FishyFishy!'s 210g of Fantasmic! Fishalicious! Fauna!

[FishyFishy!]

Finally getting to post this process. The beginning was a lot smaller system and a Volcano replica tank... But after seeing the size of the small 50 Gallon tank.... I just couldn't do it. I needed to go big again.

So now i'm going permanent, and slow. Making sure things are done right to the best of my abilities (and budget lol).

Unfortunately I was going to use a 7.5 foot X 20" X 20" display that I purchsed, but it incurred some damage sitting in my garage, chips on the corners, so I will get more into that later. But needless to say I think i'm in for buying a new display.

Goals:

Easy water changes. This is HUGE for me, as I absolutely hate lugging around hoses and buckets. So this system will have a full water change system with a built in drain. Nothing but a couple of valves turned and switches flipped for a full water change.

System Volume. I want a lot of filtration water volume. Lots of room to add things like different types of fuges, remote DSB, Mangroves etc etc. I could go the simplistic way here, but thats not what I like to see when I see fishrooms. I like to see large, multi-tank filtration systems with ease of access to all of them. I like having multiple tanks with lots of different types of macro etc.

Access. No more bending over to try and squeeze under a stand to get at something in the back of the sump. Anyone who has met me knows that me and tight spaces simply wouldn't work lol!

Simplistic design in the DT. I'm going with the simple, minimal open space look in my display. I've always had tanks with lots of live rock in them, so this time I'm going for a few smaller island stacks of rock, and lots of swimming room for the big fishies.

Ventillation. Becauseall of my filtration will be housed in a closet type environment, I will need to be able to vent the humidity out. Luckily, the way my house is designed, it will be easy to do this.

Quarantine. My biggest change, will be having a large quarantine setup. In my last FOWLR, I lost an emperor angel, flame angel, cleaner wrasse, and others because I introduced a Powder Blue Tang without quarantine. Stupidest mistake ever. I will be utilizing 3 48" tanks in this setup (one un-divided for larger fish, one divided for smaller fish and a DSB for wrasses, and the sump).

Excuse the Paint drawings... for some reason I like the simplicity of it VS. sketchup!

Here is the basic design for the system.



And the Quarrantine tanks.