newreefbishop
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I have been plannin this upgrade for about 1 year. Its been a matter of waiting for the right time and the right scenario. Needless to say things have progressed smoothly and I will skip the gory details. The tank is a 110 AGA tank, with a custom stand, built by my father and designed and reinforced by me. The canopy is also a custom design, and is 18 inches tall. The gives additional clearance for my lights without much residual heat and allow the light to spread yet reach the deepest reaches of the tank.
The guts are powered by a Quiet One 6000, over 1500 GPH, with one slight mod to give an additional 200 GPH. Its a bit of overkill but didnt want to skimp on flow. The sump is a 40 gallon custom acrylic sump/fuge. I was going to split it and have a refugium, but after careful evaluation I decided to use the section for two skimmers, a CS65 (coralife), and a Tunze 9005, from the looks of it the skim at different levels, one seems to capture heavy particles and the other very minute particles. Either way I would rather over skim, than underskim I also have a uv sterilizer and plan to as a phosphate reactor and another reactor running calcium. I will add the fuge at a later date using a ten gallon or 20 gallon breeder.
I transfered all my rock and some of my sand from the other tank. I found the sand in the old tank a bit yucky, but after a brief rinse and skim in some fresh salt water it didnt look so bad. My sandbed now sits about 4-5 inches deep. I also transferred about 100-110 pounds of rock. odly enough it doesnt look like enough....I will probably be getting another 50 pounds in short order, I dont want it packed however just enough to fill out a few spaces. I have been researching and my intentions are to have a true "mixed" reef. and stuffing it with rock = les space for corals to grow.
Thats it for now...tomorrow Ill post some pictures of before and after as well as some build pics.....the actually process of putting it all together was very labor intensive so I dont have many pics of that....
The guts are powered by a Quiet One 6000, over 1500 GPH, with one slight mod to give an additional 200 GPH. Its a bit of overkill but didnt want to skimp on flow. The sump is a 40 gallon custom acrylic sump/fuge. I was going to split it and have a refugium, but after careful evaluation I decided to use the section for two skimmers, a CS65 (coralife), and a Tunze 9005, from the looks of it the skim at different levels, one seems to capture heavy particles and the other very minute particles. Either way I would rather over skim, than underskim I also have a uv sterilizer and plan to as a phosphate reactor and another reactor running calcium. I will add the fuge at a later date using a ten gallon or 20 gallon breeder.
I transfered all my rock and some of my sand from the other tank. I found the sand in the old tank a bit yucky, but after a brief rinse and skim in some fresh salt water it didnt look so bad. My sandbed now sits about 4-5 inches deep. I also transferred about 100-110 pounds of rock. odly enough it doesnt look like enough....I will probably be getting another 50 pounds in short order, I dont want it packed however just enough to fill out a few spaces. I have been researching and my intentions are to have a true "mixed" reef. and stuffing it with rock = les space for corals to grow.
Thats it for now...tomorrow Ill post some pictures of before and after as well as some build pics.....the actually process of putting it all together was very labor intensive so I dont have many pics of that....
