I've been talking about this tank in my other thread... But, I feel its time it has its own little section of NR.

It's a used tank... used? or green? just trying to help the environment..

It's not set up here yet, but this is whats laying all over my garage....

The tank itself is a standard drilled Oceanic... 48"x24"x25"
A custom built stand and hood.
Custom lighting:
2 T5's for Actnics
2 250w MH
14 nocturnal blue LEDs (only part of the lights I added in)
Custom Sump - 40"x12"x18(i think)"
Skimmer (not sure of the type or model yet, I havent picked it up yet)
Ozonizer - Certizon 50
Sump Pump (not sure of the make and model)
Extra impeller for the sump pump
2 new ballasts
Rio Aqua Pump 800 for the Ozonizer
All new filter media for the sump (carbon, filter pad, etc)
All of the plumping pipes, hoses, etc
2 Koralia 4's
2 Koralia 3's
2 visitherm 300w Heaters
6 bags of live sand
bucket of instant ocean salt
RO/DI 100 gpd Portable unit with an extra set of filters
2 36 gallon trash cans
Egg crate
Moon Light controller
Wave Maker
2 90L power head pumps (that were recommended for the wave maker)
80 Lb of cured LR (currently in the trash cans)
2 Power Strips

useless without pictures right?

well.. the pictures are pretty useless if theres no water in the tank... but here they are...

The tank still at the store... (the original pics I saw of it)



The garage mess.... aka tank central.
(anyone need any clothes?? haha ive got 5 trash bags full of clothes to give away)
still some cleaning to do.... and the blue back ground will be removed and it will most likely be painted black.
boxes of stuff everywhereee i hate a mess lol.
more boxes! (all the sand)



and lastly...



All of the live stock from these 3 will be moved into it...





Total Cost right now... 2800 and some change..

Dayum. Going to be sweet, thats a hell of an investment. What do you do again?

engineer

keep filling up your vehicles. thanks

So it's going to be one giant zoa garden? Is that the plan? Sounds awesome.

well... basically because thats all i have in my current tanks.

I started cleaning out my box of "reef junk" all random pieces and parts from items i've bought since I started reefing....

I've got 6 bags of biomax ceramic cylinders.... can these be used as frag plugs?

That's pretty cool actually never thought of it. But from what I remember isn't that stuff very porous and easily tossed around by the current?

maybe... i'll drop one into the tank and see if it flys away lol

dangg! go big or go home eh lol ...other tank looks great btw

haha thanks

I'm likin' it steph! Thought I'd pop over here and check out the progress. Re-Hit me up on fbook

it looks awesome! I didnt realize it had dual oveflows.. that is a big plus! Cant wait to see the progression!

looks really good! Need close up pics!

so.. im waiting one more day to get the stand.

the sump was made to fit into the stand... and it doesnt come out without removing a wall... one of the plates between the sump chamber was loose and the guy resealed it today.

he recommends it doesnt get moved for atleast 24 hours.

he was suppose to get it done saturday.

its alive!

just 100 more gallons of water to go

thats crazy

cant wait to see it alive!!!

theres 30 gallons of water in there....

perfectly aquascaped?




the sump earlier...


so i didnt realize until i was under my tank that the guy mounted a light fixture down there

the sump now...


and all together...


minus the lights...

theyre still on the floor

lol we literally threw a table away that was in the sitting room just to have a spot for the tank

and the windows... theres a back patio right outside there, no sun/heat coming in.

Dayam thats going be nice when its all come together. Nawleans Style! good progress so far!

anyone need a sack-o-balls?

Love zoas, can't wait to see this progress. Good luck!

i have close to 40 different zoa rocks.. lol i cant wait to move them into this tank.

Lol holy hell, try a paly for gods sake

haha ive got a few...

theyre waiting to move in...

What do you call the zoas on the bottom that are brown with red centers?? I have some of those. BTW I love zoas. This is gonna be a SWEET tank. Great start!

Very Nice

i just call them all zoas... i havent gotten into the naming thing.

you might be able to find them on zoaid?

Awsomeness!

ahh do somethin sweet with your scape

well.. im going to try.. lol

we shall see what happens. I have a HUGE rock for the tank

it's all one big cloudy mess right now

finally the tank isnt looking like a huge jug of milk....

Maybe i'll get to do some scaping tonight!

what a fun experience....

okay not so much.

I just attempted to run the sump for the first time... water splashes every where from the drain hoses...

I am waiting

oh... and i went to scrape some "rubble" out of a bucket... nice palm full of bristle worms.

this is about the same experience as grabbing one of those small ornamental cacti that leave a billion little stickers in your fingers that you just cant quite see...

Very nice. I love zoa tanks.

problem solved

+1 for awesomeness!

moar pics dude!

So... it clears up and i start moving rocks around... then we're back to milky water lol.

I broke my center peice rock earlier I guess thats what i get for attempting to scape alone.

i cant figure out how to place the rock now... i havent liked it since the branching arm broke off! The rock all the way in the left corner use to be attached and coming out of the side of the center rock...



everythings just thrown in there and not scaped.

should i run the skimmer during the cycle?

I would. Whenever I have cycled my tanks ive always ran a skimmer.

That rock in the middle is INCREDIBLE!

i got 40 more lbs of it today

but its all tossed into the tank... i cant even think where to start scaping. lol

Well that was rather quick ....hope i can get my upgrade running pretty soon

really hard to pass up... its extremely light rock, and the guy was selling it to me for 4.00/lb

hmmm did some scaping....

lotsa picssss. haha

WHOA that rock is SICK
Do you want to buy 10 lbs and ship it to me?

I would leave the rocks tossed in there like that, looks good i think...

You did pretty darn good w/ the scape beings those rocks are likeeee what 20lbs a piece! haha ...for real though the middle looks damn good ...sooo finish the cycle and stock that thing up