Kengar
Well-Known Member
Almost two years to the day after I took delivery of a crappy-looking tank from Coast to Coast Aquariums in New Jersey, I will finally be moving it -- rebraced and far better looking -- downstairs to its stand next week. Therefore, it's finally time to start my build thread.
This build has its roots in 2010. When we were looking to move from our townhouse to a house, a major consideration was where the 156 I had at the time would go. This house had the perfect location: downstairs in the finished basement, against a wall on one side of the stairs. The HVAC room is on the other side of the wall, behind and beneath the stairs. With sink already installed, there was existing water supply, drainage, and plenty of room for all the stuff. Perfect! Plan was to plumb through the wall, with sump on the one side and DT on the other.
Unfortunately, the entire system crashed in the course of the move. In the time it took me to go from the house, where I had moved all livestock into a vat of well-brewed saltwater, back to the townhouse to break down the hardware and bring it back to the house, every single living thing in the tank died. Corals completely bleached, fish all keeled over, dead. To this day, I don't know what happened, although I suspect I stressed the pink and black cucumber and it nuked the tank, or shock of new water caused the corals to go nuclear on each other in a confined, non-filtered vat of water, which took out everything else. Needless to say, such a loss was devastating, and I sold off everything to "put the hobby away" for a bit.
Unfortunately, working from home in the basement and looking at the spot where the tank was supposed to have gone ultimately got the better of me in 2015, and at that time I decided to get back in -- even bigger than before......
This build has its roots in 2010. When we were looking to move from our townhouse to a house, a major consideration was where the 156 I had at the time would go. This house had the perfect location: downstairs in the finished basement, against a wall on one side of the stairs. The HVAC room is on the other side of the wall, behind and beneath the stairs. With sink already installed, there was existing water supply, drainage, and plenty of room for all the stuff. Perfect! Plan was to plumb through the wall, with sump on the one side and DT on the other.
Unfortunately, the entire system crashed in the course of the move. In the time it took me to go from the house, where I had moved all livestock into a vat of well-brewed saltwater, back to the townhouse to break down the hardware and bring it back to the house, every single living thing in the tank died. Corals completely bleached, fish all keeled over, dead. To this day, I don't know what happened, although I suspect I stressed the pink and black cucumber and it nuked the tank, or shock of new water caused the corals to go nuclear on each other in a confined, non-filtered vat of water, which took out everything else. Needless to say, such a loss was devastating, and I sold off everything to "put the hobby away" for a bit.
Unfortunately, working from home in the basement and looking at the spot where the tank was supposed to have gone ultimately got the better of me in 2015, and at that time I decided to get back in -- even bigger than before......
