*UPDATED* Custom 220 Inwall Build - Page 2

seanoman · #11 12-19-2007, 11:41 PM

mseepman, from what we've seen everything looks awesome, we haven't taken it out of the crating totally yet as it has to go down a flight of stairs and into our basement. We would like to keep it crated for the move of possible. I'll let you know when we uncrate it. They did paint the back and left side panel black and they also painted the inside of the overflows black with a special paint that is safe for fish. The front and right side panel are starphire glass.
We were very impressed with AO, they were prompt in getting back to us with any questions we had and even gave us some suggestions. We paid almost $2700 for the tank and that included shipping from Ontario, we checked around and prices were similar ordering it from Sea Star but we liked the craftmanship better from AO.

seanoman · #12 12-20-2007, 02:13 PM

Here are a few basement shots of construction taking place.

This is where we started.

This is the spot where the fish tank will sit in. It will have a two sides that are viewable and both are starphire glass aswell.

Not the best pic, but this is where the stand that the tank will sit on.

Another shot of the view from the rec room to the tank

Reefer Rob · #13 12-20-2007, 04:15 PM

Nice!! You might want to consider a flip up panel in the front for tank maintenance and aquascaping/coral placement though.

seanoman · #14 12-20-2007, 04:23 PM

Unfortunately that is all drywalled and painted now, and we were going for a really clean look on the outside. I know it will sometimes be a pain in the butt to place corals, but thats also why we didn't go any deeper than 24".

seanoman · #15 12-20-2007, 07:34 PM

The rest of the system includes a 90 gallon sump a 75 gallon salt water mixing/top off resevoir tank.

For Equipment:

BubbleKing 300 External Skimmer
Marine Tech Calcium Reactor
Marine Tech Kalk Reactor
3 Lumenarc Mini Reflectors with 12 K Reeflux 400 watt bulbs
T5 for actinics
Reeflo Dart for a return
2 - Tunze 6200's on wavyseas

And Hopefully if there's any money left over, a Profilux Controller

digital-audiophile · #16 12-20-2007, 07:55 PM

Looks sweet so far! How long 'till the tank gets on the stand?

seanoman · #17 12-20-2007, 08:01 PM

Hopefully any day now, just got a couple little things to wrap up before and then it can go down

mseepman · #18 12-20-2007, 10:02 PM

With the obvious history in Reefing that you have, this may be an unnecessary statement but don't forget to put some type of styro under the tank...saw a buddies new 180 FW tank a day after installation and 2 weeks later it was all on the floor due to not remembering to do this. Painful...

I'm really looking forward to some Full tank shots on it's in place.

seanoman · #19 12-20-2007, 10:06 PM

Yeah we already have purchased the foam to go under the tank.

Hopefully we can have the tank up on the stand in the next couple of days here and then for sure I will put up some more pics.

seanoman · #20 12-20-2007, 10:29 PM

Here are some shots of what the room and view look like right now.

This is again the front view with the drywall and paint now on there

This is the side view ( Fell in love with this different vantage point again when we saw SuperFudges tank)

This is just inside the fish room where on the wall ahead with the window there will be a counter top and also a big rubbermaid sink. The sump will sit directly under the tank and the mixing tank under the counter top in the corner of the room.