410 gal in wall build SW Florida

SteveM10

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My wife and I are recently built a new home in Florida and I included a 410 gal reef tank with it's own support room. The tank is a Coast to Coast glass tank 96x36x28 and will be viewable from 2 sides (Starfire Glass). The sump is about 125 gal and was built by Fishtanksdirect. This has been a long process but I am at a point where I can start showing the work that has been done.


Here is a list of some of the planned equipment:

Skimmer - Super Reef Octopus XP5000 Cone

Chiller - Coralife Aquarium Chiller 1HP

Calcium Reactor - Super Reef Octopus 5000 Dual Calcium Reactor

Kalk Reactor - Octopus SRO Kalk Stirrer

Lights - LED - EcoTech Marine Radion XR30w (8)

Flow - EcoTech Vortech MP-60 wireless (1)
EcoTech Vortech MP-40 (4)

Main Return Pumps- Blue Line 70HD External pumps (2)

UV Sterilizer - Aqua UV 80watt w/wiper

Media Reactor- Jumbo BRS GFO and Carbon Reactor (2)

This is the framed out tank room.

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Here is the tank stand build.

Support legs and corners on and level. That's my buddy Nate cutting the plywood base out in the background.
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This was the day the tank was delivered to the house. Thank goodness everything went fairly smoothly.

Floor lifts in place.
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Truck arrives... (BIG truck)
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Tank in the rear of the truck.
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Tank was to long to just lift. Had to pull it out and leave it hanging out of the back to get to it from the side.
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Yup... that's the tank teetering on a pallet set on it's edge to hold the tank up until the forklift could get it from the side. I almost has a heart attack!
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Whew... got it in time.
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Around to the rear of the house.
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In thru the sliders.
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Onto the floor lifts.
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Rolling it into place.
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Nope, won't go in from this angle....
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Had to move one of the floor jacks to the opposite side and line it up to slide it in from the end.
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Sliding into place... easy.
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Almost there.
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Ahhhh... made it. This is from the back side of the tank.
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The finished product!!!!
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Yes, please keep the pictures and progress coming. This is what will be in my next house....possibly the exact same dimensions.

Thanks for sharing!!
 
Nice tank. What part of SW FL you in. I'm in Ft. Myers. I'm setting up a 400+ tank.

I am in Parrish. Just north of Sarasota.

Good looking tank. I got some quotes from coast to coast, those guys do TOP NOTCH work!
Corey

Yes, their tanks are excellent.

i don't know if i'm seeing right but it seems like the couch is positioned facing the wrong direction

That's what I told my wife but she wasn't going for it. LOL

Wow, superb! You're home and tank are both exceptional.

Thank you!
 
The plumbing has been completed. Here area few of the pics of the process.

Some of the parts..

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Plumbing in progress..

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Just about done..

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Excellent start, looks awesome, and your own fish room:inlove:, think i would have been mighty nervous having the tank balanced on a shipping pallet, until it was lifted in the house.
 
Excellent start, looks awesome, and your own fish room:inlove:, think i would have been mighty nervous having the tank balanced on a shipping pallet, until it was lifted in the house.

Yup, I almost passed out when he set it on that pallet. The UPS guys was like "it's no big deal I do this all the time". UGH
 
wow i dint even see that i had to back and look at the pics.thats crazy if that pallet just moved a inch the weight of the tank would have shifted and you would have alot of glass on the street.i would have brought out one of the floor jacks outside and used that to hold up the other end.
 
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