180 reef build #2

jfuka78

jfuka78

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Day one, picked up the new 180 non rr and put it in the hole.

Big thanks to Eric and Mitch for helping out.
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The tank bottom seal was bad. I didn't know, until I added water to it. I fix it, but a year later (6 in the morning) it leaked about 50 or more gallons of water on the oak wood floor and then leaked into the crawlspace.
 
Ouch, I will start filling to test seams first.
Then I can hook a maxi jet and hose to keep water on the area I am drilling. Just drill from inside out
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tank is filling up, ordered the drill bit and bulk heads today. Went to herbs glass in elgin and ordered my glass for the overflow. Going to do a coast to coast but not like most of ones with the beananimal system.

Going to drill the tank and install bulkheads first, then install the glass overflow. The overflow will be 6" tall but only 1 1/2" from front to back.
 
Glass came in early, ordered yesterday and they called today saying that it was ready.
First bead of silicone down.
Completely recommend herbs glass in Elgin. $50 could of got grey tint for $20 more but it was not dark enough for me. Eventually there will be growth on it anyways.
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Tank is drilled bulk heads in, overflow is in. I cracked the overflow a little but nothing silicone now and coraline later will not cover up. A new perk is that I have a six foot frag rack that will have tons of flow
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Drain the glass water shop vac the glass bits, put sand in and filler up

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Finally got around to moving some rock, fish and coral to the tank.

I lost a lot of sps, not sure what happened other than not being able to keep alk steady. Also have two wrasses missing, hopefully went through the drain to the other trough.

I will be selling that big shelf rock and the newer t 100 gal Rubbermaid trough if anyone is interested.

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Looking for some big pieces to make an island on the bare side.

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Rock is roughly 16*23



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Thank you, I am really happy with the aquqscaping in the middle. If I didn't want to many coral I would of just kept the center but owell.
 
Agreed! Awesome job with the scaping! I love the structure and holes for the fish to swim in and out of.


jfuka78 said:
Thank you, I am really happy with the aquqscaping in the middle. If I didn't want to many coral I would of just kept the center but owell.
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