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...

www.reef2reef.com

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/

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Bro straight up been watching your build for a minute being the creepy kid in the back of the classroom hahaha i even remember seeing the tank pick up its come along great bro awesome job man what frags you sending my way lol hahahaha

Unsure if you know, this whole classroom is filled with the creepy kids...

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Bro straight up been watching your build for a minute being the creepy kid in the back of the classroom hahaha i even remember seeing the tank pick up its come along great bro awesome job man what frags you sending my way lol hahahaha

Hahaha soon as I learn how to ship bro! Cheers for following. Im hoping to get a frammer in all y’all’s tanks some day

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Unsure if you know, this whole classroom is filled with the creepy kids...

Think that’s why he’s been hiding in the back of the classroom

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Unsure if you know, this whole classroom is filled with the creepy kids...

My kinda classroom hahaha

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Hahaha soon as I learn how to ship bro! Cheers for following. Im hoping to get a frammer in all y’all’s tanks some day

Lets go bro so down let me know for sure....

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Not in the back anymore straight up moved to the front with all the cool creepy kids now

 

[NowGlazeIT]

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Yo

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Hahaha soon as I learn how to ship bro! Cheers for following. Im hoping to get a frammer in all y’all’s tanks some day

I'm happy to run you through my shipping process any time homie

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Not in the back anymore straight up moved to the front with all the cool creepy kids now

Don't forget to Accessorize kids .

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I'm happy to run you through my shipping process any time homie

Oh I’m coming over for the live tutorial in two weeks! I saw these cool plug holders for shipping one sec I’ll find the pic

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Would be overkill for a lot of coral but I think these would be clutch for keeping euphyllia put during transit.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Kind of small is my only gripe so far

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Single heads on a plug, yes.

I hack it and glue the plug stem to the lid of the cup. Does the same thing.

Anything bigger than will fit in the cup, you float the plug with a piece of Styrofoam, inverting the coral. Ideally, you don't want Anything but water to touch the heads in transit. Even flesh rubbing on the bag can spell issues.

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Bro sounds like you be sending those frammers sooner than later lol....

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Single heads on a plug, yes.

I hack it and glue the plug stem to the lid of the cup. Does the same thing.

Anything bigger than will fit in the cup, you float the plug with a piece of Styrofoam, inverting the coral. Ideally, you don't want Anything but water to touch the heads in transit. Even flesh rubbing on the bag can spell issues.

Nice you’ve mastered the styrofoam trick, okay yes. I want to experiment with that I’ve seen from the receiving end it works great.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Bro sounds like you be sending those frammers sooner than later lol....

Yeaaaaaa I’ve got enough to give that’s for sure

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I’ve had these since my last display, they grow through the pain. I asked R2R what they look like and most said frammer time https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/is-this-a-frammer.683216/

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Bro everybody stop.....

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I haven’t had much growth till recently. I put this 120g through a lot of changes. The biggest was when I removed the algae scrubber and threw in a bit of uncurled rock. Phosphates was like a rollercoaster. This year has been a lot better tho. Props go to the rock maturing.