Servo's 850 gallon Upgrade

[Servo]

How did you get the tank on the stand in that small of a room?
I will have a similar situation soon with a massive glass tank. I'm not sure I want a forklift driving on my newly poured foundation. Any recommendations? Also did you have any issues with subs working around the crated tank and stand?

Rock is looking really good so far.

The tank was lifted onto the stand with "unique" engineering. Actually the tank and stand were placed into the room prior to closing it in. The dimensions of the room are roughly 24 feet by 12 feet.

 

[Servo]

Is the bottom glass for pvc/starboard?

The aquarium is from Planet Aquariums. The bottom is built with PVC

 

[Servo]

Just read through this entire thread, all I can say is wow. I have a 300 g, couldn't imagine one of that magnitude. Incredible attention to detail and style. Thank you for sharing. I'm right down I20 in Abilene.

Every little project unearths an unexpected project. If you get up this way LMK.

 

[olaggie01]

Hey Ryan. Glad to see things are moving along. I'll send you a message next time I'm in Dallas

 

[ReefToLive1]

Wow incredible thread...This is going to be one heck of a tank. Cant wait to see it up and running!

 

[Servo]

I am so behind on this. Ugh... Here is what I'm doing today.

 

[gettaReef]

That turned out super nice and sleek, great idea

 

[Desmond]

That looks awesome [emoji3]

 

[Servo]

Here are a couple of distant shots. I have no photo skills (iPhone only) so the white balance will never be good, therefore coral close ups are always going to look like hell.

I wanted to let everyone know that I have made some progress and now have it in autopilot, but not without some major heartbreak.

I'll add to the thread and add to the timeline as soon as I start to get some spare time. [emoji846]

 

[Servo]

 

[Servo]

One of the unique things is what I did with my R/o waste. I have pex tubing placed under the slab and we connected it to the pool to use for top off.

 

[Servo]

Filling up the tank took 5 days.

 

[Servo]

In order to help stabilize the system, I added 10 buckets of Walt Smiths Fiji mud to the refugium. I was super careful and ended up with a muddy tank for 3 days.

 

[Servo]

I had a little pre performance anxiety.




But everything worked out.


It's funny for me to listen to the new pipe flow now as well as me figuring out how much flow I need.

 

[Servo]

Front access is easy. I still haven't finished the front. I need to close in the lift so the living room is sealed off from the fish room.

 

[Servo]

So I added salt and hooked up a Seneye to remotely monitor the parameters of the tank and specifically watch the NH3/NH4. I waited about 7-8 weeks. At this point in time I still hadn't decided on lights. I rigged up a couple of older LEDs that I had but it didn't adequately cover the foot print of the tank. I had my fish from my 10 year old system and I took fish that was in my buddies aquarium. I had him house about 10 fish for about 3 years while I was waiting for the house to be planned and completed. I put all the fish in on the same day. My 400 gallon looked like a 40 gallon breeder and I'm sure my vlamingi tang was thrilled.

 

[Servo]

I moved my old tank out of the wall sold it repaired the wall and sold the house.

 

[Servo]

Ecotech launched their new upgrade for their LED lights and after a bit of review I decided to get a few. By a few I mean 12.

And then build the modular hanging system using ez tube.

Here's 1/2 of it done.

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[Servo]

And for insurance. We had a tornado two weeks ago and just barely missed the house. This came in handy

 

[locito277]

Awesome build