TexasPyro
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I am new around here, been lurking for years but recently signed up, sure do love this forum! I have a thread going on my local board, I think I'm going to move it over here and update here from now on.
Long story short is that two years ago I had a genius hair brained idea to put a 140g acrylic tank in the wall of my living room. I built it into one of my guest bedrooms closet not knowing what a nightmare scenario I had created for myself. The tank is absolutely stunning to look at from the living room but as you could probably guess, is no fun to maintain being in a cramped closet. Here are a couple of pics one shortly after I started it, and the other a month or so ago.
Needless to say I'm done and over the in-wall tank look without having a dedicated fish room behind it to support it. Between myself and a very destructive rabbitfish we've managed to scratch the heck out of the acrylic, therefore, Ive decided to upgrade to as large of a tank as I can fit in my living room. I have no wife or kids to tell me what to do, so Ive decided on and ordered a 96x30x30 Starphire front custom tank from Planet Aquarium. I placed the order two weeks ago and was told to expect a lead time of 4-5 weeks. I thought it'd be a good time to start a build thread seeing as how I didn't on my last build and could have really used some advice from some of you master reef keepers.
The new tank will simply be a larger version of what I have now, a mixed reef tank. I plan on running 8 48" custom spectrum LED fixtures from Build My Led, I spoke with Nick (Co-owner) in great detail about the build, he is going to take some frequency measurements on my current and preferred lighting fixtures (2x 400w Radiums) and emulate that spectrum as close as he can. Hopefully Ill have a test fixture in my hands next week to run over my current tank for a little while to make sure they'll live up to my expectations. I've done an enormous amount of research on lighting, I know many of you have your doubts on LED, I firmly believe Build My Led will be the wave of the future in lighting. I want to avoid running a chiller at all costs, the only way to achieve this is to not run MH.
This post is kind of long winded already, I will keep it short and post some pics along the way. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.
Blake
Long story short is that two years ago I had a genius hair brained idea to put a 140g acrylic tank in the wall of my living room. I built it into one of my guest bedrooms closet not knowing what a nightmare scenario I had created for myself. The tank is absolutely stunning to look at from the living room but as you could probably guess, is no fun to maintain being in a cramped closet. Here are a couple of pics one shortly after I started it, and the other a month or so ago.
Needless to say I'm done and over the in-wall tank look without having a dedicated fish room behind it to support it. Between myself and a very destructive rabbitfish we've managed to scratch the heck out of the acrylic, therefore, Ive decided to upgrade to as large of a tank as I can fit in my living room. I have no wife or kids to tell me what to do, so Ive decided on and ordered a 96x30x30 Starphire front custom tank from Planet Aquarium. I placed the order two weeks ago and was told to expect a lead time of 4-5 weeks. I thought it'd be a good time to start a build thread seeing as how I didn't on my last build and could have really used some advice from some of you master reef keepers.
The new tank will simply be a larger version of what I have now, a mixed reef tank. I plan on running 8 48" custom spectrum LED fixtures from Build My Led, I spoke with Nick (Co-owner) in great detail about the build, he is going to take some frequency measurements on my current and preferred lighting fixtures (2x 400w Radiums) and emulate that spectrum as close as he can. Hopefully Ill have a test fixture in my hands next week to run over my current tank for a little while to make sure they'll live up to my expectations. I've done an enormous amount of research on lighting, I know many of you have your doubts on LED, I firmly believe Build My Led will be the wave of the future in lighting. I want to avoid running a chiller at all costs, the only way to achieve this is to not run MH.
This post is kind of long winded already, I will keep it short and post some pics along the way. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.
Blake
