410 gal SPS tank build in SW Florida

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My wife and I recently built a new home in Florida and I included a 410 gal reef tank with it's own support room. The tank is a Coast to Coast glass tank 96x36x28 and will be viewable from 2 sides (Starfire Glass). The sump is about 125 gal and was built by Fishtanksdirect. This was a long process but I am at a point where I can start showing the work that has been done.


Here is a list of some of the equipment I used:

Skimmer - Super Reef Octopus XP5000 Cone

Chiller - Coralife Aquarium Chiller 1HP

Calcium Reactor - Super Reef Octopus 5000 Dual Calcium Reactor

Kalk Reactor - Octopus SRO Kalk Stirrer

Lights - LED - EcoTech Marine Radion XR30w (8)

Flow - EcoTech Vortech MP-60 wireless (1)
EcoTech Vortech MP-40 (4)

Main Return Pumps- Blue Line 70HD External pumps (2)

UV Sterilizer - Aqua UV 80watt w/wiper

Media Reactor- Jumbo BRS GFO and Carbon Reactor (2)

This is the framed out tank room.

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Here is the tank stand build.

Support legs and corners on and level. That's my buddy Nate cutting the plywood base out in the background.
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This was the day the tank was delivered to the house. Thank goodness everything went fairly smoothly.

Floor lifts in place.
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Truck arrives... (BIG truck)
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Tank in the rear of the truck.
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Tank was to long to just lift. Had to pull it out and leave it hanging out of the back to get to it from the side.
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Yup... that's the tank teetering on a pallet set on it's edge to hold the tank up until the forklift could get it from the side. I almost has a heart attack!
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Whew... got it in time.
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Around to the rear of the house.
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In thru the sliders.
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Onto the floor lifts.
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Rolling it into place.
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Nope, won't go in from this angle....
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Had to move one of the floor jacks to the opposite side and line it up to slide it in from the end.
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Sliding into place... easy.
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Almost there.
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Ahhhh... made it. This is from the back side of the tank.
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The finished product!!!!
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This was the process of building the mounting structure for the actuators that raise and lower my light rack. They work off a remote control and will allow me to raise the lights up when I need to work inside of the tank. Here are a few pics from what was done.

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This rack will attach to the actuators mounted to the walls. This will give me the ability to raise and lower the lights when hen I need to work on the tanks. There is a slight offset to the lights due to the way the tank will be aquascaped.

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It took 4 days to fill the tank full of water.

I got my water storage bins installed and plumbed. Also got all of my Vortec Pumps and controllers installed. Doesn't look like a lot of work but it took me an entire day.


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This whole thread just makes me smile, literally! HA!

Awesome build and please keep us updated!
 

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