iantower
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- Joined
- Dec 9, 2010
- Location
- Sarnia, Ontario
Well the time has come! We moved into our new home about a year and a half ago and along came the renovations, a wedding and our first child... and now... well now it's time for the tank build, and to get my tank out of my unfinished basement.
This is going to be a slow process unless I find some time hidden away somewhere that I can use haha.
So the plans are to pick up my new starphire 93gal rimless cube tomorrow, and then try to figure out what I'm going to do. The cube is going to go in the living room on a matching stand and floating hood with wires and plumbing hidden through the wall and into the basement. From here the overflow from my display will gravity feed into my second display (my old display tank) that will be built into the wall downstairs. The overflow from here will go into the preformed pond (fuge) and then overflow into my 120gal sump before going back into the upstairs display.
The system will include the 93gal cube with 250W metal halide and 2 24W T5 super actinic and led moonlights. (DIY build)
The second display will have led module lighting and hold my Marine Betta and live feeder fish.
The sump will have an ATO from a 55gal rainbarrel and large quantity of live rock, a deep sand bed, an algae turf scrubber and protein scrubber, as well as all the other little things.
1st pic - Reef display location
2nd pic - future sump room, will be framed in with exhaust fan/dehumidifier.
3rd pic - old reef new Marine Betta display in wall tank (in the wall of the fish room).
I'll keep everyone involved in the sweat and tears as I go along with this!
Cheers!
This is going to be a slow process unless I find some time hidden away somewhere that I can use haha.
So the plans are to pick up my new starphire 93gal rimless cube tomorrow, and then try to figure out what I'm going to do. The cube is going to go in the living room on a matching stand and floating hood with wires and plumbing hidden through the wall and into the basement. From here the overflow from my display will gravity feed into my second display (my old display tank) that will be built into the wall downstairs. The overflow from here will go into the preformed pond (fuge) and then overflow into my 120gal sump before going back into the upstairs display.
The system will include the 93gal cube with 250W metal halide and 2 24W T5 super actinic and led moonlights. (DIY build)
The second display will have led module lighting and hold my Marine Betta and live feeder fish.
The sump will have an ATO from a 55gal rainbarrel and large quantity of live rock, a deep sand bed, an algae turf scrubber and protein scrubber, as well as all the other little things.
1st pic - Reef display location
2nd pic - future sump room, will be framed in with exhaust fan/dehumidifier.
3rd pic - old reef new Marine Betta display in wall tank (in the wall of the fish room).
I'll keep everyone involved in the sweat and tears as I go along with this!
Cheers!
I Love a good looking grown in tank. You have done well with this one and the swap might be tricky. If it was me, I would try to maybe use a bit of new rock mixed in with some of your show peices of rocks, and then whatever frags/corals you want that arent on a rock that works in new setup try to frag it off or break rock.
