Christian's 180 in wall aquarium

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Do you have to install back boarder on an inwall tank?? If so what's the reason? Just curious because our new house is being built and I'm planning on having my 220 in the wall
Dry wal when it gets wet it molds really quickly
Other than that I don't know much about the difference.
 

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Dry wal when it gets wet it molds really quickly
Other than that I don't know much about the difference.
Okay that's good to know.....honestly I thought it was just cutting open the wall for the tank and then building the stand and that was it! Haha
 
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Moving outlets, light switch. Lifting the stand through the wall. Due to the size. Add extra stud supports.patching the wall sanding and painting will be done today. And move the tank onto the stand
 
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The tank is in!
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Time to put sand and start the transfer? I have 12x 20lb bags of live sand and what is in my aquarium. I'm thinking I should do a deep sand bed what do you think?
 
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So I also have this uv sterilizer that I can place on my aquarium I trying to figure out the best spot for it. I'm thinking about having it running on its own pump and having it attached to the back of the stand.

What's your thoughts?
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Here's the sump I have not glued
That way I can add onto it if I want to.
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I would like to make my sump area look kinda like this
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So guys good news and bad news. First the bad so on Wednesday night we filled up the aquarium, around 2am the bottom of the aquarium cracked

We stayed up moving everything back to the old tank cleaning up water. It was not fun.
So yesterday we got a new 120 rr tank to take its place wich is the good news were still putting an aquarium in the wall
 
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Making a new stand for the aquarium, I'll be adding a 4'x 1/2" wood for the top of the stand for stablitly.
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Also looking for the ID on these rocks/dead corals
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So ended up taking the wall out the rest off the way. Along with building my own stand.

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Need to buff out my tank but hopefully that won't be too bad
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Ok so last weekend when we decided to put the aquarium into the wall, we were placing a 180 and the bottom cracked so the next day we picked up a 120 and that one cracked from the heat while we had it out side trying to paint the back of the tank.
So we ended up placing a 70 gallon sea clear II aquarium in the wall.
So far we just got tank and rock and our clown in the aquarium, with 2 queen conchs 2 snails, a sea hair, and long spine urchin.
I will be setting up the apex probably tomorrow, along with the kessil lighting. I have not decided how many of the kessils to put on the aquarium.
I know they cover 2X2 section of the aquarium so I should only need 2
They are the a160 tuna blue lights what's your guys thoughts?

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Here is the behind the scenes of the aquarium.

Here is the over flow and rerun
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The sump
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And my lights that are not done lol
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Will this code work for kessil lights on the apex system?
Do I put it under control type advanced?

Intensity

Profile Name: Int_Sunr (sunrise)
Control Type: Ramp
Ramp time (minutes): 240
Start intensity: 0
End intensity: 70

Profile Name: Int_Dayl (mid-day)
Control Type: Ramp
Ramp time (minutes): 1
Start intensity: 70
End intensity: 70

Profile Name: Int_Nigh (sunset)
Control Type: Ramp
Ramp time (minutes): 180
Start intensity: 70
End intensity: 0


Var spd outlets

LEDColor (light spectrum ramp)
Set OFF
If Time 09:00 to 13:00 Then ColorSun
If Time 13:01 to 17:00 Then ColorDay
If Time 17:01 to 20:00 Then ColorNig

LEDInten (dimming)
Set OFF
If Time 09:00 to 13:00 Then Int_Sunr
If Time 13:01 to 17:00 Then Int_Dayl
If Time 17:01 to 20:00 Then Int_Nigh


Please comment
 
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Now that the tank is up, lights are halfway up and running, need to set up my apex to the wifi.

Time for the aquarium stock list.
So far in the aquarium, I've got 1 clown, 1 Bta, 2 queen conchs, some GSP, and Zoas.


What's to come?
1-3 more clowns
Blue spot jaw fish
2-3 fire fish
3-5 green chroms
Panda goby

Not sure if I should add any more?

Corals
More Zoas
Few sps (montipora cap, and may be an acro or too.)
Gold torch
Green torch
Green and orange hammer
Acans
Just a large mix of LPS.
Any thoughts on any specific corals I should add?
 

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Wow that's terrible about the tanks, but way to keep truckin' man.

As for the apex program that looks like it will work, and you do have to put it in advanced.

If you can I would hardwire the apex to the router, it makes doing updates easier and no chance of dropping signal if something goes happens with wireless signal.
 
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Yeah I think I'm going to try useing a wifi extender to hard line, overpower, Because I don't have any other way of getting Internet to the apex.
 
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