Hiro's 120 Upgrade

[HiroPro]

As I mentioned in another thread, I'm in the process of upgrading my 40 breeder to a 120. I actually bought the 120 over a year ago and had it in my garage. I meant to set it up right away but then I got laid off and couldn't afford to do so. So in the meantime, I converted my 40b to a reef. Well, after about 7 months of unemployment I finally found another job and could start my build.

I've been building this thing for what seems like forever! Ok, it's only been about a year but I've been piecing together equipment and building my own stand and canopy. I don't have a lot of spare time so it's taken a lot longer than I would have liked.

So on to the build....


Here's my equipment list:

120 AGA tank 48" x 24"x 24"
40 breeder sump
ATI Powermodule 8x54 T5 dimmable fixture
Reefbrite 48" LED Blue
Eheim 1262 return pump with a SeaSwirl on the return
3 Vortech MP40W ES powerheads with battery backup
Super Reef Octopus XP-2000 Cone Protein Skimmer
Korallin calcium reactor
RKE controller


More to come!

 

[HiroPro]

Here's the skined stand and the internal overflows removed. I'm going with an external bean overflow so I removed the internal AGA overflows and covered the holes.

 

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Here's are some pics of the completed stand and storage cabinets.

 

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Pic of stand and completed canopy:

Fans for cooling:

Controller for fans:

 

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Action shots over Ronnie, aka "Flamron", helping me cut the slot in the tank for the BeanAnimal external overlfow.

 

[ronnie]

Hey! I resemble that picture!

 

[HiroPro]

Here are some pics of the rock work I built. I used BRS shelf rock to build these towers:

 

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Here are some pics of the tank with the rock structures in place. The tank sat with the seed rock in it for about 6 weeks with lights out to cycle.


Pic before fill:

Pic with water and seed rock: