Hello!
I am finally opening up a build thread for my next project, migrating my 20 gallon cube reef tank and 20 gallon long fowlr into a 100G, with of course the addition of some new inhabitants. Opening this up to track some of my work as a lot of it will be custom, including the stand, the plumbing, the sump, and hopefully if I post a dumb idea here someone will tell me before I do it
Current equipment that’s going in for sure is an Innovative Marine MightyJet XL, a 500 Watt Finnex heater, live rock and sand TBD but of course a bunch will come from the existing tanks, as well as a pile of Matrix. I am interested to experiment on how quickly, between that and the PNSB I use from AlgaeBarn, I can get the thing to cycle.
I will be building my own sump using a sheet of acrylic, cut and drilled to make compartments, and glued into a standard 29 gallon Aqueon tank.
This is all going to go into a custom built stand I have been designing and making with my father.
I will probably refrain from too much comment on stocking as I find the topic a little fraught on forums. Experiment that may be of interest to those who come later will be: how quickly a Tahitian Butterfly will eat through my corals (which I am resigned to if it happens, as my son has declared the butterfly non-negotiable).
Anyway, here is the current state of the project - clearly the extremely advanced state of a successfully opened wooden box. This week I will be building the sump.
would appreciate inputs as I post progress as I have never done this before
I am finally opening up a build thread for my next project, migrating my 20 gallon cube reef tank and 20 gallon long fowlr into a 100G, with of course the addition of some new inhabitants. Opening this up to track some of my work as a lot of it will be custom, including the stand, the plumbing, the sump, and hopefully if I post a dumb idea here someone will tell me before I do it
Current equipment that’s going in for sure is an Innovative Marine MightyJet XL, a 500 Watt Finnex heater, live rock and sand TBD but of course a bunch will come from the existing tanks, as well as a pile of Matrix. I am interested to experiment on how quickly, between that and the PNSB I use from AlgaeBarn, I can get the thing to cycle.
I will be building my own sump using a sheet of acrylic, cut and drilled to make compartments, and glued into a standard 29 gallon Aqueon tank.
This is all going to go into a custom built stand I have been designing and making with my father.
I will probably refrain from too much comment on stocking as I find the topic a little fraught on forums. Experiment that may be of interest to those who come later will be: how quickly a Tahitian Butterfly will eat through my corals (which I am resigned to if it happens, as my son has declared the butterfly non-negotiable).
Anyway, here is the current state of the project - clearly the extremely advanced state of a successfully opened wooden box. This week I will be building the sump.
would appreciate inputs as I post progress as I have never done this before