Ahanix's 40g Breeder 2.0 - 10-31-10

any updates Matt?

Update, re-scaped tonight, and I now have 4 fish. Two Black Clowns, Sixlie Wrasse and I just picked up a Midas Blenny.

Also had levels tested yesterday, Phospates Nitrates/Nitrites were at 0 and Calcium is at 480. Will test the other levels at a later date


Also, sorry for the crappy cellphone pic, I would get out the wifes Nikon, but figured I would wait till the corals grow out a bit to get some serious shots going on.




Edited by Ahanix - November 09 2010 at 9:37pm

Looks great, rocks are purpling up nice. Sorry bout your fish man. My tanks is a little over stocked right now maybe you would consider a trade for some of my livestock. I've got a Flame Angel, Banghai Cardinal, Fire goby, Six Line Wrass, B/W Clown, Orange Clown, and a Royal Gramma. I think that's all... Did you decide against the canopy?

Well, off to a new start, spent the majority of my day yesterday, and a little bit today (Re-Aquascaped twice ) working on my tank.

Anyways, I got my stand done, plumbing complete, Tek Elite 6x39w Fixture installed, and everything moved over, these shots are a little dirty, and were taken with a cellphone, but i'll take better shots as soon as my tank clears up completely.

not a very good friend... sorry to hear about the tank

Well, with great excitement and a bit of sadness, I will be moving forward with phase 2 of my tank.

First thing worth mentioning is that I took a trip to San Diego and trusted a friend to take care of my aquarium while I was gone. I ended up coming home to all of my fish dead except for one (Which were all left in my tank for however long they were dead), glass I could not see in, and a skimmer that was 75% full of black tar. I'm glad that my Skimmer at least saved my corals if anything, but now I am down to one extremely small clown, and the rest of my inverts. So out with the old and in with the new. I guess if anything I can really stock my tank with the fish that I truly want.

This phase will be correcting any previous things I did not like about my tank (this includes things that my wife wanted changed as well)

My stand didn't turn out exactly how I wanted it, the paint job is pretty horrible and I will actually be selling this or pretty much giving it away for someone that wants to spend the time on it as soon as everything is moved over

Without further ado, here is my list of improvements for my tank

1- I purchased flex PVC for my drain line, this along with a couple of other things will make my tank extremely silent.

2- I purchased a new stand

3- This one is a possibility, but not really a necessity. I may be changing my 20g High Sump to a 20g Long, but thats only if I can find one by the time I switch everything over, which will be Thursday

4- And for the last thing, I purchased a new light, I absolutely loved my fishneedit fixture, but it wont fit in my new half canopy (All sides and a partial top), this brought a perfect option into the realm - The 6 Bulb 36" Tek Elite, which should be here on Thursday.


So pretty much I just need to buy a few pieces of PVC from Home Depot, find a bulb combo I really want, and push forward with the rest of the plans. I'll post pictures of everything when I am done, and also post the ad for the Stand.

the skimate in my collection cup is as thick as mud!

Edited by jmorrell - October 02 2010 at 12:09am

Makes perfect sense, I need to figure out a good level though because with how low the bubbles were the neck is completely black    I lowered it a little more though just to see what it would do since that seemed really wet to me too

Edited by Ahanix - September 30 2010 at 10:38pm

Here's a couple pictures of the skimmate I pulled. I dumped out the skimmer right after I took those pictures, and this was up until about an hour ago.


Please note that the "bubble line" was about 65% the way up the neck, so it was an even skim, not too dry, and not too wet (from what I understand)

Looking good