Renton's Evolution from 200 to 440 gallons

bubbaque · Aug 2, 2020

Love the progress pics. I just had new tile put in to get ready for my tank this week.

What’s your plans for the floor under the current tanks. Put everything in those tubs and then move the tanks?

Renton777 · Aug 2, 2020

bubbaque said:
Love the progress pics. I just had new tile put in to get ready for my tank this week.

What’s your plans for the floor under the current tanks. Put everything in those tubs and then move the tanks?

Yep, moving the current tanks to the other side of the room. I have a crew coming to help me on August 15th. We are draining and emptying the current tanks, moving them and setting it all back up. Its going to be a huge task but I am hoping we can do it in a day....a very long day.

Then the tile will go in there and be all set for when the new tanks arrive. I will get them setup and let them mature a bit before moving the fish and corals to the new system. So that room is going to be a bunch a fish tanks for a month or two, I am trying to mentally prepare my wife for that.....

Renton777 · Aug 14, 2020

Well, the big tank move day is tomorrow. Got a good crew coming over to help tear the tanks down and then set them back up on the other side of the room. It should be an interesting experience........

Estimate for the new tanks arrival is the end of August

bubbaque · Aug 14, 2020

Exciting and scary stuff happening over there!

Camaro Show Corals · Aug 14, 2020

Hopefully it goes smooth! Should be awesome when done!

Renton777 · Aug 15, 2020

Well holy smokes......that was quite a project. Huge thanks to the group that helped out, I could not have done it without them. We were able to get the live stock out into the bins, drain the tanks, move them by lifting a bit, then getting them on moving blankets and sliding them. The display tank was able to stay on the stand and the sump stayed in the stand.

It was a very long day but I think most of us enjoyed it. There were no emergencies or "ut oh" monents.

Tomorrow I will tear out the remaining carpet and prep the floors and the tile guy will come Monday and by Wednesday the tile should be done!

Now here is hoping we didn't upset the bio logical balance of the system too much. I am planning on doing a lot of water changes over the next week to help with the disruption.

Renton777 · Aug 16, 2020

Today was the craziest and most intense part of the upgrade process (I hope!). Moving the new tank into the house will not be a walk in the park, but its not as time sensitive nor a 14 hour endeavor.

bubbaque · Aug 16, 2020

Did you give anyone backups of your frags?

Renton777 · Aug 16, 2020

bubbaque said:
Did you give anyone backups of your frags?

More or less, yes. I have sold, traded and given frags of just about every coral in my tank to friends in the area.

Happy to report nothing died over night and all fish except the yellowtail tamarin are out swimming and eating. The yellow tail is still buried in the sand

Irongolem411 · Aug 17, 2020

Than came over the help I see

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Renton777 said:
Well holy smokes......that was quite a project. Huge thanks to the group that helped out, I could not have done it without them. We were able to get the live stock out into the bins, drain the tanks, move them by lifting a bit, then getting them on moving blankets and sliding them. The display tank was able to stay on the stand and the sump stayed in the stand.

It was a very long day but I think most of us enjoyed it. There were no emergencies or "ut oh" monents.

Tomorrow I will tear out the remaining carpet and prep the floors and the tile guy will come Monday and by Wednesday the tile should be done!

Now here is hoping we didn't upset the bio logical balance of the system too much. I am planning on doing a lot of water changes over the next week to help with the disruption.

Renton777 · Aug 17, 2020

Irongolem411 said:
Than came over the help I see

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Yes. I thinking he was hoping to more just observe and document but he got roped into helping in all regards and was part of the awesome group effort.

Renton777 · Aug 17, 2020

Water tests are in after the move and everything looks good. Calcium: 420 , Alk 9, Nitrates are at 5ppm, Salinity 1.0255

No coral die off and now all fish are accounted for

Renton777 · Aug 18, 2020

Put together some closed loop returns for the new tanks

And a few pictures of my flower anemones in their current home. They really seem to like it.

mattgsa · Aug 18, 2020

Great job on the move, and on the tile. I agree you need more dragons. Looking forward to the new tank.

Wspangler · Aug 18, 2020

You should keep the 200 for a fish only tank.

Renton777 · Aug 19, 2020

Wspangler said:
You should keep the 200 for a fish only tank.

@Wspangler was one of the guys helping with the tank move. He has been banned from my house by my wife because he said there is room to keep the old tanks AND setup the new tanks. He is not wrong, and it would be totally awesome to do that but my wife said that if I did that I would have to find a new wife . Funny thing is she said the same thing when I started talking about getting new, bigger tanks and now here we are, still married. Maybe she means I am allowed to have two wives? Do you think?

Wrangy · Aug 22, 2020

Wow what an effort mate! So happy to hear things went well and everyone is semi-settled in again

I was going to say, does Than ever not wear a shirt and slacks ;Hilarious you guys really let him down, next time I want to see everyone in formal wear so he''s not the odd man out!! haha

Renton777 · Aug 22, 2020

One week update post tank move update - all fish doing great, all corals doing well. No die off!

Renton777 · Aug 22, 2020

I will have to get the good camera out one of these day but right now I am in the process of getting the area ready for the new tanks.

Here is a before picture

And here is an after picture

The "Dragon's Layer" is really taking shape!