Lets see the guts of your system

[OceanicCorals-Ian-]

I like your chandelier frags/colonies in your smaller tank, we do that to with certain species! They like being suspended and also promotes better growth!

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

For the most part my guts are on display. I use a big 140gal stock trough as a sump and because I just rent this crack shack I'm not able to add some more walls to hide it. I consider everything that I have to be necessary and cost effective to run my reef but obviously others will differ... Okay the stock trough is a little excessive but I love the massive water volume and space! In the picture you can see:

Skimmer
Controller
Media reactors
Refugium
Return pump
ATO
(frag tank on the left and display tank on the right)



Here is why everything sits beside the tank... theres not enough room under the display anymore.

2 Stage Calcium Reactor
Kalkwasser Reactor
Battery Backup
CO2



On top the lights hang from the ceiling and you can see how the water returning from the sump is directed through an OM 4-Way wavemaker.



Its all neatly tucked away in the corner of my ghetto basement for now. Most of frankensump was built with the intention of upgrading it to a 50"x36"x24" 250gal in-wall system once we buy a house. The only item not shown in the picture is the RO/DI system which is plumbed to the ATO tank from another room.

[mark]

old pictures but below the tank


and basement

[Canadian]

Here's what it looks like under my tank with the magnetized panels removed:

[mark]

don't know why but every time I see a dosing pump seem to get a little excited

[Pazil]

Originally Posted by Canadian

Here's what it looks like under my tank with the magnetized panels removed:

Nice clean setup...

[DanielC.]

Sorry a little off topic, i see under banditpowdercoat tank he uses foam, just woundering what type of foam you use?

[lorenz0]

here's my guts. i need more LR in my sump. with lots of salt creep, yep its a sump

[Norstar]

How do you guys keep them all so-o-o clean???

[wickedfrags]

High density, usually pink or blue, but not the white.

Originally Posted by DanielC.

Sorry a little off topic, i see under banditpowdercoat tank he uses foam, just woundering what type of foam you use?

[banditpowdercoat]

Originally Posted by DanielC.

Sorry a little off topic, i see under banditpowdercoat tank he uses foam, just woundering what type of foam you use?

Ya High Density Styrofoam