kvosstra
Community Member
This tank has been up and running for a few years. When I was in the San Francisco Bay Area some 12 years ago and was moving to Philly, I made some friends and sent over corals to Philly, with the hope of continuing my addiction. 3 kids later, and various house moves and it is now time to really put a big tank into my home.
I have a nice 11 foot wall, that happens to have a room-divider wall (see pic) at one end. This will allow me to have two visible viewing panes, the left side and the front panel. I will partially go into the room-divider wall (but not too far, as its an old stone wall there).
The tank is by Miracles - its 10 feet long, 36 inches wide and 30 inches tall. External overflow is on the right side and drilled with three large holes. The plumbing will go through the floor and into the basement, where I will have some...but not a lot of room to set up the sump, skimmer, calcium addition, at least one, and probably two frag tanks.
Luckily, I have some extra space in my home and I have created a dedicated 2nd story room for quarantine - right now there are 2 x 20L, 2x40b, and 3x10. The 20's are housing three designer "nemo" clowns at the moment, who are through quarantine - and in copper is a royal gramma and a fairy wrasse. The 40 breeder is housing several large fish - with the bottom tank being copper, and the top tank being a clean tank - copper tanks are covered at all times (so are the clean tanks). The clean tanks will get General Cure after the 14 days in copper. If I get some more copper sensitive fish, I can do TTM in the 20L tanks.
The 3x 10g tanks are my berghia tanks - the middle houses aiptasia and the two side tanks have parents and growout.
A separate coral QT tank is up and running - (see pic) its a simple 30g - with the goal that it will allow for quarantine/inspection of new corals and probably house some variety of bubble nems.
There are quite a few larger coral colonies - though, with any big tank move, I am uncertain as to how many will make it fully intact. There are already many smaller frags to be mounted. Hopefully I can get some of these smaller frags to color up again in the coming months and they will make good trade pieces to help diversify the tank as it grows in.
All rock is being quarantined for 35 days. Rock will go from quarantine (currently all rock and corals are in 3x90 gallon tanks - each rock will be inspected and then manual removal/ - aiptasia killer added to clean the rock. Most likely, once I get the tank stable and lights up, controller back up, I will add 50+ berghia to the tank to hopefully attack the issue. I'd like to take pieces, one at a time, and add the berghia - but my basement just does not have the space to allow for this.
Goals for this week...finish wall demo - will add FRP board to the interior sections and create enough space so I can serve pumps on the right side of the tank.
Tank will have a single return pump - I think its a dart gold - and then at a minimum 2x mp40 and 2x mp60. Most likely these will be stacked with 40 over 60 on the back and front of the right side. They will run on an opposing pattern to create a gyre. I will likely add some sort of cross flow pump(s) at the back of the tank. Time will tell how well this works and what else I will need to move enough water.
Lighting is 10x AI52 Hd. I have some T5 lights sitting around and I'm likely to supplement with some blue+ from these as well.
Neptune Apex controller runs the system, with most modules. skimmer is an external reef octopus 8000. I think I need to replace the needlewheel pump or impeller - so that's TBD.
CA Rx is currently a very large Geo setup - I may supplement with dosing and/or Kalk as part of the topoff. This stuff all needs to be carefully arranged in my small basement space so that everything can be maintained easily.
Ok - first shots here are the old tank - quarantine room - and new space. More to come this week!
I have a nice 11 foot wall, that happens to have a room-divider wall (see pic) at one end. This will allow me to have two visible viewing panes, the left side and the front panel. I will partially go into the room-divider wall (but not too far, as its an old stone wall there).
The tank is by Miracles - its 10 feet long, 36 inches wide and 30 inches tall. External overflow is on the right side and drilled with three large holes. The plumbing will go through the floor and into the basement, where I will have some...but not a lot of room to set up the sump, skimmer, calcium addition, at least one, and probably two frag tanks.
Luckily, I have some extra space in my home and I have created a dedicated 2nd story room for quarantine - right now there are 2 x 20L, 2x40b, and 3x10. The 20's are housing three designer "nemo" clowns at the moment, who are through quarantine - and in copper is a royal gramma and a fairy wrasse. The 40 breeder is housing several large fish - with the bottom tank being copper, and the top tank being a clean tank - copper tanks are covered at all times (so are the clean tanks). The clean tanks will get General Cure after the 14 days in copper. If I get some more copper sensitive fish, I can do TTM in the 20L tanks.
The 3x 10g tanks are my berghia tanks - the middle houses aiptasia and the two side tanks have parents and growout.
A separate coral QT tank is up and running - (see pic) its a simple 30g - with the goal that it will allow for quarantine/inspection of new corals and probably house some variety of bubble nems.
There are quite a few larger coral colonies - though, with any big tank move, I am uncertain as to how many will make it fully intact. There are already many smaller frags to be mounted. Hopefully I can get some of these smaller frags to color up again in the coming months and they will make good trade pieces to help diversify the tank as it grows in.
All rock is being quarantined for 35 days. Rock will go from quarantine (currently all rock and corals are in 3x90 gallon tanks - each rock will be inspected and then manual removal/ - aiptasia killer added to clean the rock. Most likely, once I get the tank stable and lights up, controller back up, I will add 50+ berghia to the tank to hopefully attack the issue. I'd like to take pieces, one at a time, and add the berghia - but my basement just does not have the space to allow for this.
Goals for this week...finish wall demo - will add FRP board to the interior sections and create enough space so I can serve pumps on the right side of the tank.
Tank will have a single return pump - I think its a dart gold - and then at a minimum 2x mp40 and 2x mp60. Most likely these will be stacked with 40 over 60 on the back and front of the right side. They will run on an opposing pattern to create a gyre. I will likely add some sort of cross flow pump(s) at the back of the tank. Time will tell how well this works and what else I will need to move enough water.
Lighting is 10x AI52 Hd. I have some T5 lights sitting around and I'm likely to supplement with some blue+ from these as well.
Neptune Apex controller runs the system, with most modules. skimmer is an external reef octopus 8000. I think I need to replace the needlewheel pump or impeller - so that's TBD.
CA Rx is currently a very large Geo setup - I may supplement with dosing and/or Kalk as part of the topoff. This stuff all needs to be carefully arranged in my small basement space so that everything can be maintained easily.
Ok - first shots here are the old tank - quarantine room - and new space. More to come this week!
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