My name is Kyle, I am new to Reef Central.
I have been reefing for roughly 2 years in a JBJ Nanocube. I have long wanted a larger tank, and I am now beginning the process of planning and building the entire setup and system. I look forward to all of your advice and encouragement, and I hope that what I learn along the way can be helpful to other reefers. I am going to reserve this first post for the current status of the tank, and the second post for the current project I am pursuing. then subsequent posts for questions, or comments. please feel free to let me know what you think of the project, and if you have any advice please feel free to share. so, without further ado, here is the summary of the project.
I am looking for a display tank some where in the 150-200 gallon range. I am going to plumb the tank through the floor to a basement sump. in the basement I am going to have RO/DI unit, Freshwater reservoirs, Saltwater mixing reservoirs, a Deep sand bed, a refugium, and a sump pump area with a capacity of around 50 gallons. I plan on using fail-safe gravity fed plumbing whenever possible and I would like to use as few pumps as possible. I hope to run almost completely biological filtration, with no skimmer. The tank will be predominantly for corals (Lps and softies mostly) and other inverts, there may be a couple of fish, but I do not plan on keeping many fish. I am going to attempt to automate much of the processes involved in maintaining the tank either through purchased controllers or though self programmed and built arduino controllers. I am not opposed to building the tank myself, in fact that has always interested me. I have very little background with plumbing, only basic home repair.
well that is all for now, I will update with more info when I get the chance.
I have been reefing for roughly 2 years in a JBJ Nanocube. I have long wanted a larger tank, and I am now beginning the process of planning and building the entire setup and system. I look forward to all of your advice and encouragement, and I hope that what I learn along the way can be helpful to other reefers. I am going to reserve this first post for the current status of the tank, and the second post for the current project I am pursuing. then subsequent posts for questions, or comments. please feel free to let me know what you think of the project, and if you have any advice please feel free to share. so, without further ado, here is the summary of the project.
I am looking for a display tank some where in the 150-200 gallon range. I am going to plumb the tank through the floor to a basement sump. in the basement I am going to have RO/DI unit, Freshwater reservoirs, Saltwater mixing reservoirs, a Deep sand bed, a refugium, and a sump pump area with a capacity of around 50 gallons. I plan on using fail-safe gravity fed plumbing whenever possible and I would like to use as few pumps as possible. I hope to run almost completely biological filtration, with no skimmer. The tank will be predominantly for corals (Lps and softies mostly) and other inverts, there may be a couple of fish, but I do not plan on keeping many fish. I am going to attempt to automate much of the processes involved in maintaining the tank either through purchased controllers or though self programmed and built arduino controllers. I am not opposed to building the tank myself, in fact that has always interested me. I have very little background with plumbing, only basic home repair.
well that is all for now, I will update with more info when I get the chance.
