200 gallon reef tank rebuild

[ddao1977]

Hello, the tank below has been setup for the past 3 years and a half. But a leak came and instead of patching it, I went ahead and built a newer one.

I have been keeping a lot of things in it
I love anemones and I have been keeping a large heteractis magnifica purple with yellow tip and a red and a green bubble tip for the past two years
I have a bunch of softies but going to go full sps

On March 12, I took the tank down, the leak started to speed up. The new tank came right on time.

Took the whole weekends to break corals from the rock, clean the sand and move the fish to another tank; in addition, I cleaned up the sump/refugium

Once removed, I cleaned the floor (more or less)

Now here is the tank : 180x60x60 cm

 

[ddao1977]

Saturday night shots:
The everything is back in the tank
Water is very cloudy and i would say very dusty probably from the sand

I decided to put the anemone in the fuge section.

 

[JonezNReef]

The new tank looks great! Can't wait to see it up and running. What kind of equipment are you going to be running?

 

[ddao1977]

200 gallon reef tank rebuild

day 2 after move over (sunday march 13)



Here are some shots 2 days after I moved everything over.

The water is still a bit cloudy but no as much. It's certainly due to the RW15 blasting sand :worried2:

The long tentacle is setting its food in the refugium. Now I wont to worry about it walking on my SPS and touching the pumps :rollface:

I was worried about the powder blue tang getting ich again but I believe this guy is a trooper. All good! lucky

However, a lot of the SPS had started to RTN 1 month ago and with the tank upgrade, a lot of them didnt like it at all.



My most of my acros are all dead.
My green stylophora was devoured by the flaming angel.
He got moved to the sump :wavehand: along with his buddy the 6line wrasse. One ate corals, second thinks he's the boss ... :debi:



All LPS are happy.



In addition, I lost

* my clown fish couple I had for 4 years.
* my coral banded shrimp
* the male dragonet
* sand sifting starfish

 

[ddao1977]

The new tank looks great! Can't wait to see it up and running. What kind of equipment are you going to be running?

I am running 2 RW15 in opposite direction in C mode for the time being at 3* on the controller. In any other mode or stronger current its causing sand storm.
! ordered 2 Aqualink S1 controller to have better sync.

Lights are 3x 165W LED you fight on the bay. I am running them 16in above the water level. Blue level is at 50% and white level at 35%

The sump has a calc reactor Bubble Magus C120 and a Bubble Magus Hero 180

Simple ... I removed the biopellet reactor also.

 

[ddao1977]

200 gallon reef tank rebuild

1 week later shots:

water is now crystal clear ago

Yes more sandstorm because those rw15 ran out of sync every now and then

At this moment, my readings are
CA 400
Kh 10,1
Mg 1200
NO3 10ppm
PO4 0,04

 

[ddao1977]

200 gallon reef tank rebuild

Sunday night shots (march 20 2016)



brown algae started to show up... thankfully, I had also added phosphate remover and added some more bacteries.

Expecting to battle with algae again ... I cant wait ... :hammer:



I'm seeing some RTN developing though on those guys

 

[ddao1977]

Time to trim again .... Hoped the RTN would "stop" on this guy

I took it out a cut all the clean branches off.
The trunk looked awful....

 

[ddao1977]

For those who are curious about what I had lost here are some of photos I took in the former tank...

 

[Matthias7]

Awesome, nice tank!

 

[ddao1977]

Monday shots

 

[JonezNReef]

Don't worry you will get back to that and then some in due time. But it does suck to lose coral, especially ones that nice. :headwally:

 

[ddao1977]

Hello! Added a yellow tang but the blue powder tang who used to be calm turned to the dark side of the force
Should I leave the little guy in there.... It s been 4h since I added the yellow tanghttps://vimeo.com/161220137