going Reefing a lil' bigger

[The Aspilonker]

As promised early I will post here the step by step of the moving process.

Here it is the tank as it is today:

it is 64" L x 30" H x 23" W all glass drilled at the bottom of the tank with 1" bulkheads at each side and with some overflow boxes (its all covered by rockwork)
it has a DSB about 4" at the highest Point and 2 at the lowest
dont recall how many LR is in it but like 60 Kilos

The live stock is:
3 Sebae Clowns
3 bluetangs
1 Citrus Clown Goby
1 Royal Gramma
1 Gold Neon Goby
2 Lysimata Shrimp
like 5 red legged Hermit Crabs
10 or More Snails
1 Rose BTA
some Pulsing Xenias ( it all started with a Frag)
1 Yellow Sarcophyton
some orange zoos
some Polyp Star
some green Polyp Star
some Palithoa and Protopalithoa Sp. (chocolate polyps?)
1 chunk of Tubipora Musica (red Organ Pipe)
lots of red cartwheel mushrooms (it all started with 4)
like 20 green furry mushrooms

I light it with a orbit 72" 2x96w actinic and 2x96w daylight
I use as the return pump a rio 32hf with a scwd
for the current issues i use 4 maxijet 1200, 1 seio 820? or 850?
and for the skimming process its a G2 skimmer

 

[The Aspilonker]

Step 1 The new Tank And Stand

here are the specs of the new tank:

72" L x 30" W x 24" H all 1/2" acrylic

this photo was taken like 2 months ago....

tomorrow I will post the today with water

 

[The Aspilonker]

step 2 doing holes (hoyos in spanish)

heres a picture of the tank during the drilling process, there you can see Juan Jose, a dear friend (who actually owns a great aquarium in Mexico, and who gets lot of mentions at Garf), he did lots of the supervision part and provided some of the tools for doing great "hoyos"....

 

[The Aspilonker]

step 2.1

Here it is:

The tank Drilled an with bulkheads in place

4 x 1" bulkheads for the drain process
3 x 3/4" bulkheads for the return lines
2 closed loops all with 3/4" bulkheads...

 

[The Aspilonker]

step 2.2

Now the Hardware Part

Here it is the original sump diagram

Once built it had to be corrected due flow risks and problems

the front will serve as a refugium...
the back is designed to hold a g2,g3 or g4 skimmer
and at the very end it is the return pump area....
I tried with a MAG 36 but man that is too noisy

I guess i will go for a Mag 18 or 24 or perhaps 2 rio 32HF

the corrections made were done reducing some of the inner heights

 

[aquaman3680]

Sweet man looks great! What size is it?

Matt

 

[boozeman]

Bravo !!!

 

[blue_eyes53813]

That is a great set up... Congrats

 

[The Aspilonker]

Sweet man looks great! What size is it?

Matt

It's 72"L x 30"W x 24"H

I will try to post some today pics

 

[Woodstock]

Sweeeet!!! Nice size!!

 

[The Aspilonker]

Im almost done with the mooving process, wednesday i will begin the transplantation of the live rock

pictures will come soon

 

[rebekwl]

Very nice, can't wait to see it all come together!!

 

[The Aspilonker]

First Pictures of the new Setup

Here they are....

and heres a big surprise for me:

As soon as i moved my Rose BTA......








It splitted in two!!!!!

Ive got some pictures of the process so i will share it here too.

 

[boozeman]

cool

 

[The Aspilonker]

Splitting images

More Splitting pictures

 

[The Aspilonker]

Front and Tank Sides

Here they are hope they are worth the wait

 

[The Aspilonker]

and now a shot of the 2 BTAs

here they are

 

[The Aspilonker]

New Additions to reef

I will post some new pics of the newest adds to my tank....

it's a candy coral
a fox coral
one red eye favia
some zoos (pink, green and yellow?)
one "Y" shaped pearl
Please Wait for the pics....

 

[AQTCJAK]

Very cool. Nicely done

 

[blue_eyes53813]

Looks great.. keep the pictures coming.