FishyFishy!'s 187 Gallon fish room build!

[FishyFishy!]

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:

[FishyFishy!]

So here is what the tank looked like when it was brought into the house:


Removing all the algae


Sump


Removing the old painted background



Stand all setup up with new paint, new foam, and a plywood base



Cleaned sump!


Nice sock holder (nice work Jay!)

[FishyFishy!]

Tank in place (with a couple lights on for fun)



Now thats a big hairy fish!


Sump going under


mmmmm... T5's

[FishyFishy!]

The Dart, and the Turbo-sea returns are plumbed (2" into Dart, 1.5" out) (1" into, 1" out fot turbo sea)



Turbo sea with the one return to tank spout, the water changer, the reactor, and the refugium outlets (1" piping - 3/4" locline)




Temporary drain pipe/ball valve (waiting on 2" gate valve)



Durso Overflow pipe



Return to tank from Dart - 1.5"


Up the back on the tank


Returns started




How the tank sits now (water testing)


MMMMM... LocLine! (minus one frikin 3/4" threaded fitting) I cleaned big als out!

[fishytime]

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

[365seasons]

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

[FishyFishy!]

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.

[Skimmerking]

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

[FishyFishy!]

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.

[FishyFishy!(gf)]

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