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/

 

[Sean Clark]

Dub-T Dremel-based cutting station that worked!

This looks dangerous. You heard it here first.

 

[Projects with Sam]

This looks dangerous. You heard it here first.

oh yeah... I almost took a big piece out of my finger. total sketch.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

We're going to need a pallet stretcher. Run over to shipping and get theirs.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

We're going to need a pallet stretcher. Run over to shipping and get theirs.

Hahaha I got you!! Be RIGHT back

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Hahaha I got you!! Be RIGHT back

Shipping Dept: "no sorry, we loaned it out to the receiving team. You can grab it from them. While you're there, they still have our left handed torque wrench and we need it back so can you bring it back with the pallet stretcher when you're done with it?"

The Marine Corps could play this game All day.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I stare at this for hours.

I’ve always enjoyed gazing at the sump. It’s where I like to sit and ponder my next move. It brings a different kind of joy than the display.

I used to think putting this all together was impossible for me. Because I knew nothing about it.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Shipping Dept: "no sorry, we loaned it out to the receiving team. You can grab it from them. While you're there, they still have our left handed torque wrench and we need it back so can you bring it back with the pallet stretcher when you're done with it?"

The Marine Corps could play this game All day.

Hard ***** do it best I bet they’re brutally fun hah

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Bro straight funny as hell we always ask the new guys to go get the glass stretcher from our gm's office bro the look i get from the gm and the fng is priceless

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Bro straight funny as hell we always ask the new guys to go get the glass stretcher from our gm's office bro the look i get from the gm and the fng is priceless

Glass stretcher hahaha classic

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Just for when its off that 1/4 inch you know lol

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Glass stretcher hahaha classic

Bro you should see there face when i go grab a random piece of equipment and set it on there plug it in and say "it takes about twenty min i will have you come check in a little bit." Then 20 minutes later i tell them to go get it measure it then proceed to let them know they didnt turn on the machine lol to do it all over again

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Just for when its off that 1/4 inch you know lol

Hahahah yup here’s my glass stretcher… more of a frame stretcher really

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Bro you should see there face when i go grab a random piece of equipment and set it on there plug it in and say "it takes about twenty min i will have you come check in a little bit." Then 20 minutes later i tell them to go get it measure it then proceed to let them know they didnt turn on the machine lol to do it all over again

Hahahaha I’m dying over here

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Hahahaha I’m dying over here

Bro same here love the caulk gun lol

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Bro same here love the caulk gun lol

Thanks buddy she’s a dinosaur.

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Thanks buddy she’s a dinosaur.

Hey atleast we now know how old you are lol

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I’ve got the CRL the Cox and I forget the third, not newborn but it’s old too. They all have their own positives and negatives. They’ve all been collecting dust too. Been off work while the wife finishes her nursing school.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Hey atleast we now know how old you are lol

Hey I bought it worn okay! Hahaha

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Hey I bought it worn okay! Hahaha

Hahaha bro now i see why your r2r name is nowglazeit lol hahaha no worries man i am old school as well nothing wrong with getting the tools that outlasted the stone age