KurtsReef
Premium Member
I have a post on this in our local area portion of RC but figured this puts me into the large reef tanks arena so I should post one here. I actually found this website when someone directed me here as I was looking at some bigger setups people had and I really appreciate that, there is a lot of information here.
So, we had been thinking of building a tank into a wall that used too be an exterior wall and still had the old exterior windows. Hole was 80" wide and 48 tall...looked into a custom starfire tank but the cost put me off. Ended up getting a perfecto 220 tank thats 72x24x30 which will work fine with a little additional trim work.
I do not have central air and have always run into problems with heat in the summer time so wanted too put the sump/refuge in the cellar.
Here is where the tank was too go, this was shot about a week ago
The skimmer I decided on is the Octopus TDNW-300 which will be in the cellar along with a 300g rubbermaid tub as the sump. I also picked up a used calcium reactor from another RC member to use.
Cellar looked like this about a week ago:
Picked up the plumbing and utility sink last week also and plumbed those in.
My kids are looking forward too being able to get more fish...
So, we had been thinking of building a tank into a wall that used too be an exterior wall and still had the old exterior windows. Hole was 80" wide and 48 tall...looked into a custom starfire tank but the cost put me off. Ended up getting a perfecto 220 tank thats 72x24x30 which will work fine with a little additional trim work.
I do not have central air and have always run into problems with heat in the summer time so wanted too put the sump/refuge in the cellar.
Here is where the tank was too go, this was shot about a week ago
The skimmer I decided on is the Octopus TDNW-300 which will be in the cellar along with a 300g rubbermaid tub as the sump. I also picked up a used calcium reactor from another RC member to use.
Cellar looked like this about a week ago:
Picked up the plumbing and utility sink last week also and plumbed those in.
My kids are looking forward too being able to get more fish...