wakerider017
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Four months ago I put my house on the market so that I could make a local move within the greater Tampa Bay area. I figured what better time to upgrade from a cramped 120G to something a little larger. (More room for my corals and the ability to own larger fish ethically) After talking to John down at FAOIS I decided to go with a 225G (72"x27"x27") Deep Sea Aquatics tank. The tank has some really cool features I wanted without the added expense of going custom. I absolutely wanted a center overflow (coming off of a marineland corner system and is not optimal for herbie or bean overflows) and have it drilled for 3 drains for the bean overflow system and 2 returns. I placed my order for the tank and diligently began work on the custom tank stand and the fish/equipment room (located directly behind the display tank) while I waited for it to come in. I originally planned on documenting the whole process like some of the build threads I have seen on here, but that quickly fell off as I put all my time and effort toward the planning, layout and construction of the fish room. So waalaa, after three months of waiting for the tank to come in and four months of building all the systems required to run it I give you this:
Not hooked up yet, but this is a solenoid valve controlled by my Neptune apex that will be programmed to turn the water on and off for my RODI system. I already have a mechanical float that turns off the water when the barrel becomes full, but this solenoid adds a measure of safety by only letting the RODI system run for x amount of hours every day or other day and also prevents the RODI system from 'short cycling' by coming on every time the topoff pump kicks on.
Plumbing and wiring entering the fish room.
Looking in the door at the fish room.
1st stage of the sump system, dumps into my custom 40G breeder, hits my skimmer, goes through baffles with mangroves in it and then dumps into my 100 gallon rubbermaid sump.
Here you can see my mangrove light (on during night hours), door bell to start an automatic water change (more on that later), a variety of different gate valves and an extra large 80W emperor UV Light.
A picture of my dosing system. Drews dosers and 3 gallon containers. For me two-part is the easiest method of keeping your parameters in check!
A shot of a cyclone fan for hot days (Cools up to 20 degrees! Who needs a chiller? Warning causes LOTS of evaporation), another shot of the UV and GAC & GFO reactors.
My 40G breeder dumping into a sock and then a 100G rubbermaid sump. Who likes my custom made sock holder with attached float switch level sensors? (Made out of PVC boards and acrylic).
A picture of my reef filler twin head pump. It pumps in new saltwater and the same rate it pumps out the old stuff.. Talk about easy! Love these pumps! (They do not cause a siphon when used with the pictured injector heads which is just awesome!)
Another reef filler pump for adding top off RODI water. Also you can see I use ESV salt. I switched from Instant Ocean and I will never go back. This stuff mixes 100% clear with no grimy residue.
Not hooked up yet, but this is a solenoid valve controlled by my Neptune apex that will be programmed to turn the water on and off for my RODI system. I already have a mechanical float that turns off the water when the barrel becomes full, but this solenoid adds a measure of safety by only letting the RODI system run for x amount of hours every day or other day and also prevents the RODI system from 'short cycling' by coming on every time the topoff pump kicks on.
Plumbing and wiring entering the fish room.
Looking in the door at the fish room.
1st stage of the sump system, dumps into my custom 40G breeder, hits my skimmer, goes through baffles with mangroves in it and then dumps into my 100 gallon rubbermaid sump.
Here you can see my mangrove light (on during night hours), door bell to start an automatic water change (more on that later), a variety of different gate valves and an extra large 80W emperor UV Light.
A picture of my dosing system. Drews dosers and 3 gallon containers. For me two-part is the easiest method of keeping your parameters in check!
A shot of a cyclone fan for hot days (Cools up to 20 degrees! Who needs a chiller? Warning causes LOTS of evaporation), another shot of the UV and GAC & GFO reactors.
My 40G breeder dumping into a sock and then a 100G rubbermaid sump. Who likes my custom made sock holder with attached float switch level sensors? (Made out of PVC boards and acrylic).
A picture of my reef filler twin head pump. It pumps in new saltwater and the same rate it pumps out the old stuff.. Talk about easy! Love these pumps! (They do not cause a siphon when used with the pictured injector heads which is just awesome!)
Another reef filler pump for adding top off RODI water. Also you can see I use ESV salt. I switched from Instant Ocean and I will never go back. This stuff mixes 100% clear with no grimy residue.
