Scotts 75gallon Build***MAY 25 New pics finally with fish

[catchandrelease]

Well after planted tanks got boring I decided to cross over to the dark side.
So after lurking through canreef and reefcentral I finally decided to pull the trigger on a tank.
Im still waiting on the stand, I build it all out of maple, its at my cabinet guys shop beind stained and laquered, hopefully Ill have it by the end of the week...hopefully...

I had Kevin at Red Coral set me up with a tank and everything else that I havent gotten used. Kevin has been more than helpful in getting me set up with everything I have needed, he has even set aside my lack of knowledge in reefing and given me a great hand. Nothing but good things to say in his direction.
I picked up the tank today, the back is limo-tinted with an external overflow, looks great. It is 48long x 18 wide x 20 high




I had the pleasure of putting the tank against the wall to a mechanical room, so all of my mechanical will be ran through a cold air return and into the mech room.
I put in a new 15A circuit to the area where the tank is and set up a few outlets to supply power to the equipment. The RO unit I got from kijiji and plumbed in so that it will fill a holding/mixing tank that will house a pump to fill the sump at WC's. I Tee'd off of the return pump and ran a hose directly to a drain so i can drain water with the turn of a valve. No more carrying buckets
My sump and refugium are two seperate tanks, the sump is an old 20g that will hold a skimmer and phosban reactor, the fuge is a 10g. The tank will drain herbie style into the fuge and sump, the fuge will then drain down into the sump. with a simple 1/2" stanpipe.
Front area where the tank will go, good distance from the pool table



Where the overflow and return go through the wall.


Full shot of setup


Sump with vertex in80 skimmer external 500gph return pump, and TLF150 phosban reactor. Then fuge with two 40watt cfl lights.



Hopefully ill have an update later this week regarding the stand, like i said im still waiting on the stain, and im just going to pick up the glass for the doors tomorrow.

Let me know what you think

Scott.