400 Gallon In wall Central TX

The framers came back!

So we got something done today, although some of it was done wrong... Anyways, the wall for the fish room is up now, this shows roughly what it will be like except the bottom wall under the opening will have to be removed because the wall will just be the stand there.

The opening is 84" high because as someone suggested it is important to have front access, so there will be cabinetry over the top front.

The room! Notice the door to access the rear from the pantry
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And the views from the back door and through the wall from upstairs
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I also have a piece of rock in the cycling tank now so there will start to be a little color/life in there in about a month I guess.

Lights should ship this week, need to re-order the dosers, and then its just getting the tank onto the stand somehow!
 
So the framers wont build the stand until the electrician is done, so that will probably be some time next week. In better news the tank is made and crated (though they wont send me pictures... I hope it looks how I want!). It should go on a truck around today and get here in 3-4 days after that.

Exciting times!
 
So still no news on the stand or anything major on the house front, I saw that they had the electrical all finished up in the tank room, but I asked them to move one of the outlets for me, so hopefully that gets done because there is no power on the one wall now.

So on to what is new. First I have some of the lights in and here is a picture of my rock cycling tank with my one coral/source of bacteria and about 100 lbs or rocks getting ready for the big tank.

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And my one coral which lost all its color but it is coming back now that I have proper lights
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And I have a small QT system set up now for treating new fish with the tank transfer method.
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That is 2x 2.5g tanks with their own heaters and air pumps etc.

And my new fish!
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It is a tiny blue Atlantic tang that I got today from elegant reef, should have him in the rock tank in about 14 days, and I guess at that point I will have a real tank :)

Tank is set to ship on Tuesday but since the F1 race is this weekend I think I will set it back another week if possible since I wont be around to deal with it. I found some movers that will pick it up and put it on the stand for $347 insured, so I think that is going to be my plan. They think they can move it with 4 guys, I doubt it but it's their problem if they cant.
 
And the fish died, the water it came in was 1.031 sg, so in 24 hours it went from 1.020 (from quality marine, just an estimate) to 1.031 to 1.025 and that was probably pretty hard on it... I went to bed at 11 and it was fine, completely dead at 5 AM
 
After forever we are thinking about the tank again. It is in and on the stand, and shoudl get all trimmed in over the next week so I can start connecting everything soon!

I am wondering about what to do for flow, I am not so sure about the OM anymore as there isn't THAT much room under the stand to have all that plumbing nightmare, and then I hear that aren't so reliable, so I am wavering between that, the MP60 and a voyater 4000 on a wavemaker. Thoughs?
 
Soon, it is pretty dirty in there now, I think we will be taking the cover back off and putting the trim around the tank on within the next week.
 
Awesome. Love the design. Except family dinners may take FOREVER with everyone getting distracted. By the way, the door next to the tank cant hit the tank can it? I can just see a door flying open and a hole the size of a door knob in that precious tank.
 
Bashbro said:
Awesome. Love the design. Except family dinners may take FOREVER with everyone getting distracted. By the way, the door next to the tank cant hit the tank can it? I can just see a door flying open and a hole the size of a door knob in that precious tank.
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No the door couldn't hit it, however I do need to get a door stop there so that it won't fly into that wall. Sometimes it's realllllly windy out there and that wouldn't be the best.
 
And here is the frame that will go around the stand, finish staining tomorrow I think. Also the first reveal with water!

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I like my 2 wavebox 6215 and ext
It moves a lot of water gently and its not as annoying as mp60
Specially since I turn it off @night
 
WaterSkiier said:
Hello Everyone

I am building a nice new house at www.sanmarcosriverranch.com and should be done around January. Somehow I talked my wife into letting me build a tank into the house by taking a corner of the dining room that we wont really use and turning it into a tank room and having a false wall around the tank.

The tank will be ~400 gallons, and custom made with a starfire front. I have done a crude hand drawing of the position and a slightly less crude google sketch of the layout of the room. In the sketch we will be installing a door from the pantry for access to the fish room.

House Layout
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In the room
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Under the tank is the sump and refugium (which I think I will flip around) then on the stand is the frag tank up top. And a coral QT tank down below.

So the tank will be viewable only through that wall, and I will probably black out the back panels with something removable for working on the tank.
There will also be a water storage tank on the right side of that room which I hid in the drawing to make it easier to see the tank and where the pumps will sit on the right.

The tank will be 126"x25.5"x30" high with the overflow along the end and not visible from the front, it also will not have any powerheads visible I hope, which should be a nice appearance!

Equipment list
Code: 
Pump		365	aquacave or marinedepot w 10% off could be 330	Dart Super Gold
CL Pump		365	aquacave or marinedepot w 10% off could be 330	Dart Super Gold
OM 4 way		499	oceans motion	
Powerheads				
	Tank	Unknown if needed		
	Sump	$49 	aquacave	Koralia EVOLUTION 750
	Refugium	$33 	aquacave	nano 240
	Frag Tank	220	ebay	MP10
	qt tank	$33 	aquacave	nano 240
Sump		$355 	glasscages	100 long
Frag Tank		165	Glasscages	36x12x12 rimless
Coral QT		15	LFS	10g standard
Lights Home made		$1,500 	DIY	
Tank		$2,900 	Glasscages	126x25.5x30
Water Tank		$152 	watertank.com	100g
RO System		$269 	airwaterice	EXTREME TYPHOON III 150 GPD
Autotopoff		$51 	autotopoff.com	dual switch sump controller
Carbon Reactor		$60 	bulk reef supply	dual media reactor
4 way dosing pump		490	marinedepot	aqua medic 4 way doser
ro solenoid valve		$25 	autotopoff.com	
Rocks		$1,299 	bulkreefsupply	500 lbs of fiji dry
Heaters		89	aquacave	2x finnex 500w
kalk stirrer		$249 	avastmarine	K2 kalk stirrer
Salt		$350 	drs fosters smith	5x tropic marin pro 200g
Plumbing		$500 	All over	
Tests		$142 	BRS	Salifert All
Carbon		$80 		5 gal pail
Dosing Supplies		$275 	BRS	Calc, alk, mag, kalk 5 gla pail of ea
Foods		$50 	allover	
PH Probe		$30 	BRS	BRS
Refractometer		$40 	BRS	BRS
Total		10650

Thoughts on the equipment list? I already have a controller and a SWC 2s skimmer from my last tank, but I will need to buy all of the above.

Cooling will be handled by a dedicated AC zone for the room, muuuuuuch cheaper then a chiller!

The tank will be set up with the water from the main system going to the sump through a beananimal drain system, then to the return pump which will send some of the water to the refugium, and some of it to the frag tank the rest through a hole in the bottom of the tank (after passing above tank level). Typing this made me realize I will need to raise the refugium.

The water changes will be automated by two of the channels of the doser, taking out around 7 gallons a day and replacing it from the 100g water reservoir. Every 2 weeks I just have to fill it up and add salt, and I guess I will have to leave a powerhead running in it. I am trying to make this as hands off as possible once it is running, thoughts on making it more automated?

I need to decide what to put on the bottom, are there any alternatives to starboard?

Should have the room framed in and have the glass in it in about 2 months. I will start making the LED's in around the same time, once ski season is over.

Anyone have thoughts on what the LED layout should be? I was thinking lots of 20w multichips? Somewhere around 24 with 60 degree lenses? Maybe since I have decided to go with 30" deep I will need to add a few 100w chips over the most heavily coraled areas, but I am worried about the light not being even.

Thoughts?
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Looks pretty interesting. Looked at the video, I bet it has been 5 years or more since I have seen someone do single toe tricks. I bet I fell 100 times trying to do the 180 wake front to back. After wake boards, showed up nobody did single tricks anymore.
 
That is looking really smart. Do all three panels at the top open? You will want that for accessing the front of the tank.

Dave.M
 
Yeah they all open, luckily I wandered through the house while they were installing so I got them to fix it because only the middle one opened at first.
 
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