My wife and I are expecting our 1st baby at the end of November and as such the room where our office is will become the nursery. The office will be moving downstairs into the fish room and the fish room needs to be moved into the rec room. I figured this would be as good an opportunity as any to upgrade from our 72g bow to a 120g.
This is the spot where we decided to put the new tank.
Here is the tank, stand and sump after putting some tile down where the tank will sit as well as running some additional power. The tank sump and stand were built by Concept Aquatics in Calgary. The tank is 48"x24"x24" and the sump is 40"x20"x14". The tank has a 24" wide external over flow with 3 - 1" drains for a beananimal overflow and two 3/4" return holes.
This is the rock I will be using for the tank. I bought half of it dead and half of it live. I threw it all in a tank I had sitting in the basement to cure/cycle it all, however tonight when I went to check on it I found aiptasia growing on the stuff I bought live. It all now sits on the floor in the basement drying out.
This is the second hand G3 I bought. It's currently taking a water/vinegar bath to clean up some of the stuck on gunk.
This is the new light fixture I will be using. It's 2x250w MH, 4x54w T5's and 6 LED moonlights. The plan is to run 10K MH with 3 actinic T5's and 1 Fiji purple T5.
Hopefully more updates soon.