MACNA Made Me Do It.....70gal Build

Ryanj1105 · Oct 6, 2015

So During my trip to MACNA this year my girlfriend decided to surprise me and buy Synergy Reef’s Display tank! Aren’t I lucky!!! So I decided to start a build thread, Hopefully you guys will follow along and help me out with this build.

Here’s The MACNA made do it Tank!

Tank
Planet Aquariums 70 gal 36x18x24
w/ Synergy Reef 16’ Overflow

Lights
ATI 4x39 36in Fixture
Reefbrite 36in (All Blue)

Sump
Custom Advance Acrylics Sump 15x18x14
Artfully Acrylic Standalone 15gal Refugium

Skimmer
NYOS 120 Skimmer

Water Movement
Ecotech MP40 x2
Return Pump -?????

Doser
Jaebo Doser

Heater
Cobalt 200w

Controller
Neptune Apex Full

Hope you follow along!!!

Ryanj1105 · Oct 6, 2015

Let me know what you guy think so far, I will be posting some pictures over the next few day

Ryanj1105 · Oct 7, 2015

whats the easiest way to upload pics on here?

IronVulture · Oct 8, 2015

Ryanj1105 said:
whats the easiest way to upload pics on here?

Push the plus sign bottom left

jsker · Oct 8, 2015

Down on the bottom where it say upload

IronVulture · Oct 8, 2015

Nice looking build so far tagging along

MRRBW · Oct 8, 2015

Nice gift

steve&mari · Oct 8, 2015

Awesome of her can't wait to see it.

Ryanj1105 · Oct 8, 2015

Ok so here's some pics of the stand i built this weekend

Ryanj1105 · Oct 8, 2015

another cool thing I noticed that Planet aquarium does... I think this is really cool my TANK's birthday lol

Ryanj1105 · Oct 8, 2015

Got some pics of my custom sump from advance acrylics last night, can't wait for it to arrive!

iyad_nadi · Oct 8, 2015

Following

steelheader.262 · Oct 8, 2015

Looks great so far.

And your a very luck, wish my wife would buy me reefing equipment.

Ryanj1105 · Oct 8, 2015

Believe me it shocked me too, I gave up my last tank because she wanted to move so I guess this was her way of making it up to me...

Ryanj1105 · Oct 8, 2015

check out my Fish room...

Frag tank and QT (please excuse the junk in the background these pics are kind of old)

Frag tank - Custom 6 gal 26x8x8 24in 4bulb TEK light

QT Standard 29 gal (derimmed)

Ryanj1105 · Oct 8, 2015

S/O to @REEF2REEF for the TANK TOWEL I picked up at MACNA also

Ryanj1105 · Oct 12, 2015

hey guys I have a question... I like to plan everything out and I have been working on a Fish stocking list and i'm really debating on putting one or two tangs in this tank. So would it be fair to put some tangs in this tank? (I'm not a fan of kole or bristeltooth tangs)

BigJohnny · Oct 12, 2015

Ryanj1105 said:
hey guys I have a question... I like to plan everything out and I have been working on a Fish stocking list and i'm really debating on putting one or two tangs in this tank. So would it be fair to put some tangs in this tank? (I'm not a fan of kole or bristeltooth tangs)

Not fair at all its only 70 gallons and it's a short 70 at 36". Tang restrictions are primarily based on tank length. In reality you shouldn't even have one tang in that tank.

BigJohnny · Oct 12, 2015

BigJohnny said:
Not fair at all its only 70 gallons and it's a short 70 at 36". Tang restrictions are primarily based on tank length. In reality you shouldn't even have one tang in that tank.

And just fyi yes, I'm a tang police officer.