25 gallon Innovative Marine Lagoon build.

[fabbss]

Putting together an a smaller tank in my home office. Building my basement bar, so going to sell my 120 soon. I want to build the bar first and not have to build around the larger tank.

I was going to build the stand with all the lumber, but after pricing the lumber and the prices. My wife suggested getting a cabinet and reinforcing it, genius!

So, got the stand almost together. I'm going to put together a controller panel, like on my other tank. I was going to put heavy duty drawer slides to allow the canopy top to slide up and down. But they kept locking up. I returned a pair to Amazon and then they sent me a replacement set and they did it again. So the canopy will be fixed.

 

[fabbss]

- lighting will be, 250w halide and two 160we kessils for supplemental lighting.

- innovative marine 9w UV.
- Aqua Maxx 3 Bullet HOB skimmer.
- on order a HOB fuge.

 

[scottw]

Want to build 1 more for the IM 50 Lagoon, that looks amazing!

 

[King Piscean]

Such an exciting time right! I love starting new tanks.

 

[fabbss]

Want to build 1 more for the IM 50 Lagoon, that looks amazing!

Lol, thanks for the kind words. Between work and a recent family medical diagnosis. I'm hoping I can finish this one in a week. I am really bummed that the slides didn't work put. Funny I built this one to support the 50 gallon Lagoon for a future upgrade.

 

[fabbss]

Such an exciting time right! I love starting new tanks.

It's always fun! Like Christmas in April ha ha

 

[fabbss]

Got the lights in, tank should be up and running tomorrow.

 

[fabbss]

Got the tank setup and some livestock transferred over.

 

[fabbss]

I may need to sell my cap, lol it is taking up half the tank.

Everything was not happy right away, but couldn't help taking some pics. Lol

 

[civics14]

Just wondering, why MH as main lighting of choice? Nonetheless, great set up!

 

[fabbss]

Just wondering, why MH as main lighting of choice? Nonetheless, great set up!

I've always had great results with halides, I mean coloration as well as explosive growth and no shadowing. But of course there are so many factors (parameters etc).

But I know great results can be achieved with LEDs as well. Those examples are everywhere. But honestly, I had the halides of my 120 and didn't want to waste them lol. They have basically me bulbs. But I seriously considering ordering the Orphek iCon compact. To replace the halide.

 

[fabbss]

*off *new bulbs lol tried to edit and it didn't work.

 

[civics14]

I've always had great results with halides, I mean coloration as well as explosive growth and no shadowing. But of course there are so many factors (parameters etc).

But I know great results can be achieved with LEDs as well. Those examples are everywhere. But honestly, I had the halides of my 120 and didn't want to waste them lol. They have basically me bulbs. But I seriously considering ordering the Orphek iCon compact. To replace the halide.

Gotcha. I never ran halides myself. I think when I got into the hobby, LEDs were just being introduced, but I couldn't afford it and started with t5s, but that became a hassle with bulb replacement. Ended up going with LEDs some time down the years and supplemented with t5s, but dropped t5s altogether as LEDs became full spectrum. I just didn't like whole replacing the bulb annually, but I guess in your case, its just a single bulb vs several bulbs in t5s.

Looking good tho and I'm sure it will def grow some corals. Thanks for the updates!

 

[fabbss]

Ok, a little update. I finally got some time to install the light. I went with the Orphek Icon compact. I also got my dosing setup started and put in place.i used the leftover drawer parts. But I couldn't be normal my wife says. So, I went all Dr Frankenstein. I left the ability to add another reef dose two for a food source, and Nitrate and Phosphate.

 

[civics14]

what are the holes for on the bottom that you drilled out of the dosing bottle holder?

 

[project1004]

Think it’s for glowing LED. I wonder if any light or heat source can mess with the chemistry of the bottles? Probably not.


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[civics14]

Think it’s for glowing LED. I wonder if any light or heat source can mess with the chemistry of the bottles? Probably not.


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oh yeah, lol. I just realized that.

 

[project1004]

I also had same question when I sow it. Lol.


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[fabbss]

Think it’s for glowing LED. I wonder if any light or heat source can mess with the chemistry of the bottles? Probably not.


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It is a set of small puck leds from Amazon. They are remote controlled and zero heat lol. They were $20 and came with triple A batteries also! I couldn't help myself.

 

[fabbss]

I reviewed a post by Randy Holmes the chemist on R2R and there would be no issue with light source affecting the chemistry of the products.

Plus, I only turn them on when I want to show off to myself ha ha ha.