This setup has been in process for over a year now and coincided with a job transfer with my company from Louisiana to Ohio. We moved from LA and finally got in a house in OH at the end of July 2017.
In Louisiana I had this 90 gallon setup.
Before being transferred I bought this Planet Aquariums 73 gallon rimless from a fellow forum member.
The first of many misfortunes happened when the movers both loading and unloading decided the this end up stickers were nonsense and proceeded to load the crate on the side that had the glass external overflow. It was not crated to be loaded in this manner and it therefore arrived broken. It then took 2 months of back and forth with the movers, relocation company and third party crate company before I received an acceptable settlement. They literally tried to limit my claim to $300 because they found a 75 gallon tank on petco’s website!
With my settlement in hand and trying to decide what to do my wife offered up a different spot in the house that would allow for a larger tank. I immediately took her up on the offer and began researching my options. I considered another custom, elos and redsea. I finally decided on the redsea 750xxl as they had recently come out and I liked the dimensions along with availability.
Then this showed up... a falling apart crate with a hole from a fork truck through the side of the crate! Awesome, this is my luck with shipping aquariums.
Upon un-crating the tank was actually fine, but the top of the stand (which is under the tank in the crate) was pretty much wrecked from the fork. The vendor was very helpful however redsea had no stock as (from what I was told) they had some flooding in there warehouse in Houston as it was during that massive hurricane last year.
So we waited... and sometime in November a new crate showed up. To my surprise they shipped several of the stand pieces along with an entire tank! I have since sold the other tank to recoup some costs of this build.
With the holidays and life carrying on I finally got the tank in the house stand assembled in February. I got it filled with saltwater and it’s been cycling since.
I had also decided that I wanted a basement sump. It took a few months to get the basement setup the way I wanted, but it looks like this now.
When first setup I had a reeflo pump but after 3 leaking seals and never actually having a leak free pump I swapped it out for an iwaki 70 with no mechanical seal. I’m glad I did.
I also went with the a t5 Kessil hybrid for lighting. Here’s the tank currently.
I’ll continue to update with more information about this setup, but wanted to get a first in show where it stands currently.
In Louisiana I had this 90 gallon setup.
Before being transferred I bought this Planet Aquariums 73 gallon rimless from a fellow forum member.
The first of many misfortunes happened when the movers both loading and unloading decided the this end up stickers were nonsense and proceeded to load the crate on the side that had the glass external overflow. It was not crated to be loaded in this manner and it therefore arrived broken. It then took 2 months of back and forth with the movers, relocation company and third party crate company before I received an acceptable settlement. They literally tried to limit my claim to $300 because they found a 75 gallon tank on petco’s website!
With my settlement in hand and trying to decide what to do my wife offered up a different spot in the house that would allow for a larger tank. I immediately took her up on the offer and began researching my options. I considered another custom, elos and redsea. I finally decided on the redsea 750xxl as they had recently come out and I liked the dimensions along with availability.
Then this showed up... a falling apart crate with a hole from a fork truck through the side of the crate! Awesome, this is my luck with shipping aquariums.
Upon un-crating the tank was actually fine, but the top of the stand (which is under the tank in the crate) was pretty much wrecked from the fork. The vendor was very helpful however redsea had no stock as (from what I was told) they had some flooding in there warehouse in Houston as it was during that massive hurricane last year.
So we waited... and sometime in November a new crate showed up. To my surprise they shipped several of the stand pieces along with an entire tank! I have since sold the other tank to recoup some costs of this build.
With the holidays and life carrying on I finally got the tank in the house stand assembled in February. I got it filled with saltwater and it’s been cycling since.
I had also decided that I wanted a basement sump. It took a few months to get the basement setup the way I wanted, but it looks like this now.
When first setup I had a reeflo pump but after 3 leaking seals and never actually having a leak free pump I swapped it out for an iwaki 70 with no mechanical seal. I’m glad I did.
I also went with the a t5 Kessil hybrid for lighting. Here’s the tank currently.
I’ll continue to update with more information about this setup, but wanted to get a first in show where it stands currently.
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