Have you ever considered/done a tank reset

[straightrazorguy]

It's perfectly doable, Greg. I recently completed an upgrade, which is not that dissimilar with what you are referring to. The only difference is you will be reusing your old tank.

From my experience, I can only say it will take 5 times as long as you think and the budget will be exceeded dramatically. Unless, of course you don't plan on upgrading any hardware....

Good luck!

[Aquattro]

Would you not consider ditching that rock and getting real rock?

[Proteus]

I just recently redid my tank. Though it was due to aefw it gave me a chance to change a few things. I painted the tank as well during this time. I was able to get a few pieces of kick ass Lr from lfs. I put my coral and fish into a large Tote and proceeded with tear down and revamp. It took about 9 hours total mostly from paint drying. I also had nsw made and ready. It was easy to do and am happy with results

[asylumdown]

I say go for it. about 75% of what's fun for me is setting things up and watching them develop. Plus there's so many things you learn through running a system. The best part about a reset of a system you know is that you get a chance to fix the things that aren't working while leaving the things that are alone. When you build a totally new system, you can plan as best as possible but it's always the things you didn't really think about or expect to be an issue that you end up hating the most as time goes on.

On my tank, the things I'd like to change the most about the way it's set up can't really be done with water in it (remove internal overflows, completely change the plumbing, etc.), so it's a perfect way to do it.

It will be a cr*p ton of work, but so is setting up a new tank from scratch.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Would you not consider ditching that rock and getting real rock?

It's do-able, and I have time to buy the rock now and cook it before I start the teardown
I'd still want to keep the true LR I have, which is about 1/3rd

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by straightrazorguy

I can only say it will take 5 times as long as you think and the budget will be exceeded dramatically. Unless, of course you don't plan on upgrading any hardware....
Good luck!

I do plan on it taking quite a few weeks

Originally Posted by Proteus

it gave me a chance to change a few things

I have many things I want to redo ...

Originally Posted by asylumdown

I say go for it. about 75% of what's fun for me is setting things up and watching them develop. Plus there's so many things you learn through running a system. The best part about a reset of a system you know is that you get a chance to fix the things that aren't working while leaving the things that are alone. When you build a totally new system, you can plan as best as possible but it's always the things you didn't really think about or expect to be an issue that you end up hating the most as time goes on.

It will be a cr*p ton of work, but so is setting up a new tank from scratch.

Exactly why I'm considering it
I have things about my setup that irk me;
Wiring, plumbing size, skimmer/sock locations, and size of running WC capacity

When I do a WC, I have to unplug the fuge, both reactors and the skimmer
I want to incorporate the fuge into the drain plumbing to remove it's individual pump, and place the reactor pumps in a section that will never drain down
I also want the ability to perform a 25% WC without disturbing the DT;
Right now I can do 10%

I get more buss errors than I should; I need to rewire my controller to get the buss cables away from the power cables, and insulate the wires that can't be separated

I'm sure there's more and I need to start putting all the ideas on paper

[apexifd]

Picture of this so call GHA out break.

[gregzz4]

Okay, I'll post some tonight

[Doug]

Yes, about once a month or so......

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Doug

Yes, about once a month or so......

Hehe