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Start this off by saying the wife wants to do new carpet and hard wood floors in the house/possibly sell. Since my current tank needs to be moved to accomplish this, she has determined fish tanks don’t need to be in the house and the garage is mine to do with as I please. I currently have a 40g setup and am setting up a 80g shallow in the garage.
Tank is 4’X2’X16” with a wood stand. Custom tank that has a top and bottom brace and a middle brace that I’m honestly not sure is needed. I’ll keep it there since it was made to have it but there’s plenty of rimless 80’s this same size.
The sump is a really old oceanic but it’ll get the job done. Only has two chambers, one for equipment and one for the return pump. I plan on using some very course aquamesh to divide the equipment area into two for chaeto and the skimmer.
The rock I’m using is a lot of the brs reefsaver and some old pukani that’s been in a brute “cycling” for a few months. Honestly just put it in changed the water a few times and then forgot about it.
For equipment I have two gyre pumps but with the tank being peninsula style I’ll only use one and the other as a back up, unless I put one on the overflow which could be possible I’m sure. I have the icecap battery backup as well. Filtration I’ll be using and older style reef octopus 110 internal protein skimmer and chaeto grown with a Kessil H160. Brs reactor for carbon and the return pump right now is a jebao 6500 that I got in a trade and will be used until I upgrade. The return manifold has three valves that will be used to power reactors or whatever I need. The manifold also has a fourth valve that will be used for when I plumb in a frag tank.
As for lighting I have a few options to go with. My current tank has a Reefbrite mh/led 250watt pendant over it and 2 Kessil a160’s but I’m currently having a heat issue that was combated last summer with a fan over the surface of the water but isn’t doing the job this summer. This tank will be in the garage and not the cooled house. I do have a broken chillier that I need to try to fix that could help with this issue. With that being said I have the 250watt reefbrite pendant, 48” 6 bulb t5, 2 older style hydra 52’s and 2 Kessil a160’s that I could put over this tank and am having a hard time deciding what to put over it. Also possibly looking into the aquatic life fixture if I sold something else.
Thank has been cycling for a few weeks now and the parameters are looking good. I’ll be adding fish at the end of the week with 10oz of dr. Tims one and only really only to help things go smoother. Once the fish are added i’ll of course get another bloom of algae and I think once the tank settles again I’ll then add the chaeto, can be convinced otherwise of this though. After a few weeks I’ll then add the lights to the tank with whatever I decide.
Sorry like I said tank has been setup awhile so heres a bombardment of photos to catch things up.
Tank is 4’X2’X16” with a wood stand. Custom tank that has a top and bottom brace and a middle brace that I’m honestly not sure is needed. I’ll keep it there since it was made to have it but there’s plenty of rimless 80’s this same size.
The sump is a really old oceanic but it’ll get the job done. Only has two chambers, one for equipment and one for the return pump. I plan on using some very course aquamesh to divide the equipment area into two for chaeto and the skimmer.
The rock I’m using is a lot of the brs reefsaver and some old pukani that’s been in a brute “cycling” for a few months. Honestly just put it in changed the water a few times and then forgot about it.
For equipment I have two gyre pumps but with the tank being peninsula style I’ll only use one and the other as a back up, unless I put one on the overflow which could be possible I’m sure. I have the icecap battery backup as well. Filtration I’ll be using and older style reef octopus 110 internal protein skimmer and chaeto grown with a Kessil H160. Brs reactor for carbon and the return pump right now is a jebao 6500 that I got in a trade and will be used until I upgrade. The return manifold has three valves that will be used to power reactors or whatever I need. The manifold also has a fourth valve that will be used for when I plumb in a frag tank.
As for lighting I have a few options to go with. My current tank has a Reefbrite mh/led 250watt pendant over it and 2 Kessil a160’s but I’m currently having a heat issue that was combated last summer with a fan over the surface of the water but isn’t doing the job this summer. This tank will be in the garage and not the cooled house. I do have a broken chillier that I need to try to fix that could help with this issue. With that being said I have the 250watt reefbrite pendant, 48” 6 bulb t5, 2 older style hydra 52’s and 2 Kessil a160’s that I could put over this tank and am having a hard time deciding what to put over it. Also possibly looking into the aquatic life fixture if I sold something else.
Thank has been cycling for a few weeks now and the parameters are looking good. I’ll be adding fish at the end of the week with 10oz of dr. Tims one and only really only to help things go smoother. Once the fish are added i’ll of course get another bloom of algae and I think once the tank settles again I’ll then add the chaeto, can be convinced otherwise of this though. After a few weeks I’ll then add the lights to the tank with whatever I decide.
Sorry like I said tank has been setup awhile so heres a bombardment of photos to catch things up.
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