155 gallon bowfront upgrade

james30ct

Well-Known Member
View Badges
Joined
Oct 13, 2012
Messages
594
Reaction score
48
Location
Connecticut
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
I recently broke doen my 72 gallon bowfront and upgraded to a 155g.

Tank specs
155g reef ready with original stand (beefed up) and custom canopy
40 breeder sump
diy cree led lighting on a typhoon controller(still a work in progress)
2 jebao wp-40 powerheads
1-200 and 1- 300 watt heater
 
Tank inhibitants

1 green chromis
1 bangaii cardinal
1 oc clown fish
1 hippo tang (in qt)
1 squamosa clam
1 urchin (who lost all its spikes in the move but is recovering nicely
corals
duncan, frogspawn, torch, digitata, trumpets, blasto, xenia, red gonipora, gsp, zoas, shrooms, ricordea, and an acan

pics to follow
 
Last edited:
stand when I got it home
attachment.php

reinforced the bottom with 3/4 tongue and groove boards
attachment.php
 
sanding and 5 coats of paint
attachment.php

tank on stand
attachment.php

in place with front added supports that need paint
attachment.php
 
Last edited:
Beautiful!!!


Sent Via the R2R Forum APP
12g Nanoreef. Zooanthids, Ricordia, Star Polyps, Acans and two clownfish. CF Lighting, 75% actinic blue, 25% 10,000k white.
 
Well I decided to remove all of the sand and I guess I did it too fast and lost almost all my sps frags. Everything else is good and the tank is starting to look better.
 
As stated by many, the stand looks great after your revamp, sorry to hear about the sps frags!
 
couple pics with actinic and tripod for the first time
 

Attachments

  • 088.jpg
    088.jpg
    103.4 KB · Views: 339
  • 089.jpg
    089.jpg
    93.4 KB · Views: 314
  • 111 (800x533).jpg
    111 (800x533).jpg
    36.8 KB · Views: 302
  • 117 (800x533).jpg
    117 (800x533).jpg
    43.4 KB · Views: 308
Not much to report. Doing a bunch of water changes to keep this fuzzy algae outbreak from spreading. Started running gfo. I think the batch of sand I added was bad.
 
photo (53).JPG
Well I am back to bare bottom and things are going ok. The sand caused a bad dino outbreak. Did a 4 day peroxide blackout and have been ghanging gfo every 3 weeks and thing slowly seem to be getting better. Purchased a gig the other day and the clowns love it already. It decided to eat a bicolor foxface that I just got so that wasnt too fun.
 
I removed some of the leds and added 3x175w xm halides. I will try and get some pics up.
 

IF YOU HAD TO TAKE A REEFING EXAM, WOULD YOU PASS?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 32 45.7%
  • Not yet, but I have one that I want to buy in mind!

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • No.

    Votes: 26 37.1%
  • Other (please explain).

    Votes: 3 4.3%
Back
Top