FTS 01/14/2019
Hello Friends!
First I would like to say how awesome this site has been and how helpful everyone is.
Now to get to my tank build.
So I finally convinced the wife that it was time for me to get back into the hobby after a 10 year break from FOWLR tanks. The wife has never had a salt tank and gave me the go ahead.
I started my search on Craigslist and Facbook market place as I had no budget for a brand new tank with a 9 month old baby. After about 2 months and a few tanks falling through I finally found a great tank to get back into it with.
-100 gallon half round tank
-Stand
- sump, not sure what size
- older reef octopus skimmer that still works pretty good
-Rio 2100 pump rates at 692 gph
-Eheim heater
-Ranco ETC
- 2 powerheads, 1 mover and 1 hydro, one of them sounds terrible
- battery operated air pump
ALL FOR THE WOPPING TOTAL OF $150!!! I’m pretty sure that might constitute as stealing.
Here are the pics from pick up. THIS IS NOT MY HOUSE AND THIS IS NOT MY THERMOSTAT.
Brought it home and started scrubbing it down
Tested for leaks and she was all good. I didn’t like how the previous owner setup his tank so I scraped it all and restarted. Decided on the Herbie.
Next task was this morning I filled it up testing the pipes for any leaking and running everything to see how well it all worked. Everything seems good but I will eventually replace the pump for one with more output.
Last night I found another score while looking on Facebook and someone was selling a few tanks but didn’t mention anything about selling the rock below the tanks. I reached out and asked if he would sell any. He said he had 150#s and said he would sell for $1.25/#. Pretty good price but I got him down to $1 per pound and he threw in 4 buckets of sand, 2 buckets of fine and 2 buckets of a more heavier substrate.
Next step will be getting the rocks in a bleach bath and letting them sit for awhile, some are pretty coated in silt and salt.
TO DO LIST
- Cure rocks
- Buy RODI unit once one goes on sale
- Paint stand
- Get tank and stand setup in office
- Get salt, test kits, etc
Some input help
- looking at doing 2 Hydra Twenty six, will start with one and once I get the second will start with corals. Also looking at doing 2 kessils, any advice would be great
- Was looking at getting a few of the Red Sea test kits and a refractomiter. Will eventually get a few of the Hanna products.
Later on dreams
- Fish List
- 2 clowns
- goby/shrimp pair
- Kole tang
- ruby red head wrasse
- 4-6 pj or bangaii cardinal
- foxface (maybe)
- any other fish you think would be a great addition would be awesome!
- Coral
- Obsessed with zoas as of lately so I want to have a few rocks in my sand for those. If I put them in my main structure will it completely take the space over?
- some lps not sure what yet
- potentially sps but later on down the road.
Thanks for looking!! This build is going to be a slow and steady process.
Hello Friends!
First I would like to say how awesome this site has been and how helpful everyone is.
Now to get to my tank build.
So I finally convinced the wife that it was time for me to get back into the hobby after a 10 year break from FOWLR tanks. The wife has never had a salt tank and gave me the go ahead.
I started my search on Craigslist and Facbook market place as I had no budget for a brand new tank with a 9 month old baby. After about 2 months and a few tanks falling through I finally found a great tank to get back into it with.
-100 gallon half round tank
-Stand
- sump, not sure what size
- older reef octopus skimmer that still works pretty good
-Rio 2100 pump rates at 692 gph
-Eheim heater
-Ranco ETC
- 2 powerheads, 1 mover and 1 hydro, one of them sounds terrible
- battery operated air pump
ALL FOR THE WOPPING TOTAL OF $150!!! I’m pretty sure that might constitute as stealing.
Here are the pics from pick up. THIS IS NOT MY HOUSE AND THIS IS NOT MY THERMOSTAT.
Brought it home and started scrubbing it down
Tested for leaks and she was all good. I didn’t like how the previous owner setup his tank so I scraped it all and restarted. Decided on the Herbie.
Next task was this morning I filled it up testing the pipes for any leaking and running everything to see how well it all worked. Everything seems good but I will eventually replace the pump for one with more output.
Last night I found another score while looking on Facebook and someone was selling a few tanks but didn’t mention anything about selling the rock below the tanks. I reached out and asked if he would sell any. He said he had 150#s and said he would sell for $1.25/#. Pretty good price but I got him down to $1 per pound and he threw in 4 buckets of sand, 2 buckets of fine and 2 buckets of a more heavier substrate.
Next step will be getting the rocks in a bleach bath and letting them sit for awhile, some are pretty coated in silt and salt.
TO DO LIST
- Cure rocks
- Buy RODI unit once one goes on sale
- Paint stand
- Get tank and stand setup in office
- Get salt, test kits, etc
Some input help
- looking at doing 2 Hydra Twenty six, will start with one and once I get the second will start with corals. Also looking at doing 2 kessils, any advice would be great
- Was looking at getting a few of the Red Sea test kits and a refractomiter. Will eventually get a few of the Hanna products.
Later on dreams
- Fish List
- 2 clowns
- goby/shrimp pair
- Kole tang
- ruby red head wrasse
- 4-6 pj or bangaii cardinal
- foxface (maybe)
- any other fish you think would be a great addition would be awesome!
- Coral
- Obsessed with zoas as of lately so I want to have a few rocks in my sand for those. If I put them in my main structure will it completely take the space over?
- some lps not sure what yet
- potentially sps but later on down the road.
Thanks for looking!! This build is going to be a slow and steady process.
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