Hello fellow reefers, I hope everyone has been doing well. Since I'm still working overseas I have a lot of extra time to dream and plan our next tank build. We actually already bought our first piece of equipment, a 7 stage 200 gpd brs rodi!!! This is just the beginning stages, we will probably be buying items over the next 6 months to a year. It all depends on how impatient the boss gets!!!
We plan to convert our formal dining room into our new fish tank room, which will be on the opposite side of the garage for our fish room. We plan to have a 8x10 fish room added into our garage, the contractor is supposed to do it this month. We plan to have it insulated to try to help control the temps, we will have to observe and make changes as necessary as far as the temperatures and humidity in the room. This will house all of the equipment, we want it as quiet and enjoyable as possible while observing the tank! Plus the boss doesn't want me dripping water all over her new wood floors! Yes ma'am I will have the fish room built!
We plan to have a 260 gallon 72x30x26 tank from a builder in Florida, I would love to have a CDA tank and stand but the price of their stands are hard to swallow for me personally. This guy offers a 3 year warranty with his stand, plus he does work for Top Shelf aquatics and quite a few more on R2R. I will include a picture of the stand that he does that we really liked, it will actually be a wrapped metal stand. He also uses 3/4" glass euro braced, so it should be a monster!
I will also include an equipment list that we're thinking about so far, based off of what we learned the short period the first time. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.
1. 72x32x26 3/4" euro braced tank, stand, and canopy. I'm leaning toward the canopy because the light spillage bothers my wife.
2. Sump - Synergy Reef CL60 or SK60 I'm just not personally overly excited by roller mats.
3. ATO - thinking about using Avast Marine ATO with BRS peristatic pump, I love spectrapure but not almost $500 for an ATO! Sorry
4. Rerun Pump - I'm thinking about an Abyzz A200, I'm still not sure. But I would like to run 1 pump for everything, including a manifold with uv, reactors as needed, and future frag tank. I'd rather stay with an internal pump with some serious flow rather then an external pump.
5.Controller - I'm actually thinking about only running a Hydros wave engine to control possibly 4 Octopulse 4's. I'm leaning away from running an Apex right now.
6. Tester - This would be later, not right away. I like the mastertronic at this point in time, but you know things are always changing!!!
7. Lights - I like the Orpheks, but may give the new Noopsyches a try to save a few bucks plus I actually liked their hybrid set up before. I've seen a few Noop tanks on R2R, their looking pretty good.
8. Skimmer - Once again would love to have a BK 250, but I'm not sure yet as this is not looking like a cheap build at this point!!! I would probably go with a Reef Octopus as a back up if price becomes a major issue.
9. Water Station - BRS 7 stage 200 gpd rodi with 2 65 gallon vertical tanks.
I'm hoping to make this our last dream build!!!
We plan to convert our formal dining room into our new fish tank room, which will be on the opposite side of the garage for our fish room. We plan to have a 8x10 fish room added into our garage, the contractor is supposed to do it this month. We plan to have it insulated to try to help control the temps, we will have to observe and make changes as necessary as far as the temperatures and humidity in the room. This will house all of the equipment, we want it as quiet and enjoyable as possible while observing the tank! Plus the boss doesn't want me dripping water all over her new wood floors! Yes ma'am I will have the fish room built!
We plan to have a 260 gallon 72x30x26 tank from a builder in Florida, I would love to have a CDA tank and stand but the price of their stands are hard to swallow for me personally. This guy offers a 3 year warranty with his stand, plus he does work for Top Shelf aquatics and quite a few more on R2R. I will include a picture of the stand that he does that we really liked, it will actually be a wrapped metal stand. He also uses 3/4" glass euro braced, so it should be a monster!
I will also include an equipment list that we're thinking about so far, based off of what we learned the short period the first time. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.
1. 72x32x26 3/4" euro braced tank, stand, and canopy. I'm leaning toward the canopy because the light spillage bothers my wife.
2. Sump - Synergy Reef CL60 or SK60 I'm just not personally overly excited by roller mats.
3. ATO - thinking about using Avast Marine ATO with BRS peristatic pump, I love spectrapure but not almost $500 for an ATO! Sorry
4. Rerun Pump - I'm thinking about an Abyzz A200, I'm still not sure. But I would like to run 1 pump for everything, including a manifold with uv, reactors as needed, and future frag tank. I'd rather stay with an internal pump with some serious flow rather then an external pump.
5.Controller - I'm actually thinking about only running a Hydros wave engine to control possibly 4 Octopulse 4's. I'm leaning away from running an Apex right now.
6. Tester - This would be later, not right away. I like the mastertronic at this point in time, but you know things are always changing!!!
7. Lights - I like the Orpheks, but may give the new Noopsyches a try to save a few bucks plus I actually liked their hybrid set up before. I've seen a few Noop tanks on R2R, their looking pretty good.
8. Skimmer - Once again would love to have a BK 250, but I'm not sure yet as this is not looking like a cheap build at this point!!! I would probably go with a Reef Octopus as a back up if price becomes a major issue.
9. Water Station - BRS 7 stage 200 gpd rodi with 2 65 gallon vertical tanks.
I'm hoping to make this our last dream build!!!
