Reillys expanding Reef AKA "Man Room"

[da5speed]

Currently running a 120 gal system but not cutting it for me so time to expand!

Up grading to a 250 gal system. The system will consist of a new 120 gal oceanic tech tank with a pair of seaswirls if i can mod them to fit in the tech tank brace system. Anyone out there try this? As for lighting im going to use my cheap 4ft fixture with 2 250 DE MH and 4pc. I plan on upgrading to 2 250 LumenMax Elites not sure what ballasts yet. I currently have 120 lbs of rock.

For the Man room I will be running a 75 gallon sump, PM bullet 2 38"XL skimmer powered by a 1750 gph Pan world Pump, MCR Calcium reactor, a 20 CPR refugium, Coralife 1 hp chiller and the main pump is a 2000 gph Blueline Pump which will supply the display tank, frag tank, Carbon reactor, and GFO reactor. Also will have 70 Gal oceanic 3*18 foot print tank used for a frag/grow out tank linked into the system. I have a 6 stage 180 gpd spectrapure Ro unit, and will building a easy water change system using 2 50 drums i have.

Take is going to be 99% SPS dominate.
Heres the link to my Man room planing. Of course changes will always be made while constructing
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1686739.

 

[da5speed]

Everyone like pics so here we go started with the stand to hold all my equipment.
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[da5speed]

Put the final coat on last night. Plan to level the stand tonight and hopefully will get a chance to get all the equipment in place so i can start plumbing everything this weekend. But for now some pics of what will be going into the system.

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[waynem]

Looks good, Man room, how I need one of them lol

 

[da5speed]

Still not sure where i want to put the chiller

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[da5speed]

Been working on the plumbing and frag tank this weekend will get pic up soon. Got the manifold done its powered by the main pump and feed the CA,Carbon reactor, GFO, one extra, display tank, frag tank and will as do my water changes off from there. As for the Chiller Im going to plumb it into the next room before going up through the floor to the display tank that way any heat put off by the chiller doesnt blow on the sump area.

 

[da5speed]

Heres a good portion of the plumbing Trying to use as much of my old valves as I can

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[da5speed]

Threw together some of the plumbing. The manifold is all together everything else is just mocked up right now. Cant figure out if it the way i want it yet.

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[pdnyc69]

i like the man room

 

[da5speed]

Well last week i finished the plumbing around the sump and prop tank. Got my RO bin and WC bin all hooked up for easy WC. I did a test run to make sure there was no leaks. Just found one and then started filling the 70 gal prop tank. When it got to 4 inch from the top the bottom seam went and started leaking. I like this tank cause its doesnt have a center brace so i removed all the silicone, cleaned it with rubbing alcohol and re silicone the entire tank on 10/20. Tonight ill give it a test and see if she holds water if not ill be looknig for a new prop tank. Also just got my filters for my 180 gal day spectrapure ro/di filter so i can finally get that online.

Ones i get everything set to go the hard part will be removing my 105 and putting the 120 in its place. Im going to put all the coral in the prop tank which it will sit for at least 2 weeks till i get the rocks into the new tank. Still dont have anything big enough to hold the 140-150 lbs of rock in while i swap.

 

[da5speed]

So heres some new updates fixed the 70 gal frag tank and got that filled. My RO top of and WC setup is up and running just gotta move all my coral out into the frag tank. I also picked up a 75 RR tank that will hold my rock and fish during the transfer. Then i can move the old tank out and punch the hole for the plumbing to come up from downstairs.

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