300dd commercial display build

[Blinkingsun]

I am finally rolling on this system. My time has been very restricted with my other business, but this system is going to be the main display for my new aquarium retail store which will be open in 2015. The idea is to make everything easy to maintain and lay it out so that it is easy to clean equipment or add new things as necessary.


There will be a wall behind the 300 which I will put up after I am done building.

A temporary skimmer is being used right now to help cycle the rock. Most of it started as dry rock.

The lower 40br tank and the 220g sump will both be filled with just live rock. A few times per year, I plan on removing and cleaning the rock, though there are filter socks in place to keep anything big from getting into it.

The upper 40br tank is a frag grow-out tank. I only plan on keeping a handful of large SPS colonies in the display. By keeping this tank, I can buy more colonies and not put them in until they are larger and take off. I also can monitor them for pests in the same system that they will be in permanently. The lighting on this tank is a single 250w SE radium on an icecap ballast with a lumitek elite reflector. The display will have three of the same lights, with six additional AI sols and four 6ft actinic t5 tubes. I'll dive more into that as it is built out.

Updates are going to be relatively slow.

 

[Blinkingsun]

My second update is very, very small because I'm not getting much time at all to work on this. I was able to get the table built for the refugium (just chaeto).


It is probably hard to envision from the direction that I keep taking pictures. This is the view from inside of the room. There will be a will behind the refugium that extend all the way over to the 300dd display. It will be cut out behind the display so that I have access from the back but it will look like a solid wall from the front.

Another view from inside of the fish room.

And the view from the other side of the wall.. The tank has not been plumbed yet but it will share the feed from the DC12000 with the frag tank and a 2" overflow will run under the table to where a very large customer filter sock will be. The sock will be shared by the refugium and the display returns.

 

[Blinkingsun]

A lot of work… Got my quarantine system up and got the calcium reactor and kalk reactors installed on the main system.

 

[1mbrews8]

looking good!

 

[Blinkingsun]

looking good!

Thanks. This forum is just popping!

 

[ddwbeagles]

Looking great and looking forward to coming out there and supporting you when you open the doors. Well done!

 

[Blinkingsun]

Looking great and looking forward to coming out there and supporting you when you open the doors. Well done!

Thank you. I'm hoping to be able to bring to the table services never before made available in this hobby. Hopefully it is well-accepted.

I did some clean-up work, routing all of the wires for the AI sols through the conduit which holds them up. I also got the RKE installed and the ATO.

RKE components are hidden underneath of QT2

Close-up of QT1. The frag rack contents will soon be moved over to QT2 and it will be removed.

QT2 is very turbulent, great for SPS

This is the sump. The return pump is a pan world 50px-x and the skimmer is a G3 with a mesh-modded Oceanrunner 3700 pump. All of the equipment came from my old system or systems before that.

These are the high-capacity filter socks that I made

 

[ethridge78]

looking good

 

[Blinkingsun]

Here is a shot that is about a week old. Last weekend I went and picked up a bunch more of my corals which are being held so I will post more pictures after they have healed from moving.