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Originally Posted by tang daddy (Post 918068)

Nice work guys, can't wait to see this up and running. Plus 2 on a custom sump, like how you've set up ato and dosing compartments in it aswell.

Out of curiousity what does a sump like this cost?

thanks man we love the sump and i could have went a bit more crazy but this is all i really needed for this setup :)

sump was about $300 and runs completely quiet and bubble free:)

ive done sumps that make this look basic and simple , some of the crazy designs we have came up with customers have kept me on my toes lol :)

more to come!!

ok time to get the water lines on the island and waterfall and to fill this with water and take it for a test drive:)

for the island we were going to use 1/4" tubing but after going through all the trouble to install it all even hooked up to a mag 9 couldn't push water through it , an option was to use a dosing pump but they don't have a lot of flow so....we had to go with a slightly larger tubing at 3/8" diameter

the lines are fed via a " tee " off the jebao 12000 and there are three lies in total for the island and one line for the water fall , this way by using a large return pump we had some extra umfff and set the flow rate properly:)

once the lines were figured out we used some small pieces of pukani to cover them up and then some fijicrete and sand to hide it and make it not so notciable:)

you can also get a better view of the epoxy basins we made for the island:)

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one line we decided to not have a basin and flows down into the water line:

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waterline neatly hidden down the backside of the island:)

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it works:)

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water in to see how the levels all lined up:)

video of the fill:

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pics:

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had to add a small piece to the waterfall as the drop to waterline was to much and created noisee and bubbles:)

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ok so fast forward through our cycle and we have a rough finished look , even a few first tester corals from our prop systems:)

light has now been mounted above and about this time hooked our doser to automate additives:)

we have been carbon dosing vinegar since the first day water was added and have had no measurable No3 or P04 and to this day am still on my first batch of gfo :)

gotta love nipping it in the butt right out the gate:)

tank is being dosed 40ml of %5 white vinegar throughout a 24 hr period:)

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pay no attention to the ugly koralias there are rplaced by 2 x jebao rw-4 shortly:)

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getting close to where we are today , tank still has a lot of corals to add but is coming along nicely :)

we will post our stocking plans here next for corals and fish

thanks for following!!

great job guys i love the look of that.

ok so stocking plans:)

we have quite an extensive collection of zoanthids so the idea is to populate the island right at the water line with all our collector zoanthids , some sps and a few other frags :)

below the waterfall and bottom section of the island will be mostly lps with a few zoanthids mixed in:)

fish/shrimp so far we have :

2 x clown gobys
2 x neon gobies
1 x sailfin blenny
1 x sunburst anthias
2 x cleaner shrimp
1 x halloween crab

we would like to still add:

more cleaner shrimp ( 2 more)
some more clown gobies ( 2 more )
my pair of trojan clownfish ive had for years
my citron goby

coral list so far that we have:

too many zoanthids to list lol ( 150+ types)
large golden torch ( 6 heads)
metallic green octospawn
metallic green wall hammer
black torch ( hehe )
green tip octospawn ( wall )
ausiie warpaint scolymia
dragon soul favia ( x 2 )
25 ultra florida rics ( 100 more coming !)
large green and white flower anemone
favias ( green/red, toxic, black eye favia )
white polyp toadstool
orange clove polyps
large acan lord ( red and blue)
4 x chalices ( tubbs alien eye , alien eye , meltdown , cotton candy )
large blastmussa colonie ( 40 heads-purple and green )
gorgonians ( ORA grube, purple frilly , corky etc)
NPS gorgonian - menella sp. ( red with yellow polyps)
golden scroll coral
yellow fiji leather
australian lobo ( very nice)
cluster of red mushrooms
green and teal symphyllia
joker australomussa ( green and purple )
colony of aussie duncans

sps:

RR red diablo
ponape birdsnest
birds of paradise
pink birdsnest
joe the coral
blue tenuis
tyree pink lemonade
bali green slimer
orange setosa
a few RR wilds as well :)

inverts :5" ultra tahitian clam from reefraft

quick wish list:

master scoly
some australian dendros
orange elegance
red or blue gigantea carpet anemone
rainbow chalice
some more RR sig sps
rainbow welsophyllia
rainbow australomussa

plus im sure a lot more:)

up next , pics on where we are today as well how it all looks now :)

stay tuned!!