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/

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Atleast we know those tools dont break i have a hand manual drill still bro nothing beats it.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

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

Hahah yeeeeah! Nailed it. Bro that was my first username as a Glazier. I bought a new Xbox once I got settled in and it asked for a username so I’ve been stuck on NowGlazeIT since 2014. People think I just make Donuts for a living haha

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

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

Plus the frame is always suppose to have 2inches of caulk around it boss thats how its made lol....

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Hahah yeeeeah! Nailed it. Bro that was my first username as a Glazier. I bought a new Xbox once I got settled in and it asked for a username so I’ve been stuck on NowGlazeIT since 2014. People think I just make Donuts for a living haha

Bro if you did i would be asking you to ship donuts and corals the ultimate package lol

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Atleast we know those tools dont break i have a hand manual drill still bro nothing beats it.

Definitely tried and tested, I dropped my Milwaukee impact off the lift(my helper did but anyways) it fell 3 stories, clip on the battery broke off and sent the battery flying. Still works like the day I bought it

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Definitely tried and tested, I dropped my Milwaukee impact off the lift(my helper did but anyways) it fell 3 stories, clip on the battery broke off and sent the battery flying. Still works like the day I bought it

Milwaukee's got some good tools but how is your battery life lol....

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Milwaukee's got some good tools but how is your batter life lol....

One thing I don’t mess around with is my beer and my batteries bro…

I got two on the guns and these are the spare. haha nah but for real I do not want to be charging on the jobsite. So I bought the big boys and plenty to get me through the day. Even on a miter saw or hammer drilling I don’t go through them all in one 12hr day.
Edit
haha oh I just got the joke about the broken off battery life haha it sucked marbles dude I had to hold the f$&ker on the rest of the day

 

[NowGlazeIT]

How are your new lights holding up? @Projects with Sam im about to set one up above the frag tank

 

[Projects with Sam]

Hahah yeeeeah! Nailed it. Bro that was my first username as a Glazier. I bought a new Xbox once I got settled in and it asked for a username so I’ve been stuck on NowGlazeIT since 2014. People think I just make Donuts for a living haha

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Haha I gotta get my training done by that guy!

 

[Projects with Sam]

How are your new lights holding up? @Projects with Sam im about to set one up above the frag tank

Awesome! The kids played Cronk the Destroyer with the remote so the LED came out of place but a bit of dbl-stick tape fixed it. I added a 140mm fan to the hood and blow ambient temp air above the lights so now their fans barely kick on.
I love seeing what time it is on the reef. Decent growth on my corals (I have no idea what that is but there is some growth so will see.)
I'll be posting my 1Month update to the K7V3 Voyage thread by the end of the weekend. Its hard taking photos of corals.

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

@Projects with Sam its more like this

 

[CWoods]

Hard to keep up........ I've been placed on dog sitting duty all weekend. So, LMK if you want to come over and check out what I got or If I can do the opposite.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Hard to keep up........ I've been placed on dog sitting duty all weekend. So, LMK if you want to come over and check out what I got or If I can do the opposite.

Hey sorry I didn’t notice this in time, it’s been a busy weekend over here.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Starting the next chapter

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Yeah Boiiiiii!!!

What overflow are you going to be running? I've got a new in box Eclipse S I could have sent you home with.

Drill that thing super slow homie. About Zero pressure. Zoo med did not opt for the best glass on that line of tank.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Yeah Boiiiiii!!!

What overflow are you going to be running? I've got a new in box Eclipse S I could have sent you home with.

Drill that thing super slow homie. About Zero pressure. Zoo med did not opt for the best glass on that line of tank.

Slow is steady steady is fast aye. Bro I can’t decide on the overflow. I’m contemplating throwing out the concept and going for a straight standpipe. Just want it to look clean overall

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Slow is steady steady is fast aye. Bro I can’t decide on the overflow. I’m contemplating throwing out the concept and going for a straight standpipe. Just want it to look clean overall

Eew. Standpipe tuning sucks.

The eclipse S is a good little unit rated up to 600 I believe. That's what I'm running on my frag tank.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Eew. Standpipe tuning sucks.

The eclipse S is a good little unit rated up to 600 I believe. That's what I'm running on my frag tank.

Yea it does hah but screw a durso we’re going full metal. I mean full siphon. Figure I can just cut the pipe down or use a coupling till I find the height’s sweet spot

 

[Nate Chalk]

Found glaze muahaha