JasReef

Thanks Seth. It is exciting like watching a car race and wondering if someone is going to crash. I think I have a good plan and keep parameters where they need to be during the transition phase. We will see. I really need to find some time to come look at your setup because your build is so tidy and I can obviously use some pointers.

I have seen a few AGE tanks and they are incredible! I will post a lot of pics when I get it.

I thought a lot about dimensions. I knew I wanted at least 8' long 30" seems like an ideal width and 24" tall is what I have now and I think it is perfect. If you scape it right it won't feel like there is no room to grow up. I don't plan on sand so that nice grey pvc bottom will look good when its covered with encrusting montis and coraline. Any tips or tricks are very much appreciated so let me know what you or anyone would do. Is no sand a mistake? My gut says no sand but my eyes tell me it can look good. Maybe something in the 3mm-5mm range, nice white no live crap.

I just cleaned my skimmer out and couldn't imagine where all that crap would go in the tank without a skimmer. I run my 29 cube skimmerless, just rock, sand and a carbon pad every once in a while. They both seem to work ok to me. Is that all you run now? Skimmerless? I would love to hear more about nutrient export or exchange.

I will be building this into my existing fish room, which is a room in a larger room. The plan is to carve out 31" to settle the 96" in there. The part on the right end will get taken off and made even with the rest of the opening. I really like having room behind to put all my stuff for the tank. I will be plumbing a 40 Breeder into the system as well to eventually have for a frag tank. Here is the current situation in the room. I really let it get away from me with the wiring. I will keep the mixing station where it is for now with the two 35 gallon tanks. Everything else comes out. It's not as bad as it looks but I did start figuring out wires and making a moving plan so it is extra messy today. I am glad I did the way I did to start, I learned a lot of what I need to do to be successful with lots of room to not be crammed. Now I know what to plan for when moving everything under a stand. I have been inspired by some truly awesome attention to detail under cabinet designs here and on other forums and would like to make this as clean looking as possible. Access and ease of use it most important to me. If I can get to it easy I will clean it. The 40 will go on a much smaller steel frame stand. I plan on some kind of table or desk in the corner to do all my testing at.

But then wouldn't I have to change it to FarmerJasReef after that?

For a sump I have asked Terry at Fishy Business in San Antonio to build me a custom 118g sump. It will be 60x25x18. His guy does really nice work. I pretty much took features that I liked from other sumps and incorporated them into this. I will run the Vectra L1 as my return pump. I will hook it into an Oceans Motion and return it to the four 1 inch returns to the display. Should be a nice random flow return. I will run a Jaebo 4000 that I have to a manifold For the flow I have 2 Maxspect Gyre 280's on the way. I will run both these off the new controller. Maxspect plans on adding an Integrated Controller V6 for managing both pumps and LED lights and the new controller will be able to run wirelessly to it. I am thinking it will be a web based IU like the Ecotech reef link. For now I will run my External Reef Octopus on the system but I may need to upgrade if I increase the bio load too much. Lighting will be a little odd but I like what I have and wanted to try out something new. I have a 60" Hamilton with 2x80 watt T5's and 2x250 Halides, I have also attached 3 AI Primes to the fixture. I also have an ATI Sunpower 36" 8bulb T5. The tank may look a little uneven but it will be interesting to see how corals do in different parts of the tank. I will start out with 4 Blue+, 2 Coral+ and 2 True Actinics. The tank chemistry will be maintained by my GeosReef 618 CaRx. So far I love this rig and it works perfectly on the 160g. The whole thing will be monitored by the "old" Apex Gold with 2 EB8's, breakout box, PM2, and ALD.

Hello and welcome to my build. As the title states I have decided to let go of one hobby for another. I loved my Jeep and will miss it, this tank will be in its honor. I have had the 160g up and running since November of 2015. I should have resealed the tank when I got it but it was a job I just couldn’t tackle at the time so I decided to fill it up. It was a mistake. Long story short I just don’t 100% trust it so I made the decision to buy a new tank and in typical reefer fashion I made it bigger. I have an A.G.E 300 gallon tank being built. It is 96x30x24 inch and I can be happy with it for many years to come. I can relax about leaks and have confidence in this tank. I spoke with Roger from A.G.E. in person and came away feeling very confident in my purchase. Bryan at the Fish Gallery in Austin took over from there and he has been keeping in contact with me on the build. It has black silicone and will have a black vinyl back. If you are not familiar with A.G.E they feature a stainless steel powder coated frame, it will be black. They are also made right here in Texas. They came to C4 and had a beautiful tank set up. I also ordered a steel black powder coated stand. I made it 42" tall so I don't have to bend over so much to see it. I plan on skinning it myself. I have about 4 weeks left to get things ready to move.

Wow! That is an amazing fragtank. Great job! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

I am very impressed with your dedication of attention to detail. [emoji106] Everything looks amazing. Great job.

I looked on this Calculator http://reef.diesyst.com/chemcalc/chemcalc.html and this is how much Kent Tech M you would have to add to get it up to 1500. I assumed you have a 120 gallons with sump and rock displacement. Once it is up the NeoMag should be able to keep it steady. 2628.4 ml; 88.8 fl oz; 525.6 tsp.

That sounds reasonable. I have thought the same thing about migration from the sump but also wonder about any unwanted pests or algeas. I would love to throw 50 lbs in my sump because I believe it is very helpful in starting a new tank. Did you get any of the sand?

How much are you putting in the fuge? I have thought about the same but Dans experience with the isopods kind of scared me.[emoji33] I do think it is a great way to start a new tank or add biodiversity to an existing one. I also like how he will send those awesome sponges and gorgonians.

Sounds like you had a great time and congrats on the WAV pumps! I have settled on the Vectra for a closed loop but waiting on the bigger one. Post up some pics of you have time. Sent from my SD4930UR using Tapatalk