120g Craigslist tank restoration

Finally, I found a 120g for a used price $200.
She’s the ugliest most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on. I’m going to strip the two overflows, add a ghost overflow and oh so much more to get this one wet again. I decided to put my money towards reputable equipment, instead of the glass box. (Good timing considering frameless tanks are losing fashion, dang you Red Sea.)
My previous tank was a cadlight 60g and just a frameless beauty. That tank grew coral but limped by with basic equipment. (Lighting,Powerheads, manually dosing) Time to flourish and establish a low maintenance 120g for this reefer.


Today’s 120g specs!

Filtration
-6 stage RODI by Brs
-Skimmer Q3 DC by aquamaxx
-Avast marine spyglass reactor
-2 gallons of marine pure bio spheres
-bio pellets by ecobak
-Distilled Vinegar 30ml/day
-2 marine pure plates
-1 marine pure block
-1 xport Brick seeded with mb7 by brightwell
-1 liter of matrix by seachem
-aquascape made of pukani,staxx,fiji,caribsea
-Brs black media reactor
-Rox.8 Carbon daily
-Gfo by kolar labs

Supplements
- Alk,Ca,mag by ESV dosed hourly by KamoerRemote F4pro
-Fuel by seachem 20ml/daily

Equipment
-2 Hydra 32s by AI
-2 XF 350s by maxpect
-1 Return pump DCP15000 by Jebao

Plumbing
-1 modular marine overflow Bean animal with 1 1/4” drains
-2 returns 1 1/2 inches
-1 manifold powering 3 reactors and main return

Fish food
- Nori, LRS herbivoreLRS fish frenzy,krill,mysis,squid,brine shrimp,golden pearls,cyclops,calanus

Previous filtration methods no longer in use
-diy algae scrubber
-Gfo by rowaphos when needed
-co2 scrubber
-filter floss
-skimmer sn-143qp by skimZ
-High capacity GFO by BRS
-AF1 by aquamaxx
-nopox by Red Sea

Stocking list
-Hippo Tang
-Yellow Tang
-Tomini Tang
-Blunthead Wrasse
-Puddingwife Wrasse
-Canary Blenny
-Twinspot blenny
-Royal Gramma
-Mono
-Lyretail Anthias
-Blue Chromis
-Pair of Ocellaris Clowns
-Lamarck Angel
-Melanurus wrasse
margarita,trochus,Nass,Cerith
-Pencil & Pincushion Urchin

Here is how it looks now! 8/2022

Dual LowBoy Frag Build starts here pg. 34-

Build Thread - 120g Craigslist tank restoration

Finally, I found a 120g for a used price $200. She’s the ugliest most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on. I’m going to strip the two overflows, add a ghost overflow and oh so much more to get this one wet again. I decided to put my money towards reputable equipment, instead of the glass...

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DIY stand- https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/tank-stand-first-timer.681397/

Previous build thread https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/setting-up-new-60g-cube.335836/

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

SPAM

 

[Goaway]

I need to take some spam pics for here.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Wait, the recovering tank?

Yes these were pruned off a colony in desperate need of some tlc. It had been growing weird because it was down on the sand bed where my old wrasse would flip it around everyday.

 

[Goaway]

Hospital tank doing it's job. Things look good.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

I'm feeling the need to lick a hammer.

Just lost 3 heads in a torch AT&T moment .

 

[Goaway]

I miss having a nice sized hammer colony. The gold is sitting at 4 heads. Green tip is doing nothing. Mah.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Hospital tank doing it's job. Things look good.

Oh I misunderstood earlier. These are in the main display. The frag tank is still in the ugly phase so I pulled most of the corals out besides gsp and pocliipora

 

[NowGlazeIT]

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I'm feeling the need to lick a hammer.

Just lost 3 heads in a torch AT&T moment .

What’s an AT&T moment? Lot of lost coral this week. Sp lost his nepth. Earlier I lost a head off my octospawn trying to use bone cutters to frag it

 

[Sean Clark]

An AT&T moment is in your future. When it happens you will understand.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

An AT&T moment is in your future. When it happens you will understand.

Oh snap!

 

[Goaway]

An AT&T moment is in your future. When it happens you will understand.

AT&T means, reach out and touch someone. Well for some of our corals, it means "reach out and kill someone". Octospawn, frogspawn, torches, galaxia, some meaty corals will do this. I think it was you who had a coral eating another coral. So, there is that too.

But, Octospawn, torches really have that "reach out". They have insanely long stingers.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

What’s an AT&T moment? Lot of lost coral this week. Sp lost his nepth. Earlier I lost a head off my octospawn trying to use bone cutters to frag it

AT&T means, reach out and touch someone. Well for some of our corals, it means "reach out and kill someone". Octospawn, frogspawn, torches, galaxia, some meaty corals will do this. I think it was you who had a coral eating another coral. So, there is that too.

But, Octospawn, torches really have that "reach out". They have insanely long stingers.

Yeah. What she said.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

You giving it anything like MB7?

 

[NowGlazeIT]

You giving it anything like MB7?

Yeaaah buddy. Dosing all sorts of goodies. Prodibio for bacteria

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Took some carbon out today. It’s been overdue. I used the brs media reactor for extra carbon space when I did the flat worm exit last month. I normally wouldn’t place gfo or carbon in there, because it clogs so quickly. I did find a good use for it (SURFACE AREA!) after a little customizing to keep the flow wide open.

Using the sponges provided with the original design and carbon media, would drop the flow down significantly each week

Last pic is the flow one month into the new updates.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Frag tank care package is here man. 100 more plugs in perfect time to cure up with the rock bucket

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Took some carbon out today. It’s been overdue. I used the brs media reactor for extra carbon space when I did the flat worm exit last month. I normally wouldn’t place gfo or carbon in there, because it clogs so quickly. I did find a good use for it (SURFACE AREA!) after a little customizing to keep the flow wide open.

Using the sponges provided with the original design and carbon media, would drop the flow down significantly each week

Last pic is the flow one month into the new updates.

Why is the flow restricting so much on your reactor? Where is it drawing water from?

I draw in from my return manifold on one system, return chamber on the other. After 6 weeks, there is no discernible change in flow through either double stacks of carbon or double stack of GFO. What's getting in there to clog it in the first place?

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Why is the flow restricting so much on your reactor? Where is it drawing water from?

I draw in from my return manifold on one system, return chamber on the other. After 6 weeks, there is no discernible change in flow through either double stacks of carbon or double stack of GFO. What's getting in there to clog it in the first place?

The screens on the brs reactors are made of plastic with razor thin openings. I removed the top screen and the bottom has been bored out a bit to keep from building up so easily.
my manifold powers all the reactors. No filter sock or floss now so I gotta watch the flow on everything

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Bro straight up been watching your build for a minute being the creepy kid in the back of the classroom hahaha i even remember seeing the tank pick up its come along great bro awesome job man what frags you sending my way lol hahahaha