ZTC's Tall Cade 2200

[ztc]

Hey guys,

Starting a build thread for my new tank.

Want somewhere to track the progress over next few years

Currently been reefing on and off for 17 years (I’m early 30’s now).

A little bit about me, Scottish Born and raised, move to Australia in 2020 to Tasmania. Recently moved with the wife to Newcastle, Australia and bought the “forever” home…..

The forever home needs the dream reef.

Suspect the tank will be arriving this week,

Custom S3 Cade classic 2200 - 2200x800x800

86.6” L x 28” W x 31.5” H - Inhabitable display

Back chamber of display is gravity fed ATO

1250 litres display

330 US gallons display

SUMP - estimate 225 litres

Plan for the tank is to fill it with softies, large Angels and Tangs

Old Cade 600 frag in Tasmania

Fish QT set up in Garage:

I plan to quarantine everything with copper and prazi before adding to new tank

3ft x 2ft shallow aquarium (got it free from LFS)

1x300w heater (10+ years old)

2x UK hydro wave makers (10+ years old)

1x auto aqua ATO

Octo 110 skimmer

And full of rock from old tank which will be going into new Cade

Currently Housing

2x Clownfish - spawns of Satan

1x Very fat Tomini Tang

1x Magnificent Foxface

Will commence medication once New tank has started the cycling process as need somewhere for rock to go.

Coral QT:

Very poor DIY acrylic sheet condensation covers

Ended up getting nano Autoaqua ATO to feed Cade 600 gravity ATO, so I don’t have to fill each week

Cade 600 frag

Reefmatt 500 (had from old build)

Heater 2x 300w with INKBIRD temp control

2x ai Nero 3s

1x ai prime

New jebao Return pump

Currently full of softies, collector urchin, coral banded shrimp and cheato for new Cade 2200

Plan is to QT for 45 days at 27 degree Celsius

Thanks for looking, will update when new tank has arrived!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Following along!

 

[shadyraro]

My LFS has a Cade S3 2200 setup in store and it is HUGE lol.
Looking forward to following along with your build!

 

[ztc]

My LFS has a Cade S3 2200 setup in store and it is HUGE lol.
Looking forward to following along with your build!

I’m legit worried that it’s going to be too big, think ill need a step ladder lol

 

[Daniel Doherty]

Wow great setup. Please do a biotope! I’m dying for people to do them more often. Imagine a Red Sea biotope with a group of purple tangs, huge school of wreck anthias, magnificent foxface and Red Sea regal angel pair.
Or French Polynesian tank.
Whitetail tangs, group of scopas, hippo tang, pink anemone fish/ orange fin clarki, pair of longnose hawkfish…..
To me these would looks so good, and I’d love to see someone do them.

 

[ztc]

Tank is getting delivered today

 

[ztc]

Tank got delivered today.

First up was the stand, it came off the truck very easy, and rolled straight into the garage no issues.



Wifey with the stand in garage

Next up the aquarium, which was a total PITA.

Cade had made the pallet legs underneath the box 1cm to narrow resulting in the pallet jacket not being able to get under the box in the truck.
Therefore the delivery driver had to hammer and chisel the pallet legs completely off to get the pallet jack underneath….

But then the next obstacle. Driver couldn’t move it himself as too heavy lol

I had to help out



20 mins later it was in the garage!

Next problem arises…..
Pallet jack got stuck underneath the pallet leg that had to be smashed up to get it off the truck lol.

15 mins of chiseling pallet leg stump and wiggling the aquarium.

And it’s FINALLY inside the garage, on the floor

As you can see I’m pretty stoked.

As you can see, a lot of fortification in the back ATO due to the extra height

Lastly obligatory pic of my big baby Jett next to new tank

Iv seriously underestimated how big this tank is.

Next challenge, getting it into the house

Wish me luck!

 

[ztc]

Also. If anyone is wondering how heavy they crates are Incase they are going to get the 2200.

Delivery guy said 800kg combined

 

[ztc]

Picked up yesterday few fish to finish stocking the first round of fish for the Fish QT

Juvi Orange shoulder tang 2”
Baby convict tang 1”
Baby regal tang 1”
Small engineer goby 3”

They all went into QT of my current stock
5” Tomini tang
4” Magnificent Foxface
2 x clownfish




Also tided up room to which 2200 is going, planning on having it in place on the weekend.




It’ll be going between the bannister and the window

 

[ztc]

Fish QT up to 2ppm copper

Let 30 day count down begin!

 

[ztc]

She’s finally in place!!

It took 7 of us 90 minutes to get it in place.

Worse part was trying to get the tank
Through the door which has a tile step that is 820mm wide, when tank was 800mm wide

Moving it was horrendous, least it never has to move again!!!

 

[ztc]

Have learned the hard way, that 30+” deep tanks are a pita when drop things in back ATO chambers.
Had to get the wife to fish out spirit level




Slowly fill finally starting

 

[ztc]

Have all week off work with annual leave……

Hoping to have the tank cycling by Friday!

My 100GPD RODI is taking ages.

Purchased my OCTO 300 INT skimmer last year Black Friday sales, forgot how massive it really is lol




Today I installed skimmer, INKBIRD + 2x 500W aqua one titanium heaters, Vectra M2 return pump and AI blade refugium blade light.

Had to make sure the cables were tidy, if I don’t do it now, it’ll never get done ha

Below is a few sump pics as it’s dry











Side cabinet door holds the INK BIRD and varios skimmer controllers



The front door holds the Vectra M2 return pump controller

Below is the current water level.

 

[LgTas]

That's looking mint!

 

[parclife]

Mind is blown at the size!! Good luck and def following along

 

[ztc]

Mind is blown at the size!! Good luck and def following along

It’s slowly starting to hit me at how big it is, when it’s taking AGES to fill

 

[ztc]

Aquascaping 2/3rds finished,
Using aqua forest stone fix
It works, just taking ages to fully cure

Hope to have it in the tank tomorrow!

 

[ztc]

Slowly filling

 

[ztc]

Nothing exciting happening,

Cycle started yesterday,
60ml of DR Tim’s ammonia + 16oz One and only and half bottle of Fritz bacteria

Hoping it won’t be too long!

Fish QT finishes 30 days of copper in 2 days, then it will be transitioning to prazi for 2 doses

 

[ztc]

Been a few weeks,

Went on a cruise to Vanuatu and New Caledonia, done some snorkelling on there reef

Took a few iPhone pics

Reefs weren’t the most colourful but absolutely stacks of fish

Tank has finally cycled!
Parameters today were:

API ammonia 0ppm
Red Sea ammonia 0.00pm
Hanna p04 0.04ppm
Hanna no3 9.6ppm

All fish that have finish QT were moved to new system, can’t move coral from QT, still got to buy lights