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Marineland 36" DD 36"x36"x27"

The tank has Starfire Glass on the Front
Stand and Canopy by Marineland

 

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Lighting is a TEK 36" that I had on my 40gal Breeder
Unit is a 6 bulb
LED Ecoray 60D
Which has 60 1 watt LED's (half white and half blue)

 

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Both lights on

 

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I have always heard of how directional LED's are but hard to fathom until you see it in action

 

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As you can see my dilema with how close the TEK is to the over flow and to the water level. I will only see if this is going to be an issue when full of water. If it is to close and getting rocked by water then I will probably have to sell this fixture.

 

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I should be able to finish up most of plumbing, baffles in sump, sand in tank and start on Rock formations tomorrow at some point when I get back in town

 

[llewoh05]

I like that tank. Keep the pics coming.

 

[fragboy94]

still think u should get 3 more ecoray led fixtures or at least 1 more for the front lol.

 

[ahenson]

Great looking tank!

 

[fastrc]

Very nice tank, Make sure you keep pictures coming!

 

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OK I got some stuff done today. I still have some things to figure out but getting close to being wet.

 

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Put some eggcrate on bottom for a little security if rocks fall and a sharp end goes through sand hopefully this will help from hitting glass. ( thanks for the tip Trent)

 

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Sand Of Course

 

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There is 120lbs at about 3" deep

 

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Pump is an Iwaki 30rxlt ( japanese model) hooked up some unions and valves

 

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These rocks (shelf pieces) here are getting drilled with a 3/4 hole to stack all of them

 

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I will have to play with it a little but here is the concept I am going for. The stack as shown is 25" tall with a width of about 14". It took a while to drill every thing because about half of the rock is liverock from my 100 gal sump in fish room. I had to go grab a piece drill it fast and get back in water ( I had 5 really small brittle star fish on the floor after I drilled the top tonga piece). The bottom pieces are obviously base shelf pieces.

 

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Forgot to mention that all rocks are secured and stacked with a 3/4 acrylic rod. I am going this route with probably 3 structures. In doing this I can just slide the rocks off the rod if I need to move them or anything else that comes up. I also started on my sump and installed my bulkhead and one baffle on the inlet side. Not real sure yet what skimmer I am going with yet. I have been eyeballing a Reef Octopus NWB 200 that is rated at 250gal. My sump is a drilled 20long because that is all that will fit under the tank. I will have a seperate refugium that will be fed seperate by a rio pump and will gravity feed back into the sump after skimmer of course.Ref will be about 15 gallons.