My 120 gallon redo

[jimmybling31]

I've had a few issues moving to Nashville last month and lost most everything. Because of that I'm starting a new thread with how I'm doing things now. I decided to completely redo my tank. I am keeping my rock, fish that survived, and corals that survived, but that's not much. I lost all my favorite fish and was left with just my coral beauty angel and blue tang. In redoing my tank I have purchased a few new items. The Items I have purchased are as follows:

Glasscages custom stand with 36 inch height and 3 doors
Trigger systems ruby 36 elite sump
Magdrive 18 pump for return
secondary temp probe
Vertex Omega 150 protein skimmer

I'm going to be doing the tank as an SPS tank with very few fish. There will be select exceptions to the SPS tank. The exceptions are only going to be the zoanthids and hammer coral that survived along with a rose bubble tip anemone. I want a rose bubble tip anemone, because it's my wife's favorite anemone and I love them as well. It will be the first livestock purchase so it can find itself a nice spot.

I'll post pics in a reply.

 

[jimmybling31]

Her'e some pics. I'll get some more when the lights come on again.

 

[Thereeferboss]

Good luck with your new setup, sucks about your lost, like that trigger setup.

 

[Flameback Pair]

Love those skimmers.

 

[jimmybling31]

I'm looking forward to the skimmer. I researched a good bit and just decided that if I was going to go with a smaller skimmer I wanted a small skimmer that had a good pump and design. I picked the sump because its design was flexible. I was going to do a refugium, but with the carbon dosing I'll be doing I see no need in running a refugium. I'm going to use that section for frags/ hospital area. I'm going to run a very slow flow through it off of the carbon reactor.

also for more info on the tank:
The tank has 90 pounds of dry rock in it that has been populated with bacteria of being in successful reef tanks of mine for years along with a piece of rock that has been in almost every reef tank I've kept over the last 5 years.
I am using a jebao wp 40 for wavemaking and have a 1200 gph korallia running all the time for some circular flow as well.
my nitrates are below 5ppm even right now without a skimmer or anything.
I run a reefkeeper lite for the majority of my tank functions including dosing and top off.
I use reefradiance dm155e lighting.
The tank itself is a marineland 120 reef ready tank.
I'm going to end up needing a 3rd heater with how cold I keep my house in the winter. Can't get the tank up to 77 degrees right now.
My cleanup crew is reproducing in my tank again already. The tank was only down without a heater and water motion for 4 days ( hence losing everything),so I guess I don't need to rebuy that.

I'm overly happy with how well the tank is coming back together. I think it will be stable within the next 2 weeks probably.

 

[Flameback Pair]

So are you doing a fishless cycle?

 

[jimmybling31]

It never lost it's cycle. It hasn't had an amonia spike or anything as the rock never went try when I moved. It just sat for 4 days. The tank has had the same two fish in it eating every day for a month now. I just had to move the tank again onto a new stand week before last. The sump got added last week replacing just using a 40 breeder beside the tank as a sump.