Reefer 170

[Roy 750xxl]

Hello everyone, so after setting up my reefer 750 xxl and loving it so much my son wanted a fish tank for Christmas. Soooooo after doing some looking and searching I found this little gem for the deal of a lifetime which I couldn't turn down. The previous owner did explain to me that there was a pinhole size leak in the left back corner due to the silicone beginning to fail. So after a couple minutes of negotiations the tank was broken down and brought home. I started off by cleaning everything because it looked like the tank had not had any maintenance done to it in over a year. Once everything was all clean and separated began to work on the pinhole leak in the corner. I am not an expert sealing tanks by any means look up a couple YouTube videos on how to and began with a razor blade to cut out the silicone in the inside corner of the tank. After that wiped down with some alcohol and laid down new silicone seal allowed to dry for the recommended time and then put water and tested did not find anything leaking everything looked like it was working great now time to assemble. Put the sand back and put in a couple leftover pieces of rock from the 750 build. Installed all the plumbing which was a breeze on these reefer tanks but then noticed that the bulkheads were leaking. After a little troubleshooting decided to drain the Overflow and remove the plumbing for the Emergency Drain and for the return pump which were the ones that were leaking. Added some Teflon tape to the threads on the bottom of the pipes and reinstalled. After this was done there was not one leak or one drip coming from the newly sealed lines problem solved. Continued to set up the tank installing the skimmer, light, heater, return pump and all that good stuff. Once I made sure there were no more leaks went to bed because it was 3 a.m. and had to be on the way to work at 6 a.m. so will continue to update as I get time to work on the tank and upload some pictures

 

[saintsreturn]

Congrats on the find! I look forward to tagging along for its rebuild

 

[Roy 750xxl]

My left over rock, beginning to fill the tank and allowing for the silicone to cure and set after re sealing

 

[Roy 750xxl]

Congrats on the find! I look forward to tagging along for its rebuild

Thanks bud... dont know if I did a good thing or not I just set up a 750 xxl which I transferred everything from the old 150g which wasn't much lol but I'm willing to go in all the way with the hobby especially after the 750 investment. I got lazy didnt test as often as I should and wasnt keeping up with things. Now I test every 3 days lol till i can figure out how much the tank is consuming and then the goal is to set up a doser to get everything as stable as possible since I want to have a sps dominant tank. The 170 is for my son which I will also be maintaining lol just set up the sand and filled with water this tank was running but drained a day prior to purchase due to the leak so re used the rock from the tank and also the sand after a through cleaning with salt water. Began to add microbacter 7 and let everything settle until I can get in there and make the rock scape

 

[Roy 750xxl]

Tank filled making sure there are no leaks or any issues just threw the rock in there due to the cloudiness of the water could not see what I was doing inside the tank. Will try to scape the tank today and get things moving along.

Parts included with the purchase of tank:
- reef octopus skimmer
- radion xr15 gen 4 pro with Rms mount
-vortech MP10Qd
- 3 corals
-hammer coral
-Kryptonite kandy kane
- another coral dont know the name of
-2 clown fish
-1 coral beauty
-2 peppermint shrimp
- jebao return pump

 

[Roy 750xxl]

Corals that came with the tank got moved to the 750...... mayyyyyybe temp maybe I'll keep them ... hmmmmmm...

 

[saintsreturn]

I vote keep them

 

[Roy 750xxl]

I vote keep them

Like the way you think ;Stig

 

[saintsreturn]

I love those canes. I have some in mine that i never knew they puffed up. Its cool to see what they do from day to day. Now if they would only branch more so i could frag lol

 

[Roy 750xxl]

I think these look that was because they're stressed out from when previous owner took down the tank corals were in a plastic tote with powerhead heater but no light for who knows how many days hoping to bring him back and puff it up a bit