My New Project 90 Gallon Build

snake1

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I have Built a Room in my garage that is air conditioned with the house to keep the sump/ RO water/ and Fresh Salt water is at room temp and is also nice having full access to the major components of the tank without getting water on my floors in the house + no major noise in the house from pumps ...skimmer...ect I will have more pics soon
 

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more pics
 

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my new led build and custom heatsink the pic with the wires is the led fixture testing, the last pic is just a t-5 fixture I plan on attaching two t-5s on the heat sink one on either side for supplemental lighting still less wattage than my 40 gallon tank running 2) 175 MH and 2) 3' 90 watt VHO = 530 watts 10 hrs a day, the led and t-5 combo only run 230 watts that`s a nice improvement on the power bill my new 90 is going to cost less to run than my current 40 gallon! with a computer fan on each heatsink it stays nice and cold
 

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The sump is a 40 Gallon breeder from Petco $1 sale and Purchased 4 Pieces of 1/4 thick glass for the baffles
 
Looks good. That DIY LED is awesome. Any idea what kind of par you're getting out of it? I built one and got a whopping 85 just under the surface (30 on the sand bed). lol. I made it for my refugium and it only has (8) diodes. Definitely not a very strong light but grows chaeto just fine.
 
I Have 60 led (3) settings, one UV/atinics ,one blues, and whites with one red and green per board i just copied the layout of some more popular models online by looking at what color layout they had as for par im not sure i dont have a meter
 
I drilled and tapped every piece together and also drilled and tapped the leds so i could move them easy if need be, all the screws are stainless
 
just some pics of my tank over the last two years, its crazy how fast two years has been and the growth I have received , I run a homemade Chinese led fixture with bridgelux leds and some t5 bulbs. I recently started using a calcium reactor and now the corals exploding in growth....
 

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some more pics
 

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more pics
 

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Your house is never too small... You lack ambition. ;)

Also, I love your little filtration room. Makes for a very quiet experience. I'm a little jealous of that...
 
Your house is never too small... You lack ambition. ;)

Also, I love your little filtration room. Makes for a very quiet experience. I'm a little jealous of that...

I will post the newer pics of the garage room when I get home it has a lot of new additions ,those photos are when I first built it.
 
My garage room has filled in quite nicely over the last two years here are some updated pics from today of my sump and water holding/changing area and the new 29 gallon holding tank for my newer corals that are waiting to make it to the main display..... Here is a shot of the euro reef skimmer (best IMO) doing what it does best keeping my tank clean....I just tested my water today. Alk 10.3
Cal 465
Mag 1335
PH 8.07
No3 .01
P04 .0
 

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The light I purchased a metal halide/t5 combo fixture and ripped the metal halides out of the center and slide in my homemade custom aluminum heatsink I made from c channel I purchased at home depot i drilled and tapped every screw that holds the channels together and holds the leds in place, the LEDs are from China /bridgelux aquastyle online..the LEDs I just copied what some of the standard led full spectrum light fixtures are using ...my newer layout is I'm going to order some cree leds and move some Leds around and mimic the radion g3 pro layout and see if that gives me some more growth.but I have been pretty happy with what I have received so far . the t5s are 3 blue plus and 1 purple plus but as of 3 days ago i put an aquablue special in place of one blue plus so i could take better pictures and its growing on me.so will see...the led heatsink can be seen in my earlier post above.....I built everything for this tank except the tank and reef keeper and pumps etc.....I built the stand ,the garage room, framing ,electrical ,plumbing, insulation, air conditioning, drywall, paint..the stand in the garage room, the acrylic ato resovior ,the light fixture ,ect.ect.ect.
 

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