This is my finished project. In August of 2006 I switched from a 15 year old FOWLR and built it into the wall. The actual aquarium is in the garage, in a insulated closet, with the 100 gallon sump, refugium and filter in the basement. The tank is a custom 4 feet wide, 32 inches high and 20 inches front to back with a central overflow. As you can see it is mainly an SPS reef. The main rockwork is two large pieces of lace rock the other 3 pillars are Figi. The design is a patch reef. Much as you see diving in Hawaii. I love to scuba dive and I love the islands so this is my little window to that world. The fish seem to really love swimming among the 4 pillars and a 8 inch brain. Each has staked out their own little territory.
I have finished, if you ever really get there, placing the corals and now I am waiting for them to grow. I hope to get "better" pictures and post them as it grows. I am not much of a photographer.
As of now the paramiters are perfect. My PH is 8.3, Calcium 410 alk 9.5 temp runs 80 to 81.5 and Nitrates ar at 2.7 measured in a lab. It is a deep tank at 32 inches deep and 48 inches wide. I drip kalk 24/7 and keep Cheato in the 30 gallon fuge. It has 5500/g/h of very random internal flow.
Growth has been great. All of the SPS and Frogspawn (one of my favorite) and torch corals have grown quickly. I had trouble keeping Monties early but they seem to be growing well now.
The lighting is a 400 watt Ushio 14 k supplemented by spotlights and t-5. I would like to add another 400 watt fixture and a netune system controller, and probably a calcium reactor in the future. It is hard to keep up the calcium and Alk now. The only other thing I would change is I should have started with a new starfire glass tank. After the main piece of lace rock fell over I have a few good scratched to sand out.
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Before Project
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After Project
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Closet In Garage
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Equipment In Closet
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Filtration
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I have finished, if you ever really get there, placing the corals and now I am waiting for them to grow. I hope to get "better" pictures and post them as it grows. I am not much of a photographer.
As of now the paramiters are perfect. My PH is 8.3, Calcium 410 alk 9.5 temp runs 80 to 81.5 and Nitrates ar at 2.7 measured in a lab. It is a deep tank at 32 inches deep and 48 inches wide. I drip kalk 24/7 and keep Cheato in the 30 gallon fuge. It has 5500/g/h of very random internal flow.
Growth has been great. All of the SPS and Frogspawn (one of my favorite) and torch corals have grown quickly. I had trouble keeping Monties early but they seem to be growing well now.
The lighting is a 400 watt Ushio 14 k supplemented by spotlights and t-5. I would like to add another 400 watt fixture and a netune system controller, and probably a calcium reactor in the future. It is hard to keep up the calcium and Alk now. The only other thing I would change is I should have started with a new starfire glass tank. After the main piece of lace rock fell over I have a few good scratched to sand out.
FTS
Left Side
Right Side
Before Project
After Project
Closet In Garage
Equipment In Closet
Filtration
rder Dent yours puts mine to shame......hmmm maybe I should redo mine? The feeder really is impressive. At the bottom of the hopper it has grinding wheels and the floor of the hopper shakes when it feeds so the food does not clog up. The hopper holds two cups and you can extend that to 4 or 6 if I wanted to. Add to that that it is so adjustable. I am feeding 1/2 teaspoon 3 times a day. Then I just feed some frozen at night. It will be great for my Bartletts. I mixed up a bunch of different dried sinking pellets and flake with some dried cyclopeeze. More importantly when I am out of town I can now pretty much control everything on my tank.
