fraghunter
Well-Known Member
After much harassment I mean convincing by mean green eyes, I havedecided to start documenting my new dream tank 2.0
Right off I want to Thank a few greatreefers for giving up time to help me anytime I ask and without them would nothave ever gotten to this point.
In no particular order
Richie Karagozler
BBash
JonnyJ
PicoD
Alex
Nottick
Nuch
MarkLUgo
So here goes I had my Dream Tank a Oceanic120 Tech tank and Stand and had started it up got it running after I got tiredof the standard 125 Fowler tank I had been running for about a year. I waslooking for some live rock because I wanted some more hiding spots for myaggressive fish. I ran across a website call Manhattan Reef and decided to youone of my very first listings was on the WTB site for live rock. A guy by thename of Richie responded putting me in touch with 2 people selling live rock onSI. One of those 2 people was Dennis Nuch who I bought all the rock he had on atank he was breaking down. After seeinghis tank I started to get the bug for reef tanks again, when I got home Istarted searching for a tank I had wanted before I got out of the hobby Anoceanic tech tank 120. After finally going to Riches house and seeing his tankI was off and running again with this fixation that I needed a full blown reefagain within 2 weeks I found one and it was off I went.
Had this tank setup for 14 months and then Alex listed hewas getting out of the hobby no wait he wasn’t then again he was or maybenot.LOL went to his house to pickup a Hippo Tang and he took me down to seewhat he had left from his break down.
There it was a 200 gallon DD in all its glory, I was prettyimpressed with the depth but thought who wants to tackle a upgrade project? Notme when I got home I could get my mind off that tank. I fought my impulses fora few weeks hoping Alex would sell that tank and it would no longer be on mymind. But when I saw Alex give it a bump a couple of weeks latter and heard maybehe actually was going to stay in the hobby I had to reach out again see if wecan work a deal of some sort.
It must have been meant to be, a week or so later a big partof the SI reef crew and I assembled at Alex’s house for the trade and after alot of sweat, man power and joke cracking the tank was sitting in my garage (Thanksagain guys and gals). :}
So after many Costco sized bottles of Vinegar, 1 bottle ofbleach a box of Magic KJleen which is that power head cleaning solution that Iused on the plumbing and the panels for the overflows, Heavy elbow grease and aroll of limo window tint. Here is the finished product. Yhea!!!
Next Step Building the Stand.
So we wanted to make the stand as strong as possible so westarted out with 2X4’s and 2X6’s. This would have been a brick ish house but werealized that this would not leave a lot of internal head height inside thetank. Went to Bob’s (Bbash) house to steal some ideas since he had the biggerbrother a DD 250 which is 5X3X27 and saw he had a crazy amount of head space inhis stand. The difference was that it was built all out of 2X3’s and the way itwas built was the way the build homes in PA (modular wall by wall constructionand then screwed together.
After seeing his tank and stand I had to have this exactsetup and to top it all off Bob (Bbash) offered his services. Fellow reefersthis in the world of the Corleone’s is called an offer you can’t refuse. LOL
Here is some pictures of the Stand Build version 1.1
So decided on the sump layout after building the stand, yesI know cart before the horse. Decided to go with 2 40 gallon breeders eachmeasuring 36X18X16 so it turns out stand is snug for what I want to get done.
Wanted a 40 gallon fugue all on its own and a 40 gallon sump.
So as you can see we had some issues with the stand andfuge\sump config. At this point we had to rethink the setup, we tried manydifferent preparations. Preparation A-G was a total failure but Preparation Hfelt pretty good on the whole. What What? No worries though Bob is always ready to help rip stuff apart and redothings so off we went. In the meantime dropped 40 breeders of to Richie’s houseto get tank drilled for fugue and baffled for the sump, after some properplanning and replanning we came up with a new stand configuration that workedperfectly. See for yourself
http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o752/jpellica/20121202_152627.jpg
http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o752/jpellica/20121202_152617.jpg
Right off I want to Thank a few greatreefers for giving up time to help me anytime I ask and without them would nothave ever gotten to this point.
In no particular order
Richie Karagozler
BBash
JonnyJ
PicoD
Alex
Nottick
Nuch
MarkLUgo
So here goes I had my Dream Tank a Oceanic120 Tech tank and Stand and had started it up got it running after I got tiredof the standard 125 Fowler tank I had been running for about a year. I waslooking for some live rock because I wanted some more hiding spots for myaggressive fish. I ran across a website call Manhattan Reef and decided to youone of my very first listings was on the WTB site for live rock. A guy by thename of Richie responded putting me in touch with 2 people selling live rock onSI. One of those 2 people was Dennis Nuch who I bought all the rock he had on atank he was breaking down. After seeinghis tank I started to get the bug for reef tanks again, when I got home Istarted searching for a tank I had wanted before I got out of the hobby Anoceanic tech tank 120. After finally going to Riches house and seeing his tankI was off and running again with this fixation that I needed a full blown reefagain within 2 weeks I found one and it was off I went.
Had this tank setup for 14 months and then Alex listed hewas getting out of the hobby no wait he wasn’t then again he was or maybenot.LOL went to his house to pickup a Hippo Tang and he took me down to seewhat he had left from his break down.
There it was a 200 gallon DD in all its glory, I was prettyimpressed with the depth but thought who wants to tackle a upgrade project? Notme when I got home I could get my mind off that tank. I fought my impulses fora few weeks hoping Alex would sell that tank and it would no longer be on mymind. But when I saw Alex give it a bump a couple of weeks latter and heard maybehe actually was going to stay in the hobby I had to reach out again see if wecan work a deal of some sort.
It must have been meant to be, a week or so later a big partof the SI reef crew and I assembled at Alex’s house for the trade and after alot of sweat, man power and joke cracking the tank was sitting in my garage (Thanksagain guys and gals). :}
So after many Costco sized bottles of Vinegar, 1 bottle ofbleach a box of Magic KJleen which is that power head cleaning solution that Iused on the plumbing and the panels for the overflows, Heavy elbow grease and aroll of limo window tint. Here is the finished product. Yhea!!!
Next Step Building the Stand.
So we wanted to make the stand as strong as possible so westarted out with 2X4’s and 2X6’s. This would have been a brick ish house but werealized that this would not leave a lot of internal head height inside thetank. Went to Bob’s (Bbash) house to steal some ideas since he had the biggerbrother a DD 250 which is 5X3X27 and saw he had a crazy amount of head space inhis stand. The difference was that it was built all out of 2X3’s and the way itwas built was the way the build homes in PA (modular wall by wall constructionand then screwed together.
After seeing his tank and stand I had to have this exactsetup and to top it all off Bob (Bbash) offered his services. Fellow reefersthis in the world of the Corleone’s is called an offer you can’t refuse. LOL
Here is some pictures of the Stand Build version 1.1
So decided on the sump layout after building the stand, yesI know cart before the horse. Decided to go with 2 40 gallon breeders eachmeasuring 36X18X16 so it turns out stand is snug for what I want to get done.
Wanted a 40 gallon fugue all on its own and a 40 gallon sump.
So as you can see we had some issues with the stand andfuge\sump config. At this point we had to rethink the setup, we tried manydifferent preparations. Preparation A-G was a total failure but Preparation Hfelt pretty good on the whole. What What? No worries though Bob is always ready to help rip stuff apart and redothings so off we went. In the meantime dropped 40 breeders of to Richie’s houseto get tank drilled for fugue and baffled for the sump, after some properplanning and replanning we came up with a new stand configuration that workedperfectly. See for yourself
http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o752/jpellica/20121202_152627.jpg
http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o752/jpellica/20121202_152617.jpg
