robchuck
Active Member
After almost a year of planning, purchasing, and getting past some unexpected obstacles, the work on my dream inwall setup has finally started!
The original plan was to put a 150g inwall with a fishroom, and I got so far as actually having the tank and most of the equipment for it. Some hassles with the sale of our old house made it difficult to keep the tank and most of the equipment (no space to store it and finances), so I had to sell most of it off, and crammed everything into a 29g.
Fast forward several months and my wife and I are comfortably settled into our new (to us) tri-level house with a corner in the lower level crying out for a large inwall tank. The plan then morphed into an acrylic tank in the 250g range to fit the space. I was getting ready to place an order for a tank when I stumbled across a 300g system for sale locally that included everything I was about to start piecing together, including livestock.
The system was picked up this past weekend, and the first part of the project was to create a temporary living space for the livestock. So last Friday I set up a pair of 100g Rubbermaid stock tanks to hold all 400 lbs. of LR, all of the coral (mixed; and some of the colonies are the size of a serving plate!), and several large tangs (Yellow, Purple, Hippo, Foxface, and a 9-year old Desjardani Sailfin). I'll have some pictures of the temporary setup and some of the corals up later this evening.
The tank is currently sitting in the garage awaiting a cleaning and needs to be carried downstairs before construction can start. I had hoped to be underway already, but a sudden death in the family and work demands (it's Easter week and I run sound for a church!) have slowed me down. The hope is to have the system completed by mid-April. I'll post some pics and more specifics about the system later this evening.
The original plan was to put a 150g inwall with a fishroom, and I got so far as actually having the tank and most of the equipment for it. Some hassles with the sale of our old house made it difficult to keep the tank and most of the equipment (no space to store it and finances), so I had to sell most of it off, and crammed everything into a 29g.
Fast forward several months and my wife and I are comfortably settled into our new (to us) tri-level house with a corner in the lower level crying out for a large inwall tank. The plan then morphed into an acrylic tank in the 250g range to fit the space. I was getting ready to place an order for a tank when I stumbled across a 300g system for sale locally that included everything I was about to start piecing together, including livestock.
The system was picked up this past weekend, and the first part of the project was to create a temporary living space for the livestock. So last Friday I set up a pair of 100g Rubbermaid stock tanks to hold all 400 lbs. of LR, all of the coral (mixed; and some of the colonies are the size of a serving plate!), and several large tangs (Yellow, Purple, Hippo, Foxface, and a 9-year old Desjardani Sailfin). I'll have some pictures of the temporary setup and some of the corals up later this evening.
The tank is currently sitting in the garage awaiting a cleaning and needs to be carried downstairs before construction can start. I had hoped to be underway already, but a sudden death in the family and work demands (it's Easter week and I run sound for a church!) have slowed me down. The hope is to have the system completed by mid-April. I'll post some pics and more specifics about the system later this evening.
I know the days don't have enough hours in to get everything you need to get done!!!!