The Black pearl/ Reef Savvy 240

[Black Pearl]

Oooh! I really like your setup for water changes. That's what I would like to do with mine so when I get to that point I may need to pick your brain. By the way I really like your artwork on the wall. Is that a school of pompano?

Love to help, so many here have helped me. The fish on the wall are a school of Lookdowns

 

[d2mini]

Man! 14 months. Kudos to you... I couldn't do it. But obviously it was worth it in the end. Congrats!

I'm really into bicycles and RS reminds me a little of Vanilla Custom Bicycles. Sacha has a wait that last I checked was like 4 years.

 

[Black Pearl]

LOL I guess those bikes are put in peoples Wills

 

[Black Pearl]

A PURPLE shout out to the Dearly Beloved....may the notes of his music forever be Diamonds and Pearls

 

[Black Pearl]

Keep in mind that mostly all these task are already done, I'm just taking you for a ride on the way back machine. My plans were to have a sump room, being that I'm getting a little far along age wise, I didn't want to be bending over and crawling under a stand, plus I wouldn't have to be worried about skimmer size and having enough space for equipment. So as it was ther were two small coat closets on the wall behind where the tank was to be placed. They were adjacent to each other separated by a wall. Once I established it wasn't a load bearing wall, demolishion began

 

[Black Pearl]

Thus the beginnings of my fish room/sump room

 

[Black Pearl]

I'll fast forward through the the rest of the demolishion and construction with a few more pics

 

[Black Pearl]

The floor was tiled, room painted and construction for the counter and sump platform began. Added a couple more outlets, hopefully will not need a dedicated circuit, guess I'll find out soon

 

[revhtree]

Keep it going!

 

[Black Pearl]

Ok here goes, next step was to finish up the fish room. Not good at carpentry so really had to take my time A few more progression pics to follow

 

[Black Pearl]

 

[Black Pearl]

An exhaust fan to help with the humidity, comes on auto at 50% humidity
Some plumbing parts
And power strips

 

[Black Pearl]

Ordered a custom sump from Synergy Reef. Rick did a great job and I'm still being impressed with the newer things he is doing. Here is what I got. And if you don't recognize it, that's a life reef skimmer, a d2mini influence, thanks a lot for this because prior to being alerted to these, which skimmer to get had my head spinning.

 

[d2mini]

Wow, it's de-ja-vu! So much like looking at my old fish room build!
Looks great. Love the red outlet covers.

Oh and.... you uhhhhhh.... have a hole on your wall.

 

[Black Pearl]

So to summarize the list of equipment
240g Reef Savvy
72g Synergy Sump
Reeflo hammerhead
Life Reef Skimmer
Apex Gold
Stenner Dual head pump
Giesemann Spectra
Gen 4 Turbo ATS. When they start delivering
Max spect Gyre xf150 + Ice cap interface module.
Whew that's a nice dent in the 401k
But it's for what we love right

 

[Black Pearl]

Wow, it's de-ja-vu! So much like looking at my old fish room build!
Looks great. Love the red outlet covers.

Oh and.... you uhhhhhh.... have a hole on your wall.

Future hole and it turned out to be in the wrong spot

 

[Black Pearl]

And hey just wait till you see the manifold

 

[Black Pearl]

Shameless!

 

[d2mini]

LOLOLOL! Well played, sir.... well played.

 

[Black Pearl]

Ok fellow Reefers, some more equipment and progression shots
Synergy also built this 4 section dosing chamber. In my previous tank I dosed Vodka, had a Hugh what I thought was, bacterial bloom, that pretty much wiped out that tank about two months ago. Most of my fish survived except a wrasse but I'm going to an ATS this time around. Also in these pics are the GHL doser 2 that's later connected to the dosing chamber( love this doser ). And you see the Stenner pump and the red tuning coming out the top of the RODI storage tank that go through the attic to enter the fish room running down to the sump. Black and Blue AWC and Red ATO