Island reef 360 view

[USN74NMCB]

Trying to start my build thread that started back in 2020 with my stand and a failed attempt to build my own aquarium do to flaw in the center of an acrylic panel and had a mess when i did the water test when it blew out an ince from being filled. After that i had acrylic creations build my tank that is 48 x 72 x 24 all inchs for a 360 gallon island tank viewable on all sides with a canterlever table off the one end

 

[KrisReef]

That's a big acrylic tank.
It's viewable 360 degrees, is it 360 gallons or?

Looks like a fun project with lots of room for reef life.

 

[USN74NMCB]

That's a big acrylic tank.
It's viewable 360 degrees, is it 360 gallons or?

Looks like a fun project with lots of room for reef life.

It is viewable on all sides and is 360 gallons

 

[USN74NMCB]

I started cycle april of 2024

 

[USN74NMCB]

This was october of 2024 after making new doors for around the sump to alow it to breath and not build humidity under stand

 

[USN74NMCB]

My mixing station setup is 2 100 gallon poly tanks

 

[USN74NMCB]

Thanksgiving night of 24 my sump sprung a leak and i couldn't find where so i built a nee plywood sump to replace a the acrylic on i had built prior

 

[USN74NMCB]

Currwntly everything is up and running with new sump inplace current stock list
4 clown
2 blue green chromis
Blue hippo tang
File fish
Watchman gobby
Pistol shrimp
4 pepermint shrimp
Skunk cleaner shrimp
Beaknose foxface
Kliniei butterfly
Copper bandded buterfly
Green toadstool
Hattian anenome

And fighting aptasia that has consumed tank while i was in ICU most of march of 25

 

[USN74NMCB]

Added one Australian stripe very small about an inch has grouped up with the 4 clowns swiming around and 6 nissarius snails

 

[Cheezeits]

That is a beast of a setup. Also kudo's for having 2 setbacks and still following the dream. Can't wait to see what this looks like with a few years of growth.

 

[USN74NMCB]

That is a beast of a setup. Also kudo's for having 2 setbacks and still following the dream. Can't wait to see what this looks like with a few years of growth.

Slow moving forward right now fightin aptasi all over once thats back in check then i can start some corals and been planing the 180 gallon freshwater tank change over to saltwater predotor tank i have in a wall

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Jumping in to follow along!

 

[BryanM]

Congrats!

 

[1ocean]

great job

 

[USN74NMCB]

Have added some cuc a kline butterfly and an Australian stripy

and printer some test racks white one is just master api and the red one is api master and reef

 

[JumboShrimp]

Very cool project-- it looks like you are picking up steam, now.

 

[USN74NMCB]

Very cool project-- it looks like you are picking up steam, now.

Yes slow and steady but already thinking about building a new sump out of plywood for the 180 wall tank that is freshwater currently. Will be my 180 predotor wall tank with some coral and lions. And im also thinking about building a plywood frag tank with QT tanks on the one end for new aditions to any of my systems. Yes being a feer junkie is a lifestyle

 

[USN74NMCB]

I know many don't like API test kits but in my area it's the only test kits readily available. So after a week of making multiple test stands to keep everything orginized and diffrent designs using parts of many other models in my 3D printer i came up with the following

I think it came out good and i can carry each one handed. This is a 7 vial test setup which is the master saltwater and reef test kits from API the ones in the plastic box

 

[JumboShrimp]

Really cool... I in no way have your skills.

 

[USN74NMCB]

Added 2 sand siffing starfish with 5 nassarious snails and 2 emerald crabs and a mini carpet anenome