Whole house reef project

[JeremyKnight]

Hello everyone, since we have moved in to our forever home I thought it would be a good thing to update the progress of the tank build.
The end game is a 1500 gallon ish plywood tank in what is now our formal dinning room that will be converted into a sitting area with the giant tank. I’m a carpenter by trade and have a pretty vast skill set so I’m confident that this tank will last a long long time.
The first step in the build is setting up the basement sump room where all the filtration will be, along with some grow out tanks, algae tanks and a place for me to hide from everyone lol.
The sump room is progressing with a 220 gallon sump, some diy filtration, a 90 gallon tank, a 20 gallon algae tank, a few other tanks that are empty. The protein skimmer is a Venturi type powered by the ever classy jeabo pump 5000. With all new 1” pipes and 1” mazzii Venturi. The return pump is also a jeabo pump 10000. I dose vodka 1ml 4x a day, vinegar 2ml 4x a day and h2o2 1ml 12x a day. I’m in the process of getting a Reef Pi built, its in the testing phase before it controls anything.

 

[mdb_talon]

Sounds awesome excited for further updates.

 

[JeremyKnight]

I have been working on the sump room the last few weeks. We got the drywall up and painted, did some organizing. Mounted the rodi in its new permanent location, and mounted a cabinet to store all the food and testing supplies and some other miscellaneous stuff. The next project is building something to mount the UV to and plumbing it up.

 

[Apollo7235]

I'd be interested to see the dining room where this monster will be!

Very neat idea. Looking forward to seeing more!

 

[JeremyKnight]

System is getting closer to where I’m wanting it. Slowly but surely.

 

[JeremyKnight]

It’s been a few years, but the whole house reef system is going.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

It’s been a few years, but the whole house reef system is going.

Loving your aquascape!

 

[JeremyKnight]

The display tank is starting to fill up and the frag tank is in play!

 

[JeremyKnight]

I'd be interested to see the dining room where this monster will be!

Very neat idea. Looking forward to seeing more!

It’s been a while but the tank is in!

 

[JeremyKnight]

Well December was rough, while adding a dosing system to my reefpi some wires touched and fried some electronics. Needless to say at this point in the game I’m looking into a more robust controller that is not a DIY project. It took some convincing but the wife is on board with a full hydros system to take the place of the ReefPi.

I started integrating the hydros into the system today and man is it crazy. The fish room looks like a plate of spaghetti with all the new wires being planned out before some wire management.

Also have the reefpi limping along to control what it can until the full hydros system is installed.