Hello all!
Long time lurker, and first time posting a build thread. This tank has been a long time coming. As a point of history, I’ve been in and out of the hobby for a long time. I’ve worked at LFS’s through high school and college and even worked at Marine Depot! Now that I’m done with grad school and in career mode, I finally have the time and resources to do the tank of my dreams!
We wanted to approach things conscientiously after having moved from an IM nuvo 10, to a red sea reefer 170, and then a temporary 40g breeder as we built our new home with a plan to build a larger SPS dominant tank with sump and work space in the basement.
We wanted to also approach quarantining seriously with this build, so we have started both a frag/coral quarantine as well as a good size fish quarantine.
Here is our breakdown so far of some of the equipment I can remember off the top of my head.
Display Tank:
150g 60x24x24 Custom Planet Aquarium tank with left sided overflow, elegance stand
Lighting:
3 x ecotech marine XR30 G4 Pro
Flow:
Neptune wav x 2
Maxspect gyre 350 x 1
Iwaki 55 RLT Japanese pump
Sump:
Trigger Systems 44g Triton Style sump
Lighting: Kessil H160 refugium light
Vertex 130 skimmer (will upgrade one day…)
Controllers:
Neptune Apex
EB bar x 2
DOS dosing pump x 3 dosing triton base methods
Tunze Osmolator
Fish Quarantine:
Red sea reefer 170 (~39 gallon tank)
Bubble magus curve 5 DC pump
Reef octopus DC pump
Kessil H80 refugium light
Trigger systems triton sump (30 gallons?)
Coral Quarantine
40 gallon breeder
Ecotech Marine XR30 Pro x 1
MP10
Tunze Nanostream x 2
Long time lurker, and first time posting a build thread. This tank has been a long time coming. As a point of history, I’ve been in and out of the hobby for a long time. I’ve worked at LFS’s through high school and college and even worked at Marine Depot! Now that I’m done with grad school and in career mode, I finally have the time and resources to do the tank of my dreams!
We wanted to approach things conscientiously after having moved from an IM nuvo 10, to a red sea reefer 170, and then a temporary 40g breeder as we built our new home with a plan to build a larger SPS dominant tank with sump and work space in the basement.
We wanted to also approach quarantining seriously with this build, so we have started both a frag/coral quarantine as well as a good size fish quarantine.
Here is our breakdown so far of some of the equipment I can remember off the top of my head.
Display Tank:
150g 60x24x24 Custom Planet Aquarium tank with left sided overflow, elegance stand
Lighting:
3 x ecotech marine XR30 G4 Pro
Flow:
Neptune wav x 2
Maxspect gyre 350 x 1
Iwaki 55 RLT Japanese pump
Sump:
Trigger Systems 44g Triton Style sump
Lighting: Kessil H160 refugium light
Vertex 130 skimmer (will upgrade one day…)
Controllers:
Neptune Apex
EB bar x 2
DOS dosing pump x 3 dosing triton base methods
Tunze Osmolator
Fish Quarantine:
Red sea reefer 170 (~39 gallon tank)
Bubble magus curve 5 DC pump
Reef octopus DC pump
Kessil H80 refugium light
Trigger systems triton sump (30 gallons?)
Coral Quarantine
40 gallon breeder
Ecotech Marine XR30 Pro x 1
MP10
Tunze Nanostream x 2
