Frick
AZ FRAG President
I haven't done a real display tank that I have been proud of since i have been in Arizona. I have done a few frag hoarding tanks but they were not pleasing to the eye. I have been wanting to do a 4' 120 for a while, and had many ideas running through my head on how I would execute it. I bought a used 120 set up from one of our AZ FRAG members that moved to Cali over the summer. It came with a canopy and stand cover with doors, but I am not going to use them. Although, with out them this tank is going to need a lot of cleaning. So that is what I am doing on my two days off for the Holidays. Cleaning this bad boy up.
it will sit against a 6' long wall adjacent from my Kitchen. On the other side of he wall is my laundry room where my 75 gallon is set up now. My plan so far is to set this up and tie the plumbing in with the 75 through the wall. Then once it is stable and I get the corals moved over form the 75 to the 120. I think I am going to take the 75 down and put a shorter sump with frag tank above that sump. So the 120 will have nothing below it except two return lines and two overflow pipes that go through the wall and in the sump, that would be located in the laundry room. Seems complicated and it probably will be.
Equipment is going to be 2 Kessils A360W-E, DC DIY skimmer, Bubble Magus 150 AT Ca reactor, two Vor Tech MP-40Ws, and my Apex controller. Still not sure about the return pump. I'l probably build a Kalk reactor to run in the top-off chamber of my sump. And since I tend to understock with fish I think I am going to skip the refugium and just go for an oversized skimmer and some kind of thorough mechanical filtration. Probably plumb some media reactors in just in case. Going for simplicity tho.
For aquascaping I am thinking minimalist. No sand, and either little or no live rock. I'll probably do another tank build when I get more together for it. But thought I would share what I have started.
What are your thoughts so far?
it will sit against a 6' long wall adjacent from my Kitchen. On the other side of he wall is my laundry room where my 75 gallon is set up now. My plan so far is to set this up and tie the plumbing in with the 75 through the wall. Then once it is stable and I get the corals moved over form the 75 to the 120. I think I am going to take the 75 down and put a shorter sump with frag tank above that sump. So the 120 will have nothing below it except two return lines and two overflow pipes that go through the wall and in the sump, that would be located in the laundry room. Seems complicated and it probably will be.
Equipment is going to be 2 Kessils A360W-E, DC DIY skimmer, Bubble Magus 150 AT Ca reactor, two Vor Tech MP-40Ws, and my Apex controller. Still not sure about the return pump. I'l probably build a Kalk reactor to run in the top-off chamber of my sump. And since I tend to understock with fish I think I am going to skip the refugium and just go for an oversized skimmer and some kind of thorough mechanical filtration. Probably plumb some media reactors in just in case. Going for simplicity tho.
For aquascaping I am thinking minimalist. No sand, and either little or no live rock. I'll probably do another tank build when I get more together for it. But thought I would share what I have started.
What are your thoughts so far?
