210g Dream Tank

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Starting a build for my 210g tank build, I've been planning on doing a build thread but I'm behind now so it's time to catch up!

Tank measures 72"x25"x25" custom built 3/4" glass starfire rimless

Had a friend custom build me an amazing stand.

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Re did my fireplace to match the tank stand and designed a floating canopy that lag bolts into the wall.
The skeleton is made of 1" aluminum t slot with a wooden trimmed out box to hide all the lighting and wires.

 

[RamsReef]

Looking good

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

The tank is lit by 4 Radion xr15 pros and 2 dual 80w hamilton razor t5ho retros.
All ati blue plus bulbs. (Minus the one I dropped and broke lol)

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Water testing the sump.
60" advanced acrylics PVC hybrid sump.
I like to call it the feambox for fake dream box!
These sumps are awesome I highly highly recommend them. Very well built!

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Daughter confirming that the sump fits like a glove!

 

[GatorScott]

Amazing! Such quality work on that stand!! Looking forward to this one!

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Tank all plumbed up, I've got severe OCD and I had setup and installed probably 100+ tanks so Ive learned a lot along the way!

Had to do red PVC to match the royal exclusiv skimmer and the red plastic welding on the sump.

The tank has a 1" full siphon drain and a 1" emergency drain.
1" return powered by a sicce syncra 5.0, these are my favorite pumps hands down. Very reliable and great warranty.

The center of the sump I put a sicce sycra 3.0 recirculating back the the refugium section to keep it clean.

 

[CoralWealth]

looks very very nice, following along

 

[virtual reality]

Wow, that's a nice looking setup. What are you doing for light in the cabinet?

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Got the beast of a tank on the stand with two guys.
Placed a the rocks and started filling her up!
Over the last 10 years I've been in the hobby I've hand picked and collected a bunch of very nice rock, majority of it being marshall island.

I just threw the rock in because some.of the pieces measure over 20" wide so I had to remove the canopy to get them in.
I designed the canopy so 4 bolts and two people it can easily be taken off.
Once the rocks are in I don't see very much need to remove the canopy, the gap between he tank and canopy measures 8" so it's enough room to move around.

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Wow, that's a nice looking setup. What are you doing for light in the cabinet?

The light is a current Marine led light I had laying around.

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Let the cycling begin!
V1 of the rocks, I re scaped them at least 25 times lol

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

After she was full of water

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Put together the electrical power center, I needed allot of plugs and don't like using alot of power strips.
Also uses Panduit wire duct to hide off the cords

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Cut down the ultra reef reactor I had down 3" so that it would fit in the last chamber of my sump.
They trickle over the top of the reactor and down the sides and I was worried that I would push it against the edge of the sump and flow water out of the sump.

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Refugium plant light came in from China
It only took 6 weeks lol

For now it's sitting on a panel of tempered glass but I'm going to build an acrylic arm for it eventually.

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

This may take a while.....

 

[AcroFarmerRWB]

Now we are caught up to today!
Christmas came early... Or late...?

Dastaco xtrema a1, I have an xtrema a4 on my frag system for about 8 months and love it so I got one for my display tank.
They are super easy to use and fine tune your levels all based on your alk readings.

 

[drcrook]

This looks awesome. Im going to be doing a full custom big 210 gallon cube very similar to yours. Can you talk about the equipment and your thoughts behind the configurations you chose? Budget isnt a problem for me either.