Trent's Marinland 300DD Build with video

[TRENT]

Have had this up and running for a few months (5) but figured I would do somewhat of a build thread.

YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTskRigIH-0&list=UU3YBONQ5Hdxg5qDcUZnj7PA A friend came over and did up a little video. He has documented quite a few of my tanks. Thanks Tyler

Corals started to look pretty bad after a few weeks in the tank. I figured it was "new tank syndrome"? Tank was cycled for two months before switching my other tanks over to this one. All parameters have been spot on (Salifert test kits). Anyway corals are starting to come around and looking much better.

Tank
Marineland Starphire 300DD, stand and canopy. I ended up building a 10" riser so the stand was at a better viewing height.

Equipment
SRO 5000ext
2x MP60's and 1xMP40
3 IT2040 LED fixtures and 4 Retro fit T5"s (two Blue Plus and two Purple Plus)
Tunze ATO
Proflux Doser
Neptune Apex system (just got on Fusion, woo hoo!)

Livestock
SPS:
Greg Hiller Aquamarine Jewl
Black Magic Milli
Tyree Bali Tri Color
Upscales Microcadus
Tyree Pink Lemonade
Mattv Pink Lemonade
Greg Hiller Blueberry
Garf Purple Bonsai
KLR Starlight
RR Grape Juice
Greg Hiller Aqua Delight
Fantastic Frags Strawberry Short Cake
ORA Peralberry
RNJ Tricolor
Tyree Ponape Rainbow
4th of July MilliWestside Purplishous
Sunset Milli
Red Planet Milli
Acroproa Susharsonoi


Zoas:
Clarkatoas
Utter Chaos
Blue Hornets
King Midas
Orange BamBam
Pink Zippers
Sunny D's
Red Hornets
Rastas
Blue Tubs
God Of War
Stardust PE
Forbbidn Fruit
Tyree Arm's
Candy Apple Reds
Darth Maul
Lakers
Misc. Golden Basket Zoas


Wellsophillia
Scoly
ORA Goniopora
Few other that I can't think of because my head is hurting from thinking too much.

Livestock
Purple tang
Lemon Peel Tang
Snowflake Clowns
3 Bartlett's Anthias
2 Wrasses?
1 Cleaner Wrasse

and thats it for now........

 

[user 26995]

beautiful tank. thank you very much for sharing. gotta watch the video again.

 

[TRENT]

IPisces, thanks. It's defiantly going to be a work in progress. Hopefully in the next few months it fills in.

 

[kpiotrowski]

Yes, nice job! I actually seen your tank video on facebook today and wanted to ask what pump you are useing/flow rate through the sro5000. I have the same skimmer....and same style tank and have a mag 9.5 dialed back on that skimmer. I also have an swc extreme cone250 with two sicce psk1000 pumps and find the swc actually kickes butt on my sro. I'm kind of disapointed because the sro, as you know is way better quailty construction and want to dial it in better. link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwGMz6nkqc&list=UUP_0AzV8Tr4wOJbJ1Yzfu9A

yours seems to being producing better so any advice would be appreciated!

 

[TRENT]

Yes, nice job! I actually seen your tank video on facebook today and wanted to ask what pump you are useing/flow rate through the sro5000. I have the same skimmer....and same style tank and have a mag 9.5 dialed back on that skimmer. I also have an swc extreme cone250 with two sicce psk1000 pumps and find the swc actually kickes butt on my sro. I'm kind of disapointed because the sro, as you know is way better quailty construction and want to dial it in better. link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwGMz6nkqc&list=UUP_0AzV8Tr4wOJbJ1Yzfu9A

yours seems to being producing better so any advice would be appreciated!

Hello, the feed pump is a Tunze 1073.020 (max 634GPH 0 head). I have it wide open with 2' of hose and 8" of head. If I had to guess I would say it's running about 500GPH maybe a hair less. Hope that help. So far I have been VERY happy with this skimmer. fills once a week with some dark nasty skimmet.

I watched your video and loved it. I wish I had the room to add that much sump.

 

[kpiotrowski]

Thanks much, now I know I can try to dial my pump back even more, or even put a smaller one on.

 

[Da Kine]

You have a beautiful tank there!

 

[SantaMonica]

I thought I'd seen the vid before, but it was a new find. Nothing like some remote control.

 

[captain1]

Nice tank ..

 

[djurgens]

Very cool!

 

[conquerlove]

Dayuuum! Now that's what I call a fish tank. In fact, it's tanks like these that inspired me to get started with this in the first place. Thanks for such an informative video as well. Cheers!