Converting juwel 110 to reef build.

[Zoabowlboy]

Hi I'm new to this so please please dont crucify me if I've messed anything up.

I tried to make a reef bowl but broke it so I've had to move on and start again.

I bought a juwel primo 110 led tank and am converting it to marine.

Heres my progress so far...

 

[Zoabowlboy]

Tank landed home

I inserted the stuff I rescued from my smashed bowl into the tank.
The first addition was the addition of a 1000ef canister filter with 8l of alfagrog to help with a little movement and additional biological filtration.
I drilled the back of the hood, turned up a spacer on a lathe that was missing from the inlet, stopped it leaking with ptfe and vegetable oil, sat the canister down on the floor and away we went....

 

[Zoabowlboy]

At this point I had the original substrate. I was harassed and ridiculed online.
I didnt know it could be an issue and had never noticed the sand looked yellow compared to the tanks online.
I also didnt know about different types of rock. So I went and spent money buying heavy solid lumps of ocean rock.
I also added two clowns from marketplace... this is what happened....

I've since learnt more. I've painstakingly removed the sand and added pt1 tonga plates at great expense to make it look more natural and provide proper home to the bacteria.
I've been adding bacteria from tiny bottles too.
My new favourite possession is a 7.6kg piece of tonga I'm adding to one side of the scape.
I'm halfway through cutting two of the pieces of ocean rock to form a structure to cover in another 8 or 9kg of pt1 tonga plate I've ordered too.

It fills the tank and I love it.
I've also plumbed in a 400lph aps canister with plenty of foam and floss just to help keep the water clear, the outlet goes into my nutrient export tank...
Its smallest tank I suspended on a stainless steel framework I built next to the main display, I plumbed it to drain back into the tank with a flattened outlet.
I've stuck a black box light on it, some aragonite sand, the pretty pieces of the ocean rock and in basically going to let macro algae grow in it.
Its also somewhere to put the clowns if I move stuff because it stays clear in there aswell as the heater thermometer etc. I could even put eggs in there to hatch if the clowns make babys.
I drilled the hood again to plumb it in.

 

[Zoabowlboy]

And that's where we are at so far.
I'm going to hopefully receive the other rock and carve up the ocean rock and use some epoxy putty like I've been advised on here and make my tower of plates for the other side.
I will make a thread in aquascape section to get input here I dont want to mess it up.
I also plan on fitting a 2000 photo canister filled with alfagrog to give more flow now I have been able to remove the internal filter and also convert the lighting in the hood to have plenty of different blue, purple and actinic light options.