Bignoses' 90G sps reef

[bignose]

I'm currently building a setup at my new house. I will be using everything from my old setup but will be built totally different. My display will be in my basement and the equipment will be in the storage room. I have finished the basement to the point where I can start the build.

The equipment I have is:
90G display 48"x24"x18"
50G sump 48"x16"x15"
Sunlight Supply Tek5 6x54w T5
Euroreef RS135
2-Koralia 4
2-Koralia 3
Quiet one 5000
Vertex PuraTek 100 GPD RO/DI

Live stock:
120pnds of LR
Yellow Tang
Green Chromis
Midas Blenny
3 PomPom crabs
many different kinds of soft and hard corals

All my livestock is currently in a 100G poly tub I borrowed from The Codfather. The tub is in my good friend Oshiney's storage room.

Display


The stand is a design from reefcentral that kien told me about.
Started from this pile of wood


Originally I had a taller stand for the sump but decided I would keep it lower just to be safe I had room for the plumbing



Display stand


Here is the poly tub with all the livestock



This is Oshiney's 15G nano which has my midas blenny. I wish my first tank was this nice. Good work oshiney

[bignose]

update March 16th.

I put the tank on the stand and figured out how to plumb everything.


This is the first time I have plumbed through a wall so I was winging everything. I plumbed the drains and returns first.


Then I plumbed the other side of the wall. I also plumbed in the RO/DI unit and mounted a couple of powerbars.


This is where I am now.

[kien]

wow, that looks so neat and tidy, love it :-)

[bignose]

Originally Posted by kien

wow, that looks so neat and tidy, love it :-)

Thanks kien I'm really happy it turned out that way. It looks good for not knowing what I was doing.

I raised the salinity to 1.025 and the temperature to 79F. Next I will rinse and add sand. I'm going with 40 pounds of sugar sand. The last time I used 40pnds sugar and 20 pounds crushed argonite which was too much.

[bignose]

It was 3 weeks ago but here is a picture of me and my gf adding sand.


2 weeks ago I added about 40 pnds of base LR, I put half of it in my sump. Last week I added 10 hermit crabs and 8 narcissus snails.

Yesterday I put in my yellow tang. Here is a picture I took today.


I still have around 60 pnds of LR to go in yet but it's going in when I transfer my coral.

[cuz]

nice work!! not gonna paint the back of your tank?

[bignose]

It's been awhile since I've updated so here are a few.

Here are the frags that I bought locally from Dez.


These are the smaller ones I got.

Most of these are also from Dez.

I'm not to sure what to do with this plate coral. I feel it is too big compared to the rest of the corals I have. Perhaps I will keep the blennys spot and frag off the rest to sell.


Here is what my tank looks like currently.

[bignose]

I've picked up some frags recently and glued them down. Here are some of the corals in my tank.

Zoas








SPS

[bignose]

I was looking through some photos and I found pictures of my frags that survived my move. Here are a couple of the bigger ones.

Time from March 30, 2009 to June 6, 2010



background on the left side

[bignose]

Aug 22 Update

I've since sold my yellow and bowder blue tangs. They were too big for my tank and when the aggression came around they had to go. When they were gone my tank was very quiet but I seen some interesting things. My pompom crabs would come out to eat at feeding time. Watching it defend the shrimp and hermits with its nems was something to witness.

Soon after the tangs were gone algae started started to appear. So I picked up a 3" yellow tang. This time it will be the only tang in the tank. I'm planning to get 3 royal grammas and a 6 line wrasse.

This picture was taken June 4 when I got back from Dez's coral sale. There is a lot more coral on the rocks now. The softie on the bottom left and the plate coral are gone. I'm looking for my camera so I can update with a new picture.