my new 180 gallon

[piscies75]

HI: could not find my old thread , so here we are today. We have re done the whole rec room and built in the tank with a seperate room for equipment. The room was pretty loud and still working on quieting it down , even 3600 Mag in the sump still vibrating through the walls because the tank is attached. New bamboo floor. Managed to buy all equipment , LR, corals yet to added here, even fish all on the forum. A chiller, all the lights, bulbs , calcium r, sump from on line and this forum as well. Amazing.

D'man on the right, has helped me so much. (coodles big guy) here we are in Michael Jackson pose or is it the free kick in soccer, anyways he is the brains behind the tank , I just found the million $ to build it. Now for the Pioneer 42" plasma Elite and the home theatre www.canton.de english version movie speakers, and Pioneer Elite dvd, receiver. The plan is a party super bowl Sunday. All welcome , Steve Beaches

[kentracey]

:cheers2: Congrats, nice job. Keep us posted here as the tank progresses. Really like your aquascaping. :cheers2:

[piscies75]

here we are :victory:

[Mike]

Looks really, really good! I'm looking forward to seeing the progress

[Michael_Lambert]

Looking amazing,

All these Corals i have holding in my tank for you are going to look Sweet!!!

Superbowl.. I hope we are not watching it in that room.. I mean comeone.. How much of the game are we going to acually see with that big mama in there :)

Keep up the pics...

[Concept]

couch level tank.

wonderful, thats the way to view it..looking good.

Paul

[2Oceans]

Hey Steve Nice to see your Tank up & Running , looks like all the Planning has come together, Very Nice indeed ! The Rec room looks excellent, got to like bamboo flooring, looking forward to seeing it in person !!!!!!

:cheers2: John

[trigger]

What a class job you must have taken a great interest in planning. Its shows so well. The set-up is beautiful!!!
Where did you get bamboo flooring I hear its the latest thing! Does it go on over concrete or do you have to put foam down like your laminate flooring? Any idea of cost?

Trigger :cheers2:

[Red-Sea]

Steve, congrats looking excellent...
Can't wait to see it filled up. :cheers2:

BTW who's that ugly guy on the right side of the picture...lol:bolt:

[piscies75]

thanks guys. It was a lot of planning. NOt only
the tank but the whole downstairs. This a 1920's basement in the beaches. First thing was to update the electrical $3k . Really lucky to get local contractors who have done work for us before. The pride they work with is unbeleivable. They will be on hand Super Bowl Sunday. I used to be a chef and cooking lots of food. Email me for directions please. The room is actually very retro with a Davenport couch we had re-covered and a funky shelf that houses six old radio's. My wife has excellent eye for colours.
Bamboo floor is very strong. You buy at Woodland's Logan and Gerrard. Panda natural vertical cut is $122 after tax a box and I used 8 boxes to cover 16 x 20. ($5 foot) You just glue it down. I used a Home depot liner and a sub floor made out of plywood and rubber bottom (ren-core?) comes in 2 x 2 for $6 each., the basement floor was waterproofed as well and lucky to have a drain right in the fish room floor. I had about 50 gallons from the sump leak on the floor today and cleaned it up in five minutes,lol.
again thanks and more pictures to come. for sure

[Mckitrick]

The underfloor stuff you're talking about is Dri-core. I park my car on four pieces of it over the winter. :)

Looking good man!

[piscies75]

they are doing great

[piscies75]

it is looking great,

[piscies75]

previous pic stand from EQ3, holds five old radios all working, couch is 50's Davenport fold down bed, that we had recovered,

[VWfisher]

super bowl party eh?!? everyone's welcome eh?!?!

tank looks awsome! i envy you.

[piscies75]

Hi amonia still .50 tank still cycling after 100 lbs LR from Firefighter (wow what amazing rock) . Have two of three mh 400 watt x 10k going and the 6 foot Actinics (hope to have the other mh going soon) and today the Etss 600 skimmer driven by a 3600 Mag in sump pump. Here is it is after only 5 minutes with special thanks to the Dman, :dj:

[Dman]

Steve
That's a ETSS 1400 driven by a MAG 36.
the foam you see in the top cup is after about 3 minutes.
Solid unit, it's gonna kick butt for ya Steve.
Big shout out to Flav from ORG on the steal
Dman
:spin:

Got to get a shot of the tank now with all that kickin rock from Will in there.
Dman
:spin:

[jastonataquapro]

who's the funny looking guy in the pic? How's the xenia coming? pics! pics!

[whaase]

Looking good! Can't wait to see more...

Walter

[piscies75]

transfered over the contents from 40 gallon, from reading about HaIr Algae I have to hook up my uv sterlizer, lawnmower blennie, but holy cow bateman this stinks. New tank syndrome.

[piscies75]

here you go. adding a naso tang today with any luck. Birthday present (tomorrow officially)

[piscies75]

wowow, what a beauty, thanks Mike in Barrie, exceptional fish.

[Mike]

I'm glad to hear you all got home safely! I'm going to miss that tang. Glad it's gone to a good home!

[piscies75]

deceptive but 7 inch of fish. :dj:

[Dman]

Great lookin fish, I bet he's right at home there.
way ta go Steve!!
Dman
:spin:

[piscies75]

clean up crew, even the clarki's is eating it. Read online by Boreman that often hair algae is caused by the new system wanting to rid of the amonia. The feather duster was tiny and brown when I got it three months ago. I put it immediately into my fuge and presto it has changed to purple and has a nice double umbrella. Also the flower anomone was just moved yesterday to the new tank after being in my 40 gallon for over a year. It has really grown and the tube is over a foot. Now just stay there ,lol..........

[Hark]

very nice fish.....beauty