-=dieseldave=-
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So it is time for me to get off my bottom and get this project going. All the equipment and the tank I have had for about 6-9 months sitting around collecting dust. Everyone that visits always ask, “When are you going to set that thing up?” So this last week I have been busy and hope to have saltwater in the tank by the weekend. Let me describe some of the choices I have made.
The tank-
I was at a local shop and they had an Oceanic 175gal reef ready bow front. The rep from Oceanic was there and made me a deal I could not pass up on the stand, tank and cheesy hood. He threw in an AGA model 4 wet dry sump not my first choice of a setup but it was a good deal so I took it. Overall thinking about the tank and stand I would have rather gotten an Oceanic RR 210 brick style tank, oh well. The tank 175 does look pretty good though. I lined the bottom with starboard and placed silicon around the edges and on the bottom to avoid stuff collecting under it.
The layout-
I originally was going to place the sump and most of the equipment under the stand, and I built a little 4’ counter/cabinet to hold the chiller, light ballasts, controllers, and a 24’’X 20’’X 12’’ frag tank.
View attachment 12111
Last week I was looking how everything was going to go together, and it was going to be a tight fit, too tight to be fun to work on. So luckily the wall the tank was against the other side was the garage, even luckier it was my side of the garage and it had at least 4’ of wall space. So some holes went though the wall for hoses and electrical stuff, and wall-la the skimmer, sump, chiller and auto top-off magically appeared in the garage displacing my Pink Floyd The Wall movie poster. I’m sure I’ll find another place for it real soon.
View attachment 12114
Electrical-
I ran 3 X 20 amp circuits, one for Lighting, One for Heating and cooling, and one for everything else.
Equipment--
Brains -
1 X Aqua Controller III Pro, 2 X Direct connect 8’s, 2 X Direct connect 4 heavy duties, 2 X x10 modules and an alarm module.
Tunze 7095 controller
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Tunze Osmolator
Circulatory system –
2 X Tunze 6100’s main source of flow
4 X maxi jet 900’s to blow strait down at the corners on the outside of the over flows to blow things that may settle to the front of the tank where I can easily siphon them out.
1 X Eheim 1262 used for a return from the sump.
1 X Eheim 1260 used to supply the chiller.
Heating and cooling-
2 X 300watt pro-heat titanium heater
JBJ Arctica 1/3hp chiller
Filtration-
3 X 150 PhosBan reactors, two for rowaphos and one for carbon
2 X maxi jet 400’s to feed the reactors, one for the two phos reactors, and one for the carbon.
1 X Deltec ap701
View attachment 12113
225 pounds or BaseRock from ReeferRocks.com, Nice suff
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1 X Korallin 3002 reactor
Lighting-
1 X Sunlight supply 72’’ Maristar, contains 3 X 250 watt DE MH(bulbs, BLV 10k’s) and 4 X 36’’ T5 (bulbs, Blue +). Ballasts are all blue wave enclosures and contain m80 magnetic ballasts.
Moon light came on the Tunze 7095 controller
I’m sure I’m leaving a bit here and there out.
The tank-
I was at a local shop and they had an Oceanic 175gal reef ready bow front. The rep from Oceanic was there and made me a deal I could not pass up on the stand, tank and cheesy hood. He threw in an AGA model 4 wet dry sump not my first choice of a setup but it was a good deal so I took it. Overall thinking about the tank and stand I would have rather gotten an Oceanic RR 210 brick style tank, oh well. The tank 175 does look pretty good though. I lined the bottom with starboard and placed silicon around the edges and on the bottom to avoid stuff collecting under it.
The layout-
I originally was going to place the sump and most of the equipment under the stand, and I built a little 4’ counter/cabinet to hold the chiller, light ballasts, controllers, and a 24’’X 20’’X 12’’ frag tank.
View attachment 12111
Last week I was looking how everything was going to go together, and it was going to be a tight fit, too tight to be fun to work on. So luckily the wall the tank was against the other side was the garage, even luckier it was my side of the garage and it had at least 4’ of wall space. So some holes went though the wall for hoses and electrical stuff, and wall-la the skimmer, sump, chiller and auto top-off magically appeared in the garage displacing my Pink Floyd The Wall movie poster. I’m sure I’ll find another place for it real soon.
View attachment 12114
Electrical-
I ran 3 X 20 amp circuits, one for Lighting, One for Heating and cooling, and one for everything else.
Equipment--
Brains -
1 X Aqua Controller III Pro, 2 X Direct connect 8’s, 2 X Direct connect 4 heavy duties, 2 X x10 modules and an alarm module.
Tunze 7095 controller
View attachment 12112
Tunze Osmolator
Circulatory system –
2 X Tunze 6100’s main source of flow
4 X maxi jet 900’s to blow strait down at the corners on the outside of the over flows to blow things that may settle to the front of the tank where I can easily siphon them out.
1 X Eheim 1262 used for a return from the sump.
1 X Eheim 1260 used to supply the chiller.
Heating and cooling-
2 X 300watt pro-heat titanium heater
JBJ Arctica 1/3hp chiller
Filtration-
3 X 150 PhosBan reactors, two for rowaphos and one for carbon
2 X maxi jet 400’s to feed the reactors, one for the two phos reactors, and one for the carbon.
1 X Deltec ap701
View attachment 12113
225 pounds or BaseRock from ReeferRocks.com, Nice suff
View attachment 12115
1 X Korallin 3002 reactor
Lighting-
1 X Sunlight supply 72’’ Maristar, contains 3 X 250 watt DE MH(bulbs, BLV 10k’s) and 4 X 36’’ T5 (bulbs, Blue +). Ballasts are all blue wave enclosures and contain m80 magnetic ballasts.
Moon light came on the Tunze 7095 controller
I’m sure I’m leaving a bit here and there out.
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