The Peninsula - 200g Mixed Reef

DipG · Jan 12, 2015

I am not new to this forum but I have never done a tank thread over here. So this is my first tank thread here but I have been in this hobby for around 4 years and I started my first reef tank in Dec 2010 which was a 6 gallon pico and then upgraded in 2012 to 36 gallon tank. Upgrading to a bigger tank wasnâ€™t an easy decision as my partner and I had an agreement that we wouldnâ€™t get a bigger tank until we moved to another house. One of the reasons for not getting a bigger tank was also because we didnâ€™t think we could have a bigger tank on the second level of our current house. Anyways, long story short we started the upgrade planning process in late 2013 but somehow we didnâ€™t get anywhere especially since we didnâ€™t have time and we are not handy at all so we wanted someone to come in a build our tank. Then by chance we ended meeting Mark Callahan in Jan 2014 when he was in DC area and he agreed to take on the project. And after 6 months we had our dream tank.

Tank Dimensions: 72 x 22 x 30 Glass Aquarium - It was custom built due to the dimensions and where we wanted the internal overflow.
36â€ tall Steel Stand
Acrylic Sump & Refugium: 60 x 18 x 20
Lighting: 3 x Ecotech Radions + 2 x Giesemann Razor T5 Light Bars i.e. 4 Bulbs
Water Movement: darkroom Flow Diverter, Vortech MP60 and MP40
Return Pump: Water Blaster 7000

Here is one time lapse video which I did during the build phase
[video=youtube;1fEYQFMVz5U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fEYQFMVz5U[/video]

The first picture I took after the lights were mounted temporarily before tank finished cycling

Here is the episode Mark did recently on my tank build
[video=youtube;HWrhvOaYlfo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrhvOaYlfo[/video]

Here are the links to the threads of my previous tanks
6g Pico - on Nano Reef here
36g Nano - on WAMAS here
if people are interested in knowing something in specific about this build than just post it below and I will try to get pics and/video of the same.

DipG · Jan 12, 2015

some more pictures of the tank and its inhabitants

SAWDUSTINTANK · Jan 12, 2015

Very nice upgrade! I like it. I really like the LED/T5 combo your running. I plan on adding T5 supplements to my LED's really soon. In Mark's video, he noted the client (you) not wanting to lug buckets to the 2nd floor. How do you do water changes?

DipG · Jan 12, 2015

SAWDUSTINTANK said:
Very nice upgrade! I like it. I really like the LED/T5 combo your running. I plan on adding T5 supplements to my LED's really soon. In Mark's video, he noted the client (you) not wanting to lug buckets to the 2nd floor. How do you do water changes?

so we set up a new water mixing station in our garage downstairs and I push water from there during the water change. I will post pictures of the water change station next.

DipG · Mar 20, 2015

sorry for not keeping this thread updated but here are some pictures which I took couple of weeks ago

Here are some of the pics of the sump, refugium and water change station

here is short clip of the Bangaii Cardinal Babies which were born about 4 weeks ago. This was one week after they were born

revhtree · Mar 23, 2015

Beautiful reef! Love it and great job!

DipG · Mar 24, 2015

revhtree said:
Beautiful reef! Love it and great job!

Thank You!!

walkabout · Mar 25, 2015

Nice set up, this is my 200 gallon acrylic in the process of acclimating

walkabout · Mar 25, 2015

Oh by the way your photos on my phone I cannot see the pictures of your sump just wondering if something went wrong or if its just me

Mr.Rocc · Mar 26, 2015

right on man great looking tank

DipG · Mar 26, 2015

walkabout said:
Oh by the way your photos on my phone I cannot see the pictures of your sump just wondering if something went wrong or if its just me

Sorry about that. I was doing bit a of a clean up in my photobucket account and moved the pics without realizing the impact here. They are back to their original location so you should be able to see the pictures.

DipG · Mar 26, 2015

walkabout said:
Nice set up, this is my 200 gallon acrylic in the process of acclimating

Looks nice. How tall is the tank? The way the picture is taken it really looks tall. I also love the auqascape.

DipG · Mar 26, 2015

Tail2112 said:
right on man great looking tank

Thank You!

walkabout · Mar 26, 2015

Tank is 30 tall and 72 long I built the stand 40 inch tall due to me being over 6 ft tall I like to look into it and not bend over my sump room is right behind it but my water change and top off are in the other room also and paneling out of Burch ply