Bignoses' 90G sps reef

[bignose]

I'm currently building a setup at my new house. I will be using everything from my old setup but will be built totally different. My display will be in my basement and the equipment will be in the storage room. I have finished the basement to the point where I can start the build.

The equipment I have is:
90G display 48"x24"x18"
50G sump 48"x16"x15"
Sunlight Supply Tek5 6x54w T5
Euroreef RS135
2-Koralia 4
2-Koralia 3
Quiet one 5000
Vertex PuraTek 100 GPD RO/DI

Live stock:
120pnds of LR
Yellow Tang
Green Chromis
Midas Blenny
3 PomPom crabs
many different kinds of soft and hard corals

All my livestock is currently in a 100G poly tub I borrowed from The Codfather. The tub is in my good friend Oshiney's storage room.

Display


The stand is a design from reefcentral that kien told me about.
Started from this pile of wood


Originally I had a taller stand for the sump but decided I would keep it lower just to be safe I had room for the plumbing



Display stand


Here is the poly tub with all the livestock



This is Oshiney's 15G nano which has my midas blenny. I wish my first tank was this nice. Good work oshiney

[bignose]

update March 16th.

I put the tank on the stand and figured out how to plumb everything.


This is the first time I have plumbed through a wall so I was winging everything. I plumbed the drains and returns first.


Then I plumbed the other side of the wall. I also plumbed in the RO/DI unit and mounted a couple of powerbars.


This is where I am now.

[kien]

wow, that looks so neat and tidy, love it :-)

[bignose]

Originally Posted by kien

wow, that looks so neat and tidy, love it :-)

Thanks kien I'm really happy it turned out that way. It looks good for not knowing what I was doing.

I raised the salinity to 1.025 and the temperature to 79F. Next I will rinse and add sand. I'm going with 40 pounds of sugar sand. The last time I used 40pnds sugar and 20 pounds crushed argonite which was too much.

[bignose]

It was 3 weeks ago but here is a picture of me and my gf adding sand.


2 weeks ago I added about 40 pnds of base LR, I put half of it in my sump. Last week I added 10 hermit crabs and 8 narcissus snails.

Yesterday I put in my yellow tang. Here is a picture I took today.


I still have around 60 pnds of LR to go in yet but it's going in when I transfer my coral.

[cuz]

nice work!! not gonna paint the back of your tank?

[rstar]

Looking great! +1 to the "Plans for the back of the tank". I WISH my plumbing was that neat and tidy!

[bignose]

Originally Posted by cuz

nice work!! not gonna paint the back of your tank?

I'm letting coraline algae paint the back for me.

Originally Posted by rstar

Looking great! +1 to the "Plans for the back of the tank". I WISH my plumbing was that neat and tidy!

Thanks rstar the plumbing turned out very nice but I'm still trying to figure out why my return pump sounds so loud. I hear a constant humming through the wall.

[BlueAbyss]

Acoustical batting would help with that noise through the wall.

[rstar]

Originally Posted by bignose

Thanks rstar the plumbing turned out very nice but I'm still trying to figure out why my return pump sounds so loud. I hear a constant humming through the wall.

I know it seems simple, but is the pump sitting directly on the sump glass? i put a sheet of foam insulation under my sump, then the rubber legs on the pump and you can hardly hear it anymore.