Clownfish14's 90 gallon of sexyness

Hey guys so ive been working on a big setup for a while and its slowley starting to come together. My plan is to have the tank (48 x 20 x 20) about 90 gallons in my room and plumb it out into the grage. this will allow me to have all my equipment out there and not have to worry about space! I have a 80 gallon sump which i am putting on its own circut breaker with gfci circuts. i also have switches built in so i can controll each outlet without having to unplug them when i need to turn it off. i am going to run a G2 skimmer and a reflo hybrid snapper/dart return pump. my dad decided that since i have the sump and everything he would set up a small tank in the kitchen and plumb it into my sump. so he bought an ADA starphire 23 gallon tank. right now i am working on building my stand. I am going to hopefully pick up the metal this week so i can get the tank inside. i am going all LEDs over the tank which will be controlled by the apex both will be ordered after i have the stand done. Im sure i could sit here and type for hours about it but pics are better and i am working on thoes. i just figured i would give a quick overview of my plans. Now Back to work!!!

Sweet cant wait for pics. I wished my dad was that cool and would have let me put a 90 gallon tank in my room.

lol ya its pretty cool! cant wait to get it set up! ill get pics although there is really not much to take pics of but i will deffinatly document my stand

LEDs what about the T5's?

Nope. I have been researching leds for the same price as the t5s and then i get all the cool functions, less heat, and cheaper in the long run.

I haven't been keeping up on LEDs. is there still lots if concern with them still? like what Paul said about them a couple months ago?

What did paul say?

Hmm not sure about that but im still going to try it out it sounds like the problem is uv light so mabey i will add in a couple of uv leds

finally ordered my return pump! i got a reeflo dart gold pump which is a 4300 gph pump. i also ordered a tunze nano wavebox from a guy on RC for a great price! pump should be here tommrow! my next step is to buy the steel for the stand. ill keep you guys updated

Alright, that's exciting! It's always fun to get new stuff in the mail, especially such a HUGE pump! That things is a beast.

ya it is! i cant wait to get this stuff going! after i get the stand and tank in my room i will get the lights and plumbing!!!! then add some rock and im ready to go!

How are you plumbing you tank in your room to the reeflo? Are you going through the wall?

through the basement/crawlspace. we are using flexable pipe stuff

how much head loss are you going to have?

Like 5 feet

If that

Place your tank as close to the outside wall as possible if youy are on a raised foundation
and not a slab, That is a lot of weight on the joists and could cause your floor to sag or fail.
joflo

Its over a wide area and when we added on to the house all the flores were doubble braced. Its all good

Oh. Got the pump in today!!!

No pictures= Not true.....lol

Lol ill get some tommrow morning. Gota go to a party tonight!!!

got my nano wavebox in!!!!! will take pics of the pump and this in a sec

So ive been thinking about the idea of running one of thoes attic fan things that you see on peoples roofs (the round ball looking things) as a fan for my canopy. Since my tank is right next to my wall i could run it into the wall and up through the roof. That way i will have absolutly no noise from fans in my room at all. Actually now that im thinking about it the inly noise that will be in my room will be the overflow!

What fans are you referring to? I can't envision what you are planning. If you are talking about those fans that spin from wind. Wouldn't that make it difficult to get into your tank?

Yes thats what im talking about and no it would be integrated into the back of the hood

you should just buy Derricks tank that way its all set up with your corals and everything!

Lol no way my tanks going to be amazing!

its taking an amazingly long time to set it up!

Ya i know its getting there though!

my LED set up



Let me know what you think

need more blue

lets see the pics of the tank!

There is 3 blue to every normal white. Which is a 15k color temp. Then when the high noons turn on it will drop to like a 10k look but thats ok because im never home at the time thoes will be on and that way my corals get some nice growth as well

Ya ill get pics of tank soon. Everything is kinda a mess right now

This is a pic of the almost finished sump area in the grage

What's this? Three months of talking and all we get is one pic of a tank sitting on it's end?

I didn't know they made UV LED's. You saw my light setup and how I took care of the UV problem.

So is the dart going to be the return pump? If so, what are you using the other two pumps for that you got from me?

I think you should go bigger on the tank though, but that just me.

No the dart isint working so well. I will most likely us the hammerhead to run the teturn for now. The baracuda is just a backup in case we have way to much flow

Ok that pic dose not count

Lol i have the tank in my room but everythings all a mess. I will try and get a pic soon

Here is a pic of the stand before it goes out for powder coating. The canopy is going too but i didnt get a pic of it

It's coming along! I have a few questions:

1.Did you weld that yourself?
2.How heavy is the stand?
3.What did you make the Canopy out of?

Yes i built the whole thing. And yes its very heavy but it still weighs less than the tank. And the canopy is made out of smaller tubbing its 1 inch instead of 1 1/2 which means the walls for the tubing are 1/16 instead of 1/8 so its alot lighter.

Are you going to grind down the welds on the front of the stand? or did you account for that bead when you cover it?

Yes i did that yesterday afternoon they are all smoothed out now

Got the plumbing from the grage to my room! The stand will be done getting coated tuesday then i have to just get the doors on it and finish the plumbing and im ready to go! Oh i still have to order lights though :/

Why arnt you using pvc to plumb it?

I guess more flexability.

Running flex hose would be MUCH easier through floors than rigid.

Yes running hard pvc would have sucked. This sucked too but was much easier than ridged. The basement is only 3 feet tall so i have to army crawl around the foundation. On another note i plumbed my dads tank today which was even worse lol. I had to climb through holes that i could easily get stuck in it all went good though im thinking about drilling and painting the tanks tommrow.

Got my apex