The wife wanted to kill me 336 gallon reef

[SP Aquatics]

Well for all of those who remember, originally the tank was going to a 420 something gallon L shaped tank. This was the plan before we moved into the house and without furniture in the room seemed great. Fortunately we had a chance to spend a few months in the house before the tank and realized that the L would really take up to much room. So i knocked the L portion of the tank off and went with the following:
96"x30"x27"tall custom Sp Aquatics tank with external "Calfo" style overflow
60x20x20 custom SP Aquatics sump
Bubble King Supermarin 250
2-400watt Ice cap with 15k XM bulbs
2-250 watt ice cap with 15k XM bulbs
4-54watt T5 actinics
2- MP40 Vortechs with a 3rd to be added
Reeflo Snapper to be replaced with the Super Dart
Penductors on all returns
Currently 100mg ozone, but will come off once ZeoVit gets started

All of my old livestock thats been living in 2 100 gallon rubbermaid tubs for months and months

Pics are worth more than words so here it goes:
Construction

 

[SP Aquatics]

for first 2 shots i only had 2 of the 4 lights running, but you can see the progression from day one to day 3

wrangled all these guys up, there was 3 when i put them in several months ago

 

[SP Aquatics]

keeping it going with all the fish pics

 

[returnofsid]

Looks great and looks like all the livestock made the transition well!! I bet they're happy to have a new home!!!

 

[SP Aquatics]

i was a little worried about all the tangs getting along as the shoulder/dussemerri/yellow lived in one tank and the naso/powder lived in another. But put them all in at once and there wasnt a single squabble. I also went a clipped the barbs off each one just incase which will be nice come next tangs added.

 

[veralteaquatics]

Looks great!!! I love the island on the left of the tank, almost looks like a dog or eel head...Very cool!!!

 

[SP Aquatics]

yeah the island on the left side of the tank is 1 150lb man made rock with a massive cave inside it and a few small rocks thrown on top. By far my favorite rock until i need to move it again

 

[brady816]

tank is looking very nice for sure

 

[SP Aquatics]

well tank passed its true first test, we went out of town for over a week and had wifes sister watch it whos never had a tank before, and came home to everything still running and alive!

 

[SP Aquatics]

time for updates,

finally added the 4-48" t5 460 nm actinics, moon lights still need to be added.
Inherited a missile..... it holds 300 gallons, im going to use it for pre mixed salt, put it on top of 4' stand in garage so i can gravity feed the house on crawl space. Oh and the thing itself is almost 7' tall haha

Here you can see the water purification, and the feed that goes into the house, going to plumb the holding tank into this line and valve it so i can close off DI unit and feed salt into house all in same line.

ive been waiting for this guy to hook onto the rock so the wifey can get her bowl back...its been 2 months now, shes not happy hahaha

 

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[jezzeaepi]

Breathtaking!

 

[edwing206]

Nice tank! Even better M3!

 

[tat2z_21]

Gorgeous set up. Wish I could afford to make the old lady that mad. Absolutely stunning though.

 

[SP Aquatics]

Nice tank! Even better M3!

haha thanks for noticing, and the M3 was cheaper...

 

[edwing206]

haha thanks for noticing, and the M3 was cheaper...

That's what I figure. :lol:

 

[SP Aquatics]

they seem to work well as a pair, when the tank pisses me off, i get to take a nice drive, on the flip side, when i break stuff on the M, i have to sit in front of the tank to cool off... I just cross my fingers that one day they both dont go wrong, then what? haha

 

[Crystalclear125]

i was a little worried about all the tangs getting along as the shoulder/dussemerri/yellow lived in one tank and the naso/powder lived in another. But put them all in at once and there wasnt a single squabble. I also went a clipped the barbs off each one just incase which will be nice come next tangs added.

How do you go about clipping the barbs off? I have a yellow tang and will be adding a naso tang in about two months.

 

[edwing206]

they seem to work well as a pair, when the tank pisses me off, i get to take a nice drive, on the flip side, when i break stuff on the M, i have to sit in front of the tank to cool off... I just cross my fingers that one day they both dont go wrong, then what? haha

Then I think you're gonna have to buy a bike. :lol:

 

[SP Aquatics]

How do you go about clipping the barbs off? I have a yellow tang and will be adding a naso tang in about two months.

easiest with 2 people, one person sandwiches the tang between their hands firmly(dont smash the poor thing) other person takes toenail clippers and gets underneath the barb and clips it off. Dont try to clip it off with the barb flush against the tangs body, get the clippers underneath and gently pry the barb away from its body. This way should reduce the risk of cutting the tang.

The barbs are very very hard, so the bigger toenail clippers help.

Some tangs never grow the barb back, some do, never really can tell. Doesnt hurt the fish though so dont feel bad, just like our finger nails...just sharp and deadly to everything else.

I also dont typically cut naso type barbs, for one, they tend to be peaceful and 2nd, those barbs are such a prominent object on them, they just dont look right without.