WaterSkiier
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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
In the room
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
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?
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
In the room
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
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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 10650Thoughts 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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