Dre@m Reefer: in-wall 600g reef tank (optic clear glass)

Dre@m_reefer · Nov 21, 2012

Hi everyone, please introduce me, I'm Irsan from indonesia, to be exact I lived in Jakarta the capital city.
I've been into this hobby for almost 7 years, I actually started from a fresh water planted tank (Amano's style).

After 2 years I got bored prunning those plant every single week, also due to the coming of my child I decided to
took a break a for a while. After a year or so, I decided to start again with my hobby, and this time I wanted it to be
a marine tank, with my first marine tank being a 100g tank, the second being a 400g tank.

earlier this year, I moved to a new home, so here again, another new build for me. This time I wanted it to be well planned,
well budgeted, and well executed. Learning from many sources such as Reef2reef and others forums, I embraced my self to
start this build project.

in short.... I hope you guys enjoy it, and I wish to share many information with others. :bigsmile:

Tank specs:

Main Tank: 200x120x75cm (height) front optic-clear glass In-Wall tank

Protein Skimmer: Super Reef Octopus XP8000 Ext + auto head cleaning

Calcium Reactor: 20x100cm w/ Eheim 1260 (27 Kg Media)

Wavemaker: 2 x Vortech MP60WES + 2 x Vortech MP40WES + RR Wavemaker Mark2 (from singapore)

Lighting:

3 x 400Watt Metal Halide with Lumenbright pendant/Lumatek dimmable ballast (front)
3 x Ecoray 112D Led (rear)
2 2 Kessill A350
4 x 39Watt T5HO (Ati aquablue specials)

Thunder Storm Simmulation: 4 x Profilux Simmu stick

Filtration:

Biopellet reactor
Carbon reactor
Rowaphos reactor

Sulphur Denitrator: 15x60 w/ aquabee 2000 (3kg media)

Return Pump: Reeflo Hammerhead Gold

Chiller: 1,5pk Adam Teknik Outdoor Chiller

Backup Chiller: 1pk Adam Teknik portable chiller

Controller:

GHL Profilux plus 3ex
SMS module
Profilux touch display
PH controller/monitor
Redox controller/monitor
Temp controller/monitor
Salinity controller/monitor

Dosing Pump: 2 x 4 channel GHL integrated dosing pump

ATO & AWC: GHL Profilux control with 2 sensor with dosing pump+selenoid

R.O System: 75Gallon/day

Power Backup: DIY Battery backup for Vortech MP60/40WES

Quarantine Tank : 60x45x25cm(height) - 3 units

Filtration:

Carbon Reactor â€“ used only when required
Ozone 200mg

Return Pump: Eheim Compact 5000+

Lighting: 3 x 54 watt Led

Protein Skimmer: BD 2000 Cone Skimmer

Air Pump: Eheim 400

ATO&AWC: Controller with Dosing Pump + Float Switch + Selenoid

I hope you enjoy my build and looking forward for any input and comment.........

best regards,
Irsan

Dre@m_reefer · Nov 21, 2012

so it all begins.......

It's all started from this.... (I decided to have my own fish room)

I'm using steel/concrete construction for my tank stand

Front wall finished

close up

The stand... soory for all the mess

Dre@m_reefer · Nov 21, 2012

After 2 months the aquarium guy came to build the main tank, it's a optic clear front, with normal glass on the other three sides (all used 19mm glass).

Glass was arrived early at 09.00am...... I'm so excited and it's feels like chrismast already.... (with comparison the front being normal glass and the rear being optic clear glass, can you spot the difference?)

Tank build continue......

Silicone glue ing process (this old man is the best tank builder in the city, not many builder could build as good as him)

Tank build finished in 3 days.

Dre@m_reefer · Nov 21, 2012

As for the front face panel, I go for minimalist and modern looks, build from lacquered wood, and high pressure laminating for a smooth finish.
Also this design had to go along with my other interior looks(composing mainly wood and white colour lacquered).

This is my rough sketch using adobe illustrator (im not good with 3D programs)

Finished face panel

schooleyosis · Nov 21, 2012

Wow!!! That looks incredible. Very good craftsmanship.

Dre@m_reefer · Nov 21, 2012

Here comes some of the equipments:

My Calcium reactor (locally build here, nicely build and proved by many here), I ordered special custom size for my tank, it's a 20x120cm(height) reactor.

comparison with my eldest daughter

close up

ca reactor pump

Lighting: Lumen bright mini wide + Reeflux 12k + Lumatek 400w dimmable ballast (bought it from fellow reefer here)

some old stock supplement

My salt stock - it's not always easy to get synthetic salt here, not to many retailer have it here, and when the did, it's always cost you more than in states/europe. So when they had clearance/sale I always bought few of it.

mud for my refugium

Dre@m_reefer · Nov 21, 2012

Rear view of main tank

Forgot to mentioned, I opted for coast to coast overflow, covered with black acrylic, with animal bean style overflow pipe.

That's all for tonight folks, looking forward for any opinions........ :angel:

schooleyosis · Nov 21, 2012

My dream build. You are truly an inspiration!

MarvinsReef · Nov 21, 2012

wOw! Following this one for sure.

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Dre@m_reefer · Nov 21, 2012

schooleyosis said:
Wow!!! That looks incredible. Very good craftsmanship.

Thx buddy, i'm quiet happy with the result. It does looks pretty good job for me.

Best regards,
Irsan

Dre@m_reefer · Nov 21, 2012

MarvinsReef said:
wOw! Following this one for sure.

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Hi MarvinReef, thank you for tagging along my build, it think it still a long way for being a decent reef tank.

Best regards,
Irsan

Dre@m_reefer · Nov 22, 2012

Next on sump.................

I decided to built my own sump, the sump dimension at 150x60x45(height)cm. will hold about 300 litres or 80g using 12mm glass.

finished sump

The way I glued it by using close injection method, it will give a better joint seam and also more professional looks (please forgive for my lack of neatness, as this this my first forray in building glass tank). :bigsmile:

Dre@m_reefer · Nov 22, 2012

Next I moved on into quarantine/frag tank built.

the glass just arrived, hand polished to reduced some cost, as I found it to be unecessary give it a machine polish.

glueing process...