Krad's IM 200 EXT Journey

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Krad said:
Congrats to you as well! Not sure how much I can get done without the tank in place but we’ll see. I gotta modify some of the plumbing to plumb in my UV so I might start with that
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I really wanted to go with the IM 170 but the door frames in my basement are only 28 inches wide so there wasn't any way to get a 30 inch wide tank in without construction (my wide would never agree to LOL).
 
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Good luck with the tank! My 200 EXT has been set up for about 4 months and I absolutely love it.
 
Looking forward to watching this one. It will be nice having a separate spot for all of your electronics to mount onto.
 
Didn’t drop it down the stairs woohoo!

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cale0721 said:
I really wanted to go with the IM 170 but the door frames in my basement are only 28 inches wide so there wasn't any way to get a 30 inch wide tank in without construction (my wide would never agree to LOL).
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haha mine are 28 too, just had to turned to fit in height wise
 
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Krad said:
Ok got to do some scaping today. What do you guys think of the arch and cave combo? I cemented the arch pieces but most of them I can move around.

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I like it; some negative space for swimming and tons of real estate for coral.
 
Congrats! The hard part is behind you, now is the fun of filling it up!
 
ShoreReefer said:
Congrats! The hard part is behind you, now is the fun of filling it up!
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Thanks! I'm hoping the cycle goes fast I had about 70lbs of rock sitting in a brute can for a year to seed the rest of the dry rock. Just dosed some ammonia to about 2ppm and will test tomorrow PM
 
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OK I think I finally settled on the aquascape. Wanted to have a few flat surfaces to provide good spots for corals to encrust/branch out.

My plan is to keep SPS/LPS from the center to the left, and the island to the right for any zoas/mushrooms. I don't think I will have much softies in this tank but if I do I want them segregated.
 
These spots are my prime real estate for high flow/light sps and lps.

While I’m cycling I’m going to try and figure out how I want to run my ATO and dosing pumps and do cable mgmt it’s a mess already

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Krad said:
These spots are my prime real estate for high flow/light sps and lps.

While I’m cycling I’m going to try and figure out how I want to run my ATO and dosing pumps and do cable mgmt it’s a mess already

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That’s always the hardest part for me. I’m not good at hose/cord management. I try but can’t seem to get it.
 
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ATO is set up and running and looks like the tank is ready for life this weekend. Super glad I decided to jump start a year ago and cycle some of the rocks in a brute can.

Seeing a little growth on the rocks but I’ll wait for a bit before I get a CUC, I was thinking a pair of clowns.

I think I decided I am going to route as many cables as I can behind the wall and mount the power strip on the framing.

I got some cable management stuff coming in today and hope I can get most of the cables routed without them being too short:

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