Beckbacca's Tank

Bob3655 · Sep 23, 2017

;Woot Absolutely killer build!

Beckbacca · Sep 25, 2017

Still trying to finish up the plumbing. Hopefully that will happen tonight. I think I was pretty high or at least light headed from the pipe glue fumes last night, so I had to stop.

Beckbacca · Sep 28, 2017

Word of warning: Make sure you have a very tight fitting lid if you have known jumpers. Went to basement this morning to check on quarantine tank to find my blue spot jawfish dead on the floor. The tank is an IM 25 gallon tank that came with a lid. There is maybe a 1/4 inch gap all around the lid. This fish is like triple the width of that gap. I have no idea how it jumped out?

Blue Carbon Reefing · Sep 28, 2017

I am sorry to hear about this. Do you think there is a chance he jumped out when you weren't looking with the lid open and just didn't notice him till this morning?

Beckbacca · Sep 28, 2017

Blue Carbon Reefing said:
I am sorry to hear about this. Do you think there is a chance he jumped out when you weren't looking with the lid open and just didn't notice him till this morning?

I guess that is possible. Maybe he jumped when I was feeding the tank last night, though I only lifted the lid, dumped in food, and closed it. So he would have had to be very fast, and I would have had to be very distracted (which is possible as my 3 year old was down with me to check on the new "nemo").

Either way, I will be paying way closer attention anytime I lift the lid. Though I dont think the other fish in there at the moment are jumpers (1 clown, 2 x sunset anthias, 2 x lemon chromis) I will just make it a habit from now on.

Blue Carbon Reefing · Sep 28, 2017

Clowns are definitely jumpers. I have had a clown jump out of a covered QT in the last couple of months. There is barely a wide enough gap where the hang on back filter is on my QT. If there is a way they will find it.

ReeferBean · Sep 28, 2017

Sorry about the blue spot jawfish... they are crazy jumpers. They need deep sand beds and cooler tanks. Fish find a way... but they are like little torpedoes.

Love your build. Your stand is killer. The doors just made it all come together.

Braves Fan · Sep 29, 2017

Cherub · Sep 29, 2017

that sump is sweet!

BZOFIQ · Sep 29, 2017

Now, thats a large tank!

Subbed

Beckbacca · Sep 30, 2017

Sneak peak... anyone guess what these are?

Cherub · Sep 30, 2017

these? it looks like one T5 light

With LEDs?

Beckbacca · Sep 30, 2017

So for this tank I went with two 48 inch, 8 bulb ati dimmable sun powers. Each light will have two 48 inch reef bride xho led strips in actinic blue...

MarylandTang · Sep 30, 2017

Incredible! Do you have any pics of the plumbing in the back, or top-down shots before you put the canopy on? The phone screenshots from the first page don't make it clear how the width of the tank and then the plumbing in the back are set up.

Beckbacca · Oct 1, 2017

MarylandTang said:
Incredible! Do you have any pics of the plumbing in the back, or top-down shots before you put the canopy on? The phone screenshots from the first page don't make it clear how the width of the tank and then the plumbing in the back are set up.

I do not have top down pics. I will climb up I. There for one last look before adding water tomorrow will snap a pic then. In the mean time! Plumbing is done

MarylandTang · Oct 1, 2017

Very nice!! I'll be curious to hear your impressions of the Neptune Flow Monitoring fittings. They look very promising.

Beckbacca · Nov 15, 2017

So apparently I’m no good at build threads. Been a long road to where i am at but the tank is running and cycled. Still need to hook up a lot of equipment, program more on apex, adjust water level / overflow and return rate. But it’s coming along!