had a SW. I rember the day i went to go to the LFS to pick up his puffer that had arrived! Ive wanted a SW tank every since! This was my first one, i was going to transform my 55g FW into one, but what would i do with all my fishes? So i looked in the paper *S.Dakota here* and actually found a 90g for sale! I was like HOLY lucky day :bigbounce I had the tax return money set aside to spend on hookin it up, but first i had to goto S.Diego to visit my buddies! Well when i came back i went to the LFS to order a stand for the 90, i seen a add for a 220.... I couldnt pass that offer up. So the story begins........

 

[Jiddy]

This was all the junk i got from the dude.

The obviously

The sump

A bucket of junk, for FREE! *you can see in the pic a GLASS heater, i heard those are bad, i think Doni told me that, PM her*

My Return Sump Pump *Iwaki*

Carbon Filter

And 4 160w 72" VHO *one ballast was shot* Love IceCap C.Service thou!

The tank was nasty, and the wife had no idea what she was lettin me get into. I stayd out in that garage and scrubbed that stuff for days!

 

[Woodstock]

Looking good Jiddy!!

LOL @ your glass heater comment :tongue:

Hey... where is the pic of your feet... you know... the one where your wife is working and you're being lazy! LOL~

 

[Witfull]

your gonna have so much fun~

 

[corvettephreek]

due to recent unlucky encounters, i recommend you glue a glass brace between 1/4" and 1/2" underneath your plastic braces, because alot of tanks (especially ones with older, tan subframes) seem to break their braces. other than that, best of luck and everything looks good!!!

 

[Jiddy]

Looking good Jiddy!!

LOL @ your glass heater comment :tongue:

Hey... where is the pic of your feet... you know... the one where your wife is working and you're being lazy! LOL~

LoL, oh we are goin to play this game? Doni feeds cookies to her pods people, true story ask her about it

 

[Jiddy]

So i scrubbed the tank pretty good and had some tuff guy friends of mine help me put the giant tank downstairs. I didnt want to take pics of my friends liftin my tank, cause i really did help that much and didnt want to make them mad!

Heres the clean Sump & Overflow, along with the tank in its final destination, our bedroom! :smoking:

 

[Jiddy]

Next was the funny fact of gettin rock for it. Funny because it cost SO MUCH, after buyin the tank and makin a few sketches of the cost to come, i figured i better just go out in the hills and pick up my own rock, whats the differance right? Well i decided against that and went with ReefRock baseRock from PS *who is junkie* Now i did the professional thing. I ordered a 100lbs, the rock came in great and nice big pieces, that was 2 boxes worth. So realizing that 100lbs looks like a spec of dirt in my tank, i went ahead and but 7 cement blocks in my tank, no, i ordered 4 more boxes of the baseRock. To my surprise, ALL 4 boxes were really small chunks of rock, and that really looks great in a big tank, so i have a Rock Mt. and a Rock wall!

 

[Jiddy]

I figured id just buy some LR from the LFS and seed the tank! 300lbs or rock really doesnt look like that much, but i couldnt go any higher because the pieces were so small.

 

[Witfull]

So realizing that 100lbs looks like a spec of dirt in my tank, i went ahead and but 7 cement blocks in my tank, no, i ordered 4 more boxes of the baseRock.

hey,,i resemble that comment ~

and its only 6 blocks~~

 

[Jiddy]

Since my tank isnt drilled (i know i know) i had to go not only with the HOB overflow, but that really cuts down on flow options. I decided i would try a PVC CL manifold around the top of the tank. There was a website a while back that had Mag12's for half off, so i went with two. And made two CL's for each side of the tank.....

 

[Gina]

Everything is looking great Jiddy! Congratulations on the new tank!! It cleaned up real nice and I can't wait to see it stocked!!

 

[Woodstock]

Wow! That tank looks huge next to you! Either it's big or you're a midget :tongue:

Of course I feed my pods cookies! Duh... it's the only way to teach them cool tricks~

 

[Jiddy]

After many designs and ALOT of fussing, here is kind of the general idea. These were the shots of the leak test in the garage

 

[Jiddy]

Wow! That tank looks huge next to you! Either it's big or you're a midget :tongue:

Of course I feed my pods cookies! Duh... it's the only way to teach them cool tricks~

well im 6'1" and on the first step of a stool, so its a big nano tank!

 

[Jiddy]

Now that that project was done, it was time to add the RO water. Okay i didnt do it my wife did *You Happy Doni* This was actually easy usin the Mag to pump the water to the tank! Besides i needed break from pumpin all that water by hand

 

[Jiddy]

Of course when you are settin up a reef tank, thats all you talk about, so naturally all my coWorkers know im settin this thing up. Well at this very moment a fellow CoWorker and Ex-Reefer had an exWife who was tearin down her 65gal tank. Well since in S.Dakota there isnt much demand for a SW tank, she said she would sell the 100lbs of LR, Water and inhabitants (YT, Lunar Wrasse, 2 Damsels) for CHEAP. I thought to myself, finally a break! So i took the offer and went and picked it all up.

For those of you who think that it was inHumane of the fish, even thou i took their water, it was a Sat after the LFS closed and they are closed on Sun and Mon too, so I HAD TO, right! (i know I know)

 

[Jiddy]

Here are some full tank shots, sorry about the flash, im new to this whole underwater through glass photography thing, Here is the EVIL wrasse too

 

[Witfull]

im calling the tang police~~~

 

[Witfull]

well im 6'1" and on the first step of a stool, so its a big nano tank!

im 6-3 and my tank is armpit high,,i need a stepladder too~~~its a *something clever* tank thing,,,lol