Bignoses' 90G sps reef

bignose · #1 03-07-2010, 05:10 PM

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 · #2 03-17-2010, 04:59 AM

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 · #3 03-17-2010, 10:06 AM

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

bignose · #4 03-17-2010, 11:23 PM

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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 · #5 04-02-2010, 03:58 PM

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 · #6 04-02-2010, 04:48 PM

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

rstar · #7 04-02-2010, 05:25 PM

Looking great! +1 to the "Plans for the back of the tank". I WISH my plumbing was that neat and tidy!

bignose · #8 04-03-2010, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by cuz

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

I'm letting coraline algae paint the back for me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rstar

Looking great! +1 to the "Plans for the back of the tank". I WISH my plumbing was that neat and tidy!

Thanks rstar the plumbing turned out very nice but I'm still trying to figure out why my return pump sounds so loud. I hear a constant humming through the wall.

BlueAbyss · #9 04-03-2010, 03:14 PM

Acoustical batting would help with that noise through the wall.

rstar · #10 04-03-2010, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bignose

Thanks rstar the plumbing turned out very nice but I'm still trying to figure out why my return pump sounds so loud. I hear a constant humming through the wall.

I know it seems simple, but is the pump sitting directly on the sump glass? i put a sheet of foam insulation under my sump, then the rubber legs on the pump and you can hardly hear it anymore.