RDNanoguy's 165 gal Reef Upgrade

[RDNanoGuy]

Well it's been really crazy the last two weeks with the move and everything else but now it's time for an update!

The new Tank arrived the day of the move so that was brought into the new house first:



Here's a closeup of the external overflow:



Then the rest of the move took place and all the fish went into a temp tank on the kitchen island:



The next day I got to looking at figuring the plumbing path and ran into a problem:



The builder used little leftover beam cutoffs to fill in the corner right under the tank. These were joined to the closest engineered beam with joist hangers with two nails in each hanger.
I really hate crappy work and there was no way these were going to hold up a 2000 lb. tank!

My solution was to erect a new sub-beam and posts to carry the load to the basement floor as seen here:





Then I built a bench to hold the sump and other fishy stuff:



More to come!