138 gallon rimless reef journey

mradams1981

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So after owning many standard sized tanks ive finally decided to build an aquarium that had the footprint that I wanted to play with....not what someone else wanted to play with. The picture i had painted in my mind was to have 3 sides viewable with one big island of rock and a place to set corals on all four sides and to have a very modern looking setup frombtopbto bottom. That being said i went with a rimless/braceless tank measuring 43.5x30.5x24 3 sided starphire with a pvc bottom. The equipment purchased will all be based off of the tank running on a ZEOVIT system. Lighting will consist of 4 Aqua Illumination Sol blue modules mounted to a stainless steel frame. Filtration will be housed in a custom sump built by Melev's Reef measuring 38x24x16 with a main drain/skimmer section and a return section. Skimmer is a Super Reef Octopus 2000 internal cone. The ZEOvit reactor will be a 1.5 liter. Ill have a Neptune Apex running the system that will have the modules to control my AI lights as well as 2 MP40's. The system is actually already running so this is a fast build thread. Stay tuned as updates will be posted often as will growth and development pictures. ENJOY!!!!!
 
so heres photos of the beginning stages of the build all the way to what the setup looks like as of this evening............
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the next pictures the finalized rockscape. i kept it pretty minimal for growth to the upper portions of the tank....as you can see by the pics first algae bloom came on day 5 and diminished by day 8
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day 19 update

well today is day 19 of the new system. the AI modules have surpassed my expectations so far. the modules are turned up to whites @ 55%, royals and blues @ 50%. i finally got the two vortech's hooked up the the neptune controller and have them running 6 different modes at 2-3 hr intervals over a 24 hr period. so far so good....i know this was a 3 week tank build done in a matter of minutes so any questions about how the system is set up please feel free to ask. thanks again for looking
all parameters are in check:
S.G: 35ppt
alk: 138=7.73 hanna checker
mag: 1335 salifert
calcium: 435 salifert
nitrate: 0 salifert
PO4: 0.08 hanna checker
nitrite: 0 salifert
ammonia: 0 salifert
potassium: 410
so heres some photos of the tank as of this evening....i got a better camera i hope yall enjoy!!!!!!!!!
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so today is day thirty of the new setup. ive added quite a few frags and small sps colonies over the past few weeks.
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Thanks Capt Nemo i really like the open space that the minimal rockwork provides. Its given me the option to basically place sps corals under any light intensity that they need which is a bonus since im running solely on led power.
 
I agree I like the openness!
 

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