Chris’fishes
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Hello everyone,
New here and starting my first build! Just wanted to start off by saying thanks for all the invaluable information that members have unknowingly bestowed upon me as I’ve been silently stalking threads on here. And thanks in advance to everyone who contributes to this thread.
So here we go! As the title says it will be 125g glass aquarium with another 125g sump/refugium. Ya know the standard 72”x18”23” ones.
The display tank will be sitting in between two rooms so I drilled through the side three 1-1/2” holes (to minimize visual obstructions) in preparation for a shadow box over flow.
The over flow will feed into an external section where a bean animal type over flow will be installed all 1-1/2” pvc.
From the overflow the water will feed down through some mechanical filtration (most likely a sock) and into the first section with a protein skimmer.
*I’m thinking of building my own skimmer so keep an eye out for that thread!
After the skimmer I’m thinking of having a large refugium possibly 40” in length. does this make sense? The bigger the better right?
The last section will house the return pump, ato, heaters, and any other equipment
(dosing pumps, reactors, monitoring probes, etc) that will be added in the future.
The water will return from it’s journey through a 1-1/2” pvc and enter the tank via three 1/2 dual flow lock line outlets... not sure if I worded that properly so see pictures for clarification.
I will follow up this post with more information and pictures as the build progresses.
Please comment and post any questions or suggestions I’m sure it’ll help since I’m not really sure what I’m doing here.
Next post will probably be future plans and I will need a lot of help and information when it comes to that. so stay tuned.
Thanks again and happy reefing
New here and starting my first build! Just wanted to start off by saying thanks for all the invaluable information that members have unknowingly bestowed upon me as I’ve been silently stalking threads on here. And thanks in advance to everyone who contributes to this thread.
So here we go! As the title says it will be 125g glass aquarium with another 125g sump/refugium. Ya know the standard 72”x18”23” ones.
The display tank will be sitting in between two rooms so I drilled through the side three 1-1/2” holes (to minimize visual obstructions) in preparation for a shadow box over flow.
The over flow will feed into an external section where a bean animal type over flow will be installed all 1-1/2” pvc.
From the overflow the water will feed down through some mechanical filtration (most likely a sock) and into the first section with a protein skimmer.
*I’m thinking of building my own skimmer so keep an eye out for that thread!
After the skimmer I’m thinking of having a large refugium possibly 40” in length. does this make sense? The bigger the better right?
The last section will house the return pump, ato, heaters, and any other equipment
(dosing pumps, reactors, monitoring probes, etc) that will be added in the future.
The water will return from it’s journey through a 1-1/2” pvc and enter the tank via three 1/2 dual flow lock line outlets... not sure if I worded that properly so see pictures for clarification.
I will follow up this post with more information and pictures as the build progresses.
Please comment and post any questions or suggestions I’m sure it’ll help since I’m not really sure what I’m doing here.
Next post will probably be future plans and I will need a lot of help and information when it comes to that. so stay tuned.
Thanks again and happy reefing
