Teton mountain reef~ IM 200 Peninsula!

[mattgsa]

thanks man it's been a money pit and taking over a year and a half but we are all most done.
then I can start on the fun stuff, the actual tank build. :D

LOL, I know the feeling, my wife and I were remodeling the house for 5 years. Which lead us to buy this one brand new with now remodeling required.

 

[Devaji]

LOL, I know the feeling, my wife and I were remodeling the house for 5 years. Which lead us to buy this one brand new with now remodeling required.

I wanted to build but the GF did not. the cost to build around here is crazy heigh around 300-400 SQF
so this is what we did. its tirning out nice but man tons of work and $$ into it basically a brand new home.

 

[Tkipl]

Looking forward to seeing how the P650 comes along, great choice... looks like it'll be a long journey!

 

[Shaka_Reefer]

Great progress so far! Wish I got the 650 instead of the 500!

 

[Devaji]

Great progress so far! Wish I got the 650 instead of the 500!

yeah no matter how big you go you want bigger right.
the 500P is a nice tank tho got to big not to small but for me it was the 650P or a custom tank.

 

[Devaji]

Looking forward to seeing how the P650 comes along, great choice... looks like it'll be a long journey!

I have a lot of updating this thread to do. I am almost done with the reno as we have been at it 1.5 years now :0

 

[Nigel35]

awesome! please send the updates! Excited to see how this is going

 

[Devaji]

awesome! please send the updates! Excited to see how this is going

will do working like crazy trying to pass the 3 final inspections.. the electric guy in been a major pain...GRRRR

 

[atomic081]

Wow, as a customer home builder I'll give you a slow clap......impressive! Now on to the tank!

 

[Devaji]

Wow, as a customer home builder I'll give you a slow clap......impressive! Now on to the tank!

well shoot if I knew you where a builder I would have hired you. then you could have built a BIG plywood tank along with the Reno. lol

yes on to the tank.

 

[Maxx]

This is a lot of work just for a tank!

All jokes aside, you've done a great job on your house.
It will be worth it in the end.

Cant wait to see when you get to the tank build part of this.

I've never been to Wyoming, but it looks beautiful.
Wife would like to retire out to Wyoming, Montana, or Alaska...we'll see.

 

[this is me]

I ran a 20A dedicated line to the fish tank. more on that later.

Great job at building a new house. :D
If it’s not too late, you’ll want two circuit on the tank. Either 2x20A or 2x15A is better than a single circuit. Most likely you’ll have a GFCI somewhere(I hope). And these things sometime accidentally tripped. You don’t want your whole tank without power. If you have two circuits, you can split up the heaters, lights, pumps, etc so that the tank don’t completely shutdown during an accidental GFCI trip.

 

[SaltwaterSky]

Hi Deva,

Schuyler from Jackson/Alpine here. Crazy nice work you've been doing with the remodel and the tank room sounds amazing. Glad to see you made the switch to Victor/Driggs, hey it gets you a little closer to IF and Pocatello for livestock access. I am growing out a ton of colonies and am in the process of setting up a rubbermaid 50G frag tank system and a 90G Corner Bowfront display tank. One day in the future I'd love for you to swing by and I'll definitely save some nice frags for you as a tank-warming gift. Cheers man!

 

[Devaji]

Great job at building a new house. :D
If it’s not too late, you’ll want two circuit on the tank. Either 2x20A or 2x15A is better than a single circuit. Most likely you’ll have a GFCI somewhere(I hope). And these things sometime accidentally tripped. You don’t want your whole tank without power. If you have two circuits, you can split up the heaters, lights, pumps, etc so that the tank don’t completely shutdown during an accidental GFCI trip.

yup the tank has its own 20A circuit right next to another 20A so I should be good there.
I hear the GFCI trip from time to time. might witch it back out for a normal one the breaker is arch fault GFCI anyway. thoughts?

 

[Devaji]

Hi Deva,

Schuyler from Jackson/Alpine here. Crazy nice work you've been doing with the remodel and the tank room sounds amazing. Glad to see you made the switch to Victor/Driggs, hey it gets you a little closer to IF and Pocatello for livestock access. I am growing out a ton of colonies and am in the process of setting up a rubbermaid 50G frag tank system and a 90G Corner Bowfront display tank. One day in the future I'd love for you to swing by and I'll definitely save some nice frags for you as a tank-warming gift. Cheers man!

nice man! good to see a local on R2R. I love to geek out with fellow hobbyist not many in there parts. would love to see your set up and get some frags from you.

yeah IF.is not to far now :D I have gotten a few frags from epic corals in pocky nice shop.
cant wait to get a ton of LPS in this tank. I like em big and fluffy :)

 

[this is me]

yup the tank has its own 20A circuit right next to another 20A so I should be good there.
I hear the GFCI trip from time to time. might witch it back out for a normal one the breaker is arch fault GFCI anyway. thoughts?

That’s good. Never rely on a single circuit for the tank.
AFCI is arch fault. It’ll sense a hot wire that is over current. Depending on your state code, it is required in all bedrooms.
GFCI is ground fault and sense wet wire reducing the chance of shock.
You can get AFCI and GFCI combination breaker. This is what I’m using at the breaker box. I don’t use the GFCI outlet, that false trip quite often.

 

[Devaji]

That’s good. Never rely on a single circuit for the tank.
AFCI is arch fault. It’ll sense a hot wire that is over current. Depending on your state code, it is required in all bedrooms.
GFCI is ground fault and sense wet wire reducing the chance of shock.
You can get AFCI and GFCI combination breaker. This is what I’m using at the breaker box. I don’t use the GFCI outlet, that false trip quite often.

yeah I got a couple combo breakers in the box along with GFCI breakers i'll take a look and see whats I have on the fish tank circuit.

need to update with more pics too. just trying to move. I got the fiji cube RFA tank over now the 40br "holding" tank that turned in to a year + long hold.

 

[Devaji]

need to get us caught up to present day.

I dont know if you remember from the phot where we where taking out the floor. but you could see the basement "fish room" /mech room.

1st thing was to get this heavy old freezer out of there . yup took a concert saw to that.



next up to knock out the wall behind that to rebuild it so it would support the weight of the new floor above.

next up was to get some plumbing in there for a slop sink. you can see the lift station on the bottom left. we had to cut through the concrete to get the suck in.

I repurposed some real wood cabinets from the old kitchen and found a real cool cast iron sink at the restore.

 

[MERKEY]

Great story and thanks for the ride!

Can't wait to see it finished!!

 

[Devaji]

Great story and thanks for the ride!

Can't wait to see it finished!!

glad you are enjoying the journey. it's been one for sure. :D