Hey all,
I'm in the process of my biggest build yet. I bought a house in August and my wife let me take over the garage, which I've dubbed " The seashed" and it's housing my frag farm. About a year ago I decided to get a LLC and sell coral locally. I set up one 60g rr and sold coral out of a closet in my basement at the old house. It served its purpose and I was able to put those profits towards a much larger build which I started in September but is still in process. I'll post the pictures I've taken to today in this post and try to keep everyone updated as I get more done.
The tanks include:
-4-60g rimless seapora frag tanks
-a custom built 36x42x11 tank I found locally
-a 75g rr used for live rock
-a custom build 80g sump
Skimmer- asm g4
Lighting- 1 tank will have 2 maxspect r20r, 1-hybrid ai prime/t5, 3 tanks will have just t5s. The reasoning behind this is that I've been picking up stuff cheap along the way. Over time I'll switch to all radions or Phillips coral care lighting. These builds are expensive though and I'm limited to what I've profited over the last year.
Controllers-
Alktronic/dostronic/hydros (finally came in this week just in time!!!) This portion is the most exciting part to me. I was changing dosing constanly and had a few large alk swings kill a lot of coral in the past. When you add 30+ colonies to a system then take away coral when people buy them everyday I've found it extremely difficult to keep parameters and salinity consistant in the smaller system I used to have. Testing and dosing by hand daily will be a thing of the past. I even bought 2 ato's, one to refill saltwater after bagging and another to do the normal task.
From September to today I have insulated the garage, built stands, set the tanks, and ran 2-20amp circuits to the tanks. At this point I have 3 tanks running which houses my fish and some of the coral from my display at the old house my friends didn't have room for and a 75g with 200lbs of rock.
I'll update more in the coming days as I put together the electrical, controllers, and lighting in this weekend.. lucky for me a LFS not far away rents par meters.
The garage has CLUTTERED just ignore it, I needed the tanks in place so I know where I'll want the holding containers and cabinets to keep all the stuff tidy.
If anyone has ideas or sees something I've missed please please please let me know!!
I'm in the process of my biggest build yet. I bought a house in August and my wife let me take over the garage, which I've dubbed " The seashed" and it's housing my frag farm. About a year ago I decided to get a LLC and sell coral locally. I set up one 60g rr and sold coral out of a closet in my basement at the old house. It served its purpose and I was able to put those profits towards a much larger build which I started in September but is still in process. I'll post the pictures I've taken to today in this post and try to keep everyone updated as I get more done.
The tanks include:
-4-60g rimless seapora frag tanks
-a custom built 36x42x11 tank I found locally
-a 75g rr used for live rock
-a custom build 80g sump
Skimmer- asm g4
Lighting- 1 tank will have 2 maxspect r20r, 1-hybrid ai prime/t5, 3 tanks will have just t5s. The reasoning behind this is that I've been picking up stuff cheap along the way. Over time I'll switch to all radions or Phillips coral care lighting. These builds are expensive though and I'm limited to what I've profited over the last year.
Controllers-
Alktronic/dostronic/hydros (finally came in this week just in time!!!) This portion is the most exciting part to me. I was changing dosing constanly and had a few large alk swings kill a lot of coral in the past. When you add 30+ colonies to a system then take away coral when people buy them everyday I've found it extremely difficult to keep parameters and salinity consistant in the smaller system I used to have. Testing and dosing by hand daily will be a thing of the past. I even bought 2 ato's, one to refill saltwater after bagging and another to do the normal task.
From September to today I have insulated the garage, built stands, set the tanks, and ran 2-20amp circuits to the tanks. At this point I have 3 tanks running which houses my fish and some of the coral from my display at the old house my friends didn't have room for and a 75g with 200lbs of rock.
I'll update more in the coming days as I put together the electrical, controllers, and lighting in this weekend.. lucky for me a LFS not far away rents par meters.
The garage has CLUTTERED just ignore it, I needed the tanks in place so I know where I'll want the holding containers and cabinets to keep all the stuff tidy.
If anyone has ideas or sees something I've missed please please please let me know!!