spmnarciso
Active Member
Ok here it is...this is my conversion from an ordinary 150G reef with powerheads and pretty much the beginners stuff like powerheads and stuffing of a closet to a 240G reef in-wall fish room setup with a closed loop for circulation.
Specs:
72"L x 30"W x 25"H Custom Allglass with Low Iron front.
Placed on a custom Iron stand
48" x 24"x 12" Custom Acrylic Sump
72" x 30" x 12" Custom Retractable Hood
150G Glass refugium
Equipment:
Neptune Controller
Litermeter Dosing Pump
48" Custom Kalkreactor
Kent Nautilus EX 30" Skimmer
MRC-3 ......"on the way"
Sequence Dart ----return pump
Sequence Hammerhead
[hr]
closed loop pump
OM 4Way split into 8- (1.5" Bulhkeads)
5- Ebo Jager 200W heaters
2- 1" Seaswirls powered by the return pump
2- Phosban Reactors - (Carbon and Phosban)
CS100 external overflow ---which drains water from refugium to sump.
2- 60" URI actinic white VHOs
4- 48" URI actinic VHOs
3- PFO 250W MH ballasts
3- 250W 10,000K XM bulbs
AirwaterIce -- TyphoonIII RO/DI unit
The setup is pretty much complete. Waiting on the new skimmer, and thinking of adding a calcium reactor in the coming months.
As for the switch over from the 150G...Wasn't easy. Had a short period of time to do it. Bought a new house, moved all the furniture in and started to design the fish room. I converted part of the basement storage area into a fairly large 10' x 12' room. A hole in the wall for the display, some framing and some sheet rock did the trick. Then came the moving of the beast (new tank) and the plumbing. The tank was placed on a custom iron stand that my dad and I designed and built. The sump was bought as a basic acrylic tank. I drilled and added the baffles and some extras before the move. I fought a couple leaks at the beginning and had to tear down some plumbing runs, but it all works great now. I didn't want to go bare bottom, even though many suggested it. I tryed to lay a shallow amount of sand down, but I think I added to much. Ball valves on each closed loop outlet allow me to turn down the flow and since the sand bed is a bit higher than it should I do get some sand dusting at full force. The display is not quite ready. During the move I had no time to arrange the rock...it was alot easier to just place it in and with the sand clouding up the water at the beginning I couldn't see a damn thing. Mostly all occupants survived...one fish (blue chromis), and several LPS are not quite right yet. All there is left to do is remove some sand from the display and work on the rock formation that works for the corals and the fish. I'm thinking of a canyon idea...two large mountains on either side of the tank, coming down to a valley in the middle. No rock is to placed on glass sides or back. I want the fish to have plenty of room to swim, especially around the back.
Here are some pictures of my progress so far...not the greatest camera.
Specs:
72"L x 30"W x 25"H Custom Allglass with Low Iron front.
Placed on a custom Iron stand
48" x 24"x 12" Custom Acrylic Sump
72" x 30" x 12" Custom Retractable Hood
150G Glass refugium
Equipment:
Neptune Controller
Litermeter Dosing Pump
48" Custom Kalkreactor
Kent Nautilus EX 30" Skimmer
MRC-3 ......"on the way"
Sequence Dart ----return pump
Sequence Hammerhead
[hr]
closed loop pump
OM 4Way split into 8- (1.5" Bulhkeads)
5- Ebo Jager 200W heaters
2- 1" Seaswirls powered by the return pump
2- Phosban Reactors - (Carbon and Phosban)
CS100 external overflow ---which drains water from refugium to sump.
2- 60" URI actinic white VHOs
4- 48" URI actinic VHOs
3- PFO 250W MH ballasts
3- 250W 10,000K XM bulbs
AirwaterIce -- TyphoonIII RO/DI unit
The setup is pretty much complete. Waiting on the new skimmer, and thinking of adding a calcium reactor in the coming months.
As for the switch over from the 150G...Wasn't easy. Had a short period of time to do it. Bought a new house, moved all the furniture in and started to design the fish room. I converted part of the basement storage area into a fairly large 10' x 12' room. A hole in the wall for the display, some framing and some sheet rock did the trick. Then came the moving of the beast (new tank) and the plumbing. The tank was placed on a custom iron stand that my dad and I designed and built. The sump was bought as a basic acrylic tank. I drilled and added the baffles and some extras before the move. I fought a couple leaks at the beginning and had to tear down some plumbing runs, but it all works great now. I didn't want to go bare bottom, even though many suggested it. I tryed to lay a shallow amount of sand down, but I think I added to much. Ball valves on each closed loop outlet allow me to turn down the flow and since the sand bed is a bit higher than it should I do get some sand dusting at full force. The display is not quite ready. During the move I had no time to arrange the rock...it was alot easier to just place it in and with the sand clouding up the water at the beginning I couldn't see a damn thing. Mostly all occupants survived...one fish (blue chromis), and several LPS are not quite right yet. All there is left to do is remove some sand from the display and work on the rock formation that works for the corals and the fish. I'm thinking of a canyon idea...two large mountains on either side of the tank, coming down to a valley in the middle. No rock is to placed on glass sides or back. I want the fish to have plenty of room to swim, especially around the back.
Here are some pictures of my progress so far...not the greatest camera.
Sweet set up. I wish I had the room behind the wall where my tank is, but then I would not have a hall bath. But then again.......Master bath can be used by all four of us
