Kham's 65g -> 120g (about 3yrs worth)

[aesop]

Welp after 3 or so years I've upgraded my 65g to a 120 (thanks Paul & Ming for the help - and John for the tank). The 65 was starting to show alot of wear an tear (scratches missing silicon etc).


65g
33g sump/refug.
prizm skimmer -> later a DYI becket
400w 6500k
NO actinics -> later overdriven 4xNOs on icecap 660
kalk->b-ionic->kalk

120g
400w 6500k on left
400w 20000k radiums on right
overdriven NOs on 660
DYI becket
fed on Kalk.

In the begining....
http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/first%20gen.jpg

1year later
(more images of first year or so at http://public.fotki.com/drseuss/)
http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/second%20gen.jpg



2 years aka the wonder years
(more at http://www.pbase.com/cowboy_coder)
http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/139-3980_IMG.JPG

http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/144-4401_IMG.JPG

http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/154-5414_IMG.JPG


2.5yrs all hell breaks loose and I lost pretty much all my SPS's
http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/212-1262_IMG.JPG


120g good a time as any to upgrade
http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/229-2920_IMG.JPG
(left to right Paul / brother / brother / ming) - thanks guys!

Most of the stuff moved over...
http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/230-3056_IMG.JPG

Some eye candy from the better years :)


(got chewed up by a maxijet 2days before the move to the 120g!!, stupid me forgot to put the guard back on)
http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/131-3154_IMG.JPG


http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/132-3271_IMG.JPG

http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/132-3272_IMG.JPG

http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/132-3273_IMG.JPG

http://members.rogers.com/khamchang/images/tankhistory/139-3916_IMG.JPG

[Michael_Lambert]

Well now!..

VERY VERY Nice! :)

Not as good as in person though! ..

[aesop]

ugh; post went nuts on me... ah well now its 4x as enjoyable to look at? ;)

hrm.. seems the pic of my empty tank at around 2.5yrs didn't make it through...

[kentracey]

Wow. The tank was incredible. What happened at 2 1/2 years to cause the disaster? Was it the power outage or ??? I can't imagine losing all that. I feel sorry for you. YIKES!!!

[Miata]

You are welcome, Kham.
I hope the bigger tank can bring you better luck this time.
Nice tank by the way.

Ming

[Asmodeus]

Very nice tank .man i love the SPS and the softies and leathers .man i love all corals.


MIKE

[Mckitrick]

Nice shot of the Mandarin. You captured the colours really well!

[aesop]

Can't really narrow down what happened to the tank around 2yrs or so; everything was fine. water params were *perfect*.
But I did make quite a bit of changes.

1. changed from isakis to radiums
2. flatworms
3. dosed 4x green-x to kill flatworms (1x was not doing anything to them :)
4. changed my NO's
5. could be the IO salt also since I went to a new bucket of kent after and thing seemed to have recovered.

The poweroutage only made things worst; lost a marine betta and my shrimps..

ah well.. it's all a learning experience....

[Dman]

I know how you feel regarding the wipe out, I lost about 18 species of SPS to RTN in about 8 days and 5 clams.
Dman
:spin:

[commie]

Hey Kham,

Too bad about the tank crash....It was looking so good.
By the way, the many sps frags that I got off you are doing quite well and growing significantly and should be ready for fragging soon. I will be glad to return some back to your tank. thats why frag trading is so good.....if the tank crashes....there are frags elsewhere to reestablish. :)

Also, I always wanted to ask you where you got your little plastic holder that you used for your frags in one of the pictures?

[aesop]

I don't know what would be worst losing everything in 8 days or lose most things over a span of a few months - take it all at once or spread the pain over time ahahha..

Thanks alan; fragging is like backup; just one of those things you gota do to survive when there is a wipe out.

As for the plastic holder thing, I made that out of some spare acrylic I had. If you want it its yours since I have no use for it right now. Tired making one out of those egg crate things and it was a PITA to keep it rigid.

[2Oceans]

Hi Kham the new tank looks great as did your 65g when I was there, have you got your big becket running on this . good pic`s
& good luck with the new tank !
John

[aesop]

Finished my canopy (just gota put the ends on it), Reflector is from mitchell, very easy to work with; and quite reflective. I've had to reduce the # of hours the Halides are on.

Had some new additions to the 120g, mostly fish, since I'm trying to take it slow with the corals.

[Mitchell]

Glad your happy with the hammertone.

Lookin good