FishyFishy!'s 155 bowfront fishroom/closet build

[FishyFishy!]

white is in interesting one! Haven't seen that yet.

[FishyFishy!]

NEW UPDATE 11/08/2011

Tank is in the house now with the stand. The canopy has to be modified now because I decided to go Metal Halides instead of T5's. So the canopy isn't tall enough for my monster fixture. I will have to modify it.




Actinic's Only




I also have got a couple more things for the tank. I got a used Euro-Reef RS250 Protein skimmer (this thing is huge!). I also got a Schuran Jetstream 1 calcium reactor with C02 tank.




My temporary light fixture was purchased as well from Black Phantom during his tank shutdown. Its a 3 X 250W halides with PFO ballasts, and 4 X 65W Actinic PC's with workhorse ballasts. This will change eventually, as I will retro T5's instead of PC's.

[FishyFishy!]

So now I still need to get my sumps drilled and baffled (which is harder than one thought to find someone to do this for me...)

And then I start plumbing the tank through the wall! Yay!!

[FishyFishy!]

I know its not DIY, but the fixture looks pretty old. I'm going to use pendants anyways, so that fixture will eventually be garbage.

[FishyFishy!]

Here's the frag tank in the fishroom. It's housing some live rock that I couldn't fit in the 70 Gallon holding tank.

[yellowworld]

Wowzers Mr. Fishy! what pendants you going with? how are you doing on rock by the way? I got some over here that is doing nothing, you can have it for a beer or two if you want, I think there is about 20ish lbs here.

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by yellowworld

Wowzers Mr. Fishy! what pendants you going with? how are you doing on rock by the way? I got some over here that is doing nothing, you can have it for a beer or two if you want, I think there is about 20ish lbs here.

Sweet Yeah I'll take you up on that. I have to go buy a bunch of dry rock from Red Coral soon here and i'll start the aquascape. I'm going for three islands for a minimalist type look in the display, so the fish have lots of swimming room. Thats why I decided on the three sump idea, so that I could have tonnes of biological filtration that didn't have to come from rock in the display.

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

So now I still need to get my sumps drilled and baffled (which is harder than one thought to find someone to do this for me...)

And then I start plumbing the tank through the wall! Yay!!

Road trip to Red Deer Mike, I would drill them & put in baffles for ya

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Road trip to Red Deer Mike, I would drill them & put in baffles for ya

I might just take you up on that Greg! Do you have lots of glass lying around to make the baffles?

[MarkoD]

Nice build.

Just wondering, is it ok for metal halides to be that close to the water?