675g Peninsula SPS Dominant Reef

[RacinJason]

Hello Everyone

I've been reefkeeping for over 20 years now, I've had my fair-share of mishaps (some my fault, some not) but the enjoyment has far outweighed the depression. My family and I moved from California to Texas about a year ago and I setup a 225g sps-reef almost immediately when we moved in. Its been growing out well but I've missed having a large tank so I pulled the trigger and ordered a new tank and stand from A.G.E. It will be ready in about 5 weeks, and in the meantime I will be removing a wall that divides our living and dining room, to make room for the system. There wasn't a convenient or inexpensive way to plumb the tank to a fishroom so everything, including water change station, will be under the display. Tank and system specs bellow.

A.G.E. 3/4" Glass tank, 1" PVC bottom, 2" steel bracing on top and bottom. - 103" X 42" X 36"
Advanced Acrylics Sump - 70" X 38" X 24"
Advanced Acrylics ATO/Water change tank - 16" X 38" X 24"
Lighting - Radion G4 Pro X 8
Skimmer - Octoput ELite 220 X 2
Flow - Maxspect Gyre 350 X 3, Tunze 6095 X 8
Octopus CR220 Calcium Reactor with 2 additional reactor chambers

 

[RacinJason]

Here are a few pictures of some of my other reef tanks from over the years

50g Cube

125g

300g

300g reboot

720g

 

[joseserrano]

Glad to see you going bigger than smaller.

 

[RacinJason]

Glad to see you going bigger than smaller.

thanks bud, looking forward to doing some trading

 

[mr.salty]

Brilliant dimensions for the new tank I am looking forward to seeing this come alive!

 

[Michael Naegeli]

Talk about an addict... geez, wicked sweet setups! Must have ridiculous coin invested... well spent!

 

[Hemmdog]

Excited to see this one!

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Cannot wait to see the build out and completed setup!!!

 

[RacinJason]

Thanks everyone....so @gcarroll , whats the over/under on my new tank having water in it before yours?

 

[RacinJason]

Little bit of progress, my stand is finished, going to pick it up on Tuesday. The wall where the tank is going is coming out on Monday, getting excited!

 

[RacinJason]

Started messing around with a Polylab Lens on my iPhone, a couple came out Ok, need to try it with a little less blue light

 

[124305]

Hangi marka resif tuzu you use?

 

[RacinJason]

which brand reef salt ?

I normally use Fritz but I'm going to start the new tank with ESV because I got a good deal on it. Both salt mixes have been very consistent and high quality in my experience

 

[RacinJason]

Wall is down, electrician coming on Wednesday to run a couple 20 amps.

 

[McPuff]

Ok. Following!

 

[RacinJason]

Electrical is run, stand is leveled and some of the canopy got done today.

 

[RacinJason]

I’m going to be utilizing 8 Tunze 6095’s for about half the flow in the tank but I didn’t want to have magnets all over the outside of the tank. I found some furniture grade pvc caps that were perfectly flat so I could use them for the Tunze mounts. Then I just popped apart the controllers so I could unplug the wire and run it through the pipes. I’m going to mount these to the braces that run across the top of the tank. With the water level a couple inches below the braces you should only see the vertical part of the PVC above the Tunze’s. Not all that pretty, but I like this more than having magnets and cords in the tank.

 

[RacinJason]

Made the light racks today. Nothing fancy, just pop riveted some aluminum together, The Radions will sit in the trays with some adhesive Velcro holding them in place.

 

[SeaDweller]

Awesome!

 

[Hallowhead]

As I scrolled through your pictures in the beginning my draw dropped more as I scrolled... I am following