Rob's 150 tank build

[rbl1979]

Hello once again living reefers.

It has been a long time since I made any posts, work was getting in my way of my tank. :frustrat: However after 4 years with my current 90 gallon aquarium I have been given the OK to get a bigger and will be very shortly upgrading to a 150 gallon one :bounce:. I will be hoping to order it later this week from a builder and will be posting it on here.

What I will be getting is a 5ft X 2ft x 2ft aquarium and I am leaning towards having an external overflow box and will be piping the sump into the basement in order to quiet it down on the main floor. Anyhow, pretty excited.

To get things started here is a picture of 90 gallon. The corals are growing so good, I have continuously been giving away pieces and chunks to others.

Rob

 

[Ted]

Looks really good, I am so jealous that you will be doing a 150. Cant wait to see it put together.

 

[little_fish]

Very pretty!
Congrats on the upgrade

 

[reefnoob]

What kind of coral is that pink one at the top?

 

[rbl1979]

Reefnoob--- that is the first coral I ever bought and it is called a colt coral. Not sure what the long scientific name is but it won't stop growing. That piece at the top is just one that I kept. It basically overtook my tank and I had to give away or throw away a lot of it. At one piece the main branch was about 2 ft tall (full height of tank) and probably 1ft wide.

 

[reefnoob]

WHOA how long did it take to grow that big?

 

[rbl1979]

reefnoob- sorry for taking so long to get back, I bought it about 4 years back and it was about 2-2 1/2 years to get that big.

 

[rbl1979]

Well after an extended break from working on this build (Thanks paying job :frustrat:) I am going to be working on the build again right after Christmas, thought I would add some pictures of my new aquarium that came and a stad I build to hold it. The tank itself is 5' x 2' x 2'. I am hoping to make some progress here in the next month before I have to go back to the other job. :grumble:

 

[buddy08]

Where did you get this tank?

 

[rbl1979]

It was a custom built one. It wasn't what I was initially looking for this type of tank but I ended up finding a place that will build whatever you want. Turned out this tank was cheaper then any regular tank I could find. Crappy thing was it took 6 weeks to get.

 

[jase]

nice tank. i love the overflow box
will u have to put mesh to stop fish exploring ur overflow?

 

[buddy08]

Do they ship?

 

[rbl1979]

jase --- yeah absolutely, I will definately putting in a screen to block and strays from entering.

buddy08 --- I doubt very much they would ship all the way down there. I am in Northern Alberta and they are a pretty small store. Actually I doubt they even make them there and that is why it took 6 weeks for me to get. Also being that you are in US, your pricing would be the same if not cheaper. We have quite a bit of mark up.

 

[buddy08]

Ahh gotcha

 

[rbl1979]

Well I was really hoping to have a online diary of sorts to share with everyone but alas work was getting in the way and it was just too much work to keep up but however I have everything up and going now and this is what it looks like now. I am still struggling with the water conditions and balancing everything but it is looking really good I think.

 

[ErinCahir]

Looks good to me! :)

 

[Ted]

Tank looks great.