Shell's Reef Tank

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Shells' Reef Tank

I am in the process of moving so I thought I would do a tank build/upgrade/move thread

We (my husband and I) started with reef tanks back in 1996. We had a 40 gallon and it lasted for a few years until children. When my youngest was about to turn 6, and I had some spare time on my hands, I wanted to get back into reef tanks.

I re-started with a 24 g AP

Quickly realized it was too small and upgraded to a 90.

Since we were going to put in new flooring - It was the perfect time to upgrade, once again, and pushed it to a 180g.

After being set up for about 5 months

Now the move .......

 

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In preperation for the move, I bought the exact same dimension tank to set up in the new house and then move the corals to it. This way my light canopy will fit and I can then slowly move the corals and then take my time re-setting up my tank.
Here is the temp tank rolled into the new house

 

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Some of my corals before the move

Looking down

 

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Here are some of my fishies

Baby blue

Sunny

Butter

PJ1 (there is a PJ2 also)

Nico & Pico (can't see Pico - he is behind Nico)

 

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Lady Jane

Spaz

Ka-blueeee

Piggy (look at the belly and know you know why we call him piggy)

 

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Some Cyphastrea
Meteor Shower

Atlantis Ocellina

Tyree Blood Red

Zepplins Minefield

 

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Here is the temperary tank getting filled up.

This will be the new location of my tank. Still need to do some work in this room..

Over the weekend, we moved the corals to the temporary tank. And by temporary I mean clamps holding hoses, fishing line holding up racks....
T E M P O R A R Y. Better get a move on, moving over my other tank. So far no casualities and everyone seems to be happy.

 

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Tank in new location

My husband building shed on outside wall of tank to house, ballast & Chiller

Shed in place and electrical being installed.

 

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OK, everything is in place and waiting for a little ammonia bloom from my sand I will start being put back together this weekend.

TANK/STAND:
• 180 Gallon Glass Tank 72†L x 24†W x 24†T
• Oak Stand and Canopy – bought used but repaired and refinished by my husband

LIGHTING:
• 3 x 250w DE Phoenix bulbs
• 3 Sunlight Supply Lumen Max 3 Reflectors
• 1 Sunlight Supply Blue Wave 7 Dual Ballast
• 1 Sunlight Supply Blue Wave 3 Ballast
• 4 x 24†VHO actinics
• 1 Icecap ballast

CIRCULATION:
• 2 – Koralia 4 Controllable Pumps & Wavemaker
• 2 – Koralia 4
• Little Giant – 4- MDQ-SC Inline Pump

FILTRATION:
• Euro-Reef RS250 Skimmer
• Aqua UV 25Watt sterilizer with wiper
• live rock
• live sand
• 10 gallon separate refugium

WATER:
• Specture RO/DI
• 2 - 55 gallon drums (one top off, one salt)

COOLING:
• Jbj Artica Chiller 1/4 HP Chiller

CALCIUM/ALK, CARBON & PHOSPHATE:
• Geo 618 calcium reactor
• 2 – Two Little Fishies Phosban Reactor 150s

MONITORING:
• Reef Keeper Elite Controller

Let the re-build begin!

 

[holdyourlight]

Very nice! What kind of anthias are those?

 

[ZOABOY]

Sweet tank.

 

[Shells]

Very nice! What kind of anthias are those?

To tell you the truth I have no idea - maybe SDguy will chime in or some other person who know their anthias

 

[Shells]

Sweet tank.

Thank you - I can't wait to reset it up, hopefully with new goodies from MAX this weekend.

 

[GHOST]

Nice upgrades the hobby is very addicting, that's a sweet powder blue I likes!!!

 

[SDguy]

Hey Shelly, glad things are coming along! The larger orange anthias is a female squarespot, and the pinkish one looks like a carberryi judging by the scales...

See you tomorrow!!

 

[Shells]

Nice upgrades the hobby is very addicting, that's a sweet powder blue I likes!!!

Thank you - he is my favorite fish

 

[Shells]

Hey Shelly, glad things are coming along! The larger orange anthias is a female squarespot, and the pinkish one looks like a carberryi judging by the scales...

See you tomorrow!!

Thanks Peter and yep see you tomorrow - MAX here we come!

 

[rarelyseriousb]

I like this thread. it was a good idea using the temporary tank.

 

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Finally got my rock work where I like it and 95% done setting up the tank.
Here is a fts

RHS

Middle

LHS