New 120g build

[deerhunter06]

Well I have never done a build thread but I'm so excited about this one I think I'm going to try it out.

I'll start out with my set up, SO FAR

- 120g midwest custom acrylic 48 x 24 x 24 (center overflow)

- 2 Radion Gen 3 pros

- 1 maxspect gyre 150

- 1 vortech mp40

- 1 tunze 3155 ato

- eshopps r 200 sump

- reef octopus 110 skimmer

Coming in the mail barcudda 100gpd rodi unit, 130 lbs Aragonite sand, 90lbs of BRS dry Tonga branch/shelf rock. Some more odds and ends as well.

I have never had a tank with a sump or plumbing of any kind. Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated. Will be posting pics as I go.

 

[deerhunter06]

Got some of the rock today been working on an aquascape.

 

[deerhunter06]

Any suggestions on a good way to mount the radions inside the canopy?

 

[rayn]

I don't have help on the radions, but tank looks nice!

 

[deerhunter06]

I don't have help on the radions, but tank looks nice!

Thank you, It had some haze and a few scratches when I picked it up off craigslist, I tried using plastiX to buff it out with no success. I got some of that novus 3 step and I tell you what that stuff is a miracle product tank looks like new now.

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

How is the tank coming along?

 

[deerhunter06]

Pretty good actually, thank you for asking. got the radions mounted inside the canopy filled up with water the ammonia has been at 6ppm for about a week tested it today and it's almost to 0 and the nitrites are sky high as well as nitrates so cycle is going smooth I put some sand and rock in there from my other tank and surprisingly a bunch of pods have lived through the ammonia spike. Won't be too much longer

 

[deerhunter06]

I didnt even have to add any ammonia that big shelf rock from brs must of had all kinds of dead organic stuff in it it's very porous. Ammonia spiked the first night.

 

[deerhunter06]

All set up....

 

[deerhunter06]

Disreguard the mini colony with RTN on the rack, not sure what happen there. Acclimated it for over an hour just rtn over night the day it came in. : (

 

[deerhunter06]

2 months....

 

[Reefguard]

Looks great iff ur watching a island

 

[deerhunter06]

Thanks, that's SPS island.

 

[deerhunter06]

3 month mark.... pic from when I first upgraded.


same view 3 Months later