Maac's 180ish gallon Dream Reef Savvy Tank

[Maacc]

This one is going to be slow in developing but I have my 45 jbj and 13.5 evo in the meantime. I will be selling the 45 once this is up and running.
I found an amazing deal on Craigslist for a 180 reef savvy, with stand, canopy, sump, protein skimmer, reef beeder photon v1, return pump rock and sand for under half of what the tank alone would be.
I have 90 pounds of acid washed, bleached pukani and shelf rock cooking. I also plan to incorporate my main structure from my 45 into the scape.
Eventually, the plan is for a geosreef dual chamber calcium reactor, a deltec skimmer, and a fuge with cheato, marine pure, and one of Turbo Aquatics either L2 or L4 turf scrubbers for main filtration with a carbon and gfo dual reactor for problems or emergencies.
I am going to try and go for photon v2's without T5 supplementation. The plan is for 4 24" fixtures perpendicular to the length of the tank.
Flow will be provided by 2 maxspect gyre 130's with advanced controller. I will also have 2 coral box quiet pumps.
The stock will be a transfer of everything in my 45 which is:
Melanurus wrasse
Possum wrasse
Solarensis wrasse
Yellow wrasse
Black oscellarus clown
Neon goby
Yellow watchman goby
Rainford goby
To the existing stock, I want to add:
Purple tang
Foxface
Small anthias school
Yellow headed jawfish
Lineatus wrasse
Exquisite wrasse
Flame wrasse

Current Stock List:
Bartlett anthias
4 Dispar anthias
3 Lyretail anthias
Sunburst anthias
Bluespotted watchman goby
3 rainford goby
2 neon goby
2 yellowhead jawfish
Firefish
Foxface
Kole tang
Blue Hippo tang
Orangespot rabbitfish
Bellus angel female
Frostbite clown
Black ocellaris clown
Pintail wrasse
Melanarus wrasse
Yellow wrasse
Moyeri leopard wrasse
Solarensis wrasse
Lineatus wrasse
Tanaka possum wrasse
Bluestreak Cleaner wrasse
I have a flame, crescent tail and exquisite on my wish list to cap off my fairy wrasse population.
I also want to try a copperband but I haven't had much luck. I am keeping my fingers crossed that a qt'd copperband and exquisite wrasse as coming from Humblefish soon.
Inverts:
3 sea cucumbers
3 blood shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
2 peppermint shrimp
hermits, blue leg, scarlett and mexican red leg
Trochus snails
dwarf ceriths
ceriths
nerites
nasarius
2 conch
tuxedo urchin
4 aquacultured tridacna maximas
Current Equipment List:
4 24" reefbreeder photon v2's
2 Maxspect gyre 250s
2 reefbreeder rp-26s
Clarisea 5000 filter roll with ebay fleece
Deltec 1660 skimmer
Turbo L4 algae turf scrubber
Viparspectra 300 watt fuge grow light
2 cobalt neotherm 150 watt heaters, I know it's small but I live between Ft Lauderdale and Miami, I doubt these things ever run lol.
2 jebao 10000 pumps, 1 return 1 manifold
2 kamoer peristaltic pumps, 1 for calrx and 1 for kalk stirrer
Avast K1 calc stirrer, hopefully early April according to BRS
Geosreef 612 calrx with 415 secondary reactor controlled by ph probe on apex
Apex 2016 with 2 EB32, and 1 EB 8

 

[Maacc]

Dimensions of the tank are 60"x30"x24". I have always liked the 5' tank size and I like the additional 6" of depth while keeping the height manageable.
This is my 45 with the rock structure and livestock transferring over

 

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[Maacc]

Rock rinsing currently -

 

[Maacc]

Update time, sorry it's been a while.

I got a phenomenal deal for tank, 48" reef breeder, reef octopus 3000, stand, sump, rock and canopy.

 

[Maacc]

Turns out the tank is a Reef Savvy! Low Iron glass on 3 sides

 

[Maacc]

Bad news, while working on dog damage on the stand, I discovered live termites. I have decided to pitch the stand and build out of 80/20.

 

[Maacc]

80/20 has arrived!

 

[Maacc]

Manifold dry fitting

 

[Maacc]

Managed to cut and get the stand together in about 6 hours

 

[Maacc]

Used 1/2 pvc for main and sump top. Stand is 43" tall for sump access.

 

[Maacc]

Made light rack height adjustable in the back by loosening 6 screws.

Dropping it to get it inside. I installed 3/4 starboard feet to make it easy to move before it's filled.

 

[Thle009]

Looking good.

 

[tj w]

I like it!

 

[Maacc]

Thanks, it's coming along. Here is the sump that came with the tank. 3/8 acrylic 36"x24"x24"

 

[Maacc]

Getting everything clean and inside

Building the manifold

 

[Maacc]

Leveling the stand 

Installing the lights on the light rack

 

[Maacc]

I replaced the bulkheads and bumped the return line to 1 1/2"

 

[Maacc]

Once that was done, it was time to move the tank inside

Then begins the brutal plumbing

 

[Maacc]

All 3 drain valves are accessible from the left side of the tank with the main full siphon plumbed in 45s.
My manifold will run a calcium reactor, an @Floyd R Turbo L4 scrubber, BRS dual reactor for problems, the 4th will allow me to pump out water for water changes with a quick connect hose. The end of the manifold will plumb into the filter sock to clean out the sump. I totally ripped the concept from @CJs Aquariums as a maintenance saver.