Decadence December 21, 2014 Share December 21, 2014 I am finally rolling on this system. My time has been very restricted with my other business, but this system is going to be the main display for my new aquarium retail store which will be open in 2015. The idea is to make everything easy to maintain and lay it out so that it is easy to clean equipment or add new things as necessary. There will be a wall behind the 300 which I will put up after I am done building. A temporary skimmer is being used right now to help cycle the rock. Most of it started as dry rock. The lower 40br tank and the 220g sump will both be filled with just live rock. A few times per year, I plan on removing and cleaning the rock, though there are filter socks in place to keep anything big from getting into it. The upper 40br tank is a frag grow-out tank. I only plan on keeping a handful of large SPS colonies in the display. By keeping this tank, I can buy more colonies and not put them in until they are larger and take off. I also can monitor them for pests in the same system that they will be in permanently. The lighting on this tank is a single 250w SE radium on an icecap ballast with a lumitek elite reflector. The display will have three of the same lights, with six additional AI sols and four 6ft actinic t5 tubes. I'll dive more into that as it is built out. Updates are going to be relatively slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuffyGeos December 21, 2014 Share December 21, 2014 Following along, looking forward to seeing it develop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decadence December 21, 2014 Author Share December 21, 2014 Thanks Duffy. I'm happy that I'll finally be able to give back to the community when this is all done and I set up the shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallreef December 21, 2014 Share December 21, 2014 Very awesome to hear! Can't wait to see it all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime December 21, 2014 Share December 21, 2014 Sweet! Love the 300 DDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surf&turf December 21, 2014 Share December 21, 2014 Tagging along! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCReefer1964 December 22, 2014 Share December 22, 2014 I dont know why I am doing this but Tagging along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decadence December 24, 2014 Author Share December 24, 2014 My second update is very, very small because I'm not getting much time at all to work on this. I was able to get the table built for the refugium (just chaeto). It is probably hard to envision from the direction that I keep taking pictures. This is the view from inside of the room. There will be a will behind the refugium that extend all the way over to the 300dd display. It will be cut out behind the display so that I have access from the back but it will look like a solid wall from the front. Another view from inside of the fish room. And the view from the other side of the wall.. The tank has not been plumbed yet but it will share the feed from the DC12000 with the frag tank and a 2" overflow will run under the table to where a very large customer filter sock will be. The sock will be shared by the refugium and the display returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoozilla December 25, 2014 Share December 25, 2014 Tagging along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueTricia December 28, 2014 Share December 28, 2014 Wow! Can't wait to see what this turns into. Congrats on the start of the business. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decadence December 29, 2014 Author Share December 29, 2014 Got the refugium plumbed. Since these pictures, I have added more rock to the system. Tonight, I am moving my starting to move my whole home system to the shop. And of course, almost a year later, my little guy is growing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridetheducati December 29, 2014 Share December 29, 2014 What type of business are you establishing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decadence December 29, 2014 Author Share December 29, 2014 What type of business are you establishing? I got the property in September to start a custom limo/rv/mobile office shop spcializing in building Mercedes Sprinters. I got a space big enough to set up an aquarium shop in the front. I'm setting up my personal system first and will build out the shop for a spring or summer opening. I don't want to list a name or location or anything until I have vendor status on WAMAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuffyGeos December 29, 2014 Share December 29, 2014 "And of course, almost a year later, my little guy is growing up." Watch out ladies! there is a new smooth operator in town! Cute pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8n December 29, 2014 Share December 29, 2014 wow thats a really big aquarium! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott711 December 29, 2014 Share December 29, 2014 very nice! congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowieReefer84 December 31, 2014 Share December 31, 2014 I just saw a Renntech the other day, and while playing on their site I see they do Sprinter Tunes: http://www.renntechmercedes.com/www/catalog/sprinter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueTricia December 31, 2014 Share December 31, 2014 Got the refugium plumbed. Since these pictures, I have added more rock to the system. Tonight, I am moving my starting to move my whole home system to the shop. And of course, almost a year later, my little guy is growing up. He is ADORABLE! Good luck with both businesses. Are you drilling through the tanks when you do your plumbing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decadence January 5, 2015 Author Share January 5, 2015 Thanks guys. Nikola had a lot of fun at his birthday party this weekend. I wound up having to pick up all of the corals from my 90 which meant that I had to set up my quarantine system at lighting speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flooddc January 6, 2015 Share January 6, 2015 Nice!!! Lots of tanks. Looks more like a fish store build to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime January 6, 2015 Share January 6, 2015 Looks great! Quick progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decadence January 6, 2015 Author Share January 6, 2015 Thanks. As of right now, this is basically just my own personal stuff and nothing will be for sale. The stuff on the left is the start of the life-support for the 300 and the stuff to the right is the quarantine system. Right now the quarantine system is holding all of my livestock which will eventually work its way into the 300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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