Hello all,
Have been browsing the forums for a couple months learning and decided I'd start a build thread I've been working on. Will be slow progress at first as the room where the tank is going needs to be painted etc.
I received a 220 gallon tank, wet/dry trickle filter, some mag 7's and a stand, in need of refinishing, for free by a friend of a friend. I already have the stand all refinished from a faded brown to a deep cherry red and the sides of the tank had the same color that I redid to match. I'll post some pictures of the before and after as its all done now. Contemplating reinforcing it as I can't get the image of 200 gallons of water on my living room floor out of my head.
After some research I decided to ditch the trickle filter and bought a 55 gallon aquarium, off of these forums actually, to use as a sump. 55 gallons is unfortunately the biggest tank that will fit comfortably under the stand. Going to baffle off the tank and make a skimmer section -> refugium -> bubble trap -> drilled return. Going to try to get the sump done this weekend, but not too confident on drilling it.:hmm3:
Plumbing everything is the next obstacle I am trying to completely understand. Is there an easy way to plumb two reactors from your return pump? And then would the output of the reactors just shoot back into the return section of the sump?
Any advice/suggestions on anything would be great! Starting out with just some fish and maybe a couple soft corals, but want the knowledge and equipment to handle any corals the wife and I might want in the future.
Equipment I plan to run:
220 Gallon Glass dual overflow tank
55 Gallon sump
JB-40 Wavemaker
ASM G-3 Protein Skimmer (Wanted G-4, but the G-3 was on CL for 60$ new. Couldn't pass it up)
Reeflo Snapper/Dart Hybrid external pump
Reef Breeder Controllable Photon48 and a Photon24
Two BRS Jumbo reactors for carbon and GFO.
250lbs of rock
Have been browsing the forums for a couple months learning and decided I'd start a build thread I've been working on. Will be slow progress at first as the room where the tank is going needs to be painted etc.
I received a 220 gallon tank, wet/dry trickle filter, some mag 7's and a stand, in need of refinishing, for free by a friend of a friend. I already have the stand all refinished from a faded brown to a deep cherry red and the sides of the tank had the same color that I redid to match. I'll post some pictures of the before and after as its all done now. Contemplating reinforcing it as I can't get the image of 200 gallons of water on my living room floor out of my head.
After some research I decided to ditch the trickle filter and bought a 55 gallon aquarium, off of these forums actually, to use as a sump. 55 gallons is unfortunately the biggest tank that will fit comfortably under the stand. Going to baffle off the tank and make a skimmer section -> refugium -> bubble trap -> drilled return. Going to try to get the sump done this weekend, but not too confident on drilling it.:hmm3:
Plumbing everything is the next obstacle I am trying to completely understand. Is there an easy way to plumb two reactors from your return pump? And then would the output of the reactors just shoot back into the return section of the sump?
Any advice/suggestions on anything would be great! Starting out with just some fish and maybe a couple soft corals, but want the knowledge and equipment to handle any corals the wife and I might want in the future.
Equipment I plan to run:
220 Gallon Glass dual overflow tank
55 Gallon sump
JB-40 Wavemaker
ASM G-3 Protein Skimmer (Wanted G-4, but the G-3 was on CL for 60$ new. Couldn't pass it up)
Reeflo Snapper/Dart Hybrid external pump
Reef Breeder Controllable Photon48 and a Photon24
Two BRS Jumbo reactors for carbon and GFO.
250lbs of rock
Also, decided to go with NextReef MR1 Monster Reactors instead of the BRS.
