Isletime
New Member
So Just my 2nd post on R2R and I'm starting my build thread. I'm a long time lurker and up till now I have been maintaining a 30G AIO for the past 3 years. Time to step up my game and empty my wallet.
This build has been in the planning stages for about a year. I considered a dozen different tanks and sizes and ultimately decided to go with a custom 100G build from Reef Savvy. Included with the tank is a custom glass-holes 1500gph overflow. My understanding is that right now this overflow is only available through a tank purchase with Reef Savvy. The overflow is 24" long and about 1.5" deep. The tank finally showed up last week and I've spent the weekend doing plumbing, a leak test, etc.
One of my primary goals with this build was to reduce the weekly maintenance, primarily water changes. I take my water changes seriously and I rarely miss a week of doing a 12-15% water change on my 30G tank. Keeping up with this on a larger tank was one of the largest concerns that delayed my move. I will be doing daily automated water changes with this new tank using a mixing station that I have built in my basement and a Litermeter 3 to do the water exchange. Right now I'm planning on exchanging 2-3 gallons per day with this setup. If there is interest I'll detail how all of this will work in a later post. I'll also be handling top-off with this same system.
Here is a picture of where the tank will be sitting. We put some ceramic tile in place to help keep the carpet from getting destroyed. That black circle towards the back is where the the Polyethylene RO tubing will go down into the basement for the water changes.
I'm at the stage of filling up the tank with salt water. My mixing station can only handle about 25G per day, so it's going to take a good part of this week to get the water to the point of doing some scaping. Hopefully by this time next week I'll have some rock in the tank!
For equipment I will be using 2 Radion Pro's for lighting along with 2 MP40's for water movement. The sump will be running a Reef Dynamics INS135E Protein Skimmer, along with a Carbon and GFO reactor from BRS. I had originally purchased an Eheim compact+ 2000 for the return pump, but I'm not sure it's going to be enough. I may have to upgrade to the 3000 before long. I also have an Apex Controller on my 30G that I will eventually transition over to the new tank.
Finally for rock I've purchased 100lbs of BRS Reef Saver dry rock. The rock has been "curing" in a brute with a couple of pieces of live rock from my 30G for the past 2.5 months and completed a nitrogen cycle quite some time ago. I'm hoping that this will speed up the cycle for the new tank!
Thanks for reading, and if you have any questions or suggestions let me know.
-Bill
This build has been in the planning stages for about a year. I considered a dozen different tanks and sizes and ultimately decided to go with a custom 100G build from Reef Savvy. Included with the tank is a custom glass-holes 1500gph overflow. My understanding is that right now this overflow is only available through a tank purchase with Reef Savvy. The overflow is 24" long and about 1.5" deep. The tank finally showed up last week and I've spent the weekend doing plumbing, a leak test, etc.
One of my primary goals with this build was to reduce the weekly maintenance, primarily water changes. I take my water changes seriously and I rarely miss a week of doing a 12-15% water change on my 30G tank. Keeping up with this on a larger tank was one of the largest concerns that delayed my move. I will be doing daily automated water changes with this new tank using a mixing station that I have built in my basement and a Litermeter 3 to do the water exchange. Right now I'm planning on exchanging 2-3 gallons per day with this setup. If there is interest I'll detail how all of this will work in a later post. I'll also be handling top-off with this same system.
Here is a picture of where the tank will be sitting. We put some ceramic tile in place to help keep the carpet from getting destroyed. That black circle towards the back is where the the Polyethylene RO tubing will go down into the basement for the water changes.
I'm at the stage of filling up the tank with salt water. My mixing station can only handle about 25G per day, so it's going to take a good part of this week to get the water to the point of doing some scaping. Hopefully by this time next week I'll have some rock in the tank!
For equipment I will be using 2 Radion Pro's for lighting along with 2 MP40's for water movement. The sump will be running a Reef Dynamics INS135E Protein Skimmer, along with a Carbon and GFO reactor from BRS. I had originally purchased an Eheim compact+ 2000 for the return pump, but I'm not sure it's going to be enough. I may have to upgrade to the 3000 before long. I also have an Apex Controller on my 30G that I will eventually transition over to the new tank.
Finally for rock I've purchased 100lbs of BRS Reef Saver dry rock. The rock has been "curing" in a brute with a couple of pieces of live rock from my 30G for the past 2.5 months and completed a nitrogen cycle quite some time ago. I'm hoping that this will speed up the cycle for the new tank!
Thanks for reading, and if you have any questions or suggestions let me know.
-Bill
