JR's 170 rimless build

JR's Reef · Apr 14, 2011

Well after yrs of being in this hobby Ive out grown my current tanks so time for a upgrade. :nerd:
My current tanks are a 100g 60x18x22 and a 45cube 24x24x18. So after months of planning and deciding on what tank I wanted. OK on to the good stuff.:bigsmile:

equipment list
Lighting- 2 250w MH with 2 54w T5 not sure if Ill stick with this combo or not been a long time since Ive run MH
Return pump- Reeflo snapper
Powerheads 2 MP40Ws
Skimmer- ATB 840 will be upgrading soon
RX- Geo with aquariumplants reg

I ended up going with a 54Lx36wx20T starphire front and sides

All of the glass

The bottom and the back glass drilled

about 5mins after the tank being built

JR's Reef · Apr 14, 2011

The rocks that will be used. I ordered them from BRS back when they had a nice sale I ask for some lg pieces but didnt expect them to come in as big

This one is 18x17x18

all of them together I ordered 100pds and all I got was 5 rocks

JR's Reef · Apr 14, 2011

As it looks today been running for 2 weeks Fri. In this pic Ive got the screen top on it that I made using aquarium molding it can be removed

Dave3112 · Apr 14, 2011

Looks great Joey! I got the same rock from BRS and LOVE it! Did yours have a lot of dead organic matter in it? Mine was loaded with it!!

JR's Reef · Apr 14, 2011

Dave3112 said:
Looks great Joey! I got the same rock from BRS and LOVE it! Did yours have a lot of dead organic matter in it? Mine was loaded with it!!

Thanks Bro! Yes it was loaded I should washed it but didnt realize how much was in it until I added water to the tank and it stunk up the hole house then I knew that was a back idea. lol I run carbon to get the smell out and started up a skimmer and GFO and been good since. If I had to to do over I would of cycled it 1st

JR's Reef · Apr 14, 2011

Here is a old pic of one of the tanks this one will be replacing this is about 2yrs old. Ill get a updating pic as soon as I clean the glass

Current tank as of today sorry for the bad pic cant find my cam

nixer · Apr 14, 2011

brs did that to me also.
i got maybe 8 rocks in 200 lbs

JR's Reef · Apr 15, 2011

nixer said:
brs did that to me also.
i got maybe 8 rocks in 200 lbs

I got what I asked for so couldn't complain. I'm really happy with the rocks it made it real easy to do my scape

swannyson7 · Apr 15, 2011

I love deep tanks like this! Can we have an equipment list?

fsu1dolfan · Apr 15, 2011

Sweet looking build JR - So everything from the old tank is moving over to the new one?? Old tank was pretty sweet too!

JR's Reef · Apr 15, 2011

swannyson7 said:
I love deep tanks like this! Can we have an equipment list?

Thanks I updated 1st post with equip

fsu1dolfan said:
Sweet looking build JR - So everything from the old tank is moving over to the new one?? Old tank was pretty sweet too!

Thanks. Yes everything from old tank will be moved to new tank plus the stuff in my small cube that I setup.

RUGDOG · Apr 15, 2011

Looks great Joey! Wish I would have known to ask for large when I ordered mine. I really like not having to stack. I put 80 gallons of salt water in my nice new sump today.....gettin closer. might go ahead and fill it up tomorrow and get another 125-150 mixing in front of it.

RUGDOG · Apr 15, 2011

post some pics of the new floor! How did it turn out?

btkrausen · Apr 15, 2011

looks great man. Who built that tank for you? Isn't it heart breaking to put a top on a rimless tank, haha. I did it for mine, and while it still looked good, its just not the same.

JR's Reef · Apr 15, 2011

RUGDOG said:
Looks great Joey! Wish I would have known to ask for large when I ordered mine. I really like not having to stack. I put 80 gallons of salt water in my nice new sump today.....gettin closer. might go ahead and fill it up tomorrow and get another 125-150 mixing in front of it.

Thanks! If you need anything holler

RUGDOG said:
post some pics of the new floor! How did it turn out?

That ended up not making the list

I ended up having to work so only ended up getting 2 days off so had to put it on the back burner for a couple weeks. Im going to wait till I get other tanks out of the way decided that will make things easier

btkrausen said:
looks great man. Who built that tank for you? Isn't it heart breaking to put a top on a rimless tank, haha. I did it for mine, and while it still looked good, its just not the same.

Tank,sumpand stand was hand built by me

Yeah it sucks but I like my fish to much. I can take if off to enjoy it