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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbreef44" data-source="post: 8273747" data-attributes="member: 164223">Hey all,This is my first post on the forum. Long time follower. Lots of great information around here. My name is Jon. I hadn't been in the saltwater game for about 5 years. Moved a few years back. Got married, moved, whole nine yards. But the time had finally come to dive back into the hobby, back in the summer. I ordered a 72x30x27 aquarium from Crystal Dynamics back in mid June. Received it back in October. I put the tank in my basement. I wanted to run all the plumbing through my wall to the unfinished side. To really have a decent fish room to make the hobby more enjoyable and easier for maintenance. This is the space I started with:[ATTACH=full]1908178[/ATTACH]That was right after I painted the the entire room and redid all the flooring with vinyl plank flooring. Next was onto the stand build. I had to cut and then assemble everything in my basement since with the height I went with it was not going to fit through the door. Here is the stand fully built and in place. Built with mostly 2x4's and 3/4 hardwood plywood.[ATTACH=full]1908197[/ATTACH]Next was the large undertaking of the other side of the wall. I had to build the sink, run the plumbing for that, run a dedicated breaker to this wall. Installed FRP paneling for waterproofing. Many many hours involved.[ATTACH=full]1908200[/ATTACH]I was able to find a brand new LifeReef sump with refugium on Facebook marketplace and had the ATO reservoir made by Jeff after the fact, was able to get all that for a pretty good price.[ATTACH=full]1908204[/ATTACH]Everything sat like this for awhile until i finally planned out all my plumbing. After lots of debating and measuring and frequent orders from BRS and supplyhouse. It all turned out like this:[ATTACH=full]1908209[/ATTACH]I did also run to a Norwesco manufacturing warehouse that was a couple hours away and bought 2 105 gallon storage tanks for both RO and saltwater storage. And here it is with some added lights and most of my equipment mounted. Neptune, Maxspect xf350's, tunze ATO etc.[ATTACH=full]1908216[/ATTACH]Then lastly the difficulty of getting the tank down my basement stairs. I used a winch from the top of the stairs and lots of suction cups. And I decided to use all dry rock that I super glued all together. Here are those[ATTACH=full]1908232[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1908221[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1908224[/ATTACH]I used an aquaticlife t5 hybrid fixture. And will be installing 3 or 4 xr15's into the fixture. It has been cycling for about 3 and half weeks and currently just taking it easy and waiting on the water parameters to settle before I add a couple of fish. Didn't want to make this post too long since its my first time. I will try to update as I go with adding fish. And if anyone has any questions on anything I would be happy to answer! Thanks guys!</blockquote>

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