Bignose's 95G reef

[bignose]

Hi everyone. This will be my first attempt on a tank with a sump. I decided to start a thread so everyone could witness the good and the bad. Please ask some questions and make comments. Some of the stuff you might see on this thread will make you snicker but I did this all myself with almost no help. But you can still laugh if you like

I've been in the salt water hobby for about a year now so I'm still learning as I go. My fisrt tank is a 10G nano reef. I started with something small to see if I could handle a SW tank. Once I got a hang of everything it was time to convince my girlfriend for a bigger tank. Slowly I found equipment locally mostly here on Canreef. It took about 6 months but here I am now.

My setup consists of:
95G eurobraced tank with center overflow 1" returns 1.5" drain and emergency drain.
Big als stand that I reinforced.
48" 6x54 Tek5
Euro-Reef RS135 skimmer
Quiet one 5000 return pump
2-Koralia 4 powerheads
2 jager heaters
approx. 85-90 pnds LR
100 pnds LS

Here are some pictures

Tank

Just turn your head sideways and ignore the other tank and light.

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Reinforced stand I made deeper and boxed in the back


I'll update more soon.