Bymers` 14g BC

The sand has pretty much settled and I finally figured out how to post pics.  Here is the tank on the stand.  Once I get everything situated I will have all of those cords in the stand to please the wife.





Here is a pic of some of the mods I have done in preparation for my mediabasket from inTank.  I removed the false floors in both chamber 1&2 and cut off the tab between them as well.







The following are pictures of the rock structure my brother created for me out of and then in the tank.  The small "island" at the front right of the tank is just some rubble that fell of the structure.  I plan on making the island looking nicer, but put them in now for the cycle.


















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Finally the LED's!  These are from nanotuners.com.  However, the actual hood seems to be a nanocube hood, so I will be having my brother help me out in switching them into my biocube hood.

 

Yah, Adam did a great job on it I am really impressed.

 

Equipment Plans:

• Jager heater is on the way to replace cheap wal-mart heater in chamber 1
• Chamber 2 will have the mediabasket from inTank where I will keep filter floss, purigen, and chemi-pure elite.
• Cleaning up some of my old maxi-jet 1200's to replace the stock return pump and will be splitting the return with a T or Y locline

Livestock Plans:

• Ocellaris clownfish
• black and white ocellaris
• a 3rd fish, which I have told the wife is hers to choose (however it will be a yellow watchman goby/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/wink.gif)
• pistol shrimp to hopefully pair with the goby
• cleaner shrimp (if compatible with pistol shrimp, still have to research again)
• at least one emerald mithrax
• 2-3 hermits
• a small variety of snails
• eventually a maxi-mini anemone or 2

I also plan on keeping some LPS, SPS, and a few zoas.

 

are reef tanks ever really done? haha.

 

Last week I got my order from inTank.  Included filterpads, 75w Jager heater, nanomag, and the inTank media basket.

here is the mediabasket unpacked

 

I'm finishing uploading the pics of my livestock additions from this weekend, but should have them posted sometime tonight.

 

Here is a little bit of a peak for now of all of the livestock floating while I prepared my lines for drip acclimation.

 

First off, here is the media basket all loaded up to be put into the middle chamber.
Next we have some frags that my brother hooked me up with. (On the right side)
(Left side)
Kind of the middle.

Here is a pic of the yellow watchman goby in the corner.  Unfortunately when I got him the pistol shrimp he had paired up with pulled a Houdini on us and was nowhere to be found.
And here are my clowns; Wally on the left and Willy on the right.  Wally is a tank raised ocellaris and Willy is an ORA black&white.
And lastly we have a couple FTS.  In case you didn't notice, I am not a professional photographer nor do I have a very high tech camera.