DGee
Active Member
Since a few people have asked about the tank on other forums and a few of the FB groups I've decided to add a build thread over here. This tank was originally setup in December of 2015, I'll take pictures from a previous build thread I started and try to keep things in order as best as possible... The initial livestock came from my previous 30x30x18 cube.
The tank was built by Oceans By Design in Seattle WA, it measures 48x30x18
I built the sump with a few things in mind, mainly something that was easy to clean and could house a small frag area, previously I had a whole separate system setup in the lower part of the house with about 300g of total water volume and maintaining two separate systems was just too time consuming.
The sump measures 48x24x16, it incorporates the drain from the filter sock box directly the the frag area that measures 24x19.
The Aquascape consists to a few separate pieces that are held together 5/8" solid acrylic rods that have been drilled and hammered into the each rock to make three separate structures.
You'll notice the led pucks in the center of the Powermodule, I had initially tried removing two tubes from the center to run the led's but I was never happy with them and they were removed a shortly after setting the tank up.
January 2015 I moved all of the corals out of the QT tank they were being held in, sadly I lost 15-20 pieces and browned out just about every piece of coral I had. There were some underlining circumstances that led to this that were out of my control amongst the delivery of the new tank but I made due with what was left at that point.
More to come...
The tank was built by Oceans By Design in Seattle WA, it measures 48x30x18
I built the sump with a few things in mind, mainly something that was easy to clean and could house a small frag area, previously I had a whole separate system setup in the lower part of the house with about 300g of total water volume and maintaining two separate systems was just too time consuming.
The sump measures 48x24x16, it incorporates the drain from the filter sock box directly the the frag area that measures 24x19.
The Aquascape consists to a few separate pieces that are held together 5/8" solid acrylic rods that have been drilled and hammered into the each rock to make three separate structures.
You'll notice the led pucks in the center of the Powermodule, I had initially tried removing two tubes from the center to run the led's but I was never happy with them and they were removed a shortly after setting the tank up.
January 2015 I moved all of the corals out of the QT tank they were being held in, sadly I lost 15-20 pieces and browned out just about every piece of coral I had. There were some underlining circumstances that led to this that were out of my control amongst the delivery of the new tank but I made due with what was left at that point.
More to come...
