Anirban's piece of ocean (200 Gallons of sps)

[Anirban]

Its been almost a year since I promised my fellow reefers that my new home will have a bigger tank. last sepetember we booked our new townhome and I started dreaming of building the tank. But life had some surprises under its belt. It took exactly a year to almost finish building the house. Today I thought it is time for my unveil my plans for the tank. So, here is the plan....

Many of you know that I love SPS and barebottom (MAD FLOW). My current tank is a barebottom 55 gallons. Another thing I love about tank dimension is depth and peninsula style. Now I have given you enough hints to guess what I am going to do with my new build.

Tagging all the old buddies and welcoming the new ones. This will be a slow build initially but I promise to keep the things rolling and a lot of pictures. I will need your help in this quality build and hope everyone will learn something new and enjoy.

Lets start the build....

@jsker @GoVols @NY_Caveman @Abhishek @bubbaque @sever10 @120reefkeeper @SKYHIGGh @Rick.45cal

 

[Peach02]

Sounds good!

 

[Anirban]

Sounds good!

Thank you. i am looking forward to it too.

 

[Anirban]

The stage is set. The planning part is done. Today I ordered tank, sump and stand.

I will start detailing all the equipment soon. I can assure everyone who will read this thread that it will be an interesting one.

I know that this thread needs a picture to start. So here are couple of them.

The house....

The tank will be a peninsula dividing the kitchen and dinning room...

Here is the wall where the tank will sit...

 

[UNCFAN]

Nice house!

 

[jose hernandez]

red sea? waterbox?

 

[Peach02]

red sea? waterbox?

Up to you they both have their pros and cons in my research the reefer had a better sump and the waterbox had a better weir

 

[Anirban]

Nice house!

Thanks man. This whole thing is delayed over 6 months but finally its done.

 

[Anirban]

red sea? waterbox?

Its neither red sea nor waterbox. I dont have any complain against them as they both are nice setups but they are just not upto my standards. I needed a lot of customization too with size and shape of the tank which is not possible with them. I am going with a custom setup and I will post the details tonight.

 

[Anirban]

Hello everyone,

Its time to revive this thread after a year. A full year back I planned to start this tank but a lot of things happened since then but now I think is a good time to start this build again. This build faced many roadblocks and bumps during last one year but now we can start the journey. I hope everyone will enjoy the journey forward.

 

[Anirban]

Current plan for this system:

Tank dimension: 54"x30"x26" peninsula style eurobrace acrylic tank (local tank manufacturer)

Sump: Fijicube 36 advanced sump

Lighting: Hybrid (3 x XR15 gen 4) and 4 T5

Return pumps: Octo Varios 6 and 8

Skimmer: Deltec 1500i

UV: Pentair 40watt

Wavemakers: 1 mp 40 and 2 mp10 to start with (In future I would like to try a couple of Panta Rhei)

Algae turf scrubber: Turbo aquatics

Substrate: This will be again a barebottom tank like my earlier ones.

This will be an acropora dominated tank. I decided to do something different for this tank. Although I like the new trend of tenuis collection but I personally prefer deepwater and smooth skins. So, I decided this tank will majorly have smoothies and deepwater acros. I will also have favias and some chalices but that's all.

 

[UNCFAN]

Good luck and enjoy the adventure.

 

[Anirban]

Good luck and enjoy the adventure.

Thanks. This should be interesting journey like the old one.

 

[Anirban]

For the stand I planned it to be a 2x4 structure wrapped with plywood. I am planning it to be modern and simple looking but eye-catching. So, I decided to do a white color with walnut highlights. I am going with marine grade plywood to avoid any future issues.

A trip to home depot and some time with the circular saw. We are rolling.

 

[Anirban]

These are the last few pictures of my last Aquaforest tank which I lost completely during the move.

 

[Billldg]

Current plan for this system:

Tank dimension: 54"x30"x26" peninsula style eurobrace acrylic tank (local tank manufacturer)

Sump: Fijicube 36 advanced sump

Lighting: Hybrid (3 x XR15 gen 4) and 4 T5

Return pumps: Octo Varios 6 and 8

Skimmer: Deltec 1500i

UV: Pentair 40watt

Wavemakers: 1 mp 40 and 2 mp10 to start with (In future I would like to try a couple of Panta Rhei)

Algae turf scrubber: Turbo aquatics

Substrate: This will be again a barebottom tank like my earlier ones.

This will be an acropora dominated tank. I decided to do something different for this tank. Although I like the new trend of tenuis collection but I personally prefer deepwater and smooth skins. So, I decided this tank will majorly have smoothies and deepwater acros. I will also have favias and some chalices but that's all.

Can't wait to see this tank come together.

 

[Anirban]

Can't wait to see this tank come together.

Thanks mate. I am pretty excited. I will post some equipment pictures tomorrow. I collected almost 200-300 lbs of tonga branch, shelve and pukani since last 2-3 years and cycling them over a year so I will use those for my aquascape.

 

[Anirban]

And its started. Plan is to get the basic structure done by tomorrow so I can take time to skin it.

 

[Anirban]

Today was a busy day. Started to build up the stand structure. There are few more supports need to be there but its coming around fine. Here is where it stands now.

 

[Anirban]

The stand is coming along but today I want to share the skimmer. I bought this from Adam at battle coral @Battlecorals couple of years back when I started planning this reef. Its a deltec 1500i. Its a beast by its size and I hope it will perform like one. Adam guided me really well with this one. It also come with a manual neck cleaner.