My first pics........

[BalaShark]

Up and running now for about 5 months (I think) and here are the first pics. Nothing as glamorous as most of you here, but without everyone's help at MFT, I couldn't have done it! *thumbsups

Still my pride and joy, numerous $$'s later in investing the right equipment, with 1 small (yellow tang) mishap.

Thank you all!

 

[Helena21]

wow, that is very cool! I love the way you have hidden the heater, filter etc, behind the rocks!

 

[MrBungle]

thats pretty cool! gonna look great if you plan on filling up on corals

 

[BalaShark]

Thank you very much for the nice comments.

I just ordered 2 Aqua C Remora's this weekend to add to the existing Fluval 205's I use for filtration currently. Also, both tanks (30g's) house 2 100W heaters each and 2 1200 MJ powerheads. The left hand tank in the pic is planned as a reef, while the right hand will stay a FOWLR. What I like the most is no visible cables/hoses. I just hope my Coralife 130W's will be enough light. The anemones do well, so I assume it will be enough for some low light corals/mushrooms.

One step at a time.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Thanks for making me jelous! I love in wall tanks. Looks great so far, looks so clean too!

 

[ram man]

Are the royal grammas fighting at all?

 

[BalaShark]

Thanks for making me jelous! I love in wall tanks. Looks great so far, looks so clean too!

Yep, all the stuff's hidden. Jealous? You should see what it looks like behind the tanks *thumbsups

Are the royal grammas fighting at all?

No, not really, they seem to be relatively peacefull. When I first put them in with the damsels, they stood their own, now once in a while you'll see them barking at each other, but no real fighting IMHO.

 

[IDunnoWhy]

You should see what it looks like behind the tanks *thumbsups

I'd like to see how you've got this all put together *twirlysmi

It's a great looking set-up BTW, I hope to do something kinda like that once we buy a house.

 

[BalaShark]

I will take some pics tonight from the rear side and post them.

 

[TRe]

thats cool im actually realy interested in how u did it since ill be closing on my house june 1st and plan on having my 125 gallon tank in my garage with the cut out like you have into the living room...i also plan on using my 55 as a sump and switching to mh's

 

[KahluaZzZ]

yeah you have 3 tv now

 

[Fuzz16]

lol very neat
it will look even better once you have some corals in there to give it some nice filling colors

 

[jessey]

really cool set up! i like the arrangement of the live rock also, it's different than a lot of other tanks and it looks great.

i'm also jealous of the in-wall tanks!

 

[BalaShark]

and from behind

Well, here's the not so nice part....*twirlysmi

The left tank you can see the brackets I mounted on the wall so I can have good light when I clean / maintain. Also, all made of 2x4 studs with a 3/4 inch top. Pretty solid, I'd say.

and a closer view to my science center on the left

Whoohoo! I got my first Aqua C Remora skimmer, freshly mounted on my reef to be tank

 

[MrBungle]

not too bad back there! that was a really good idea making those brackets for the lights.

 

[iplaydafoozball]

u should build a combined sump. that'd be sweet and it lessen the amount of water maintanence. throw another 30 or bigger back there and run pumps and plumbing from each tank to the sump. it'd be a really large system, which is really good.

 

[IDunnoWhy]

That's really cool how you have that set up. I'll definitely be coming back to this thread for ideas. *thumbsups

Great Job *celebrate