300 DD build "finally"

[ibbennyb]

Well finally got the 300DD in progress.. New granite floor is down.. walls painted. electric is ran.. stand is in place... tank has been moved in... and plumbing is completed..


300DD 6' x 3' x 27"
main pump blueline 70
lifereef lf1-300 with 24" liferefugium
SRO-5000 ext
4 tunze 6100's and 1 6055
geo calcium reactor
tunze ATO with calcium dispenser.
two tunze wavebox's
3 lumenmax elite pendants 250w prolly gonna run 14k's
2 2 dual 80w t5 geissman fixtures
1/2 hp chiller...
240lbs of seaflor special grade reef sand..
picked up 37lbs of awesome shelf rock from critter...
and adding my rock from my current 225...


id put some pics but says files are too big dangit..

 

[ibbennyb]

ok heres the couple i was able to get compressed quick...

 

[JustinC]

Can't wait too see this! I have a 150 and would love to have the 300!


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[ibbennyb]

only 200 more lbs of sand to rinse... lol

 

[gmoney243]

Is 3' depth or height? If height ur gona need more than 250w mh. Cant wait.to.see more pics

 

[Dowtish]

It's 27" tall

3 250's and 4 T5's should be fine IMO. Benny is not a big SPS freak.

 

[ibbennyb]

from the reading ive done with these pendents and 250's people get par readings of around 250 on the sand. with it only being 27" deep.. minus sand bed which i believe is going to be about 4/5 inches... plus the height of the rock i have... there will be absolutely no problem having sps in this tank..

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[gmoney243]

Cool deal

 

[schooleyosis]

Awesome man! Can't wait to see the progress of this build. What does "DD" stand for?


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[DogueDeBordeaux]

which geo calcium reactor did you buy? I need one for my 300g dd

 

[bknapp]

Awesome man! Can't wait to see the progress of this build. What does "DD" stand for?

DD= Deep Dimensions

 

[shellynjason]

This is going to be an awesome tank - waiting patiently (not) for pictures.

 

[ibbennyb]

well ive got the sand completely rinsed and in the tank.. unpacked the light for the fuge...

got about 100 gallons of water mixing now.. trying to think how to scape this and have no idea. lol thinking about just doing a center island.. whos got ideas. lol

 

[ibbennyb]

which geo calcium reactor did you buy? I need one for my 300g dd

i have the geo 618 which is rated up to 350 gallons.. im moving it from my 225... ive seen people tell me they have a heavily stocked 400 with a 618 with no problems. if i have issues ill probably just add a second chamber..

 

[Dowtish]

Just dont do a rock wall. Try to not have any rock touching the glass anywhere. with 30" you have no excuse! LOL

 

[ibbennyb]

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here im working on the layout of the lights.. if you notice there is a groove between the wood.. which lines up perfect for the center of the metal halides.. what im gonna try doing is building something so that the pendents can slide left to right in that groove so i can focus the lights once installed...

 

[ibbennyb]

Just dont do a rock wall. Try to not have any rock touching the glass anywhere. with 30" you have no excuse! LOL

36 inches.. lol shhhhh no wall this time.. im honestly leaning towards a center island since the metal halides would be focised on it then..
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[ibbennyb]

well so far today im starting to remove some of the equipment from the 225 and giving it all a nice bath before it gets moved over to the 300. so far have cleaned up the tunxe calcium despensor and osmolator. waiting on two packages to come this week.. waiting for the third lumatec elite pendent. and i have an order of two new pc4's and rd-1 for the reef keeper elite.. so will have a total of 6 pc4's / 1 remote display / tunze pump control / sl1 with orp and ph... / net module.. and 5 port bus hub. otherwise.. once that gets here i have about another 100 gallons of water mixing right now.. just gotta start the move..


if anyone in the area wants a giant toadstool leather or kenya tree ill have plenty im not putting in the new tank.. so let me know. the toadstool leather is over a ft across..