MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP!

kyle1284 · 01-06-2007, 06:49 PM

Ok so i have decided to start a thread about my 75 GAL and continue to update it as i have been reading everyones threads in the Reef Chronicles Forums and its intresting to watch their tank grow and grow.

Well here is my 75 Gallon

The beginning (Front)

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random169.jpg

The Beginning (Back)

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random170.jpg

It started out a dream, pondering weather or not I would be able to pull off a beautiful aquarium... Going off of my Local Fish Stores advise for a Beginner I started. Bought some instant ocean salt and started going at it with the wonderful (sarcasm) tap water Huntsville, Tx provides! Hooked up my 2 fuvual 305's and she came to life!

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4562.jpg
HA a week and a half later im going back to the LFS to test the water, still not having a clue what i was doing and ALL my specs were off the charts but the she told me that its normal so i was a little more relaxed... then some of the best news ever came to me... she said come back in a week and you will be ready for some fish... Little did i know those fish were Damisles. a week later I go back and i picked up 5 fish ALL Damsels. A Yellow tail, blue devil, yellow, domino, and one other... forgot what it was lol. 2 Never survived the Cycle and 3 of them did. The yellow, yellow tail, and the blue devil. Next was the LR. I started looking a prices of LR and WOW all a pretty penny lol. so i bought 5 LBS worth to get things moving a little the biological filtration going a little faster.
Finally the Cycle was ALOMOST OVER and then JACKPOT a friend of my dads was getting rid of his tank due to twins heading his way. I came by and he sold me 50 Lbs of his 16 Year old LR from his reef tank along with some test kits and a scrubber for ONLY 150$!

This is what it looked like and i liked it but it needed MORE!

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...quarium001.jpg

The Following weekend i struck a deal with him. I would buy the rest of his LR for 2.50 a LB and there was 60 LBS left so the next week I went over there and got the rest of his 16 Year old LR and bam in the tank it goes

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...quarium012.jpg

Now were talkin... I was even more happy with my tank!

Then made a Newbie Mistake and went to Petco to get my water tested and get some clown fish if everything tested out ok turns out my ALK was WAY to low and they both ended up dieing.

Next came my Foxface

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4572.jpg

Then waited a little while and got my Xeina

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4575.jpg

I began to learn that patience is THE KEY as the Xeina came with about 30 polyps and now there are around 45

Then came my the one fish that has inspired me through and through to keep on going ... my new addition, my powder blue tang

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4579.jpg

Im mad at myself that i did not take off the flash of that would have been an amazing picture. But anyway that is my tank hope you enjoyed i will be updating my thread as i start to gather more and more corals soon! Thanks for Viewing!

Here are most recent pictures!

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4583.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4584.jpg

Buddies

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4580.jpg

schsch · 01-06-2007, 06:56 PM

I have the same liquor gas pump in your first pic

kyle1284 · 01-06-2007, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schsch

I have the same liquor gas pump in your first pic

ha yeah it treats me and my roomies VERY WELL! lol

boozeman · 01-06-2007, 07:05 PM

both Booze and Reef tank ... I LOVE YOU MAN !!

kyle1284 · 01-06-2007, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by boozeman

both Booze and Reef tank ... I LOVE YOU MAN !!

HA 2 best things in college life!

JFK_Jr · 01-06-2007, 10:18 PM

Very nice Kyle...

It sure looks like you have taken the time to do things right!

I'll be watching out for more...

fishheads · 01-06-2007, 10:42 PM

YOU HAVE ROUGHLY 750 lbs OF GOODNESS GOING ON THERE....ARE YOU SURE YOUR BAR IS GONNA BE STABLE ENOUGH AFTER A YEAR OR 2....SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...THATS ALOT WEIGHT

Witfull · 01-06-2007, 11:12 PM

sa-weet~

kyle1284 · 01-07-2007, 05:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishheads

YOU HAVE ROUGHLY 750 lbs OF GOODNESS GOING ON THERE....ARE YOU SURE YOUR BAR IS GONNA BE STABLE ENOUGH AFTER A YEAR OR 2....SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...THATS ALOT WEIGHT

the bar is reinforced with 3 2x4's that press under it so it will be good for another year ... after that im outta here to a more perminate house!

billyr98 · 01-07-2007, 06:25 AM

very nicely done Kyle... Keep up the good work..

lcstorc · 01-07-2007, 08:52 AM

Great start for your chronicle thread. I love the way you took us through step by step.
You've got a great start there.

Gina · 01-07-2007, 09:06 AM

Very nice start indeed. Looking forward to following your thread.

iluvzigz · 01-07-2007, 11:28 AM

nice start..looks like your on your way to a very nice reef..

and yes patience is key.

Dentoid · 01-07-2007, 11:41 AM

Nice job Kyle=keep it coming!

kyle1284 · 01-07-2007, 05:05 PM

thanks for the comments everyone! I will keep everyone posted on any new updates! Hope yall enjoied reading about the birth of my aquarium!

01-06-2007, 06:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
kyle1284 Elegance coral Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huntsville, TX Posts: 1,061 View Gallery Karma Komment	MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! Ok so i have decided to start a thread about my 75 GAL and continue to update it as i have been reading everyones threads in the Reef Chronicles Forums and its intresting to watch their tank grow and grow. Well here is my 75 Gallon The beginning (Front) http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random169.jpg The Beginning (Back) http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random170.jpg It started out a dream, pondering weather or not I would be able to pull off a beautiful aquarium... Going off of my Local Fish Stores advise for a Beginner I started. Bought some instant ocean salt and started going at it with the wonderful (sarcasm) tap water Huntsville, Tx provides! Hooked up my 2 fuvual 305's and she came to life! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4562.jpg HA a week and a half later im going back to the LFS to test the water, still not having a clue what i was doing and ALL my specs were off the charts but the she told me that its normal so i was a little more relaxed... then some of the best news ever came to me... she said come back in a week and you will be ready for some fish... Little did i know those fish were Damisles. a week later I go back and i picked up 5 fish ALL Damsels. A Yellow tail, blue devil, yellow, domino, and one other... forgot what it was lol. 2 Never survived the Cycle and 3 of them did. The yellow, yellow tail, and the blue devil. Next was the LR. I started looking a prices of LR and WOW all a pretty penny lol. so i bought 5 LBS worth to get things moving a little the biological filtration going a little faster. Finally the Cycle was ALOMOST OVER and then JACKPOT a friend of my dads was getting rid of his tank due to twins heading his way. I came by and he sold me 50 Lbs of his 16 Year old LR from his reef tank along with some test kits and a scrubber for ONLY 150$! This is what it looked like and i liked it but it needed MORE! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...quarium001.jpg The Following weekend i struck a deal with him. I would buy the rest of his LR for 2.50 a LB and there was 60 LBS left so the next week I went over there and got the rest of his 16 Year old LR and bam in the tank it goes http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...quarium012.jpg Now were talkin... I was even more happy with my tank! Then made a Newbie Mistake and went to Petco to get my water tested and get some clown fish if everything tested out ok turns out my ALK was WAY to low and they both ended up dieing. Next came my Foxface http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4572.jpg Then waited a little while and got my Xeina http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4575.jpg I began to learn that patience is THE KEY as the Xeina came with about 30 polyps and now there are around 45 Then came my the one fish that has inspired me through and through to keep on going ... my new addition, my powder blue tang http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4579.jpg Im mad at myself that i did not take off the flash of that would have been an amazing picture. But anyway that is my tank hope you enjoyed i will be updating my thread as i start to gather more and more corals soon! Thanks for Viewing! Here are most recent pictures! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4583.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4584.jpg Buddies http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...4/IMG_4580.jpg __________________ KYLE 75 Gal 110 Lbs Live Rock 40 Lbs of live sand Equiptment:48 Inch 4x54 T-5 true blue and 10000k lights, 2 fuvual 305 Canister Filters Mis. Mushrooms, Fan Worms, hammer coral, frog spawn, candy cane, A TON OF TRUMPET CORAL!! orange plating monti, some kind of branching monti, pom pom xeina, all kinds of zoos BRIGHT GREEN star polyps, xeina, neon green toadstool, 3 damn damsles, a foxface and a blue tang. November 1...The begining! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random045.jpg November 8,2008 http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ristina034.jpg My 75 GALLON BAR TOP REEF TANK! http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...n-bar-top.html

01-06-2007, 06:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
schsch Tubeworm Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: mississippi Posts: 26 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! I have the same liquor gas pump in your first pic __________________ 75 Gallon Rectangle 20 Gallon Fuge MH and Actinic MagDrive on Closed Loop, Tunze 6045 Euro-Reef Skimmer Corals Fish Toadstool Leather Golden Head Goby 2- Acros Niger Trigger 3- Types of Zoas Blasto Inverts Sun Coral Various Snails Monti Digi 2- Serpent Stars 2- Frogspawn Red Linkia 2- Cleaner Shrimp

01-06-2007, 07:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
boozeman The CodFather ~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: new york Posts: 8,802 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! both Booze and Reef tank ... I LOVE YOU MAN !! __________________ ...and when I'm old and wise little things mean little to me like autumn winds they'll blow right through me and someday, in the mist of time when they ask you if you knew me remember that you were a friend of mine

01-06-2007, 10:18 PM	#6 (permalink)
JFK_Jr Golden Moray Join Date: May 2006 Location: Hallandale Beach FL Posts: 2,108 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! Very nice Kyle... It sure looks like you have taken the time to do things right! I'll be watching out for more... __________________ *JFK_Jr's 150 Gallon Starphire*

01-06-2007, 10:42 PM	#7 (permalink)
fishheads Ricordea Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: norcal Posts: 179 View Gallery* Karma Komment	Re: MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! YOU HAVE ROUGHLY 750 lbs OF GOODNESS GOING ON THERE....ARE YOU SURE YOUR BAR IS GONNA BE STABLE ENOUGH AFTER A YEAR OR 2....SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...THATS ALOT WEIGHT __________________ 110 GAL.REEF,ask me for specs • What happens when you throw a green rock into the Red Sea? .....it gets wet...... Why are gold fish orange? .....The water makes them rusty!.....

01-07-2007, 06:25 AM	#10 (permalink)
billyr98 Reefing Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cherry Hill, NJ Posts: 5,409 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! very nicely done Kyle... Keep up the good work.. __________________ Billyr98 - I'm BACK!! -

01-07-2007, 08:52 AM	#11 (permalink)
lcstorc Sunshine Reefer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cocoa Fl Posts: 26,433 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! Great start for your chronicle thread. I love the way you took us through step by step. You've got a great start there. __________________ Peace LYNN Lynn and Franks saltwater adventure Lynn's 20g clown tank Lynn's 90g of sunshine Lynn's frag tank experiment A reef tank is like a race car. The faster you go the harder you crash.

01-07-2007, 09:06 AM	#12 (permalink)
Gina Moderator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Indiana Posts: 8,842 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! Very nice start indeed. Looking forward to following your thread. __________________ Gina and Mark's 75 Visit Our Sponsors Gina's Cube Gina

01-07-2007, 11:28 AM	#13 (permalink)
iluvzigz Elegance coral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: palm beach FL Posts: 1,026 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! nice start..looks like your on your way to a very nice reef.. and yes patience is key. __________________ Ben *Member "Crabs Are Evil and Delicious" Society* http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...250#post172250

01-07-2007, 05:05 PM	#15 (permalink)
kyle1284 Elegance coral Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huntsville, TX Posts: 1,061 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: MY 75 Gallon BAR TOP! thanks for the comments everyone! I will keep everyone posted on any new updates! Hope yall enjoied reading about the birth of my aquarium! __________________ KYLE 75 Gal 110 Lbs Live Rock 40 Lbs of live sand Equiptment:48 Inch 4x54 T-5 true blue and 10000k lights, 2 fuvual 305 Canister Filters Mis. Mushrooms, Fan Worms, hammer coral, frog spawn, candy cane, A TON OF TRUMPET CORAL!! orange plating monti, some kind of branching monti, pom pom xeina, all kinds of zoos BRIGHT GREEN star polyps, xeina, neon green toadstool, 3 damn damsles, a foxface and a blue tang. November 1...The begining! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random045.jpg November 8,2008 http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ristina034.jpg My 75 GALLON BAR TOP REEF TANK! http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...n-bar-top.html

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