Magma's 125gal Upgrade

[fishytime]

and the electrician shows up in the build....looking good so far!

[Magma]

Originally Posted by fishytime

and the electrician shows up in the build....looking good so far!

Well im no wood butcher so the plywood I didnt cut, and im no plumber so the plumbing wont be anything pretty so I have to shine in some place.

School starts Monday for 3rd year so for 2 months I will have limited income but lots of time to work on the tank.

[Magma]

Well its been almost a full year and its just sat in the living room collecting dust...so this past week I have really started to do something with it. Deadline for it to be setup and ready for fish is June as the wife and I are expecting a little boy in early August. I want this setup and going so its less stress when that day arrives. (Also might help de-stress sometimes lol)

Filled the tank with sand, and some base rock.

Purchased 3 LED Units (Evergrow d120's) and have hung them over the tank (removed one fixture temp to hang over the older tank)

Started the plumbing, I was going to use PVC pipe but I ended up going with flex just because it was faster, the overflow pipes are still PVC but only because I happened to have some left over from a previous tank.

Also plan on finishing the electrical this weekend.

Sorry about pic quality its just an iPhone

Loose fit on over flow plumbing.


Flex pipe on 3/4" returns


Flex fitting into the bulk head


Full Tank Shot


Full Tank Shot with LED's on 100% blue and white


Full Tank Shot LED's 100% White Only



Edit: the skulls on the tank are from halloween they just looked neat so onto the glass they went.

[Magma]

Just got a new return pump today, and I can not be more pleased with it. I bought the Speedwave DC 1320. Also known as the Waveline dc-5000, its adjustable up to 1320g/h (at 0 head) along with a 10min feed button which shuts the pump off for 10min during feeding then restarts. The pump also has a soft start which mean it slowly ramps up to its set speed so its not turning on full power right away.

I did a test with in and its silent to the point I had to check the water was actually moving. Also NO LEAKS! so now all I need is some heaters and the tank can start being filled and cycled....wow so close to finishing this!




I also got a few new frags and 3 bubble tips when I bought the pump. 1 sun coral frag with about 3-5 heads which is currently in another small tank being feed so no pictures yet.

[nrosdal]

Tank look great! Add some water and take more pictures.

Lights are nice too

[DigitalWeight]

Nice looking tank - I think we saw each other at Concept yesterday - I was the guy with the two kids waiting (im)patiently. I am thinking about the Speedwave my my new build so it is good to see the quick review here.

Looking forward to seeing this sucker with water in in.

[Magma]

Originally Posted by DigitalWeight

Nice looking tank - I think we saw each other at Concept yesterday - I was the guy with the two kids waiting (im)patiently. I am thinking about the Speedwave my my new build so it is good to see the quick review here.

Looking forward to seeing this sucker with water in in.

Ahh yes! we did, pump works amazing! I have to say im really happy with it. Also saw the model below the one I bought today at another store for 30$ more than I paid for mine....so the Concept price is great.


Sadly last night when finishing up the VERY LAST section of hard pipe, when pushing it in, I cracked the bulkhead right down the seam so I had to go buy a new one today.

Hopefully I can start filling this tank by mid week

[Magma]

I took a quick video with my Iphone just to show how the tank is working right now.

125gal tank - YouTube

Finally filled! I have to be honest im still worried about the weight of the tank but hey so far so good...*knocks on wood*

[DigitalWeight]

Looking good man

[Magma]

Well its been a long weekend for me, so I transferred all the stock from my old 35gal setup, which has been running for 2+ years. Everything went great minus the loss off 1 clown, 1 emerald crab. I checked the tank and have been all weekend, no cycle happened but the clown wasnt looking so hot when I transferred him. As for the crab, well he got stuck in the sand of the old tank, and I thought I got everything out, but alas I found him legs up not moving when i went to clean the sand out of the old tank.

Here is a shot of the tank with the LED's on about 50% White, 40% Blue



Here is a shot of just the White's on.



So officially this tank is gone


But this one has just started!


Long road ahead.
For stock right now I have:
1 Clown
1 Yellow Tail Damsel
1 3 stripped Damsel
1 Coral Beauty
1 Six Line Wrasse
1 Banggai Cardinalfish
1 Longspine Urchin

Looking to add, yellow tang, Blue tang, Kole tang and a Green Mandarin, that may change depending on what else shows up that I would rather have. Any suggestions are welcome.

Im planning on adding 2 media reactors, one for Carbon one for GFO of course a bigger skimmer.