TL’s big boy peninsula 385 gal Sps build!

[Troylee]

Time to make my own stuff nice! Always doing everyone else’s stuff! In my mind I was convinced I was gonna make another cabinet to house my controllers and wires etc! Momma was like no! You got enough crap lol… I’m tired of the birds nest under my tank, then it hit me! I got 5” behind my sump that’s all wasted space! Here we go chop chop! Haha.. should have this wrapped up in a couple days.. nothing like cutting your stand up with a couple tons of water above your head! Can’t really see in the last pictures but the tangs are like dude! What are you doing! Earthquake hahahahahaha.

 

[Troylee]

Well the tank didn’t crash down on my head lol.. now to get to building a box inside my stand!

 

[Troylee]

Progress yay! I’m loving it! Man that’s a lot of work! I need some extensions for my ice cap gyres and mount the eb832’s and plug it all in and program it! Really stoked how this coming out.. never had a controller or doser before haha! Also got all my zeo stuff.. got a bunch more in my house! It’s go time!

 

[Troylee]

Im about 90% done yay! Waiting on some extension cables and pieces, parts… debating if I wanna really spend $120 on some stupid 90° adapter plugs to make it look real legit… I’m happy with it the way it is but it could be super clean…. Zeo is online also!! See what this does for my first time! Tank is cloudy from coral snow if you’re wondering.. that’s a 125 gallon sump.. looks tiny in pics.. skimmer holds about 10 gallons also, the cup is the size of a 5gal bucket

 

[lubeck]

Looks great. Motivation?

 

[Troylee]

Looks great. Motivation?

Rrrrrrrrr lol

 

[fishguy242]

Looking spiffy, question ,not worried about big yellow labels causing ballasts to overheat ?

 

[Troylee]

Looking spiffy, question ,not worried about big yellow labels causing ballasts to overheat ?

Just a piece of masking tape… it shouldn’t affect the heat.. at least I hope not lol… I placed them all around that exhaust fan to help with tank temp as the Jaebo return one runs hot! I’d think the Velcro holding them to the wall would affect them more.. even sitting them on the floor etc..

 

[Northern Flicker]

What saw did you use on the cabinet? Looks clean.

 

[Troylee]

What saw did you use on the cabinet? Looks clean.

Jig saw with a “ T101a” blades.. they cut super nice..

 

[Perry]

Im about 90% done yay! Waiting on some extension cables and pieces, parts… debating if I wanna really spend $120 on some stupid 90° adapter plugs to make it look real legit… I’m happy with it the way it is but it could be super clean…. Zeo is online also!! See what this does for my first time! Tank is cloudy from coral snow if you’re wondering.. that’s a 125 gallon sump.. looks tiny in pics.. skimmer holds about 10 gallons also, the cup is the size of a 5gal bucket

Dang brother, looks awesome!
I spot Zeolites, is this a new addition? Carbon/bacteria dosing? Which products if so?

 

[Troylee]

Dang brother, looks awesome!
I spot Zeolites, is this a new addition? Carbon/bacteria dosing? Which products if so?

Thanks bro! Yes brand new! Just put it online yesterday after talking to sunnyx and seeing how crazy his tank grew in 1 year.. I’ve always carbon dosed vodka / mb7… after talking with Sunny I switched to bacto balance which is working great in addition with all for reef.. I’m starting with the big 4 “zeo bac, zeo food, zeo start, zeolites” running them at 50% of recommended dosage from kz. I have a couple more bottles somebody gave me I haven’t tried yet, I need to research first..

Current schedule,
Coral snow with mb7 once a week
Top off with kalk
75ml of all for reef daily
30ml brightwell mag
Zeo products going off bottles which is a couple drops of each 2-3 times a week.

 

[Northern Flicker]

I don’t blame you. Sunnyx’s tank is inspiring.

 

[Troylee]

I don’t blame you. Sunnyx’s tank is inspiring.

I’ve always followed his foot steps since many years ago and great success with it!

 

[Troylee]

A little over 24 hours into this zeo routine and my water has never been so crystal clear! I don’t run a uv or ozone and I can see through 6ft of air almost lol..

 

[Perry]

A little over 24 hours into this zeo routine and my water has never been so crystal clear! I don’t run a uv or ozone and I can see through 6ft of air almost lol..

Be ready for light adjustments, sure it's on your list, but it will be more intense with carbon/bacteria system, especially when you do the diy coral snow with bacteria, clean, clean, clean!
Love it! We'll done brother!

 

[Troylee]

Be ready for light adjustments, sure it's on your list, but it will be more intense with carbon/bacteria system, especially when you do the diy coral snow with bacteria, clean, clean, clean!
Love it! Well done brother!

Yeah I’m dialing back the metal halides for now.. the radions I don’t think will punch too much… they’re just supplements to the halides… xr15’s with maybe 150 par at best where the acros live lol..

 

[coral reeftank]

Zeovit system = daily arm workout + awesome tank!

 

[Perry]

Yeah I’m dialing back the metal halides for now.. the radions I don’t think will punch too much… they’re just supplements to the halides… xr15’s with maybe 150 par at best where the acros live lol..

I knew you had it, I was luckily mentored by Don Miller, he was an OG TOTQ on Zeovit. I was lucky for personalized guidance, and to see that reef before teardown. This is 2005ish...lol

 

[Troylee]

Zeovit system = daily arm workout + awesome tank!

Thank you! It does but I’m very picky about my tank and I spend a good hour or a day cleaning my glass and playing with everything so I don’t mind.. loves your corals by the way!! Once this zeo is up and running to par I’ll be picking up some high end pieces… I have a few right now but I got plenty of space! Haha