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Hey R2R,
It's been so long I forgot my username and logged in using an old one on my phone. Please ignore the two replies above.
One big change is that I upgraded a 120 gallon reef tank with a 250 gallon acrylic tank donated by Neal at Titan Aquatic. It was a very generous gift and I hope the R2R community can throw some good karma his way.
The tank came at the beginning of last summer and I spent my break building the new system.
I'm notorious in my community for crazy projects and I'm on a first name basis with the fire marshal (and not for good reasons). I knew my tank would be frequently inspected so I went overboard when building the stand. There was a learning curve and we must of went to Lowe's a dozen times (4 times in one day once) Pictured is my daughter Cora, finally old enough to attend Stratton with me and have her summers off.
I set up temporary tanks for all of the livestock in the 120 but all of my tanks are very full and I really had to squeeze a lot of coral into a small a lot of place. Keeping water perimeters stable and the coral from killing each other as difficult.
Here's the finished stand and in a burst of inspiration I tried to create a closed loop circulation system and did kind of a bad job plumbing it.
I was on a budget and spend +$1K on the stand. I had to recycle a lot of old sand.
Here's a more recent photo of the tank. It is connected to 90 gallon stand-alone refugium. I pieced together as many of my LED lights as possible but don't have enough intensity for corals. I've decided to make it a FOWLR tank and have it stocked with some of the larger tangs from the 120 and a ton of clownfish we used to cycle tanks. I have an order out with Quality Marine for this wednesday with two spotted eels, big wrasse, and a lion fish.