120 gallon upgrade

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I am 2 weeks away from receiving my new tank so I thought I would start the progression thread now.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-90-gallon-reef.339331/ the link is my previous 90 gallon tank that was pretty successful and up for 2 years.

 

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The chiller coil that will make things easier (hopefully). No more recycling of heat In the room.

 

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Some initial Scape ideas

 

[Ponraj A]

The chiller coil that will make things easier (hopefully). No more recycling of heat In the room.

Hi,
Looking forward on the set up, I am running a similar coil set up in mine too. Its really easy and effective.

 

[Ponraj A]

The chiller coil that will make things easier (hopefully). No more recycling of heat In the room.

here is the photo of mine.

On the right bottom side you can see the temperature sensor at the return compartment. This is working through a 16A output thermostat.

 

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Ahh thanks, my plan is to have a guy connect mine to the OCU via a relay that will then be controlled via my apex temperature

here is the photo of mine.

On the right bottom side you can see the temperature sensor at the return compartment. This is working through a 16A output thermostat.

controller

 

[Salty Lemon]

Congratulations! Can't wait to see filled.

 

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Specs​

Tank: 120x60x60 4ftx2ftx2ft (120gallon) custom built aquarium (braced 12mm glass)
Stand: hardwood painted white with additional equipment cupboard (i have designed it but not seen it yet!)
Sump: 90x45x45 simple glass sump with 3 chambers.

Equipment
Lighting: 36 inch ati Hybrid powermodule 2xB+ 2x C+ supplemented with an illumagic xmini at either end.
Return pump: 2* tunze 1073.05 return
Skimmer: Nyos 160
Refugium light: maybe down the line, if required.
Controller: Apex with DOS, ATK, FMM
Flow: 4x MP40w QD
Calcium reactor: Tunze Calcium Automat 3171 (or Faunamarin balling)
Kalkwasser: Via a Tunze calcium dispenser on the ATK
Chiller: Titanium coil linked to a relay and OCU of and air conditioner
D-D pro 4 doser.
DOS used for AWC
Innovitex xfilter roller mat
Tunze 6045 to clean sump
Ceramic biomedia

I have all equipment, and rock is curing in a bin (6weeks already). The rock was covered in die off. I bleached it for a week, then rinsed with dechlorinator and salted it up for curing. I have changed 50%of the water each week. I aquascaped the rock and left it dry for several weeks. Hopefully the cycle will be straight forward.

The Tank will be BB and for SPS and choice fish.

 

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Some of my corals from my 90 gallon tank were fragged and moved out into my skimmer less 40 gallon work tank a couple of months back. They are doing well and hopefully will hang around long enough to get into this new build. I try to be as sustainable as I can with this hobby, from captive raised fish and coral to high efficiency gear.

 

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The blue and green tort is a fast grower. It is only purple and green under the radion xr15 on this tank. In my 90 with an ATI hybrid it was solid purple with no hint of green.

 

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It's here!

 

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Starting to Scape

 

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Finished scape

 

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I have different scape now, and the chiller coil is being fitted today. then off on holiday for 3 weeks so all goes on hold!

 

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Chiller in, I am really impressed with this job.

 

[count krunk]

I assume it works by keeping that tubing very cool? Thus cooling the water around it?

 

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I assume it works by keeping that tubing very cool? Thus cooling the water around it?

Exactly right. I have a great need for efficient chilling, the coil gets cold its just like an under tank chiller except the cold part is in the house and the hot air goes out. They put it through a relay so that I can plug it into an EB6 and use the apex to control the temp

 

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Its super exciting!

 

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In Der house