"redneck reffer" 265 tank rebuild

[nativecracker32]

I recently moved and have decided to rebuild me tank. Its a 265gal with four holes drilled in the back. The set up I had at the old house was a huge stand inside and holes through the wall to the garage. Where the sump, skimmer, and chiller were. This one is going to be a flush mount in wall set up. here are some pics so you can get a good idea of what im doing. Any and all feed back is welcome, thats why i'm posting this thread.

old set up. before i made the hood for the lights.

another shot of the old set up.

this is a pic after the hood was made.

this is wall at the new house where the tanks is going.

 

[nativecracker32]

the rest will just be the work that has been done so far.

had to jack up the ceiling to support the load bearing wall

 

[nativecracker32]

temp home for the rock and whats left of my live stock. had to get a new truck the one i had blow up my live stock paid the price for not being where they could get the husbandry they needed:mad2:

helps to have a big friend when moving a big tank!

Now your pretty much caught up to were I'm at presently.
looking for some thoughts on how to mod a skimmer body I picked up at my l.f.s.

it's an 8" tube 51" tall. The cup is 8" by 7" tall as you can see from the last pic the pump is bolted into the simmer. its an old skimmer but for 50$ the tube was to good to pass on. So far I'm leaning towards a aqua medic knock off. just drilling it and lowering the input and putting an ocean runner on it. But this is one of the areas I thought The R.C. crowed could help with.

I have a reflo tarpon I'm going to use to run a closed loop and my chiller. A pacific coast CW1000. A reflo dart to rum my returns and the skimmer. For the lighting I'm using 2 60" atinics vho's and 10 36" t-5's in differant color temps. That will leave me with an extra 660 ballest, as the last setup ran 16 36" t-5's. for flow in the tank i have one tunze 6001 on a 7901 controller. I'd love to make it a wave box but i don't think the controller pulses fast enough. I think with the dart pummping water from the top and the tarpon pummping water from the bottom i should get good flow anyways.

well like i said before i'm here for feed back so give me the good, bad, and ugly. Id like to do this right the first "second" time. lol.

 

[nativecracker32]

bump

 

[Ebob954]

cant wait to see the final result. I just picked up a 265 my self

 

[nativecracker32]

It will get there. Coating the stand in elastomaric today. Putting vinal on the back and sides then doing a fresh water test to check for leaks. If all goes well the rock will be in this weekend. Then I have to do the lights!