Joe's 135 Build

Joeganja · Dec 15, 2016

PVC plumbing is all orange, waiting for the rest to arrive today hopefully.

For the skimmer i will be using the Aquamaxx Q-2 currently on my 90 gallon.

As far as the sump and return pump goes I will have to wait until I can get the funds to be able to start the tank up. Thinking of going custom (trigger systems, syngery,...) since my stand can only allow a 14 inch wide sump. For return pump I was thinking of the vectra m1 or L1. This is only being a fish only for quite a whole so I don't need to get reef leds thinking of making an led strip. Let me know what you guys think. Any suggestions? It's still has a long way to go. Plus I can't set it up until I take my 90 down and figure out a way to move whatever livestock that is left into separate little tanks.

Tahoe61 · Dec 15, 2016

What a nice looking tank. It's begs to be a reef systems.

What fish types are you considering?

Joeganja · Dec 15, 2016

Tahoe61 said:
What a nice looking tank. It's begs to be a reef systems.

What fish types are you considering?

Regardless of what anyone says claiming that the tank may be too small for the species even though people still do it.

-My red tail sargassum trigger
-Juvenile naso tang (has a 300 gallon home for rehousing when he gets large)
-Majestic angel
-French Angel and yes they can be housed together my buddy has them in a 180.
-Australian Harlequin Tusk
-princess parrot (tempted)
-purple tang last addition
-porcupine puffer (they are not aggressive idk why people always say oh they are aggressive. I've had three and they've all been with smaller fish for years. Very docile)
-pork fish
And a few others.

The for sure ones are my red tail trigger, majestic angel (dad's favorite fish), French if bought at the same time or roughly same size, naso tang (super hardy tang, great personality., and harlequin tusk. No my bio load isn't too much. Just trying be cautious what I say because I know people will say you can't have that many fish in that tank. Tell the people that have two tangs in a 55 gallon. My skimmer is rated for tanks up to 250 gallons.

Joeganja · Dec 15, 2016

All the plumbing is here.

mmw64 · Dec 15, 2016

following

Joeganja · Dec 28, 2016

The next piece of the puzzle has arrived.

revhtree · Dec 29, 2016

Nice man! Following!

Daniel@R2R · Dec 30, 2016

How do you like the AquaMaxx skimmer? I know the products I have from them are good quality.

Joeganja · Dec 30, 2016

mdbannister said:
How do you like the AquaMaxx skimmer? I know the products I have from them are good quality.

Love them. I have the HOB-1 on my lagoon 25 and love it. That's why I got this one. California company so local and great quality and design. No complaints.

Joeganja · Jan 2, 2017

Decided to add led strips to the inside of the stand

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Joeganja · Jan 23, 2017

Sump has arrived and looks beautiful!

Zack K · Jan 23, 2017

I like the orange piping. Any special reason? What reason made you go fish only? Also Following[emoji1360]

Leaellynasaura · Jan 23, 2017

I really like that orange plumbing and it sure matches that sump well!

Joeganja · Jan 23, 2017

Zack Klabunde said:
I like the orange piping. Any special reason? What reason made you go fish only? Also Following[emoji1360]

Black, white, and grey are common and I wanted to change things up. Orange pops and with a black stand it stands out. I'm going fish only because I have two smaller tanks a 25 gallon lagoon IM and a 4.6 gallon aquamaxx. I feel I'll be able to get most expensive corals if I downsize tanks and it would be easier to keep an eye out on each piece. I've always wanted a fish only so I can have a majestic angel along with a harlequin tusk and being a tank you see when you walk into the house it's much nicer to see large fish then a bunch of frags everywhere. In the future maybe it will be a reef but with the prices of leds it's not going to be cheap. So I'll have to save up.