120g Craigslist tank restoration

Finally, I found a 120g for a used price $200.
She’s the ugliest most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on. I’m going to strip the two overflows, add a ghost overflow and oh so much more to get this one wet again. I decided to put my money towards reputable equipment, instead of the glass box. (Good timing considering frameless tanks are losing fashion, dang you Red Sea.)
My previous tank was a cadlight 60g and just a frameless beauty. That tank grew coral but limped by with basic equipment. (Lighting,Powerheads, manually dosing) Time to flourish and establish a low maintenance 120g for this reefer.


Today’s 120g specs!

Filtration
-6 stage RODI by Brs
-Skimmer Q3 DC by aquamaxx
-Avast marine spyglass reactor
-2 gallons of marine pure bio spheres
-bio pellets by ecobak
-Distilled Vinegar 30ml/day
-2 marine pure plates
-1 marine pure block
-1 xport Brick seeded with mb7 by brightwell
-1 liter of matrix by seachem
-aquascape made of pukani,staxx,fiji,caribsea
-Brs black media reactor
-Rox.8 Carbon daily
-Gfo by kolar labs

Supplements
- Alk,Ca,mag by ESV dosed hourly by KamoerRemote F4pro
-Fuel by seachem 20ml/daily

Equipment
-2 Hydra 32s by AI
-2 XF 350s by maxpect
-1 Return pump DCP15000 by Jebao

Plumbing
-1 modular marine overflow Bean animal with 1 1/4” drains
-2 returns 1 1/2 inches
-1 manifold powering 3 reactors and main return

Fish food
- Nori, LRS herbivoreLRS fish frenzy,krill,mysis,squid,brine shrimp,golden pearls,cyclops,calanus

Previous filtration methods no longer in use
-diy algae scrubber
-Gfo by rowaphos when needed
-co2 scrubber
-filter floss
-skimmer sn-143qp by skimZ
-High capacity GFO by BRS
-AF1 by aquamaxx
-nopox by Red Sea

Stocking list
-Hippo Tang
-Yellow Tang
-Tomini Tang
-Blunthead Wrasse
-Puddingwife Wrasse
-Canary Blenny
-Twinspot blenny
-Royal Gramma
-Mono
-Lyretail Anthias
-Blue Chromis
-Pair of Ocellaris Clowns
-Lamarck Angel
-Melanurus wrasse
margarita,trochus,Nass,Cerith
-Pencil & Pincushion Urchin

Here is how it looks now! 8/2022

Dual LowBoy Frag Build starts here pg. 34-

Build Thread - 120g Craigslist tank restoration

Finally, I found a 120g for a used price $200. She’s the ugliest most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on. I’m going to strip the two overflows, add a ghost overflow and oh so much more to get this one wet again. I decided to put my money towards reputable equipment, instead of the glass...

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DIY stand- https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/tank-stand-first-timer.681397/

Previous build thread https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/setting-up-new-60g-cube.335836/

 

[Goaway]

And that is why I stopped buying from vendors. I'm sick of doctored photos.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Out with the old and in with the new upgrades!

 

[NowGlazeIT]

For my next trick I will turn this 20g sump into a aio frag tank

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Whoever said silicone doesn’t stick to acrylic has never tried to remove baffles from one of my builds.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Whoever said silicone doesn’t stick to acrylic has never tried to remove baffles from one of my builds.

Yo Right!!

Sure, it doesn't Fuze, but it also ain't easy to get off.

I assume you're going to be installing the mechanical section on one end?

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Yo Right!!

Sure, it doesn't Fuze, but it also ain't easy to get off.

I assume you're going to be installing the mechanical section on one end?

Yes I think I can use these baffles to make this aio on the side there. I put the pump down to gauge how much room I have to work with.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I’m thinking one section will be for floss and media bags then the middle will be bio filtration like marine pure or rock finally the pump and float valve

 

[A Young Reefer]

Following!

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Following!

Welcome aboard!

 

[NowGlazeIT]

A little more progress on the frag tank build today. Waiting for caulk to dry to install the remaining baffles.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Good luck , I am in similar situation with a used tank as well

How did it go!??

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Seeing that picture of the acrylic on the SCMS cutting the weir teeth gave me the Herbie jeebies. If I made that cut without a backer board, with my luck, i would for sure have mangled and snapped one off.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Seeing that picture of the acrylic on the SCMS cutting the weir teeth gave me the Herbie jeebies. If I made that cut without a backer board, with my luck, i would for sure have mangled and snapped one off.

Hah I heard that! I Hate cutting those with a miter saw. They don’t look half as clean for how much extra work goes into it. I tried to flip it and recut to get a cleaner finish but looked like crap. I ultimately broke out the handsaw and some grit paper for a decent finish

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Hah I heard that! I Hate cutting those with a miter saw. They don’t look half as clean for how much extra work goes into it. I tried to flip it and recut to get a cleaner finish but looked like crap. I ultimately broke out the handsaw and some grit paper for a decent finish

Heres a pic just after the miter saw

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Hah I heard that! I Hate cutting those with a miter saw. They don’t look half as clean for how much extra work goes into it. I tried to flip it and recut to get a cleaner finish but looked like crap. I ultimately broke out the handsaw and some grit paper for a decent finish

No router option?

Even using step one of a dovetail jig would be awesome cutting these.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

No router option?

Even using step one of a dovetail jig would be awesome cutting these.

I don’t have a router but I should buy one their not too expensive. gotta look up that jig. I really want a table saw but that’s a lot of change that won’t get used enough.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

That jig would have been clutch haha

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

I don’t have a router but I should buy one their not too expensive. gotta look up that jig. I really want a table saw but that’s a lot of change that won’t get used enough.

Routers are a workhorse in my shop. I'll buy any used Porter-Cable router I can find cheap. They last forever and are extremely easy to work on.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

That jig would have been clutch haha

Yo Right!!!

 

[Goaway]

Heres a pic just after the miter saw

Issue with this is, you know it's ugly. Once you have it in use, the only issue is, you only know it's ugly. No one else will even pay attention. If you tried to sell it. That would be an issue. Someone like me would say, "so, these going to break anytime soon?"