Slumberland
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My wife and I got into reef keeping a few months ago with a 29g long tank. After getting to the point where it's all stable and everything is happy and growing, we decided to move to a bigger tank. After looking around quite a bit to see what we both liked, we settled on a 60 or 90 gallon cube.
We found a very nice 93g cube on our local marine aquarium forum and bought it up. It's a custom built acrylic 30"x30"x24" tank with an attached coast to coast overflow with split returns already installed. The acrylic in this tank is significantly thicker than any of the other cubes we'd seen, and it's crystal clear after a small amount of polishing. It also included a custom stand and a hood built to house a (provided) 400w MH with reflector and ballast, as well as a 635gph external return pump.
After getting it picked up and into our house (with less than 1/8" clearance through the door on the stand :lmao
, we got it positioned in a place we like in the dining room. Due to the design of the room, it looked silly with the hood on, so we decided to take it off and go with a pair of Evergrow d2120 LEDs for lighting. I know they are not the absolute best, but the budget was already stretched pretty thin, and we're still going to need to stock the tank.
We picked up a sump off the same local forum which had been used on a 90g cube in another life. I also decided to build an ATS for it, since I thought it'd be fun.
Since we have a pretty big basement, we decided to put the sump, RO/DI, and ATO system below the tank on a table/shelf thing I made for it, to make it easier and quieter upstairs.
So this is pretty much where we are now, and I'm looking to get a little input on my plumbing layout before I start drilling and gluing. I made a mock-up of the design, and while it's hilariously out of scale, I think it give you a pretty good idea what I'm going for.
This is after making a couple of changes to my initial drawing based on the input of a couple members of my local forum. I feel pretty confident that it's laid-out well, but I still wanted to try and get a couple more opinions before actually starting the project.
I'll be doing a build thread for it too, but I'd like to be able to just post progress pictures and such, rather than having a ton of comments from people saying "Why'd you do that??? I'd have done it this way instead!"
We found a very nice 93g cube on our local marine aquarium forum and bought it up. It's a custom built acrylic 30"x30"x24" tank with an attached coast to coast overflow with split returns already installed. The acrylic in this tank is significantly thicker than any of the other cubes we'd seen, and it's crystal clear after a small amount of polishing. It also included a custom stand and a hood built to house a (provided) 400w MH with reflector and ballast, as well as a 635gph external return pump.
After getting it picked up and into our house (with less than 1/8" clearance through the door on the stand :lmao
, we got it positioned in a place we like in the dining room. Due to the design of the room, it looked silly with the hood on, so we decided to take it off and go with a pair of Evergrow d2120 LEDs for lighting. I know they are not the absolute best, but the budget was already stretched pretty thin, and we're still going to need to stock the tank.We picked up a sump off the same local forum which had been used on a 90g cube in another life. I also decided to build an ATS for it, since I thought it'd be fun.
Since we have a pretty big basement, we decided to put the sump, RO/DI, and ATO system below the tank on a table/shelf thing I made for it, to make it easier and quieter upstairs.
So this is pretty much where we are now, and I'm looking to get a little input on my plumbing layout before I start drilling and gluing. I made a mock-up of the design, and while it's hilariously out of scale, I think it give you a pretty good idea what I'm going for.
This is after making a couple of changes to my initial drawing based on the input of a couple members of my local forum. I feel pretty confident that it's laid-out well, but I still wanted to try and get a couple more opinions before actually starting the project.
I'll be doing a build thread for it too, but I'd like to be able to just post progress pictures and such, rather than having a ton of comments from people saying "Why'd you do that??? I'd have done it this way instead!"
