Hi,
I wanted to document/share my latest SPS adventure. I welcome any feedback (good or bad) and would love to use the vast experience of the reef2reef community to aide me in this endeavor.
I have been reefing for a while now and have had several builds. I am always learning, especially from my mistakes. The goal of this build is use my past experience to put the tank together in a way where equipment is easy to access, plumbing is functional, with room to grow (add equipment), wiring is clean/accessible and the aquascape is structured in a way that I have room for a lot of coral, shaded areas for lower light coral (chalices etc), a ton of flow and room for fish to swim.
Lets get started
The first thing I wanted to do was thank @Crystal Reef Aquatics for the awesome sump (more to come) and @Bulk Reef Supply for the great customer service and advice along the way. I must have had at least 5,589 BRS boxes delivered to my house over the last couple of months. I plan on following their BRS/WWC method/guidelines when setting up the tank and cycling it etc.
The tank is going into my home office (which I plan to redo as well). I had an opportunity to pick up this 150 gallon from an acquaintance. The tank was exactly what I wanted for the space I had, a custom built 150 gallon rimless (48LX30WX22.5H) with a coast to coast overflow. There was also a matching steel stand.
The only issue I had was the stand was so wide that it would not fit through my office door... This meant I would have to take off my office window and somehow lift this very heavy stand into the office from the outside. Although this was likely to be a major pain in the butt I felt it was worth it.
The first picture is of the tank when I bought it, before I brought it home.
Once it was in my garage, I cleaned it up a bit and added some paint. Next step was to prep my office.
I wanted to document/share my latest SPS adventure. I welcome any feedback (good or bad) and would love to use the vast experience of the reef2reef community to aide me in this endeavor.
I have been reefing for a while now and have had several builds. I am always learning, especially from my mistakes. The goal of this build is use my past experience to put the tank together in a way where equipment is easy to access, plumbing is functional, with room to grow (add equipment), wiring is clean/accessible and the aquascape is structured in a way that I have room for a lot of coral, shaded areas for lower light coral (chalices etc), a ton of flow and room for fish to swim.
Lets get started
The first thing I wanted to do was thank @Crystal Reef Aquatics for the awesome sump (more to come) and @Bulk Reef Supply for the great customer service and advice along the way. I must have had at least 5,589 BRS boxes delivered to my house over the last couple of months. I plan on following their BRS/WWC method/guidelines when setting up the tank and cycling it etc.The tank is going into my home office (which I plan to redo as well). I had an opportunity to pick up this 150 gallon from an acquaintance. The tank was exactly what I wanted for the space I had, a custom built 150 gallon rimless (48LX30WX22.5H) with a coast to coast overflow. There was also a matching steel stand.
The only issue I had was the stand was so wide that it would not fit through my office door... This meant I would have to take off my office window and somehow lift this very heavy stand into the office from the outside. Although this was likely to be a major pain in the butt I felt it was worth it.
The first picture is of the tank when I bought it, before I brought it home.
Once it was in my garage, I cleaned it up a bit and added some paint. Next step was to prep my office.
