nauti1us
ORCA President 2007~2008
After losing my 150 Gallon reef to a disastrous leak in the middle of the night"¦ despite after 25 years of being in this crazy hobby... went out and did it again... Just can't stop myself.
Here's my new 90 Gallon custom drilled Aquarium. Spent my birthday plumping it up and wet testing her prior to loading it up with my rock structures and livestock. The system is running sweet, no leaks and quiet as a mouse.
The back of the tank is painted black and my overflow is a custom "œBean Animal" three drain system. Thanks to Top Shelf Aquatics in Winter Park for drilling the holes. The Sump is a "œsocked" Eshops Refugium running approx 1200 GPH Water Blaster submersible circ. Pump. Experimenting with a CAD Lighting Aquarium PLS-100 Gen-3 Protein Skimmer (super quiet & small footprint)
While others have clearly done far more technical installations, I'm satisfied that my plumbing choices are solid. Future changes and or modifications will be do-able with the configuration I've chosen. The return back to the tank is an "œover the top/back" plumbed to push max water down the backside of the tank. This will force detritus and mulm towards the front of the tank and or suspend it in the water column for sock/skimmer removal. I used a combination of black and white pvc. The short answer is, if I had all the pvc I needed in black I would have used all black"¦ instead I had to supplement with some white. I also installed unions and ball valve unions at both ends of all plumbed interconnects.
The rock structures were built by me using cement (purchased at Top Shelf). Most of the LR taken out of my now defunct 150G was bleached and muratic'd and then left to dry before cementing up. Building these were sorta the highlight so far of this build. I've always been a "œrock stacker", however after having now done it this way, I can't see ever stacking again.
May 20th is this new reef's birthday"¦ as this was the day the ammonia and supplements were first added to begin the fast-cycle. Fingers crossed that I'll be ready to re-home my clowns in less than two weeks"¦ we'll see. I've never dosed a "œfast-cycle before". I am also adding in approximately three quarters of a 5 gallon bucket of reef sand from the 150G which is clean and cycled along with approx 30 pounds of LR from the 150G.
Home and ready to start plumbing
Tank filled with water and rock and cycling
Rock Structures
Gotta give a shout out to Cesar and Boostable (Jack) for the great base rock I used for the structures and also a big thank you to Matt, who encouraged me to "stay in" and not give up..! and he also loaned me a small tank to keep my clowns alive in during this build process. Thanks again fellas.
Almost time to start making up my "œfish/invert list". More pics to come once the cycle is done. :dance:
System Specs.
90 Gallon Custom Drilled Aquarium
Water Blaster HY-7000W 1900 GPH at zero head
CAD Lighting Aquarium PLS-100 Gen-3 Protein Skimmer
Pair of Radion XR30w Fixtures
Jaebo Circ pumps on the interior.
300 watt Heater
Liter Meter Doser
Here's my new 90 Gallon custom drilled Aquarium. Spent my birthday plumping it up and wet testing her prior to loading it up with my rock structures and livestock. The system is running sweet, no leaks and quiet as a mouse.
The back of the tank is painted black and my overflow is a custom "œBean Animal" three drain system. Thanks to Top Shelf Aquatics in Winter Park for drilling the holes. The Sump is a "œsocked" Eshops Refugium running approx 1200 GPH Water Blaster submersible circ. Pump. Experimenting with a CAD Lighting Aquarium PLS-100 Gen-3 Protein Skimmer (super quiet & small footprint)
While others have clearly done far more technical installations, I'm satisfied that my plumbing choices are solid. Future changes and or modifications will be do-able with the configuration I've chosen. The return back to the tank is an "œover the top/back" plumbed to push max water down the backside of the tank. This will force detritus and mulm towards the front of the tank and or suspend it in the water column for sock/skimmer removal. I used a combination of black and white pvc. The short answer is, if I had all the pvc I needed in black I would have used all black"¦ instead I had to supplement with some white. I also installed unions and ball valve unions at both ends of all plumbed interconnects.
The rock structures were built by me using cement (purchased at Top Shelf). Most of the LR taken out of my now defunct 150G was bleached and muratic'd and then left to dry before cementing up. Building these were sorta the highlight so far of this build. I've always been a "œrock stacker", however after having now done it this way, I can't see ever stacking again.
May 20th is this new reef's birthday"¦ as this was the day the ammonia and supplements were first added to begin the fast-cycle. Fingers crossed that I'll be ready to re-home my clowns in less than two weeks"¦ we'll see. I've never dosed a "œfast-cycle before". I am also adding in approximately three quarters of a 5 gallon bucket of reef sand from the 150G which is clean and cycled along with approx 30 pounds of LR from the 150G.
Home and ready to start plumbing
Tank filled with water and rock and cycling
Rock Structures
Gotta give a shout out to Cesar and Boostable (Jack) for the great base rock I used for the structures and also a big thank you to Matt, who encouraged me to "stay in" and not give up..! and he also loaned me a small tank to keep my clowns alive in during this build process. Thanks again fellas.
Almost time to start making up my "œfish/invert list". More pics to come once the cycle is done. :dance:
System Specs.
90 Gallon Custom Drilled Aquarium
Water Blaster HY-7000W 1900 GPH at zero head
CAD Lighting Aquarium PLS-100 Gen-3 Protein Skimmer
Pair of Radion XR30w Fixtures
Jaebo Circ pumps on the interior.
300 watt Heater
Liter Meter Doser
