WrongGenotype
Gene
Well it's official and I am finally starting my new tank build.
In 2014 my brother welded me a stand for my "new" build and have been carting the stand around with me ever since then. Had the stand powder coated and its been garaged collecting dust. Just moved to Seattle in May of 2015 and decided it has been way to long and it was past due for being set up.
I decided to go with a local company Oceans by Design and had a custom tank, sump, and ato/dosing box built. The tank is 96"x28"x20" and has an external overflow with 3-1.5" Bean Animal style drains and an almost coast to coast interior box that is 52" long. I went with recessed Eurobrace and 4 3/4" returns.
The sump is 54"x18"x16" and has a ton of bells and whistles. Removable sock holder and media rack, and dosing connectors to just name a few. The ato/dosing box is 18"x22"x16" and has 4 1.75 gallon sections for dosing and one 18 gallon reservoir for ato.
A lot of the other equipment I already had from previous builds but will be upgrading some parts and pieces also
Skimmer:
Vertex alpha 250
Flow:
Fluval SP6
6 mp40wes two on each side and two on the back wall.
Lighting:
6 radion gen3
2 54w ati blue plus
2 54w ati coral plus
Doser:
2 part and mag with a bubble magus dosing pump. If I need more Ill end up putting a calcium reactor online as well.
Other Equipment:
-Full apex with Temperature, PH probes
-2 500W Finnex Deluxe Titanium heaters
-Tunze 3155 ato
-Kessil 160we Tuna sun
Rock Sand:
- 135lbs total of Dry Sand (75lbs of Tropic Eden Reefflakes and 60lbs of Miniflakes)
- Minimalist rock scape with lots of shelves.
The tank will be mostly SPS up top but will have some other nice pieces mixed in as well. Running Prodibio Bioptim and Biodigest since April 2017.
Parameters:
Alk 7.7-8.0
Cal 425-435
Mag 1350-1380
No3 5-15
Po4 .03-.05
In 2014 my brother welded me a stand for my "new" build and have been carting the stand around with me ever since then. Had the stand powder coated and its been garaged collecting dust. Just moved to Seattle in May of 2015 and decided it has been way to long and it was past due for being set up.
I decided to go with a local company Oceans by Design and had a custom tank, sump, and ato/dosing box built. The tank is 96"x28"x20" and has an external overflow with 3-1.5" Bean Animal style drains and an almost coast to coast interior box that is 52" long. I went with recessed Eurobrace and 4 3/4" returns.
The sump is 54"x18"x16" and has a ton of bells and whistles. Removable sock holder and media rack, and dosing connectors to just name a few. The ato/dosing box is 18"x22"x16" and has 4 1.75 gallon sections for dosing and one 18 gallon reservoir for ato.
A lot of the other equipment I already had from previous builds but will be upgrading some parts and pieces also
Skimmer:
Vertex alpha 250
Flow:
Fluval SP6
6 mp40wes two on each side and two on the back wall.
Lighting:
6 radion gen3
2 54w ati blue plus
2 54w ati coral plus
Doser:
2 part and mag with a bubble magus dosing pump. If I need more Ill end up putting a calcium reactor online as well.
Other Equipment:
-Full apex with Temperature, PH probes
-2 500W Finnex Deluxe Titanium heaters
-Tunze 3155 ato
-Kessil 160we Tuna sun
Rock Sand:
- 135lbs total of Dry Sand (75lbs of Tropic Eden Reefflakes and 60lbs of Miniflakes)
- Minimalist rock scape with lots of shelves.
The tank will be mostly SPS up top but will have some other nice pieces mixed in as well. Running Prodibio Bioptim and Biodigest since April 2017.
Parameters:
Alk 7.7-8.0
Cal 425-435
Mag 1350-1380
No3 5-15
Po4 .03-.05
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