RJT's In-wall 220g

[RJT]

Finally!! This build was started in December, thanks to Nightowl I got the motivation to start this thread.

I already had a 150g in wall tank but I didn't like the width nor did I like the overflow towers. So it was time for an upgrade.

In December 2012 I decided to drill the fish tank I got off of craigslist. I watched a lot of videos and asked countless questions to anyone that has drilled their tank. Drilling was the easiest things to do in this hobby. I drilled two 2in holes for the internal overflow box and two 3/4in holes for the mag 18 return.

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Of course the same minute the tank was plumbed I started to fill it with water and the live rock from the 150g.

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Temporary tank for fish in 150g

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Regretfully, I lost all of the fish except for a golden dwarf eel, cleaner wrasse and splendid (blue star) leopard wrasse. I had a 35g and 15g but the amount of fish was still too high even with 40% water changes every other day. I have had very bad experiences with the 35g, only three fish has ever made it out alive. I recently gave the tank away. I am sure it is user error and not the tank but too many bad experiences.

Day 2

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[d.dog]

looking good taking along

 

[RJT]

Day 8

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Day 14

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Day 17

Aquascaping done with wife's help and remaining fish put in

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[RJT]

Here is my equipment list:

Mag 18 return pump
2 MP40's
1 Tunze 6125
Avast Kalk stirrer
Digital Aquatics RKE with Net
Via Aqua 300w Titanium heater
ASM G3 Protein skimmer
2 Maxspect Razr 16k led's
Panorama blue led for night light
BRS ATO

Sump is standard 55g tank with baffles, 15in refugium with chaeto, rocks and 10 mangroves

 

[RJT]

Picture of the refugium. There are 5 cerite snails in there that keep it clean.

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[nightOwl]

Richard,
Glad you finally got your build thread going man! I will be tagging along for the updates .

 

[RJT]

Richard,
Glad you finally got your build thread going man! I will be tagging along for the updates .

Thanks for tagging along. Now I have to keep this updated

 

[RJT]

Here is my current fish list:
1 Female leopard wrasse
1 Female Splendid/blue star wrasse
1 Lavender Tang
1 Blue cleaner wrasse
1 Golden Dwarf eel
2 Yellow wrasses
2 Female Fridmani Dottybacks
2 Midas Blennies
2 Linespot flasher wrasses
2 real Fiji Exquisite wrasses
3 Dispar anthias
2 Bartlett anthias
1 Skunk tile fish
1 Blue head tile fish

2 Rainbow RBTA
1 Purple Squamosa clam
Frags of: Purple and green frogspawn, purple and green hammer and purple torch
Lobo, acans, acros, millies, ricordea, leathers and zoas.

I feed heavily so to keep the water clean I do a 20% wc every week.

If I had better camera skills I could show how everything looks. But right now its just a blurry out of focus picture.

 

[tigershark4]

Another nice tank in MD

 

[RJT]

Thanks. I think it looks okay. There are hundreds of great tanks out there. I have a bunch of fish and frags. I think next year it will be an amazing tank.

Tigershark4 where are you located?

 

[collegeman]

Looking good!!! Keep up the good work.

 

[RJT]

Looking good!!! Keep up the good work.

Thank you! I had some help along the way :lmao:

 

[RJT]

Time for some pics

Midas blennies
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Morning meeting
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Bartlett and leopard
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Tile fish
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Some frags acclimating to led's
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[RJT]

Video

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Great video. I love the tilefish.

 

[RJT]

Thank you. Tilefish is nice. I found out with mine if you have one they only come out to eat. Now that I have two both are always out. They are jumpers. One jumped from his covered qt tank to the next qt. Lucky fish!!

 

[rorroreef]

nice rockwork and I love midas blennies. They are cute.

 

[RJT]

Thanks. It was my wife's hard work of telling me how she wanted it to look.

The blennies are nice. They sleep on the same rock.

 

[RJT]

Side view of tank
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[AquatiCoug]

very nice!