Husker12181
Well-known member
Hey guys
This has been a long but very enjoyable process, My wonderful wife gave me a 75gal used setup for Christmas 2009, I loved that tank and needed to upgrade the tank to a 90g since it was bowing. As with all used tanks I spent the next 3 years upgrading this and changing that. I got to the point where it was no longer worth upgrading and started the long process of convincing my wife we needed to just get a whole new setup.
About a year later it had worked because she actually came to me while we where Christmas shopping last November 2013 and said lets talk to the guys at Ocean By Design and get a quote! Mike started out talking to me but soon learned that he should be talking to my wife about what SHE wanted in the tank. I got to thank Mike later because it worked and I picked up my fully custom Tank and sump in February 2014.
Thanks to Boeing for making sure I worked almost every weekend for the last four months it took me a long time to get everything together. As annoying as this was it gave me the chance to really think out how I wanted to put the tank together.
The tank is 48x36x20 Star-fire glass drilled for a closed loop. I decided to go closed loop because I never could get the flow I wanted with power-heads. I also decided to purchase a custom sump. I planned for this sump to have all the stuff I will eventually upgrade to anyways. It has a 10gal auto-top off reservoir, three dosing chambers, three reactors, and a huge skimmer. By getting all of it now it looks clean and I save money in the long run.
Here is the picture Mike from Ocean by Design took in his store.
Here is my stand I had a friend make it for me it is all steel and I painted it with black rust-oleum paint.
Here is the tank and sump in my house.
Here is my son "Helping".
Here is my finished plumbing. This was harder then I expected as I wanted to leave room for a future 20gal refugium/frag tank which I already have attached to my old tank.
This has been a long but very enjoyable process, My wonderful wife gave me a 75gal used setup for Christmas 2009, I loved that tank and needed to upgrade the tank to a 90g since it was bowing. As with all used tanks I spent the next 3 years upgrading this and changing that. I got to the point where it was no longer worth upgrading and started the long process of convincing my wife we needed to just get a whole new setup.
About a year later it had worked because she actually came to me while we where Christmas shopping last November 2013 and said lets talk to the guys at Ocean By Design and get a quote! Mike started out talking to me but soon learned that he should be talking to my wife about what SHE wanted in the tank. I got to thank Mike later because it worked and I picked up my fully custom Tank and sump in February 2014.
Thanks to Boeing for making sure I worked almost every weekend for the last four months it took me a long time to get everything together. As annoying as this was it gave me the chance to really think out how I wanted to put the tank together.
The tank is 48x36x20 Star-fire glass drilled for a closed loop. I decided to go closed loop because I never could get the flow I wanted with power-heads. I also decided to purchase a custom sump. I planned for this sump to have all the stuff I will eventually upgrade to anyways. It has a 10gal auto-top off reservoir, three dosing chambers, three reactors, and a huge skimmer. By getting all of it now it looks clean and I save money in the long run.
Here is the picture Mike from Ocean by Design took in his store.
Here is my stand I had a friend make it for me it is all steel and I painted it with black rust-oleum paint.
Here is the tank and sump in my house.
Here is my son "Helping".
Here is my finished plumbing. This was harder then I expected as I wanted to leave room for a future 20gal refugium/frag tank which I already have attached to my old tank.
