I thought I would finally get moving with this thread.
If you missed some of my postings a few months ago I decided to take down my tank after being set up for 5 years to make way for a larger one. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it
, I am doing some renovations around the house. One of the renovations is having the existing hardwood floors re-sanded and re-finished. In order to do this I felt the best thing to do was to completely break down my tank and move all salt water creatures out of the house. So over the course of a month or so I split up my live stock between 3 friend's tanks. With the thought that if something happened to one person's tank the others would be a backup for me.
Here are a few old threads
Giving livestock to a local aquarium.
Tank pictures from last year
Tank of the month 2002
So finally on June 10th with some great help from a few friends the tank was fully broken down and all livestock and hardware I was not keeping was given away or sold. For the most part, nothing has been done for the last two months as the summer crept in and I got some work done around the house.
But, the hardwood floors were finally done this week, so now I am picking up this project and thought it would be great to have a little thread to discuss it and learn any new tricks from those who have put up big tanks as well.
So here is what I am planning on doing.
270 gallon SPS tank. (72x36x24) Starfire glass on three sides with Eurobracing.
For equipment I am going to try and use as much of the old equipment that I can.
My basic equipment list right now is.
Skimmer: Barr Aquatic SK4200 Duel Beckett Skimmer
Skimmer pump: Using circulation Pump
Sump: Custom Sump
to be made
Refugium: 55 gal. BB with Chaetomorpha macro algae
not sure if I will keep this
Return/circulation pump: Sequence 6000SEQ23
Circulation UPS: Tripplite APS512 Power Inverter/Charger 95AH Deep Cell Battery
Circulation: (2) 1" Wavy sea
Circulation Powerheads: (2 or 3) Tunze Turbelle Stream 6110
Lighting Ballast: (3) 250 watt IceCap electronic MH Ballast
Lighting Ballast: (1) Icecap 660 VHO Ballast
Lighting Bulb: (3) 140w URI Super Actinic
Lighting Bulb: (3) 10000K XM MH Lamps
Lighting Bulb: (2) 11w blue bulbs for moonlight
Tank Automation: Aquacontroller 3
Ca reactor: MTC ProCal
Ca Re-circulation Pump: Little Giant 2MDQX-SC
Nilsen Reactor: EcoTech Marine
RO/DI: AquaFX 4 Stage 75GPD RO/DI
Heater: 300w & 250w Won Titanium
Chiller: Aqua Logic 1/3HP Delta Star In-Line
Temperature Controller: Aquacontroller 3
pH Monitor: Aquacontroller 3
ORP Controller: Aquacontroller 3
Ozone Generator: Red Sea Aquazone Basic 200mg/hr with air dryer
Top-Off Float Switch: Lifereef Float switch
Top-Off Pump: Dolphin DP800 1400
here is a quick picture of the tank as I am thinking of it.
