Marty's 8' 300g/sump room build. ~750g system

[ReefingBliss]

This is awesome I am planning a 200+ gallon for 2020. This has been very inspiring.

 

[Mshort03]

This is awesome I am planning a 200+ gallon for 2020. This has been very inspiring.

Awesome! And thank you for the kind words this was only the beginning. The scape will be finished today as well as coral and fish so it will really be something to look at in a few hours

 

[crusso1993]

Awesome! And thank you for the kind words this was only the beginning. The scape will be finished today as well as coral and fish so it will really be something to look at in a few hours

Very cool! I may be more excited about your build than you are! Lol

 

[Dyanna Diaz]

Caught him last night starting to design the masterpiece

 

[Almondkc]

It looks like it will be a masterpiece. What a well thought out plan and execution. Can't wait to see it continue to develop. Thanks for sharing!

 

[ReefingBliss]

Awesome! And thank you for the kind words this was only the beginning. The scape will be finished today as well as coral and fish so it will really be something to look at in a few hours

Can't wait to see pictures. To get my feet wet in the hobby I started a 50gallon breeder at my office. Fingers crossed I dont have to sell a kidney.

 

[crusso1993]

Caught him last night starting to design the masterpiece

Oooooooooh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

 

[Mshort03]

Well I got the scape done. I'm sure there will be some fine tweaking here and there. Wish the water wasn't so cloudy from moving everything around so you could see better but I have a bunch of pics for you guys! There are tons of caves and swim throughs while having plenty of high area for SPS. I like some parts of the scape reaching upup high, helps shoe off the dimensions I feel. I also tried to showcase the depth front to back which you can't see with water being cloudy.. Starting on corals and will hopefully get that finished tonight so everything can start settling. I'm gonna move the Doser over for now to keep things how they were and get calcium reactor going when Im able to be more focused.

I'm also doing a round of seed to help with the move.

I will post pictures after more corals are in and water is clearer for cameracamera, these ones do absolutely no justice.. I'm super stoked guys!

 

[Mshort03]

Wow. 12 hours today spent finishing the scape and getting most of coral in. The one 90g in room is running and currently housing a gold bar maroon clown pair and the rest of my corals plus left over rock, the sump is holding another gold bar pair And a purple tang till the frag system is running (hopefully tomorrow)

I took some more pics a bit less cloudy before calling it quits. Hopefully by tomorrow water will be fully clear and I can take some good shots.

The tank really just looks huge in all aspects. Its awesome lol. The fish look so small in here and there is tons of room for more coral. tomorrow I'll fine tune a few things and get the rest of coral mounted.

Here's what my temp setup currently looks like. Can't wait to have this portion of my house back to normal.

 

[crusso1993]

Really looking nice!

 

[NY_Caveman]

I love how open it is. Came out great.

 

[Mshort03]

I love how open it is. Came out great.

Thanks.. It really is very open I tried to show off the depth a lot, and at same time I like a lot of rock just not a wall. It had lots of places you can look down into and investigate and tons of big open area for swimming. Its not what I had in my head at all but this is what got produced (pretty sure that's how it always goes)

Here's a few natural sunlight morning ***** before I get the day started

Now to get back at it for another long day of progress.

PS...yes I'll be cutting the black out curtains to properly fit window, lol

 

[Mshort03]

 

[Mshort03]

 

[dantimdad]

Looks great!

Glad it's up and running.

 

[crusso1993]

@Mshort03 - I'm really happy for you and @Dyanna Diaz . Although I have to admit that I kind of hate you too! Lol

 

[Mshort03]

@crusso1993 well if you hated me before you'll hate me more now! Got the rest of big tanks in room. (Decided to add a rack of small tanks cuz why not) tomorrow I'll plumb the drain for second 90 and get that running and then get 125 up and going. Got two days left off Feom work so now that the big stuff is moved I can get rocking on the small things and hopefully have water station going to.

also here's a shot of the bulkhead I put in for my automatic water changes. This will drain to sink.

 

[Mshort03]

Had to stop and enjoy for a min

 

[Mshort03]

One last picture dump for the night

 

[crusso1993]

It's fantastic when a plan all comes together!