800 DT + 400 SUMP & 265 Eel TANK

[shocker444]

Well lets start at the beginning i bought two new marine land 265 tanks put them in the wall in the basement of my house and was going for a good and bad thing if you no what i mean one full reef and the other sharks eels ya no bad lol well i got the first one cycled for 4 months and went for it all was good nice fish some coral and bam 6 months in i got ich really bad lost almost all of my fish so i took all rock out took all fish out put rock back in and let it sit empty for 2 months and copper the fish for the same time when i got back from florida i put the fish back in the tank all was well for the first two weeks then my daughter left the door open in my basement tank dipped down from 80 to 75 overnight and bam ich is back thought it was gone but i was wrong it just took a little stress and its back so now I'm done tour down both tanks and starting from scratch..

Ive decided to go with one large tank instead of two biggish tanks so i called d.a.s and had them build me my dream tank 8'x4'x40" its a beast I've been collecting tanks for a while now to prepare for the big guy to show up I'm gunna use one 265 for the sump with a 125 above it for a refugium then 180 gallon quarantine 125 frag and 265 eel tank always wanted a green moray eel.

And in the process of setting up and building my fish room me and my wife decided to move all that work for nothing if you can start this hobby wrong i have so I'm doing it wright this time for sure please help with any advice you have thanks ill post as many pics as i can of what i have so far tank will be here tuesday and we move in 3 weeks so a little slow on build...

 

[shocker444]

I can't for the life of me get any photos on here

 

[dave.m]

Step 1 - Upload your images to a dedicated web image server like Photobucket, Flickr, etc.

Step 2 - Copy the "Direct" link on your image server for each image.

Step 3 - In RC's editor, use the yellow mountain icon to paste in your image link.

Step 4 - Fer Gawd's sake use a spell checker on your posts.

Thx,

Dave.M

 

[shocker444]

I just got done removing all live rock to catch fish.

 

[shocker444]

The sump i made out of a 135

 

[shocker444]

 

[shocker444]

Im in the process of removing all the equipment so don't mind the mess.

Thanks dave I'm not sure what you mean fix my spelling on my post

 

[DOGGIE750]

May the force be with you

 

[Jason G]

I will be following this build. Good luck with the new setup.

 

[laf-reef]

Interesting build. I'll be following along.

I think Dave is referring more to lack of punctuation than spelling.

 

[shocker444]

Interesting build. I'll be following along.

I think Dave is referring more to lack of punctuation than spelling.

Ya i figured im not that good at punctuation as you can tell.

The 800 will be here tuesday I'm pumped. The tank is 1800 pounds and I'm trying to figure how to unload it haha.

List of equipment as of now will be

SRO 9000 ext Protein Skimmer its huge 3' x 3' is the foot print.

2 reef flow gold pumps.

Lights ? i want ecotech but i would need 8 and thats as much as i payed for the tank and I'm not made of money.

500 lbs of brs dry rock. I already have about 650 lbs of dry rock in buckets.

Im a bit of a diy guy but I'm not the best at it. I will be adding the glass in the 265 for the sump and I'm going to try and build a frag tank from scratch. I'm thinking 80 long 24 wide and 15 high.

The whole system will run off one sump minus the coral and fish quarantine.

 

[shocker444]

This is the 135 sump i built going to use the same idea on the 265 but bigger. I also will be using six 7" filter socks in the 265

Its crazy green i have a bad algae bloom just out of the blue it was there o well I'm starting over...

 

[shocker444]

This will be the 180 tall quarantine tank and the 48" trigger sump and skimmer for the quarantine.

 

[shocker444]

This is the sump its big 265 + 125 i think will be plenty.

Here is the frag quarantine i built out of scrap sump i had. I'm a diy guy if i can save a buck to spend where it counts i try to.

 

[shocker444]

I also have this 75 I built I really want to try breeding clowns but not sure so I built this. Don't mind the sand its just in there.

 

[Rustyprop]

I will be following this thread closely. Great setup and plans for the future!

When do you plan to be all set up?

 

[shocker444]

I will be following this thread closely. Great setup and plans for the future!

When do you plan to be all set up?

We move on the 22nd then the fish room build and get the tank cycled. I'm going to go as fast as possible I love this hobby to much to move slow all depends on cash in the pocket.

 

[shocker444]

Its here and I no everybody says this but this is huge Im going from a 75 to a 265 then 800 in less then a year so its big to me..

The small tank is a new 125 for comparison in size and before you ask I'm scraping the paint off the one side because we went a different way with the install..

 

[dave.m]

Where's the obligatory "dork in the tank" shot?

Dave.M

 

[shocker444]

Where's the obligatory "dork in the tank" shot?

Dave.M

No help just me and a forklift