150g Cube Build

[Dorado]

After 5 months of waiting for my tank and stand to be built, it's finally here! The dimensions are 36"x 36"x26" with starphire glass on all three sides. I plan on going mostly SPS with a little bit of LPS. I plan on plumbing immediately so I can get water in this bad boy ASAP. More pictures to follow.

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

Sweet tank dimension! Who built the tank? Looks great. Following

 

[polyppal]

Beautiful setup. I was going to go with something similar (but didn't have the patience to wait for the build times)

 

[Dryanimtt]

Following along on this one. That tank is really nice btw.

 

[kutcha]

awesome tank ill be following your build see what idea i want to take from you lol. Also who built your tank/stand?

 

[WiscoFishNut]

This should be a fun build! That stand looks really nice

 

[Dorado]

Thanks everyone for following along. The tank and stand/canopy were made by Crystal Dynamics Aquariums. I'm very happy with the quality. I got started on a little plumbing tonight.

 

[Dorado]

I've built up a small stock pile of equipment for the tank
-Neptune Cor20 return pump
-Reef Octopus Regal 200S skimmer
- Neptune Apex controller
-Vortech MP40QD pump
-Icecap 4k gyre pump
-Tunze Osmolator

Future equipment that I have yet to acquire
-ATI Straton (can't seem to find these anywhere)
-T5 retrofits
-Ecotech Versa dosing pumps

 

[Dorado]

I finally finished up the bulk of the plumbing. I have a couple of lines that i need to run out to the garage which is on the other side of the wall. One will be a feed coming from my salt mixing station and another will be going from the sump to a drain in the garage for easy water changes. The display is almost full or water and will hopefully be adding salt tomorrow and the rock and sand the next day.

 

[WDKegge]

Super clean setup.

 

[AJsReef]

Awesome build so far, tons of space to work with under the stand too! Well planned

 

[i_declare_bankruptcy]

Looks really great. Stand and canopy look top notch, fits the room well, and has the perfect amount of pizazz if you know what I mean. Looking forward to seeing more

 

[Dorado]

Thank you WDK, AJ and Bankruptcy. I've made some nice progress since my last post. First off, I finished the plumbing from the sump to the water mixing station.

The bottom left pipe is the emergency drain incase the sump overflows. The middle pipe is used to drain during water changes with the option of pumping the water out of the sump or attaching a siphon hose to clean the display. The pipe on the right comes from the salt water bin in the water mixing station. The pipe on top is just a sleeve for ATO components.

I also made a little electronics rack. The doweling gives something to wrap the velcro straps around.

 

[DarkReefer]

Wow this is really clean, keen to see more

 

[kutcha]

my wife is scared of me drilling holes through the wall tell me what is your secret

 

[Dorado]

Here are a few shots of the display with the rock and sand in it. The rock has been sitting in a bin for the last several months, I almost forgot what it looked like.

 

[Dorado]

my wife is scared of me drilling holes through the wall tell me what is your secret

Haha, I've done a fair amount of drywalling around the house, so my wife is pretty confident in my ability to patch the holes should I need to.

 

[Dorado]

It was time consuming but I finished dressing up the spaghetti behind my electronics board. I'm happy to have things a little more organized and did a little apex programming as well.

I'm still trying to get my hands on one of the ATI Straton LED fixtures, but I installed 4x24w supplemental T5's in the canopy that will provide some light to the tank while I wait.

 

[zukihara]

Great job on the controller board wiring. Wow!!

 

[Dorado]

I made some modifications to my cabinet door; added a towel rack, tong holster, and shelves for misc items.

I added some bottled coralline algae from algae barn. I really hope this works soon, I'm tired of looking at and bright white rock.

Last but not least, I added the fish that I had in quarantine; 3 lyretail anthias and a yellow tang. I hope I'm not too premature, but I bought my tank's first coral, a small chalice frag. It was cheap enough that it wouldn't be a huge loss if anything happened to it.