Subman's Jump into the big leagues (225g)

[gregzz4]

OK, so I slapped ya
What's the hold up ?

I'm a Skimz man, but that's 'cause I spent all my money on a Powermodule

Down the road, who knows what I'll have

[subman]

Tank is complete now. Trim is done and it's ready to come home....which is why I'm up at 4am in a cold sweat trying to figure out how to get everything done!



The main problem (besides getting it downstairs!) is it's going right where my current setup is so it looks like I'll need to tear down, move and re setup the current setup so I can place this tank and take my time getting the carpentry and plumbing done right.
I'm sure it will all come together just having big tank jitters!

[gregzz4]

Don't take any advice from me at this point as I have been taking things Very slowly. But I will say this;
Do not rush it, get it into place, have a look, plan stuff, take a week, plan it again, look it over, find the flaws, look it over, ...........
I re-made my sump 2 times and re-plumbed my tank once.
That's now my 3rd sump design and my 2nd drain plumbing, in case anyone is keeping track.

Hope all goes well for ya

[gregzz4]

I meant to mention, I'm up late too ......
Doing wiring and other stuff. Should be in bed and going that way soon but ran out of supplies and tried to find any little thing to finish before nodding off.
Damned hobby
Tank's lookin' great. Post more Pics

[gregzz4]

Actually, I should say, tanks lookin' HUGE
I'm gonna stick with my 75g for awhile, but you bigger guys are gonna help me talk the wife into going back to my 125g, or something the same 6 foot.
I got out of the 6' club due to living room space, but I can't help admire tanks like yours

[subman]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Don't take any advice from me at this point as I have been taking things Very slowly. But I will say this;
Do not rush it, get it into place, have a look, plan stuff, take a week, plan it again, look it over, find the flaws, look it over, ...........
I re-made my sump 2 times and re-plumbed my tank once.
That's now my 3rd sump design and my 2nd drain plumbing, in case anyone is keeping track.

Hope all goes well for ya

Yeah I rushed the plumbing on my current tank and it's TERRIBLE!!! So for 4 years is been noisy and ugly lol

[subman]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Actually, I should say, tanks lookin' HUGE
I'm gonna stick with my 75g for awhile, but you bigger guys are gonna help me talk the wife into going back to my 125g, or something the same 6 foot.
I got out of the 6' club due to living room space, but I can't help admire tanks like yours

When I brought the stand home my wonderful wife just shook her head and walked away. I Promised this one would look amazing. Now the pressure is on.

[reefgirl189]

Originally Posted by subman

The main problem (besides getting it downstairs!) is it's going right where my current setup is so it looks like I'll need to tear down, move and re setup the current setup so I can place this tank and take my time getting the carpentry and plumbing done right.
I'm sure it will all come together just having big tank jitters!

I'm far from an expert but I'll tell you what we did, or you can read it in my build thread.

I had to set up the tank in the same spot as the old one, just like you. So I set up the sump and moved all the corals and livestock and a few live rocks into it with a powerhead and a heater and set up my light overtop of it. I moved the live rock into a rubbermaid BRUTE and stuck a heater and a couple powerheads in there.

Then we took our time. 3 days to move the old tank out, clean it, and help the buyer load it onto their trailer. We moved the new stand and tank into the spot and positioned it properly. Then I filled it, moved all the livestock back in and set it up with the heater, lights and powerheads. I didn't fill it to the drain though. I only had it circulating with a few powerheads. This buys you plenty of time to plumb everything properly. You can run without a skimmer for a few days, it's not a big deal, just do a couple water changes if you are worried about water quality or have a mdoerate to heavy bioload. Then when your plumbing glue cures and you do the leak test and everything's good you don't have to bother transitioning everyone again. They are already in your tank! We had no casualties and no mini cycle after doing it this way. Total days from tear down to having the plumbing finished was a 6 days. It was actually surprisingly easy. I wasn't expecting it to go so well.

Of course if you could set up a temporary tank that would be better but we didn't have one or want to spend the money on one and also we didn't have any other reefer friends up here who could lend us tank space in their set ups, so this was kind of the only option for us.

[waynemah]

I have a 30G long hospital tank if you want to take it to house some fish?

[reefme]

I have 2 round tubs you can borrow up to 3 weeks. 40G and 25g.