Diefs 120 Peninsula

DiefsReef · Jun 15, 2020

A milestone was made over the weekend. Tank stand moved to its final resting place in the living room!

Now on to stiffening the floor and fish room setup.

dbl · Jun 15, 2020

DiefsReef said:
A milestone was made over the weekend. Tank stand moved to its final resting place in the living room!

Now on to stiffening the floor and fish room setup.

Looks great...nice work.

DiefsReef · Jun 15, 2020

dbl said:
Looks great...nice work.

Thx dbl, glad its dry enough and the stink is gone!

Lazydayz · Jun 17, 2020

Wow!! You say your not a cabinet builder but those could rival any high end builder!!! Very nice work.

DiefsReef · Jun 17, 2020

Lazydayz said:
Wow!! You say your not a cabinet builder but those could rival any high end builder!!! Very nice work.

Thx! I'm a bit of a perfectionist with wood work so it takes forever.

Brian82143 · Jun 20, 2020

Looks really great so far. You did an amazing job on that stand!

DiefsReef · Jun 22, 2020

Brian82143 said:
Looks really great so far. You did an amazing job on that stand!

Thank you Brian!

DiefsReef · Jun 22, 2020

Son came home over the weekend so I was able to get the tanks on the stands!
So excited to have a tank on a stand I smile every time I walk past it

pulled in the stand for the Max170 as well. I know I have a separate thread for the MaxE 170 but the build has been all at the same time for the stand so including a pic here as well.

DiefsReef · Jun 25, 2020

The only thing about this tank build that makes me sad is having to put up a wall to support the floor below the tank.
I had a water heater flood a while back and took the opportunity to move a wall out to create a Media room which I love.
Move forward to now and I need to stiffen up that sealing and will eat up some space in that room

I thought about beams and other options and just decided we need the storage space anyway so suck it up and get it done.

The media room with board to show where outside wall will be. (hopefully this weekend)
The other side of that wall is my shop/New Fish room. Getting ready to put together the Mixing station finally.

DiefsReef · Jun 29, 2020

So after much deliberation I have scrapped the plan to build a wall and will be putting a double 2x6 support beam accros the span. Went and bought materials last night and will see how that goes later today. Will add some pics after its up.

DiefsReef · Jul 6, 2020

Contest requires an update today so although I have nothing to post really, I'll talk about the floor support.
The idea was to put 2 poles with a double 2x6 beam. Now I have to modify that because I ran into drain pipes I cant move.

Always something..

DiefsReef · Jul 13, 2020

We are soaking rock finally. This is a pic of the old rock I had after a citric acid bath. I rinsed in ro/di and will make several water changes in the next few weeks..

Before and After:

DiefsReef · Jul 20, 2020

Built a wall this weekend for the support beam and will install beam hopefully this evening. I'll post pics after its up.

TriggerFinger · Jul 21, 2020

Hi, nice peninsula you got there! Very nice job on the stands too! Just wanted to mention there is a gray cap inside the outlet of that pan world pump that has to be removed before you use it. I thought mine was broken but it turns out that little cap doesn’t let water flow through it

DiefsReef · Jul 21, 2020

TriggerFinger said:
Hi, nice peninsula you got there! Very nice job on the stands too! Just wanted to mention there is a gray cap inside the outlet of that pan world pump that has to be removed before you use it. I thought mine was broken but it turns out that little cap doesn’t let water flow through it

Thx Trigger for the comments and thx for the heads up on the plug! I hope to get the beam under the tank up by the weekend and start getting the rest of the basement fish room moving after that. Maybe I'll finally get some water in a tank soon!

DiefsReef · Jul 24, 2020

Worked the last few nights getting the support beam in place.
Not really needed but the piece of mind is great. Really stiffened up the floor under the DT tank.
Now on to the fish room. lots left to do there.

DiefsReef · Jul 27, 2020

Decided to remove all the insulation in the fish room to remove/reduce dust in the room.
I can tell you this is not a fun job at all!

On a good note:
Picked up 2 of these for my mixing station.
Will have plenty of water for sure!

725196 · Jul 28, 2020

Awesome work with the cabinet. I built the stand for my last tank but my new one came with a nice one. I am also having an equipment cabinet built now for the controllers. I would have built it but my new wife like furniture to match, so... Anyway great job.

Kearneyc77 · Jul 28, 2020

DiefsReef said:
Decided to remove all the insulation in the fish room to remove/reduce dust in the room.
I can tell you this is not a fun job at all!

On a good note:
Picked up 2 of these for my mixing station.
Will have plenty of water for sure!

That’s a whole lotta water!!!

DiefsReef · Jul 28, 2020

NanoReefLovers said:
Awesome work with the cabinet. I built the stand for my last tank but my new one came with a nice one. I am also having an equipment cabinet built now for the controllers. I would have built it but my new wife like furniture to match, so... Anyway great job.

Thank you!