pandora32 215g

[pandora32]

Here are a couple pictures of my tank. Let me know what you think. Tips/Tricks are VERY welcome as are critisizms.

 

[pandora32]

I dont have a good camera for pictures. Sorry

 

[Krish]

Nice looking tank!! eace:

 

[Peppie]

Tank looks great.

What is it you want us to criticize? LOL

Lets us see the sump area. Maybe something down there is worth beating you up. lol

 

[pandora32]

I will try and get some sump pics for you to critisize...lol.:dance:

 

[Sasquatch]

sheesh another wiseguy lol, looks just ducky!

 

[pandora32]

I dunno why, but i wanted to share some skimmer poo with you all...hahaha. This is about 2412" hours. Almost up to the top of the neck.

 

[sedrostyle]

How about some update pics of your 215

 

[pandora32]

Ok. Ill take some in a bit and maybe do an update as well.

 

[zachrabbit15]

Well I guess people could critisize that you havn't added any new pics? haha

 

[sedrostyle]

I know it's been over a year

 

[pandora32]

Lol...ok guys! I took a couple fts with my phone. I have the better pics that i took tonight on my new camera. I dont have internet at my house so youll have to wait till i can get to a computer. Sorry.

 

[dallasgoldswain]

that is stunning!
awesome livestock!

 

[pandora32]

Thank you. Fish wise i have a jawfish, yellow-sailfin-blue hippo tangs, engineer goby, pair of clowns, sixline wrasse, six chromis, niger trigger. Various snails, hermits and blood-cleaner shrimps, a large green starfish. The sump has a basketball size clump of cheato, pink xenia, a pair of snails, a piece of leather coral and lots and lots of pods. As for corls theres 3 types of acans (dont know the names), red-green-purple montiporas, green polyps, radioactive dragons eyes, eagle eyes, various other zoos/zoas, an unidentified something (right side bottom of tank at the base of the dead table acro), orange ricordea, purple shrooms, green shrooms, some kind of brown with white specks ricordia(i think), kenya, hammer, hydrophora, pink xenia(been taking it out and putting it in the sump. Im sure there is more. I also have a very large rbta around 14-16" across.
Theres 1 mp40 and 2 evo pumps for circulation and a mak 40 for return. Im using 3 250w mh with t-5 bulbs and moonlights for lighting. A skimz sk251 skimmer. I do have a vertex 24" reactor not hooked up. I had carbon running in it, ive used the brightwell xport cubes(all 3 of their cube setups) but had a bacterial bloom, bio pellets. I had bad luck with using these so i took it offline. I need to get timers and an ato. Ive been lugging around 5g buckets and its pretty tiring during water changes. Think thats it for now.

 

[sedrostyle]

Looks awesome. Did you get rid of rock in the tank. I was comparing and contrasting.

 

[vlangel]

Very nice. I love the color!

 

[pandora32]

I did get rid of some rock, replaced it with better pieces. Maybe 10-15 pounds of smaller rock. The biggest differance i think you see is the pics in the first post is when i set it up the first time. I moved back in april, so its a "new" aquascape. Im still not happy with it. Its just stacked up the back. Theres roughly 300 pounds total in the system counting the return section of my sump.

 

[DTECH07]

LOOKING GREAT!!! I'm looking into a 150-180 now perhaps a summer build.

 

[pandora32]

Yea. It was a big step up from my 55. I dont know how i did it, but about 3/4 of the rock in the 215 came from the 55! Ive been pondering around the idea about a display fuge. I have a 55 being used as a hosplital at the moment, but have another 55 with scratches. Use the nicer of the 2 for a display fuge and the other as a hospital. What size tank you have now? 150/180 is a nice size. Will be fun!

 

[sedrostyle]

LOOKING GREAT!!! I'm looking into a 150-180 now perhaps a summer build.

I want a 150+ also. I bet the hard part besides the rock is the equipment. I guess all of it would be hard now that I think about it.