Beaver's Crazy Reef

[Crazy_Beaver]

Hello everyone and welcome to my build.

As my glass is due for delivery next week I though this is a good time to start my build thread.

First a couple of things for my bg.

My name is Loukas and I come from the beautiful Athena, Hellas.

I have been in the hobby for many years but only the last 4 more seriously.

I have a kept a variety of freshwater's starting with community planted tanks and moving to African cichlids and turtle terrariums.At one point I had 7 tanks in my small flat!

A couple of years ago I decided that I got bored of FW and wanted to move in something a bit more challenging.

I started reading all the information I could find on the different aspects of SW and quietly started to design my system.

A few million hours of studding later, I sold all of my FW tanks and fish (except my terrarium as my other half is literally in love with our two RES), I moved , I bypassed a few ups and downs (aka crisis) and here I am.


Without any further delay...here's what I am planning...

Tank

130X100X65 cm

or

51X39X25 in

850 litters or approx 220 gallons

15mm all glass tank, rimless, bottom braced, with 45 degrees mitered corners, 3 sides starphire glass, side coast to coast external overflow with bean animal pipes



Stand

Stand will be made out of box metal and it will be 60cm(23") high.
I am hoping to enjoy the extra top view of the tank being rimless.

Sump

the sump will be located in the balcony inside a trunk for insulation and aesthetic purposes and it will be very simple. It will be made out of wood

Filtration

ATB Medium Size Internal DC skimmer
DIY biopellet reactor

Water movement

Stream pumps: 3 x 6105 on a 7096 controller

Return pump: haven't decided yet

The return pump will be connected to a sea swirl

Lighting

Pacific Sun Hyperion R2 2X150W
In the future I ll probably need to supplement the lighting but we ll see when we get there!

Ro-Di

Water Waves 2 Χ 100 GPD,with Booster Pump, In-Line TDS meter, manometer, Flush Kit and Osmosis Controller located in the balcony trunk

To close this first post I thought I ll give you a pic of the crime scene

Please ignore the tapes as they are a bit off the final dimensions of the tank.

The view I have laying in the couch :eek1:

So, hop on and enjoy the crazy ride as I am sure there will be plenty of ups and downs over the next few months.

Thanks for looking and I look forward to everyone's feed back, suggestions and creative criticism:reading:

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

Hello again, so

To give you a better understanding of the system I have used extremely super dooper cool paint on my XP laptop:debi: and drew the sketch below as a rough draft.

so lets get to some equipment candy...

BTW it sort of happened to get delivery of a lot of equipment the days before and after Christmas! Santa was very kind...

3x6105
1X7096
1 X3155

This is how the skimmer was delivered to me

Luckily everything was OK

 

[Bello]

That's sweet skimmer! Good luck with the build

 

[IAO-Pacific Sun USA]

Keep us posted. You have a great set-up started!

 

[danfeig]

I am excited for you! I am sure it will be a great build!

I am assuming that you are going to plumb through the wall to your balcony for the sump. Is there a concern about maintaining a constant temperature with your sump outside?

I will be following along for sure!

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

That's sweet skimmer! Good luck with the build

Thanks very much man!:beer:

Keep us posted. You have a great set-up started!

Thank you. I cant wait to hang the Hyperion above the tank!

I am excited for you! I am sure it will be a great build!

I am assuming that you are going to plumb through the wall to your balcony for the sump. Is there a concern about maintaining a constant temperature with your sump outside?

I will be following along for sure!

Thank you very much Dan. Happy to have you here.
I have enjoyed reading the progress of your amazing tank!

You are correct about the plumbing.Will be through the wall to the sump.

Basically water will flow through the wall to the end of the sump it will go through biopellets and skimmer then it will flow back through the wall under the stand to the pump sump( there are thoughts to turn this into a frag tank in the future:beachbum and return to the display.

Considering temperature I don't worry too much because of our great weather, but in any case this is why I chose to make the sumps and trunk out of wood.

On top of that the trunk will be insulated with DOW.

Hopefully it would be all right:artist:

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

hello everyone.

So, just to keep this thread going and sort off bring you up to date I have some more equipment candy.

I was impressed by the Hyperion the first time I laid my eyes on it.

It has all the colours and controllability that I ll ever need, good area coverage, specially compared to the competition, excellent reviews and it will shortly be able to communicate with my Tunze.

I am a happy reefer!!!!


Me and a buddy of I ordered together

My crappy i-phone could not get a photo of how much light was actually coming from the Hyperion.

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

More light

More light

The neighbours must have thinking that Tesla is back with his experiments:idea:

:beer:

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

This photo just want to be on its own!

So be it!:hmm4:

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[Newbie Aquarist]

That is some serious power coming from that small of a light.


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[Crazy_Beaver]

That is some serious power coming from that small of a light.


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It sure is man! Very happy with it!

Cant wait to hang it over the tank and see the coverage as it is a bit underrated for my dimensions!

:beachbum:

 

[Alaukik]

whoa on the LEDs...

subscribed....

cheers,
Alaukik

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

whoa on the LEDs...

subscribed....

cheers,


Alaukik

Welcome buddy!


I wanna publicly thank you for your help in the design stage!

I haven't used ansys for way too long!:lmao:

 

[Jonh Reef]

I have a intuition that it will become something fantastic in your tank

Keep us posted.......(every day)


P.S...1
I would like the first frag's is by me......

P.S...2
Take my offer...:bum:

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

I have a intuition that it will become something fantastic in your tank

Keep us posted.......(every day)


P.S...1
I would like the first frag's is by me......

P.S...2
Take my offer...:bum:

I hope u stand corect my friend!:fun5:

PS1 Thanx very much!:dance:

PS2 NO way I wouldn't!:lmao:

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

Setback!

Setback!

So yesterday I went to check the glass!Two pieces need to be recutted so....:blown:

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Man that's a bummer.


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[maroun.c]

Looks like a good start.
Would have loved a wall to wall cube in that partition, with a fishroom behind it if you have access from behind!!!

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

Man that's a bummer.


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tell me about it!:debi:

Looks like a good start.
Would have loved a wall to wall cube in that partition, with a fishroom behind it if you have access from behind!!!

You are talking big maroun!

Many ideas have gone through the table and I would have liked to go a lot bigger!

On the other hand SWMBO is waiting on the corner!:lol:

 

[maroun.c]

On the other hand SWMBO is waiting on the corner!

Gotta work on improving the WAF then:headwally: