Triple-S Fish Ranch - 1700gal 164” x 48” x 56” SPS peninsula build

[crazzy]

Can I order a duplicate?
Turnkey!

[aandfsoccr04]

Glad you popped back in! Still following along and your coral qt tank looks nicer than a lot of people's display tanks around here haha! I love the picture of the room that the front of the tank will be visible in. Beautiful and will continue to watch closely!

[xdunaticx]

I know this is none of my business. But do you mind me asking what do you do for a living? Just so I can mimic your life like an octopus!

[las]

Subscribed- awesome!

[Newbie Aquarist]

Originally Posted by pmrogers

Busy first half of the summer with work travel and family activities not leaving a lot of time for aquarium work. Since the last update:

• Installed 18 Liter Meter dosing pumps
• Finished coral QT wiring
• Plumbed coral QT
• Built and hung light rack for coral QT
  

Dosing Batallion
Disassembling and rebuilding 18 Liter Meters took a while. 3 dosing pumps per QT: 2 for water changes and 1 for top off duty. 2 more Liter Meters for Alk and Calcium dosing to the main system sump. Each pump had to be disassembled and rebuilt because they come from the manufacturer with the dosing motor rotated 90 degrees from the orientation I wanted for wall mounting. Also had to reposition the neoprene tubing on each pump to provide more slack on the output side; otherwise the output tube angle would prevent mounting.



Debugging Coral QT wiring
This scene is representative of a large amount of my time spent on the coral quarantine tank-- sorting out the bugs in the wiring. As of my last update, I had everything wired up and neatly trimmed out just in time to take photos for the post. From those pics one might have thought ('one' including me) that I was almost done.

Alas, no. First, the aquacontroller main unit wouldn't recognize the EB4 power strip. Resetting the EB4 didn't work, neither did reseating all the USB cables or rebooting the aquacontroller. Finally resolved it by clearing my web browser cache and restarting.

Next up, 1 of the 4 lights wouldn't fire at all, and the dimmer control didn't work for 2 of the lights. This turned out to be a combination of a dead driver and a bit of bad wiring (you do actually need to keep '+' and '-' straight on the light dimmer circuit, btw).



First Water Test
First water test. Not my finest hour for quality of plumbing work. 4 leaks: at the return pump bulkhead where I installed the washer on the wrong side, at the water change drain feed bulkhead, around the threads of the return pump output that I forgot to tape, and at the union ball valve which was missing one of its o-ring seals. Fortunately, all easy fixes.





Light Rack for coral QT
Build light rack using EZTube aluminum tubing and snap-together fittings. EZTube is a clever system, and provides plenty of strength for a light rack application. However, when you use multiple fittings in a row, it does not go together as consistent and straight as I'd hoped. I am not satisfied with how uneven and amateur looking the rack came out. Will fix his by putting a 4" x 1/4" wooden face frame around the rack to hide the wobbly lines of the aluminum sections.

I was originally going with those lights first but Ecoexotic told me they were to powerful for my display tank. They more or less suggested the elliptical pendants for my tank. Great updates.

[Aleks677]

Everything is going great! Question? And what caused the decision to drain the mine in the center of the tank? Design? Or something else ....?

[kimacom]

wowowwww!

[rickcasa]

Originally Posted by crazzy

Can I order a duplicate?
Turnkey!

Some assembly required.

[KritikaL]

can we swap lives please?

This is literally my dream.

[Apollo1K9]

Tagging along. Beautiful system in an equally beautiful home!!

[tredreef]

Any updates?

[scubadan206]

I would expect to see a noticeable dip in the volume of fish available to the rest of us soon enough. It will take a lot of small fish to fill up 1700 gallons.
Having this tank running for 30 years he could eventually pay for it just by pruning his SPS colonies....
Daniel.

[Tweakes182]

Great build thread so many impressive things. Truly a dream great job. Looking forward to seeing more.

[jrobison]

Just read through the whole thread. Truly an awesome tank. Can't wait to see it completed!

[rckrzy1]

Paul, how do you feel about adopting a 50 yr old guy ? I can be your personal onsite tank maintenance. No I'm not kidding.

I don't drink or smoke, veteran, reliable , over 30 yrs in Hobby.

[JoeTSI]

Just read the entirety of this thread (at work) and all I can say is WOWWWW!!!!
Absolutely incredible house - CHECK
Audiophile theather room with enough low end to cause involuntary fecal explosions -CHECK
Tank build that has OCD attention to detail - CHECK
Mercedes with 700+lb ft of torque and matte finish - CHECK
Viagra quality reaction after viewing thread - CHECKKKKKK

Seriously, this is amazing and the minute detail work is astounding to say the least, especially the craftsmanship of the woodwork and soundproofing. I look forward to the day you have it populated!

[david00061]

Nice build. How is the Hydro Wizard doing?

[JN93]

ths thread is amazing, tank is a dream

[reef_aholic]

Great looking setup. Great attention to detail, when are we going to see pictures of FISH!? Lol

[jkirk]

Amazing. Just curious but with this size system are you going to try and maintain everything yourself or hire a small crew to help? Looks like lots of things are automated so I'm sure that will help also.

[Patrick G.]

Originally Posted by xdunaticx

I know this is none of my business. But do you mind me asking what do you do for a living? Just so I can mimic your life like an octopus!

x2, please.

[Leoprime]

Completely amazing when is the open house for all your fellow reefers to come take a gander!?!?!? Great job!!!!

[EPRuss]

Your documentation and sharing of this build is a real treat. It not everyday you get to witness an undertaking of this magnitude.

Thank you

[tclndcrz]

Incredible build. How long before the main display tank gets stocked?

[rcpd34]

Amazing. Awaiting latest update!