Dan's new 120 gallon!

[TikiDan]

Tank sale fell through So I guess I should just keep it.

 

[TikiDan]

Alright, good news! I sold my old 6 foot tank and got the new tank put where it belongs! But, I am going out of town this weekend and wont be back until Monday so no water yet. I plan on doing the plumbing next weekend though

 

[TikiDan]

I have a question on lighting....

I currently have 2 250watt SE MH and was thinking about upgrading to 2 400 watters! Would this be overkill on a 120g? or will the 250's cut through the 24 inches of water ok?

 

[northbay-reefer]

Yeap, way overkilled

 

[jkreefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12083160#post12083160 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by northbay-reefer
Yeap, way overkilled

ditto, 250's cut to the bottom of my 30" tall just fine, if you want more light just go with 3 250's with the luminarc minis. You will get much better light spread rather than 2 bright spots, but the 400's do have some sweet bulbs to choose from.

 

[TikiDan]

cool, that will save me some money so I can buy some vho's

 

[sulcata1619]

Have you paid the guy who built your stand yet?

 

[TikiDan]

got it covered

 

[TikiDan]

what should I do about water movement?

My thoughts were leaning towards a TUNZE Turbelle� stream Kit TS12
comes with 1 TurbelleÃ"šÃ‚® stream 6101 (3,170 gph)
+ Singlecontroller 7091

or a TUNZE Wavebox

What would work better on a 4 foot tank?

 

[northbay-reefer]

Dan your blue tenuis is looking pretty good, Your corals are doing ok, most of them should recover.

 

[TikiDan]

WooHoo! feel free to frag some for yourself

 

[TikiDan]

I picked up a 65 gallon glass tank for my sump, and am debating whether I need to add baffles and refugium, or go with Northbay-reefers suggestion and not use them. I am just affraid of having micro bubble get back to the display.

If I used baffles to block the bubbles I could get 3 sections with about 15 gallon per section and have 15 to 20 gallons open for water when the return is turned off. Is there even a point in having a refugium that small?

 

[jkreefer]

so if you dont do baffles, are you going to do a fuge?

 

[corndogg]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12105948#post12105948 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TikiDan
what should I do about water movement?

My thoughts were leaning towards a TUNZE Turbelle� stream Kit TS12
comes with 1 TurbelleÃ"šÃ‚® stream 6101 (3,170 gph)
+ Singlecontroller 7091

or a TUNZE Wavebox

What would work better on a 4 foot tank?

The wavebox is secondary to other flow and is not replacement for conventional powerheads/closed loop. I'd go with a controllable stream first.

Also, I've heard that the wavebox doesn't work very well on tanks shorter than 6 feet.

 

[TikiDan]

that answers the question on water movement, thanks

as for the fuge, I dont have the room for a fuge unless its in my sump, so unless I section off the sump I would not have a fuge.

 

[islandcreation]

I just created my sump with baffles so I know I won't deal with micro bubbles. I'll be using a filter sock as shown with LR in the first section, 2nd section is where my G3 skimmer will be in and third is going to go to my external pump. I still need to cut a whole but i did it before so it shouldn't be too bad.

*** Get two silicone tubes just incase one is defective. I bought only one and rather going out from the front it came out from the back! It was a night and I didn't want to wait so I just used my fingers to slap it on there. Reminded me of the elementary school days with elmers glue. But thats if you decide to go with baffles. Good luck

 

[TikiDan]

I could do a closed loop! I have an Oceans Motions just sitting around that I'm not using!

 

[TikiDan]

I made my last sump and it worked fine so I know I could do it again, but according to Tham, I don't need baffles. I have seen his tank a few times and he gets zero microbubbles back to his tank so I know it can be done but I am just worried.

 

[corndogg]

Are you going to have sand in your tank? I loved my ocean motion but had to get rid of it because sand would get stirred up and it would jam up the drum.

 

[TikiDan]

I have about 2 or 3 inches of sand but I don't know how much water movement it would take for a sandstorm. I am using a 1200gph return thats pushing up 5 feet vertically so I know I am loosing head there, so I could run the OM on a closed loop with an external pump up to 2500 gph to make up for the flow or I could just add power heads like the tunzes I mentioned earlier or even add a vortech if I save up.

SO MANY CHOICES!!!