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FishyFishy!'s 187 Gallon fish room build!

Ok, so tank is now being filled with water, but I'll start from the beginning. I bought this tank a while ago, and recently just finished cleaning it. It was in pretty rough shape when I got it, and took a lot of blood, sweat and razor blade cuts to get this thing clean. But all the work is done, and I'll be adding updates regularly.

Tank:

187 Gallon 72L X 30W X 20H, eurobraced

Stand:

72 X 30 X 30 tube steel. Recently painted with semi-gloss black tremclad rust paint.

Sump:

90 Gallon, Built in refugium, 3 bubble catcher baffles, filter sock holder, drain and return areas. 48L X 24W X 18"H

Refugium:
- DSB
- Cheato
- Mangroves
- Liverock Rubble

Lighting:

72" Aquatinics Constellation 14 X 39W T5HO
Bulbs:
8 X Wave Point Superblue 460
2 X Wave Point Coral Wave
4 X Wave Point Sun Wave 12,000K

3 X 24" Oddysea LED Moonlight strips

24" Coralife 80W PC fixture for refugium

Equipment:
Hydor Performer 700 Skimmer
Aquamedic Turboflotor SL skimmer
2 X TLF 150 reactors with stock 14G biocube Oceanic pump (rowaphos, ChemiPure Elite)
1 X AquaC XP reactor (bio pellets) - NOT SET UP YET
2 X Koralia 4
1 X Dart 3600 GPH return pump (main)
1 X Coralife Turbo Sea 1270 (1268 GPH) return pump (fuge, accessories, water changer)
RO/DI unit with Tunze osmolator for ATO
Looking to purchase a Tunze wavebox soon.

Electronics:
Will eventually have a profilux system with dosing pump.
3 X GFCI outlets, 2 X power bars per outlet (6 total).
6 X Woods dual outlet digital timers (love these!)

Stock

100 + Lbs of agramax select
150 Lbs Live rock (tonga, fiji, and jakarta mix)

60 Lbs rubble for sump

Fish:

4" Square Spot Antheas
3.5" Orange Antheas Female
8" Nasso Tang
6" Foxface
4" Sailfin Tang
4" Koran Angel
4" Regal Tang
3" Yellow Tang
2" 6 line wrasse
2 X 2" 4 stripe damsel
1.5" Domino Damsel
2 X False Perc Clowns (mated pair, hosting a green torch coral)
Yellow watchman Goby

Inverts:

3 small Blue leg hermits
1 massive blue leg hermit
30 + snails (trochus, crown, turbo, margarita)
Rock Boring Urchin
2 Emerald Crabs
Blue Porcelin Crab
2 X White Anenome Crabs
2 X Cleaner shrimp
2 X Fire shrimp
Gold Coral Banded shrimp
Coral Banded shrimp
2 X Sand sifting sea star
Blue Linckia sea Star

Corals:

Frogspawn (10+ heads)
Purple torch coral (5 Heads)
Green torch coral (8 heads)
Hawaiian Feather Duster
4 Florida Riccordia (crappy color)
6 Yuma Riccordia (Orange, purple, green)
Red Blasto (6 heads)
Purple Blasto (12 Heads)
Green/Red Brain
2 Branching Kenya trees (huge...)
Tonnes of GSP's
Pulsing Xenia
4 Green Elephant Ear mushrooms
Lots of Purple/Green/Red mushrooms
Green Zoas (25 polyps)
Green Paly's (20 Polyps)
Red zoas (10 polyps)
Blue steel zoas (6 polyps)
ETC ETCi'm sure i'm forgetting a tonne. I will be adding a lot of SPS when this tank is all finished.

So as for the current FTS:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...a/DSCN1955.jpg

wow! thats gonna be some serious flow on that tank!.....looking good though:biggrin:.......call RC today......we may( I havnt been at the shop for a week) have the locline knuckle that you need

Tanks looking great! Can't wait to see it all stocked up.
Adorable dog too, by the way!

Thanks! I'll call Red Coral today for sure. I know when I was actually looking for lockline I called RC, Kevin said that he had ordered a tonne of it. So i'll bet you'll have some soon anyways. The other LocLine's are all installed. I'll post some pics later. They look great! Love that stuff... just wish it wasn't so expensive. All that LocLine ran me $130! But I guess after $350 worth of plumbing, thats just the icing on the cake.

Looking good man , keep it up really digging the sump thou.

Yeah I really like the sump layout. The fuge idea is awesome, and there is a tonnes of free space for skimmers and media. I also have a pretty neat idea for eggcrate media racks inside the sump, just to keep everything organized. We'll see how that turns out.

We're filling it with the RO unit as we speak!!!! SOOOO SLOOOWWWWW

New teaser pic! After 4 straight hours of fixing small leaks from my dart, I got it up and running. Tossed the fish and rock in, and everything is looking great! Still have to do aquascaping, and put the full contents of my reef tank in there, but its lookin good! Water perameters are perfect. I still have to purchase all of my light bulbs. I'm only running the old KZ superblues (X4) and UV 10,000 K (X4). So only 8 bulbs out of 14. Waiting on some christmas money to go buy the wavepoints.

The tank is looking good.

Wow that just has to have been a lot of fun. Your plumbing job is super and the tank cleanup looks awesome. Any reason you didn't go with pvcflex tubing instead of hard pvc. Just wondering if you compared cost at all ? I keep looking at all the sump options as I do not have one yet.

Yeah the flex tubing is a lot more expensive. Almost double actually. You can get a 10 foot piece of 1" pvc for $12.99, and the same length of flex would cost around $30+

I am using flex for my water changing system

So I picked up a couple goodies on boxing day! -

Big Als - Pair of pink square anthias for 187, firefish for biocube
Ocean City - new filter sock, 14 X 39W T5 bulbs (wave point)
Red Coral - 20 of them fancy 0.40 cent snails, and a Sailfin Tang

All livestock are doing great. Now my question is... Will 14 X 39W T5's be enough for SPS? Here is my arrangment of bulbs:

2 X 10,000K (Sun Wave)
2 X Actinic (Blue Wave)
2 X Actinic (Blue Wave)
2 X Pink (Coral Wave)
2 X Actinic (Blue Wave)
2 X Actinic (Blue Wave)
2 X 10,000K (Sun Wave)

Opinions on sufficient lighting for SPS? I know I have enough flow.