fishdaddy!
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This thread has been a long time coming so I'm shorten the back story and this will be mostly a story moving forward from this point on. Growing up my parents had a freshwater tank and an outdoor koi pond. Once I moved out on my own I've at least 1 freshwater tank up and running and as many as 4 at one time. In 2021 I decided it was time to make the move to turn my 75 gallon into a salt tank with a 55 gallon sump and wanted it to stand out more than just a salt tank so I built a wall around it. That experience was short lived tho as I upgraded to a 125 gallon tank in July of 2022 so wall got restructured for the new setup installed. Here's how that setup looked....
In Dec 2023 I moved 10mins down the road from this location. With a open livingroom/kitchen layout what else do you do than build another wall where tank is seen from kitchen and livingroom....
From where the first picture was taken is looking through what use to be a pantry closest that I remodeled into my rodi filter system, mixed salt barrel and auto top off storage closest....
Rodi supply water is plumbed into cold water pipe under sink of bathroom that's beside storage closest and waste water is plumbed into drain pipe under sink. I just added the gravity fed ato last week.
EQUIPMENT:
5-stage Maxwater RODI system
Rubber-maid storage container for top off water
50 or 60gal drum for salt water for water changes
Ball float valve on drum, ato container and one is return chamber of sump
2 felt filter socks think I'm changing to mesh soon
Reef octo classic 150INT skimmer
Sicce Syncra SDC 6.0 return pump
Eheim heater (primary)
Fluval heater (backup)
Maxspect Jump LED light (sump)
Eshopps Eclipse L overflow box
Aqueous 1250 circulation pump
3 ViparSpectra 165 lights (Display)
LIVESTOCK:
2-clowns (first original fish in 75gal)
2-pj cardinals (made the move from old location)
Blue hippo (got feb. 3rd 2024)
Watchman goby (got about 2 weeks)
Cleaner shrimp (made the move from old location)
Duncan coral (got feb. 3rd 2024)
Some Zoa (got feb. 3rd 2024)
What I think is a green palythoa (got feb. 3rd 2024)
2- Rainbow bubble tips (got 1 two or three months ago and that one split in the first week or 2 of having it)
2- conch snails
10-15 various snails
Have a peppermint shrimp, Halloween hermit, turbo snail, tiger conch and a cuc package coming from reef cleaners suppose to ship out tomorrow.
What livestock I listed saying I got feb 3rd 2024 is the date of pictures I have of them not sure that the exact date I got those. Here's pictures from that day....
I'll get fresh pictures tomorrow as lights are out now and tomorrow happens to be a year after these pictures was taken just realized as I was posting these. I'll get pictures of full tank layout tomorrow as well. Thanks for having me here really been lurking on posts for the last few weeks again. Glad to finally decide to make a build thread to keep up with my growing tank super excited to compare pictures tomorrow. Ive got plenty of questions moving forward as im done looking at the same empty tank for the last year. Really want to make more head way this year as I live in a mountain county in Virginia closest pet store is 30mins to a petco closest non petco is over an hr away. Im going to a concert in Greensboro North Carolina first weekend of march and plan to hit up a couple reef shops ive found online in that area. Any tips, suggestions, questions are welcome as I'll answer to the best of my ability as I'm a newbie in my opinion it's the least I can do in return of all the questions I'll have for you guys and gals.
In Dec 2023 I moved 10mins down the road from this location. With a open livingroom/kitchen layout what else do you do than build another wall where tank is seen from kitchen and livingroom....
From where the first picture was taken is looking through what use to be a pantry closest that I remodeled into my rodi filter system, mixed salt barrel and auto top off storage closest....
Rodi supply water is plumbed into cold water pipe under sink of bathroom that's beside storage closest and waste water is plumbed into drain pipe under sink. I just added the gravity fed ato last week.
EQUIPMENT:
5-stage Maxwater RODI system
Rubber-maid storage container for top off water
50 or 60gal drum for salt water for water changes
Ball float valve on drum, ato container and one is return chamber of sump
2 felt filter socks think I'm changing to mesh soon
Reef octo classic 150INT skimmer
Sicce Syncra SDC 6.0 return pump
Eheim heater (primary)
Fluval heater (backup)
Maxspect Jump LED light (sump)
Eshopps Eclipse L overflow box
Aqueous 1250 circulation pump
3 ViparSpectra 165 lights (Display)
LIVESTOCK:
2-clowns (first original fish in 75gal)
2-pj cardinals (made the move from old location)
Blue hippo (got feb. 3rd 2024)
Watchman goby (got about 2 weeks)
Cleaner shrimp (made the move from old location)
Duncan coral (got feb. 3rd 2024)
Some Zoa (got feb. 3rd 2024)
What I think is a green palythoa (got feb. 3rd 2024)
2- Rainbow bubble tips (got 1 two or three months ago and that one split in the first week or 2 of having it)
2- conch snails
10-15 various snails
Have a peppermint shrimp, Halloween hermit, turbo snail, tiger conch and a cuc package coming from reef cleaners suppose to ship out tomorrow.
What livestock I listed saying I got feb 3rd 2024 is the date of pictures I have of them not sure that the exact date I got those. Here's pictures from that day....
I'll get fresh pictures tomorrow as lights are out now and tomorrow happens to be a year after these pictures was taken just realized as I was posting these. I'll get pictures of full tank layout tomorrow as well. Thanks for having me here really been lurking on posts for the last few weeks again. Glad to finally decide to make a build thread to keep up with my growing tank super excited to compare pictures tomorrow. Ive got plenty of questions moving forward as im done looking at the same empty tank for the last year. Really want to make more head way this year as I live in a mountain county in Virginia closest pet store is 30mins to a petco closest non petco is over an hr away. Im going to a concert in Greensboro North Carolina first weekend of march and plan to hit up a couple reef shops ive found online in that area. Any tips, suggestions, questions are welcome as I'll answer to the best of my ability as I'm a newbie in my opinion it's the least I can do in return of all the questions I'll have for you guys and gals.
