Recovery and Rebuild of my 220

[BonesCJ]

As some of you may know at the end of June last year I had my stand give way and popped a seam in my 220 gallon system, resulting in having to tear the entire system down. I had the aquarium (Leemar) sent back for repairs and at this point my tank has been back up and running for about 6 months and I wanted to show the whole story and the tanks current status. Time for lots of Pictures :-D

The corner where the stand gave way

Halfway Drained

All the way

The 50 gallon tubs all my critters/LR/corals lived in (3 of them)

My Hood with all the lights lived on top of the tanks in an effort to keep all the corals alive. The netting on one of the tubs is to keep the fish in.

Out you Go

 

[BonesCJ]

Since I had some time while the tank was off to Cali for LeeMar to repair (which they did an awsome job of, and pretty reasonable too) my wife and I decided if we are keeping a tank of that size we want to just about guaruntee that we would have a stand that would not fail.

200 lbs of steel baby

Unfortunatly I did not get any photos of the rebuild of the tank but needless to say it came back good as new with its new stand awaiting. While it was gone I had taken the front and sides of the stand and removed the rest so that it would slide around the steel stand. Works very well and you can see the black steel of the stand in some of the pics inside the wood shell.

Tah Dah!

all the goodies

Down the side (7 Feet!)

Lighting (372 watts of T5)

Left and Right hand Equipment

 

[BonesCJ]

And now for some of the goodies living in the tank

Flower Anemone

Lobo Brain

Tree leather of some sort, kinda greenish

Tuxedo Urchin (awsome hair algea eater)

Well barring any more runs of bad luck this big boy should be here to stay and I will try to keep things more up to date. Please enjoy the pics and feel free to comment

 

[sillygoose]

That's amazing. I would feel so discouraged after such a calamity that I would want to run away from this hobby. That you didn't is testament to the degree of your addiction Did your lifestock really survive in the tubs?

Your new stand is inspiring engineering and the tank looks great. Good luck.

 

[BonesCJ]

amazingly enough I suffered very minimal lossess from my livestock. I had flow and performed water changes and fed sparingly. I had all my corals in one tub, some LR and the fish in another and all remaining LR in the last tub, that way food was only going in one tub. I just treated them like plastic 50 gallon aquariums.

 

[Tanque Verde]

Nice recovery, Bones. Great thread.