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Old 11-25-2008, 03:00 AM
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Default 90 Gal reef and 50 gal predator tank builds

Hello all
I decided to share my tank building experience with everyone
So first off I'd like to mention that these setups are my first ever aquariums.
The bulk of my personal knowledge is what I have learned off this forum (especially off the reference section). I also have the help of a well experienced friend.
We started to set up the 90 gal reef about 1.5 months ago and came home with the following
90 gal drilled tank with overflow
30 gal bio wheel sump
Black stand
Protein Skimmer
basic flourescent lighting
instant ocean salt



The following day we added 20 lbs of live rock from a lfs

And the following day an additional 20 lbs from a different lfs.

I scoured the forum for a couple weeks while out of town and eventually found Sandy with 130 lbs of live rock for sale (2 kinds, tonga and fiji). We arranged to have it picked up and my buddy threw it in the tank for me.
This brought the total up to 4 different kinds of live rock
After arriving home from work I decided to re aquascape and remove about 20 lbs or so as I thought it looked cluttered. The final design we were able to create came out very stable and required several hours and many beers.
Here are some pics of the final design.

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Other side

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I also added 2 Tunze powerehads
http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/tz...mp+-+6065.html
And just recently today a Coralife 9w uv sterilizer
http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/uv...izer+-+9W.html



The 2 inhabitants in the tank atm are a black molly and a yellow tailed damsel.

(forgot to get a pic of the molly)
Both are feeding well and look great.

With the remaining live rock and a 50 gallon tank we decided to build a FOWLER tank to house perhaps a sole lionfish or something special. Some sort of predator tank anyway. Ill have to put some thought into over the next couple weeks into what kind of inhabitant I am looking for.
Esentially a basic system with a Fluval 304, 300w heater, basic life glo flourescent lighting. Under the cabinet it will house perhaps several 2.5 gal feeder tanks for the tanks inhabitant (or inhabitants).
Will update this one as it progresses. Here are a meager 3 pics of the Fowler tank.

I will take more pictures in the following weeks / months as these tanks progress.
Thanks you all for taking your time to check out my builds. Any questions, comments, suggestions as well as any knowledge you can part with would be greatly appreciated.
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Ahh I see the pictures came out beautifully. Hmm what to do...
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So it would appear I have screwed up the picture attachments. I will try to fix this today and hopefully have a working thread by the end of the day.
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Oh good...it's not just my computer. I was disappointed I couldn't see the pics!
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Ok looks like I got it working. Sorry about the delay
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