Andrew's 180 Gallon Challenge

[Andrew.oh17]

New house = new tank. Upgraded from a 92 gallon corner tank to a 180 gallon 72lx24wx24h tank. Really excited to get it up and running. Stay tuned.

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New [more rocks in sump w/ fish]^

 

[glb]

Nice! Make sure to start a build thread so we can follow your progress!

 

[Andrew.oh17]

Added the stand last month. Rubbermaid sump is in the basement.

Finished filling and adding the fish that were at a friends house while we moved. Much more room for these tangs to swim!

Now time to add some coral!

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

So much room for activities!

 

[Andrew.oh17]

Here’s a better view of the fish in the tank. Looks bare without any coral.

 

[Andrew.oh17]

Just finished a canopy build - added T5 retro fit lighting to my Maxspect Razor light.

Still not much coral except for that lonely gorgonia.

 

[Andrew.oh17]

One of the oldest fish in my tank.

 

[PacoPetty]

Very nice!

 

[Andrew.oh17]

Feeding time!

#reef2reef, #worldwidecorals,#mywwccontest

 

[Andrew.oh17]

My Reeflo Swordtail stopped working this past weekend and I was lucky enough to quickly find one on eBay used. I took some time to re-plumb some of the lines going up to my DT upstairs so here's a quick photo of what I did.

In my previous tank I had a check valve that I used to stop any back flow in case of a power outage. Since I've upgraded to the 180 I've got an overflow and don't need to worry about it(as much)...so I removed the check valve. I didn't realize just how much flow I had been losing because of it. Excuse the mess in the above photo - I took this just before turning on the pump for the first time and did a lot of cleanup afterwards to get things back in order. The flow was so great that the return was overflowing my refugium and I had to quickly reroute it.

Next phase: setting up a manifold for the return(and returning all of the unused PVC)!

 

[Andrew.oh17]

Well, lots going on since my last post:

• new swordtail pump
• new frag tank
• new skimmer
• dedicated water changing area

I'll post some photos in the coming days, it's been a busy start to 2019!

 

[Andrew.oh17]

Here's a few recent photos from today. Experimenting with the camera.

 

[Andrew.oh17]

It's been awhile since I've posted some pictures - here's a long horned cowfish and fowleri tang we've had for about six months now!

The red algae is gone from the below picture(photo a few months old) - the next hurdle is an aiptasia infestation, but I've just received 13 berghia from Salty Underground and a filefish that I've added to our 180 DT, 55 gallon refugium, and the 60 gallon holding tank. We'll see how things shape up.