Vidofner
Community Member
This is a sketch of how my next tank will look. It will be a 120x120x60 cm cube which equals 864 liters. It will have a coast to coast overflow and use the herbie overflow plumbing technique. The tank will be in my little man cave and next to this man cave is the garage.
In the garage I will keep the sump. I've drilled a 125 mm hole in the wall that divides the man cave and the garage. This hole is of course for the PVC pipes to go through.
I'm still renovating my man cave with new hard wood floor, wood panel backscene and repainting the rest. It's tricky to do these kinds of renovations with my current tank in the same room. But I need to get started with the renovation since the new tank will be in this room aswell. So basically I'm renovating half of the room at a time. Right now I'm working on the half where the new tank will be and when that is done and I've moved over the live stock from the old tank, I will continue with the rest.
I've been running my old 432 liter system for almost 4 years now and I recently moved from my 73 sqm city apartment into a 165 sqm terrace house in the suburbs so of course this tank needed an upgrade
.My old tank had a focus on acropora but it was a mixed reef with LPS's aswell. It started abit rocky when I decided to go for acropora. I had very few acropora that grew and most of them died within a couple of months. When I finally realized the importance of being anal with KH testing my luck changed. However I still had problems with some acropora not growing.
That's when I found out I had a major infestation of acropora eating flatworm (Amakusaplana acroporae). After 12 weeks of dipping and 6 weeks without any traces of AEFW I finally felt confident enough to stop dipping them. Here are some picture of my old tank before the move:
In my next tank I've decided to skip having LPS's (except for euphyllia) which will allow me a wider selection of fish. For example I will be having alot more angelfishes.
When I moved my tank I didn't feel like reestablish the live stock into my old tank again. Getting the rocks and corals out without breakage would be hard enough and to get it back like it was without breaking a majority of it would be near impossible.
The solution was to get a cheap plastic container (something you usually see at the recycling central
) and put everything in. This made the move alot easier since I could basically just dump all the rocks and corals down this container without caring for glass that can break and stuff like that 
I live in Sweden and sadly there aren't many custom aquarium builders available so I decided to order the display tank from diamantaquarien from Germany. However there is one in close proximity to where I live and even though the details aren't as great as diamantaquarien the tanks are still of good quality so I ordered my sump from him.
The compartment to the right in the image above is ment for water changes. The idea is to fork the pipe that delivers water to the sump. One end goes into this compartment and the other goes into the middle compartment so when I want to do a water change ill just turn off the water to the right compartment, drain it, fill it with RO/DI water and salt and when it's mixed ill just turn the water on in this compartment again and the freshly mixed water will combine with the tank water.
For the main display I will let diamantaquarien build a steel stand but for the sump I'll just build it myself. Here is a sketch of how my sump stand will look.
Lastly, here are some images of my current tank being run in the plastic container!
