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Old 10-28-2010, 05:44 PM
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Default My In Wall 150 Build

Most Recent Tank shot:


Tank Overview:
150gallon 72" tank (i thought it was 135 until i measured it....)
60 gallon custom sump

Circulation:
Reeflo Dart Gold
Herbie Return
3x Kora 4's

Filtration:
ATI Bubble Master 250
25g Refugium
Npx Bio Beads
Carbon/Vodka dosing

Calk/Alk
PM Calcium Reactor

Lighting:
2x250W MH - XM 10K bulbs
4x65W PC Atinic

Fish:
Bariene Tang
Flame Hawkfish
Lyretail Anthia
4 Chromis
Spotted Mandrin
2 False Perc's
Blue Damsel
Purple Firefish
Foxface
Lawnmower Blenny
Coral Beauty

And the build...


I've planned this build for a long time, we recently bought a house and i knew when i saw the place what i wanted to do. I've seen lots of nice in wall tanks, and although it was a lot of work, I've loved it. I had a 55 gal set up, it was my first salt tank, so it became a great learning experiance. I've had that tank balanced for awhile, and everything has been going great. I decided to go for 135 gallon 6' tank. Although it's one of the smaller 6' tanks, it'll give me room to grow if a need (that's what the hobbies all about isn't it?). I'm not too good at typing things out, so this is going to be mostly pictures, which are more fun to look at anyways:

Here's where we wanted the tank with paint testing going on aswell, busy house:


Now for the fun part of cutting a hole through the wall:


I used a waterproof coating on everything inside the "splash zone" but i'm still debating going a step furter and using greenboard or concrete wall board around everything. I was shocked taking my old tank down how little water actually got on the wall, but at the same time, while building it i might aswell spend the extra few bucks for insurance. This is where my tank setup's at today, should get finished next week sometime.

Does anyone think it'd be worth insulating the wall between my sump and TV room? My pumps and everything are reletivly quiet, but silent would be nice. Any recomendations?
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