MonkE and Neoh's 180 Reef Build

[monkE]

Time for the real fun!


Lamp posts from Home Depot make a great light hanger for a decent price - we're running a 4 foot vertex illumina fixture and it's suprisingly heavy

we wanted to limit the amount of LR in the tank to provide a lot of swiming room for the fish - we're going for a few larger tangs that will grow into the tank.



YAY for water!!! I wish i took pictures of all the RO/DI buckets we had going downstairs... there's a video that i'm going to have to figure out how to put onto here

[monkE]

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[monkE]

http://youtu.be/n9zig5hGaJQ

[corpusse]

Congrats on the tank and the house. Long way to go for the RO.

Did the 2 of you get the tank up the stairs okay? Or were additional people needed? The reason I ask is I just picked up a 180 myself while it was HEAVY i was able to manage it okay but my friend had some trouble. It's now sitting in my garage as I try and convince 2 more people to help bring it up the stairs into the house and then down the stairs to the basement.

[monkE]

Originally Posted by corpusse

Congrats on the tank and the house. Long way to go for the RO.

Did the 2 of you get the tank up the stairs okay? Or were additional people needed? The reason I ask is I just picked up a 180 myself while it was HEAVY i was able to manage it okay but my friend had some trouble. It's now sitting in my garage as I try and convince 2 more people to help bring it up the stairs into the house and then down the stairs to the basement.

Thanks!

well we did it just the two of us... but i wouldn't say we were OK! lol Ryan you want to field this one

I would definitely recommend more people although in our situation it wouldn't have mattered as our back patio stairs are quite narrow and there would not have been room for any extra bodies.

[monkE]

We had both of our tanks running downstairs so it was just a matter of transporting the liverock and the tank water upstairs, the new tank filled up quick!


the fuge
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FTS







Loraine saying Hi!


SOOOO many frags have been purchased in the past couple months










Merlin hanging out with the monti... it's not bleached, but my phone doesn't get the colours right







We closed the sump in to prevent any salt creep on the wall - but it quickly got quite warm in there with the fuge light running so we added a couple of these fans - temp operated, 120 volt AC plug, they work quite well



I'm a bit of a tech nut so i set up a computer next to the tank for the Vertex control and the MyReef software so you don't have to use the small controller when you want to check or change something


shot of the skimmer


fuge


36 gallon ATO drum

[matt_C]

Nice, i really like those stairs!. Tank looks good.

[monkE]

Originally Posted by matt@concept

Nice, i really like those stairs!. Tank looks good.

thanks Matt!

[neoh]

Nobody would help. We grew impatient.

Half way up the stairs, my arms gave out.
Then we swapped sides and went up and left it at the top of the stairs until we could regain our strength, then attempted it again.

Never under any circumstances do I recommend two people moving a 180g tank on their own. Worst idea ever.

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by neoh

Never under any circumstances do I recommend two people moving a 180g tank on their own. Worst idea ever.

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