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Well the time has come and decision has been made for me to upgrade from an inwall 6 foot mix reef tank to a 10 foot by 32 by 31inches in-wall tank with a tear style sumps that will house 130glns skimmer,160glns Tons of rubble rocks and a 6 foot 120 glns frag system.:biggrin:.

Started some demolition and moved couple of the tanks around now my basement looks like a construction war zone :biggrin: with my wife hating every moment of it,..I will be posting some photos of what I had and destroyed so far,...
Already thinking ...What did I get myself into...

Sounds awesome tagging along !

pics or it didnt happen lol:mrgreen::mrgreen:

looking forward to the build. Sounds like a lot of work alright

Yup

Pics Of his unhappy wife or the tank:mrgreen:

I always have on taking pictures in mind but unfortunately lots of time I remember when its too late on near being late,...but this time here are few pictures to hold you all back.
I will try and sort through them explaining some:biggrin:

yes I know not the greatest photos taken with my phone.


Full tank shot with the tape of where the new tank bottom will start

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few random photos prior to wall demolition

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oh yah some of my frag tank

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and now slowly moving the frags

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now with the wall on the right side of the tank is down lets see whats behind it :biggrin:

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I want your brainsss >.< lol or your whole frag tank lol

Looks like a good start.

Maybe slow down on the gin. :wink:

Okay, now lets see the pictures of the Mrs. getting her build started for your new home in the doghouse!

I am living downstairs until I finish and if I make some noise I get the shed with a snow bank for water...lol

if your not bringing plugs then at least post some more pics lol

cant wait to see it in person budddddddddy :)

I have 400 frag plugs for you tomorrow...as I am still downtown stuck possibly for couple more hours. ...
I intend to post more photos tonight...
How do you like my old blue reactor chamber of water...lol...

just razzing ya lol looks great buddy , blues not my color of choice but whatever floats your boat right :p


soooooooooo

what kind of rock you gonna do? :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

theres a guy on the canreef offering free pukani, if i can find the thread ill link it for ya :twised::twised::twised:

keep up the updates buddy looking forward to seeing this beauty come to life and for you to get crazy for sps and zoos lol

Give me ambition to hurry my build with pictures !! ;D

I heard you been looking for a special rock...that one is for you :redface::biggrin:PUKANI ROCK


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Its blue Bombay gin :biggrin::biggrin:

Yes please do post the thread as I would like to see it...:biggrin:

Needed a bigger tank to use some of those HUGE rocks you brought in by the looks of it eh Eli.......

So you going to be putting any REAL lighting on the new beasty?

those are some sweet rocks
Still unsure about the design yet...have sometime to think it..:biggrin:


Real light ...hose are some crazy words for LIGHTING my system...
Thinking of using some wacko 100W LEDs similar to what I have been plying with in the past few years with some amazing coral growth and coloration in the deeeep blue spectrum:biggrin::biggrin:

inside that wall the eerie blue shines on my spider growth pump reaction that fed my entire setup ...check it out:biggrin::biggrin:

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The sad part is I could tell you all what each one of these lines is meant for and its job:biggrin:
Looking at it now from a photo point of view all I have to say WoW intertwined clusterfobic :lol:

Oh here is a photo of my RODI setup for that system...


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That they are, I need to get a few pieces myself for a CRAZY idea I have ( making a rock FLOAT in the middle of my tank ) got any at home?

I knew you would be thinking of something WACKO like that, it works for you that is for damn sure.

P.S. what a mess on madness you have there, going to clean it up some with the new build :lol:

awh its perfect.. accept i read the fine print and it comes with this ->

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yes it does come with it but never offered as I only have the rocks as I am still looking for the shackles :lol:

Well I have few hours tonight and will be cleaning up the mess I started last week will post a before and after photos...

Why are you raising the new tank a few inches? Whats the height to the bottom of the new build?
Better viewing, more sump room?

I am doing a tear style between my main tank and the sumps in the back plus I like the higher style as I could look somewhat up into the tank,Even when at the tank I don't have to look down or bend for viewing...only straight :biggrin:

Well after trying to clean the area a friend came by and we decided to entirely move what I have in the main tank and now I am done for the night...as you can see below the progress ...Sad at the end seeing my empty tank.

this is my empty tank with only one damsel as I couldn't get to tonight:biggrin:

the green tape marks the new dimensions that goes all the way to the wall on the right side

http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/w...psab8e7e51.jpg

Only one damsel

No not only the damsel wait till I finish the updates:biggrin:

this is where I am housing my colony corals and frags for a little while

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and here to

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and there where my fish and some of my rocks in a 200glns bin

http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/w...psef50fb44.jpg


that is a better view of the system

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and there another 100 glns bin that are all tied together

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OH yes I forgot this is the mess

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and there

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I couldn't bare keep on sleeping downstairs so I had to give this room a good clean and going to try and sleep in my bedroom:biggrin:

well I always thought I have been safe from buying corals and having live rock in my system and in the past I have seen only one crab well guess again what I found while removing the rock??

red for danger and what I am about to show you tomorrow is just plain crazy

Who could guess what I have:biggrin: except for you Matt, cannot play as you helped me eradicate my rock from....

I told you so.... That all I'm going to say!

No one wants to guess...
well here's a hint,finish the below sentenced

I know I had a single ---- but after removing my rock I found more lots more now I really have ----- :biggrin:

Sponge ? Lol

I have those on every rock available:biggrin:

The one I am talking about are bad as in bad for a reef system...guess again.


Another hint
4 letter word:biggrin: