Show me your full tank shots!!!

[Craig Manoukian]

Amen, that is a steal for a 60 gallon cube!

 

[Witfull]

3 picture merge of the 210 monster~~

 

[hooterhead]

that is freaking amazing! good job on the tusk! i love those. just curious, what's that box shape on the right?

 

[Witfull]

that would be a cement block,,,1 0f 5 used as base rock. it has blue, teal and bicolor orange/purple ricordia ,a toadstool, and few gorgonian frags, milli frags, digi frags growing off of it~

 

[hooterhead]

yeah i see the others now. that's a really good idea though! bet your fish love the caves they make!

 

[Witfull]

oh yeah!

 

[AW2EOD]

Witfull...

2 of my fav fish...the Tusk and Sohal! Gorgeous!

And, nice idea with the blocks! I've thought about this but people have always told me that the blocks would leach chemicals into your tank? You've had no kinds of problems with them??

 

[Witfull]

none so far, the only thing i heard bad was pH spike due to the cement, but i cured them in vinigar water for awhile before putting them in. and they are true cement blocks not cinder block.

 

[AW2EOD]

Very cool! Thanks!

Do you remember aprox. how long you cured them in the vingar water?

I've been trying to come up with different ways to stack more rock...or, more specifically, to give my current rock a more "filled out" look. I've contemplated buying more base rock (which I dont want to do), using black milk crates, cut to different sizes, and concrete block.

 

[Witfull]

2 weeks in a 1/3 solution of vinigar, the a week in RO, 100% change once. i have seen the milk crate thing done, but felt it to flexible and subject to sagging with weight and time.

 

[AW2EOD]

I wonder if it would be possible to mix up batches of that "aggrecrete" stuff...the DIY live rock/base rock and then attach it to the blocks...making your own texture and adding to the design of the block?

What are your thoughts, on that?

 

[Witfull]

i dont see why not~

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

I can't upload my pics says they are over the limit. What do I do to make them under the limit?

 

[Witfull]

resizing
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2152

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Thanks Wit

 

[oldsaint]

How big was the grouper when you got it and how long have you had it? TIA!

lol...I got him about 3-4 yrs ago. He's at least double in size since then. I think he would eat until he'd popped. I stop feeding him at 10-12 large silversides and a few krill and he still wants more.
Nice to see some other FOWLR tanks. They ALL look very nice. That Dragon eel is cool. A lfs had one for sale down here but it was around 800.00...a little on the high side for me.

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Thanks OS!

 

[Jerome]

My 50 gallon had to edit the picture a little because the tops very bright and the botton is under an overhang.

 

[Witfull]

ya know a purple pseudo or orchid dottyback would love the lower section of your reef.

 

[Woodstock]

Witty, this is a family site... no saying "psuedo" please. thx.