Reefing in a 265 gallon 7 footer!

[abereefur]

Here's another one I forgot to post. New regulator for the calcium reactor:

 

[medox]

Hi! Starting a build thread on a 7 foot long glass tank I just got in. Here are the specs:

84"lx30"wx24"h
5/8"glass, 2 side starphire, external overflow, eurobraced

I'm going with a two sump design, one gravity feeding to the other. The top sump holds the ATB Deluxe 12.5 skimmer, the calcium reactor, the Fauna Marin Zeovit reactor, and other media reactors. The bottom sump will hold a ton of live rock and filter socks.

For lighting, I have a Vertex Illumina 260 72" on which I've added three red modules. Flow will be provided by the return pump (Dolphin Amp Master) which will will be split to two outputs on WavySea rotators. There will be three MP60wES for supplemental flow. Here are pictures of the progress so far:

Building the stand...

Skimmer:

Tank brought home and placed on stand yesterday:

Under the stand will remain completely dry as the two sumps are going to stay to the left of the tank. We still have to skin the stand, but we decided to leave it for after the tank was delivered for ease of putting the tank itself on the stand.

Hello,

What is the distance between water and the rampe ?

I put my illumina 260 at 16 cm from the water.

stéphane