150x70x60 peninsula reef

[j sama]

Hey all my name is josh, I'm from North Queensland Australia. I've been reefing for 10 years and have seen how the hobby has come ahead in leaps and bounds. In July 2013 I started plans for a new tank build after a long obsession with peninsula style tanks I already was running a 4ft system of this style but was built on impulse and had many flaws, was noisy and the stand was slowly rusting away. In June my 4ft suffered a total loose after a power loose while I was on holiday, getting home to find a milky white mess and a box full of new corals with nowhere to put them I set about pulling the tank apart and starting again. The job was done and tank was up and running again in 5 hours but as you can expect thing never went right and the tank never reached its former glory with problem after problem for the next 12 months until it was shut down and transferred to the new tank. In July i talked my partner into the new build which was the easy part. For the next 6 months I researched as much as I could to find the best bits at the best prices and toyed around with filtration options as I had been running a fuge I was liking the idea of the zeovit method but after trying bits and peices of it it was way to technical for my partner to keep while I am at work for 5 days. So I went simple, a bit of live rock in the sump a big skimmer a 1 inch fine sand bed as this worked well in the past and good flow.

This is the result

Any questions are greatly appreciated and will be answered to the best of my knowledge

 

[j sama]

July 2013 - December 2013 planning stage

 

[j sama]

July 2013-December 2013 the planning stage

 

[j sama]

January 2014 the stand

 

[j sama]

Any help can't put pics up

 

[worm5406]

Are they too big?

Use a hosting service to put them up on and then link them from there.

 

[j sama]

I'm doing it on my iPhone I put pics up on the zeo forums without a problem I can add pics in the reply thing but they don't come up

 

[j sama]

Just found out that when I log in the pics come up on my end

 

[worm5406]

Are you making sure you select the upload button when you select the pictures? Or did you just close the window?

How do you keep the water in your tank anyway? Isn't it upside down, down there?

 

[j sama]

He he nice one. I'm using tapatalk I had no dramas putting pics on zeovit forum just by adding them in the reply bar I did log on to the rc web page and the pics where there

 

[j sama]

 

[j sama]

Got it

 

[j sama]

July 2013 - December 2013 the planing stage

 

[j sama]

January 2014 the build

 

[j sama]

Now for a little run down on the new system my vision was to rectify all the flaws that every system I've had in the past had. This almost drove my partner to breaking point as most phone calls while i was away at work were about how to solve problems with the build. And during the build I spent a lot of time staring at the stand thinking and not doing much. Once every possible worst case scenario was played out in my head thing went ahead, this may have taken a matter of minutes or weeks to work out. Then all of a sudden the tank was completed by the tank maker and the stand was only half done it was then I had to pull my finger out and get this done. All went together without to many problems, the best thing about diy is it leaves room for error

 

[muttley000]

Is the cantilevered top for a canopy you will build?

 

[j sama]

The tank is a 150lx70wx60h euro braced peninsula made from 12 mm standard glass with an external weir

 

[j sama]

Is the cantilevered top for a canopy you will yes that's the grand plan it will have struts on each of the 3 doors that will hold them up will I'm working in the tank

 

[j sama]

After they tank was picked up from the maker and placed on the stand I could finish my masterpiece it took another 3 weeks to complete on my days off which were the hardest by far everyone hates an empty tank. After the doors were on the sump made and all was given the tick of approval by the boss ie my partner it got moved inside to its new home which took four strapping lads, man that thing was heavy. Keep in mind that the stand is made with 50x50 steel box 3 mm thick wall it weighs in at around 140 kg and the tank isn't much less. But all went well and nothing or no one was broken. Then came the plumbing my god wat a nightmare fortunately one of my good friends was in tune with this and really all I had to do was tell him what I wanted

 

[j sama]

Time to get wet

My partner and I hand Bucketed 900 litres of sea water into a 1000 litre pod to fill the tank

The old vs the new