Rideit's 180 SPS Tank

rideit6578 · Nov 11, 2017

Trim is up! Reef savy ghost overflow installed! Water....going slowly but still excited!!

Jim Harrison · Nov 13, 2017

You inspire me!

BeachBum2012 · Nov 13, 2017

This is the size that I'm trying to convince my wife that I need. Your build looks fantastic so far. Thanks for sharing.

Labridaedicted · Nov 13, 2017

rideit6578 said:
Trim is up! Reef savy ghost overflow installed! Water....going slowly but still excited!!

Looks great!

rideit6578 · Nov 13, 2017

Jim Harrison said:
You inspire me!

Thank you so much! I have folders saved on my phone and computer of inspiration from other people's tanks that helped me lay the groundwork for this one. Hope I don't disappoint in the end!! lol

BeachBum2012 said:
This is the size that I'm trying to convince my wife that I need. Your build looks fantastic so far. Thanks for sharing.

Labridaedicted said:
Looks great!

Thanks all

botheboss · Nov 13, 2017

Wow! Awesome work and a great idea.

rideit6578 · Nov 24, 2017

Paint the stand, done.
$15 rgb led bling, done. (Ps they advertise it wont rust. We'll see about that!)
Drain plumbing finally done!

Waiting on some fittings for the return then filling up the way!!

rideit6578 · Nov 24, 2017

Sorry the pictures loaded upside down

Jim Harrison · Nov 24, 2017

I went went purple pipes, haha! Love the colored pipes.

P.S. I have a ton of rockscape images as well. I'm going with the 3 islands look.

rideit6578 · Jan 9, 2018

The world's friendliest naso and some nice wwc pink panther

eric8625 · Jan 10, 2018

This looks great. How big is your fish room? I’m looking at doing a similar layout just curious how the size of room is working for you?

revhtree · Jan 10, 2018

Sweet tank!

rideit6578 · Jan 10, 2018

eric8625 said:
This looks great. How big is your fish room? I’m looking at doing a similar layout just curious how the size of room is working for you?

Thanks! It's working out really great. The room is about 30" deep so plenty of room to walk. It gets tight when I bring the brute back there for water changes but it's not bad. The only thing I wish I could have done was get a sink in there and make room for a water changing station but there was no way that was happening. and to make it an deeper of a room I would have had to move a window....wasn't worth. Just going to have find a spot for the frag tank to be set up lol. Definitely put in a vent if you can.

eric8625 · Jan 15, 2018

rideit6578 said:
Thanks! It's working out really great. The room is about 30" deep so plenty of room to walk. It gets tight when I bring the brute back there for water changes but it's not bad. The only thing I wish I could have done was get a sink in there and make room for a water changing station but there was no way that was happening. and to make it an deeper of a room I would have had to move a window....wasn't worth. Just going to have find a spot for the frag tank to be set up lol. Definitely put in a vent if you can.

Perfect thanks for the reply. I’ve put in a floor drain as well as a drain for a sink, I’m still unsure if I’m going to actually put a sink in the room, not sure if I’ll have enough room. I also ran pipe for an exhaust vent. The room itself is roughly 5’x8’.

rideit6578 · Jan 15, 2018

eric8625 said:
Perfect thanks for the reply. I’ve put in a floor drain as well as a drain for a sink, I’m still unsure if I’m going to actually put a sink in the room, not sure if I’ll have enough room. I also ran pipe for an exhaust vent. The room itself is roughly 5’x8’.

If you're going to put the RO unit in the room, add the sink. Just think about carrying the nasty skimmer cup out of the room to clean it... my biggest problem is that I'm not above the basement and didn't have the room or funds to add water to where the tank is. So I'll be figuring that out in the future with strong pumps from the basement.