Nicks 120 tank build/fish room upgrade (diy)

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then arrived my long awaited order of filter socks/sediment pre filters/a couple empty cartriges for my rowaphos





here are the nice new cartriges flushed and ready to go in (sediment pre filers are changed every 10 days on average but can go up to a month before clogging).

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here is a pic of tanks and plumbing in place

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here is a view of the sump from above



here is some electrical and the phos reactor



the fuge



and the whole darn thing up and running

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and then under the tank looked like this

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once everything was up and running i decided to make a change to the in-tank layout. i started out byt taking all rock out and placing in bins/all over the floor.



Then piled it up somewhat how i wanted it to look and busted out the epoxy and tried to get it all to fit back together how i had previously had it (didn't get it the same, but very close).




it ended up coming out like this:

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the tanks stayed in this layout for a few months... and in that time i had noticed little polyps popping themselves out of the rocks where they had previously been(years ago). They must have been hiding in there waiting for me to become qualified to give them a nice clean tank/good water parameters.

Here is a shot of them with my mystery coral right beside them (some kind of cabbage?)



it was around this time that i lost my vlamingi tang... it was soon after that when i decided to do a little more rearranging on the left side of the rock work (as i was pretty content with what was happening on the right).


Right side:


Left side:


sorry for the crappy pics, but they are from my phone

fts:

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here are a few up to date pics. not to much changed from my last set of pics.





left side:



right side:





my new friend in his acclimation box