130 Gallon Reef in the Babies Room!

[ajn81]

Thanks guys, I'm planning on moving the tank June 11th.

If anyone wants to lend a hand send me a PM. I'll provide free lunch to anyone that is willing to help move the tank from Lemon Grove to Poway.

[jbvdhp]

what a lucky baby!

[goody]

update? Is the tank in now?

[ajn81]

Tanks is up and in place. Pics coming shortly .

[ajn81]

Okay, so last week was the move. Arrived at Minh's house around 10am got all of the livestock in buckets, drained the tank, loaded everything in 2 trucks and got out of there at 12:30pm.

Here is a shot of the livestock chilling in home depot buckets and Rubermaid containers:



Getting ready to move the tank from the truck to the stand:



And away we go:



Spent the rest of the day filling the tank with scripps, heating the water, hanging the lights, setting up the refugium, placing the powerheads and then finally putting the livestock into the tank. Finally finished everything up around 10:30pm.

[ajn81]

Some info on the equipment:

Tank: 130 Gallon 48" x 24" x 26" 4 side Starphire glass. Rimless, eurobraced.

Refugium: 30 gallon 39" x 6" x 30" low flow. Pump in, gravity out.

Lighting: 2x175W Iwasaki 15k and 2x95W Super Actinic VHO. Icecap ballasts, 1 LumenArc3 and 1 LumenMax reflector.

Circulation: 4 x Maxijet 1200 powerheads on a Tsunami wavemaker. Maxijet 900 feeding the refugium.

Top off: A RO/DI kalkwasser mix will be used once everything gets settled using a litermeter dosing pump.

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A couple of days after setting everything up it became very clear that the tank was going through a cycle. Not entirely sure what caused this, but I immediately began to do daily 5 gallon water changes. Some livestock was lost, but I'm confident that things are on the up and up now.

Now, some pictures .

First, some shots from the garage looking into the fish room:







And from inside the baby's room:

[ajn81]

Here are some close ups of some of the livestock:







That's all for now. Future livestock plans are in the making (hint, I'm planning on a lagoon style biotope with some cool macro algae ) and I'll update as progress ensues.

[jsknsd]

That is such a nice setup. The blue lights will be a perfect night light also. The kid is lucky.

[luv4qt1004]

awesome austin! but is 4x600gph maxijets enough for a 130g tank?

[av619]

That is soooo awesome! i like how you have no need for a chiller! Super clean cut and nice looking!

[bpro32]

awesome austin! but is 4x600gph maxijets enough for a 130g tank?

I'm guessing he meant 1600 (mj1200 with the sure flow mod)... I don't think maxijets come in 600 gph.

It looks good Austin! Love the little room you built for it.

[ajn81]

awesome austin! but is 4x600gph maxijets enough for a 130g tank?

Actually I did goof, there are 4 MJ1200's in there, should not have put the "GPH". To answer your question, more consideration than just the size of the tank has to be done when determining flow. Inhabitants of the tank, the aquascape, and the placement of the PHs all comes into play in generating good circulation for the system. Currently for this tank, these PHs are all that is need for the inhabitants. In fact, this system has been running in this manner for 8+ years before I purchased it.

[GoTakuF1]

Actually I did goof, there are 4 MJ600 in there, should not have put the "GPH". To answer your question, more consideration than just the size of the tank has to be done when determining flow. Inhabitants of the tank, the aquascape, and the placement of the PHs all comes into play in generating good circulation for the system. Currently for this tank, these PHs are all that is need for the inhabitants. In fact, this system has been running in this manner for 8+ years before I purchased it.

Words of the wise!

The tank looks incredible, Austin! I'm loving the aquascape and I can't wait to see how it progresses!

[SD ROSALES]

Some more pictures of the finished product.

Here is the finished outside view of the room:



And with the doors open:



A couple of shots of the inside, I didn't mention before that I installed a 5000 BTU window air conditioner for climate control and air flow. This particular Frigidaire model was selected because it completely shuts off when the room reaches the desired temperature and also because it will come back on after brown outs:





And here is the view from inside the nursery:

Ur in poway??
I'm setting up my 130 with a sump.
I'm off the 56
Maybe if u have time u can help me.
If u can. Thanks
619-916-7643.

[SD ROSALES]

That looks very nice!