Hi my names john and I'm a reefaholic.
Over the years, I've started collecting Zoas and had a dominated 50 gallon cube frag tank. I upgraded to a 90 gallon as a Xmas gift from my wife (thank you dearest!) and decided to make this reef zoa, chalice and Lps (echinatas, favias, and bowers/other acans).
So here's some details of the build. I did this one fast, usually I spend more time planning and procuring, but this one came together quick.
Got a tank, stand, sump and skimmer as a package from a reefer on San Diego. Ditched the sump and got another used one, more volume, fit the precision marine rl150 better and I made myself a chaeto compartment.
It's an oceanic tech tank, 48" x 18" x 24" or something like that, standard 90 with starfire front, and plastic eurobracing on top.
It had a canopy with t5s in it, but I ditched that since I want to do two ai sols and two 48" t5 retrofit tubes with kz Fiji purple. Hanging these from the ceiling so I can have an open top.
Did a herbie drain for the first time. Overflow is skinny, has 4 x 1" holes, two for returns and two for the herbie. Works real nice, silent. Return pump is underpowered, quiet one 3000 but it matches the drain well with no adjustment. Two flow accelerators as returns on 3/4" locline. For in tank flow, got an rw15 and put it on its lowest setting since this will be a relatively low flow tank for Zoas and chalices. Here it is after I set it up
The rockwork and the frag racks are a work in progress. Most of my corals are frags or small colonies, so I built ledges and caves, left an acrylic frag rack on the sand and another on the side with chalices growing out.
Over the years, I've started collecting Zoas and had a dominated 50 gallon cube frag tank. I upgraded to a 90 gallon as a Xmas gift from my wife (thank you dearest!) and decided to make this reef zoa, chalice and Lps (echinatas, favias, and bowers/other acans).
So here's some details of the build. I did this one fast, usually I spend more time planning and procuring, but this one came together quick.
Got a tank, stand, sump and skimmer as a package from a reefer on San Diego. Ditched the sump and got another used one, more volume, fit the precision marine rl150 better and I made myself a chaeto compartment.
It's an oceanic tech tank, 48" x 18" x 24" or something like that, standard 90 with starfire front, and plastic eurobracing on top.
It had a canopy with t5s in it, but I ditched that since I want to do two ai sols and two 48" t5 retrofit tubes with kz Fiji purple. Hanging these from the ceiling so I can have an open top.
Did a herbie drain for the first time. Overflow is skinny, has 4 x 1" holes, two for returns and two for the herbie. Works real nice, silent. Return pump is underpowered, quiet one 3000 but it matches the drain well with no adjustment. Two flow accelerators as returns on 3/4" locline. For in tank flow, got an rw15 and put it on its lowest setting since this will be a relatively low flow tank for Zoas and chalices. Here it is after I set it up
The rockwork and the frag racks are a work in progress. Most of my corals are frags or small colonies, so I built ledges and caves, left an acrylic frag rack on the sand and another on the side with chalices growing out.
