Dave's Life Aquatic (180 build)

[CrayolaViolence]

Got it through dr foster and smith about 15 years ago. I believe they still have them in their soft coral section on there web page.

The only ones I've seen the carry are brown, not yellow. At least not the umbrella leathers. They have yellow Fiji leather, but it's not the same I don't think.

 

[worm5406]

Skimmer looks good. I dont see the pump and all, so I guess you were dry fitting it. If I remember right that one has the pump in the middle right?

 

[davewbush]

Skimmer looks good. I dont see the pump and all, so I guess you were dry fitting it. If I remember right that one has the pump in the middle right?

The pump does go in the middle. It's the elite 200s model. Rated for up to 400 gallons. I put it all together on my lunch yesterday, didn't have time before work. Going to see what I can get done this weekend on the tanks and the plumbing.

Things I have to work with or coming:
180 gallon tank 72x24x24
New tank on the way 72x24x30
Cube 20x24x24 macro algae and mangrove tank
Frag tank on the way 12x30x12

All above tanks will be for viewing or display tanks.
What I have to work with for filtration.

90 gallon acrylic tank with custom baffles
75 gallon glass tank with custom baffles which everything will feed into and where the return pumps will be.
Berlin sump that holds 15 gallons
Custom sump that came with cube that will hold 15 to 20 gallons
New sump that's 30x14x15 and will house the protein skimmer.
6 large size two little fishes brand reactors

Tank will be powered by 2 echo tech vortex m1 pumps, one other pump that runs 1200 gph, plus the pump on the protein skimmer. Then whatever circulation pumps I add inside.

All tanks will be linked by sumps. All sumps will flow into the glass tank (sump) with 2000gph or a tad less going back into the display tanks. Another 2000 gph will be split between the 90 gallon sump, macro algae tank, and other filtration sumps. 1200 gph will be put through the reactors split into two sections with 600gph running through each. Will have 4 reactors with spun glass balls, one fluidized sand bed reactor, and one for raw phos. Water will exit the reactors into uv steralizers and back into the sump close to the main return pump. There's also a section of the 90 gallon sump is baffled off to run chemi pure.

 

[VanJuKy]

Do you still have this leather coral? Very impressive!

 

[davewbush]

Do you still have this leather coral? Very impressive!

I do not. I lost it about 2 years ago. Not sure what went wrong, started to deteriorate in spots while more fragile corals were surviving. It did take up a lot of realistate in the tank but I hate having corals die.

 

[davewbush]

Framing continued for many nights. Was the first wall I had ever build, or am still building. My kitchen wall sits the same distance from the ceiling so I wanted the fish wall to match. Next was making my first archway.