Starting the build thread - still in progress but here's where I'm at!
Upgrading from a 29g Biocube. Already outgrew it and while everything is growing and thriving, the glass has some clouding so it gives me a good excuse to upgrade. (My boyfriend said he knew it wouldn't be long )
Already purchased/have:
65g glass/Starphire front 36x18x24, corner overflow
2 Kessil A360NEs
Jebao DC6000 return
Reef Octopus 110-INT skimmer
ViaAqua Titanium, 300w
2 Jebao WP-10s
Tunze Osmolator Nano ATO
Apex & VDM
JBJ 1/15 chiller, maybe it can keep up!
Fuge light, using a 6500k LED corn bulb from eBay and cheap clip light lamp
Have a JBJ wavemaker kit and a Koralia 425 sitting around in case the WP-10s aren't enough though I'm sure they will be
Still need -
Sump, picking up 20g long tomorrow, then time to measure and get glass cut for baffles. Planning to put fuge on one side rather than in the middle, then tee off the return for flow to the fuge. Picked up a sock holder off eBay already.
Stand is being built, should have in the next week or two (I hope!)
Mounts for the Kessils, will most likely bend electrical conduit and spray it with black appliance paint
3/4" loc-line tee and 3/4-1/2" reducer so I can use my 24" side-outlet flow thing across the back (half pointing down along the rock wall in back, half across the water surface)
Egg crate for the bottom under the sand
More sand and live rock
A sheet of glass or acrylic for the top to keep the fish in and water-friendly cat out (will raise it 1/4" or so to help reduce condensation and help with gas exchange). Velcro under the feet so the cat doesn't kick it off.
That's pretty much it so far - it feels really close but it'll be longer than I want! I'm hiring the guys at SPS Coral to come and plumb it for me since I haven't done this before. Installing a manifold for further expansion if necessary!
Still not sure what's going to happen the day of transfer... I have a 10g tank I guess the livestock will go into while the old tank is broken down and new one is set up in its place. Live rock will go in buckets with saltwater to minimize die-off. Sand will be transferred and additional new sand added. Livestock currently is:
Royal Gramma, still young and smallish
Yellow watchman and his pistol shrimp buddy
2 peppermints
Assorted blue-leg hermits
3 nassarius, 3 astrea, 1 margarita, 3 trochus, a couple of stomatellas who will hopefully hide in the rocks and survive
3 duncans, a frogspawn, torch, and various zoa and SPS frags
I keep thinking I'm going to forget something critical... I'll post pics when there's something interesting to show.
Upgrading from a 29g Biocube. Already outgrew it and while everything is growing and thriving, the glass has some clouding so it gives me a good excuse to upgrade. (My boyfriend said he knew it wouldn't be long )
Already purchased/have:
65g glass/Starphire front 36x18x24, corner overflow
2 Kessil A360NEs
Jebao DC6000 return
Reef Octopus 110-INT skimmer
ViaAqua Titanium, 300w
2 Jebao WP-10s
Tunze Osmolator Nano ATO
Apex & VDM
JBJ 1/15 chiller, maybe it can keep up!
Fuge light, using a 6500k LED corn bulb from eBay and cheap clip light lamp
Have a JBJ wavemaker kit and a Koralia 425 sitting around in case the WP-10s aren't enough though I'm sure they will be
Still need -
Sump, picking up 20g long tomorrow, then time to measure and get glass cut for baffles. Planning to put fuge on one side rather than in the middle, then tee off the return for flow to the fuge. Picked up a sock holder off eBay already.
Stand is being built, should have in the next week or two (I hope!)
Mounts for the Kessils, will most likely bend electrical conduit and spray it with black appliance paint
3/4" loc-line tee and 3/4-1/2" reducer so I can use my 24" side-outlet flow thing across the back (half pointing down along the rock wall in back, half across the water surface)
Egg crate for the bottom under the sand
More sand and live rock
A sheet of glass or acrylic for the top to keep the fish in and water-friendly cat out (will raise it 1/4" or so to help reduce condensation and help with gas exchange). Velcro under the feet so the cat doesn't kick it off.
That's pretty much it so far - it feels really close but it'll be longer than I want! I'm hiring the guys at SPS Coral to come and plumb it for me since I haven't done this before. Installing a manifold for further expansion if necessary!
Still not sure what's going to happen the day of transfer... I have a 10g tank I guess the livestock will go into while the old tank is broken down and new one is set up in its place. Live rock will go in buckets with saltwater to minimize die-off. Sand will be transferred and additional new sand added. Livestock currently is:
Royal Gramma, still young and smallish
Yellow watchman and his pistol shrimp buddy
2 peppermints
Assorted blue-leg hermits
3 nassarius, 3 astrea, 1 margarita, 3 trochus, a couple of stomatellas who will hopefully hide in the rocks and survive
3 duncans, a frogspawn, torch, and various zoa and SPS frags
I keep thinking I'm going to forget something critical... I'll post pics when there's something interesting to show.