Back to the Reef Express, Building my new System

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After 4 years away from the hobby finally last year i had the chance to get back on "the Reef Express", my wife and i bought a townhouse in Va, after living in DC in a small apt. What a great opportunity to get a tank, it was difficult for me look at homes not just picture the space based on the tank of course my wife had no idea i was thinking that but also needed to have a studio to do my work " AHH BASEMENT the possibilities well this has been a still ongoing project but i can post some development pics.
system total water volume 350 gallons of water (+ -)
main display 180
2 propagation tanks
1 refugium (mangroves & chaeto)

the equipment description will be detailed cause it change within the year.

the basement area was declared my working area this is how it look when we got the house

 

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the classic puppy in tank before pic... we got Kalua as well

 

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and the wife

 

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this tank had to be built pretty much on a budget supertite!!! cause we had to do a LOT of remodeling to the house... a LOT..., the upgrade were coming later down the road

 

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My good fried Pepe aka Cubanvet help me BIG time in this project building for me the sump / refugium and one of the prop tanks awesome craftsmanship

 

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got 3 20AMP outlets hooked up by Tony AKA Crescent

he filtration is actually in the room next to were the tank is

 

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The lights in the display are 3-400 watts 20k radiums on lumenarc minis suplemented with VHO's and T-5's

 

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I was going to build a wood cabinetry but since i had a few boxes of tile leftover from the basement floor decided to use it

 

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I thought a mosaic design would b interesting for a change

 

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7 months later

 

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[ipodhommie]

amazing

 

[Ty1e]

looks great, i love the tile usage.

 

[reef_only]

I like your mosaic; it is great idea, much better than boring regular tile pattern.

Looks like you only access the sump from the side of the stand? is there any difficulty of maintaining under tank? but seemed like you don't have anything in the stand ....

 

[kar93]

Great tank, I love the mosaic idea.

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12664175#post12664175 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reef_only
Looks like you only access the sump from the side of the stand? is there any difficulty of maintaining under tank? but seemed like you don't have anything in the stand ....

thanks for the comments actually i use the stand for storage too, salt, filters, etc
the plumbing goes though the wall the the side room were all the filtration and the propagation tanks are

 

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after upgrading skimmers i end up Very very happy with this beast