Steve's 480g upgrade

[Jar*Head]

Ok folks, i have been tankless for almost 3 months now and i am kinda frustrated. I am planning on my next tank 480g acrylic. Your input is much appreciated.

Tank: 96x48x24 1" acrylic all around, 6" Euro brace with 2 cross brace
Stand: Custom Metal stand by JJ81speed (John Jr).
Light rack: aluminum light rack will house 3 lumenarc III and 4 t-5 4 bulbs pendant
Sump: 84x20x20 part of the sump 36x20x20 will be the RDSB
Equipment sump 84x22x6 to avoid leakage from the Ca reactor or protein skimmer overflow
Light: 3x400w or 3x1000w TBD , 4 T-5 pendant of 4 bulbs each
Circulation: 2 tunze 6301, 2 tunze 6201, 4 external waveboxes, 2 Eheim 1262 return pump, Tunze master cir to feed to PO4 reactor, skimmer, chiller, and U.V sterilizer
Equipment:
150w single bulb Emperor aquatic U.V sterilizer
BK400ext with RD2 speed adjustable pump/HC wheel
Deltec 601s Ca reactor
Deltec KM500s Kalk reactor
Aqua Logic 1HP water cooler chiller
Tunze Osmolator

This is what i have so far:

Deltec 601s Mod with eheim 1260 pump

Deltec KM500s

Tunze Master Cir

Sump

Equipment sump

RDSB

Tank design top view

300lbs LR

Thank you for taking your time to read my post....

Steve

 

[Jar*Head]

I am not going to set up the new tank till i finish moving to Colorado which is May 1

 

[ycnibrc]

looking good Steve but too bad you will be in Colorado and I can not help you carry your tank in.....BTW I still like your expensive toilet in the back ground.....

 

[Jar*Head]

The mover company will have their people to unload the tank. I think my stand will weight as much as the tank .

 

[33g]

Will you be going bb on this tank as well?is that why you are planning on using rdsb in the sump?i always loved your old tank kept up with it from the begining thanks.

 

[ycnibrc]

I don't see any flow equipment are you going to LPS and softy??SPS is too much for you Steve? After reading all these tank crash kind of scare you ....

 

[Jar*Head]

33g, the tank will be BB to avoid scratches. My RDSB will be 8" fine arag sand, i will have my overflow box drain into the DSB before it enter the rubble rock filtration with Chaeto.

Anthony, i want to keep mainly sea grass and Mangro in the tank, LPS and softies too hard for me lol. My tunze will arrive in a week or two. I already 4 waveboxes, still waiting on the 2 tunze 6301.

I am still debating between 24" tall and 30" tall. Come on guys, i need your input

 

[zaireguy]

looks like your off to a great start

 

[purebullet417]

30" tall you will not regret it. and best of all you will get another 120gals out of it

 

[invincible569]

Cant wait to see! I would rather choose 400w's.

 

[Jar*Head]

I guess the final decision is 30" tall and 400w instead of 1k. I hope by doing additional 6" on the height will not break the bank. I may have to adjust the length a little because the new house is much smaller then expected. I may go with 7x4x30 (525g)

Edward, i was gonna ask you about the spot light . I want to have couple of them around my tank.

 

[Jar*Head]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11593581#post11593581 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by purebullet417
30" tall you will not regret it. and best of all you will get another 120gals out of it

Another 120g will lead me into an upgrade on Ca reactor . My 601S rated 650g. I am not sure if it can handle 650g heavy stock or 3 acros with couple fish stock lol

 

[mpoletti]

Het Steve, I'll be watching your thread.

My reactor that is rated for 250 gal can't even keep up with my 90. You think I might have too many corals

 

[Jar*Head]

Ouch... I should have purchase the PF1001 but the wife woulda kill me . I'll give it a try. If that don't work, i may ended up with another 601S in the near future. I still have lots of other stuff to be worry about.

 

[mpoletti]

Me too. I should hear back this week with my quotes from Lee Mar

 

[Jar*Head]

How big is it going to be Mark? Lemar tank is nice.... I wish i could afford Lemar with my dimension .

 

[mpoletti]

72x24x24. Just large enough for a thread

 

[Jar*Head]

Well, that is db the size of your current tank . Im looking forward for the build thread.... I will harass you and Tim whenever my tank is up and running...

 

[clownnrnd]

Steve my vote goes for 24"s tall w/ 400w 14k bulbs . That extra 120 gal. is just that much more money that would need to be spent.

Another thing is you may be able to mix up the wattage of the bulbs depending on zones. Have higher intesity zones and lower intensity zones depending on corals placed in those areas.

Chad

 

[Jar*Head]

Chad, thank you for the advice. I like the 30" but i don't like the fact my arm is TOO short . As for the lighting, i have decided to go with 400w and the mixture of 14K and 20K. Most of my T-5 will be atinic plus or URI super atinic. I also look into spot light like Edward has in his tank.