EriksReptiles
Fishy Enthusiast
Hello,
As some of you might already know, I love clownfish. So I built a system dedicated to them. Here are the specs of this system:
- 6, 50 gallon display tanks
- 1, 125 gallon sump
- Tek, T5, 6 bulb fixtures (two are in use, 4 more will be coming)
- Barracuda return pump
- 3, 45 gallon brute trash cans (1 for RO, 1 for fresh saltwater, 1 for dirty saltwater)
- 1/2 HP Pacific Coast chiller
- 1, Vertex Alpha Cone 250 Skimmer (another one to be added soon along with Ozone)
- 3 Koralia 3's. I will be adding 3 more in the other tanks as needed and might bump it up to 2 koralia's per tank.
Current Live stock list:
- 2 pair of Platinum Clownfish
- 1 pair of Snowflake Clownfish
- 1 pair of Picassos (male grade A Picasso, female true perc)
- 1 pair of Picassos (male grade B Picasso, female true perc)
- 1 pair of flame hawks
- 3 sand sifting gobies
- 2 sand sifting star fish
- 1 small yellow tang
- 1 small kole tang
- 1 medium scopas tang
The tangs are used to help algae control until the system is fully established.
- I am still looking for 2 more pairs of Picassos or Snowflakes. As soon as they are found, the Grade B Picasso and female true perc will be sold.
I built all the stands from 2x4's, 4x4's, & 3/4" MDF. Then I painted primer on it and followed with 2 coats of heavy duty exterior paint. Once al the racks were in their final resting place. I used metal plates and attached them all together for stability.
Since all the tanks needed two holes drilled in them, I opted to hire someone so that I didn't have to do it myself as I didn't have a place to do it or the time. So I went to Sunset Glass in Bellevue. They did an amazing job and didn't crack one tank!! I did have an extra hole drilled into the sump so that I could add another pump and hopefully plumb in a 150-200 gallon tank in the future..
The plumbing was a little bit of a battle, however after some thought it worked out perfectly. The return line is a 1.5" pipe that converts to 3/4" for every tanks return line. The overflows are 1" pipe that all go into 1.5" pipe and then to the sump.
Here are some pictures of the final product.
- This is the front side, in the family room.
- This is the back side, in the dinning room which is where my desk is. You can see the chiller on the bottom shelf.
- Here is the sump. I used silicone to glue in all the baffles that I had a local glass shop cut to size for me. There are a total of 4 compartments. The first is where my filter sock holder will go (it is being built), the second is holding my skimmer. It is big enough to hold a second skimmer when I get one. The third is my refugium, the fourth is just a zone to insure no micro bubbles get into the pump and for the ATO to sit in.
* EXCUSE all the wires for the lighting. These pictures were taken before I wired everything behind the tanks.. *
More to come.
Thanks Erik
As some of you might already know, I love clownfish. So I built a system dedicated to them. Here are the specs of this system:
- 6, 50 gallon display tanks
- 1, 125 gallon sump
- Tek, T5, 6 bulb fixtures (two are in use, 4 more will be coming)
- Barracuda return pump
- 3, 45 gallon brute trash cans (1 for RO, 1 for fresh saltwater, 1 for dirty saltwater)
- 1/2 HP Pacific Coast chiller
- 1, Vertex Alpha Cone 250 Skimmer (another one to be added soon along with Ozone)
- 3 Koralia 3's. I will be adding 3 more in the other tanks as needed and might bump it up to 2 koralia's per tank.
Current Live stock list:
- 2 pair of Platinum Clownfish
- 1 pair of Snowflake Clownfish
- 1 pair of Picassos (male grade A Picasso, female true perc)
- 1 pair of Picassos (male grade B Picasso, female true perc)
- 1 pair of flame hawks
- 3 sand sifting gobies
- 2 sand sifting star fish
- 1 small yellow tang
- 1 small kole tang
- 1 medium scopas tang
The tangs are used to help algae control until the system is fully established.
- I am still looking for 2 more pairs of Picassos or Snowflakes. As soon as they are found, the Grade B Picasso and female true perc will be sold.
I built all the stands from 2x4's, 4x4's, & 3/4" MDF. Then I painted primer on it and followed with 2 coats of heavy duty exterior paint. Once al the racks were in their final resting place. I used metal plates and attached them all together for stability.
Since all the tanks needed two holes drilled in them, I opted to hire someone so that I didn't have to do it myself as I didn't have a place to do it or the time. So I went to Sunset Glass in Bellevue. They did an amazing job and didn't crack one tank!! I did have an extra hole drilled into the sump so that I could add another pump and hopefully plumb in a 150-200 gallon tank in the future..
The plumbing was a little bit of a battle, however after some thought it worked out perfectly. The return line is a 1.5" pipe that converts to 3/4" for every tanks return line. The overflows are 1" pipe that all go into 1.5" pipe and then to the sump.
Here are some pictures of the final product.
- This is the front side, in the family room.
- This is the back side, in the dinning room which is where my desk is. You can see the chiller on the bottom shelf.
- Here is the sump. I used silicone to glue in all the baffles that I had a local glass shop cut to size for me. There are a total of 4 compartments. The first is where my filter sock holder will go (it is being built), the second is holding my skimmer. It is big enough to hold a second skimmer when I get one. The third is my refugium, the fourth is just a zone to insure no micro bubbles get into the pump and for the ATO to sit in.
* EXCUSE all the wires for the lighting. These pictures were taken before I wired everything behind the tanks.. *
More to come.
Thanks Erik
