(First Reef Tank Ever) **** 600gal Display **** 1300gal System

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 05:14 AM

Here it goes, beginning of the year I had set out a new year resolution to setup a full blown reef system w/self automated capabilities as possible, also stated in the title, this is my very first full reef system tank ever.. I guess you can call me a 31 yrs. old virgin for reefkeeping, but not in real life LOL. Just a few months of knowledge, and countless hours through the night-morning reading and going through plenty #'s of threads also sending emails to all the guys here and getting back the quickest response ever in no time, and I can't thank you enough to everyone here on RC that is so helpful, unlike LFS here in New Orleans who just want to collect money, but get very little if any info. Please let me know at anytime if I am doing anything wrong or any helpful advice will be appreciated, Thanks.

Here are the list of equipment I have acquire,

Tank:
96"L x 48"W x 30"H (1" Cell Cast Acrylic w/1" Eurobace, 3/4" Bottom)
Custom built by The Aquarium Company in Winthrop, MN (Franz Metzger)

Stand:
48"H w/2" x 2" Custom built steel stand w/Line-X treatment
Custom built by The Aquarium Company in Winthrop, MN (Franz Metzger)

1st Refugium 150gal:
48"L x 30"W x 24"H (1/2" Acrylic)

2nd Refugium 135gal:
72"L x 18"W x 24"H (1/2" Glass)

Main Sump 150gal:
48"L x 30"W x 24"H (1/2" Acrylic)

Water Change Sump & QT 180gal:
72"L x 18"W x 31"H 1/2" Glass)

Frag 100gal:
72"L x 18"W x 17"H (1/2" Glass)

Pumps:
4 Sequence 1000 SEQ4300
sump returns, skimmers, chiller, and reactors

Closed Loop:
2 Sequence 1000 SEQ5800
2 4-Way V3 Oceans Motion

Protein Skimmer:
Deltec AP1004

Calcium Reactor:
Deltec PF1001 w/ROWALith C+ Media

Phosphate Reactors:
Deltec FR1016 w/ROWAPhosÂ® Media

Kalkwasser Stirrers:
Deltec KM500S w/ROWAKalk Media

Chiller:
Tradewind IL-180-S 1.5HP 18,000BTU

Heater:
?

Dosing pump:
SpectraPure Litermeter 3

RO-DI unit:
SpectraPure MaxCap 5 stage produces 90 gal/day

Lights:
3 Single 400w PFO HQI Metal Halide Ballast (12k ?)
3 Lumenarc III Pendenat Reflectors
2 IceCap 660 VHO Ballast (165w Actinic)
9 PFO Flat Night Light Moonlights

Controller:
Neptune AquaController 3

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 05:31 AM

here's what I did on before tank arrival few weeks back on 2-15, of course first step was to clean dirty garage, then lighting and keep on going.......

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 05:37 AM

more work follow the next day, yeah but not too much
so tired from the day before.

saltycreefer · 03/10/2007, 05:39 AM

Sure you never did this before? WOW!

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 05:42 AM

i am positive, yes i am a handy man but not reefkeeping

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 05:54 AM

next day, I feed 2/3 wires and install breaker for subpanel. cable are so big and heavy and took forever to feed them with me only. bought 35' at home depot, also can't forget the only baby girl in the house name ashey 2 1/yrs. old. since I like to work when everybody is sleeping..time stamp is a.m.
up all night like usually for me, my hobby hours 8pm-4am
my business 10am-6pm, lol when do I make time for myself

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cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 06:23 AM

yeah redoing this now, just learning about all of this, thanks guys

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 06:42 AM

today was a very special day for me, fedex brought my present. neighbor, me and driver all did this, all my friends were at work and couldn't make it..but we manage

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 07:05 AM

hey are some of my equipments that has been sitting around the house for about a month now, will be unpacking all of these soon. maybe this weekend if time comes up I'll build shelves for all equipments.

also load the stand and off to received line-x treatment, so pitting & rust won't be a factor in near future

reefkoi · 03/10/2007, 10:04 AM

looks like you have a few reeflo pumps there, this looks like fun, I love opening boxes

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 11:54 AM

yeah those are sequence 1000's saltwater series, 5800 & 4300SEQ. I really love these pump, and I know that baldor makes the best pumps and most durable

TandN · 03/10/2007, 01:46 PM

wow looks like its gonna be a top notch system keep up the awesome work

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 01:59 PM

hello tanya I noticed you don't miss any thread on this forum, thanks for checking out my forum

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 02:27 PM

any suggestion for heater

ReefDoctorMicromussas · 03/10/2007, 02:30 PM

Ahha It looks awesome so far! This will be a wonderful thread to follow. I just bought 2 of the Luminarc IIIs yesterday I am excited to see them next week

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 03:31 PM

thanks doc, but i bought the large Lumenarc 3 Pendants SE with glass shield and he says just came out, since you know distributors is here in new orleans.. i just didnt want to deal with having to clean the reflectors

i2ik · 03/10/2007, 06:36 PM

wow!!! Amazing thread! Will be looking foward! Cant wait to see your progress! You are sure not going wrong with all your equipment!

Quan

Bax · 03/10/2007, 09:20 PM

Fantastic equipment list, for your first reef, you sure did your homework! The sump is a thing of beauty, tank too!!!

cbui2 · 03/10/2007, 09:47 PM

thank you all, just drop the stand off to get line-x treatment and said will be done monday afternoon. I will take a break for the weekend and start fresh building everything monday..

Scottkelly911 · 03/10/2007, 11:12 PM

Wow, looks like someone got an AMAZING Katrina Settlement...just kidding. Congratulations on this system, it looks and sounds like you're forgoing all the mistakes that most of us make the first time around. Top notch equipment. You seem like you're really excited (who could blame you), so a big sincere congrats. I look forward to watching this all get put together and your reef grow.

Mrseptember15 · 03/10/2007, 11:22 PM

Your name is BART! lucky...

cbui2 · 03/11/2007, 03:20 AM

thanks scottkelly and mrseptember, yeah Katrina..had 7' water at my place of business, but lucky me I had purchase premium. Took me some time to rebuild shop but got it done, lost the townhouse with all personal property, but move into this new home about 6 months ago and already tearing it down already...the way I look at it, rebuilding is a start.

Mrseptember15 · 03/11/2007, 03:26 AM

Soo is that a yes on Bart or nay?

03/10/2007, 05:14 AM	#1
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	(First Reef Tank Ever) 600gal Display 1300gal System Here it goes, beginning of the year I had set out a new year resolution to setup a full blown reef system w/self automated capabilities as possible, also stated in the title, this is my very first full reef system tank ever.. I guess you can call me a 31 yrs. old virgin for reefkeeping, but not in real life LOL. Just a few months of knowledge, and countless hours through the night-morning reading and going through plenty #'s of threads also sending emails to all the guys here and getting back the quickest response ever in no time, and I can't thank you enough to everyone here on RC that is so helpful, unlike LFS here in New Orleans who just want to collect money, but get very little if any info. Please let me know at anytime if I am doing anything wrong or any helpful advice will be appreciated, Thanks. Here are the list of equipment I have acquire, Tank: 96"L x 48"W x 30"H (1" Cell Cast Acrylic w/1" Eurobace, 3/4" Bottom) Custom built by The Aquarium Company in Winthrop, MN (Franz Metzger) Stand: 48"H w/2" x 2" Custom built steel stand w/Line-X treatment Custom built by The Aquarium Company in Winthrop, MN (Franz Metzger) 1st Refugium 150gal: 48"L x 30"W x 24"H (1/2" Acrylic) 2nd Refugium 135gal: 72"L x 18"W x 24"H (1/2" Glass) Main Sump 150gal: 48"L x 30"W x 24"H (1/2" Acrylic) Water Change Sump & QT 180gal: 72"L x 18"W x 31"H 1/2" Glass) Frag 100gal: 72"L x 18"W x 17"H (1/2" Glass) Pumps: 4 Sequence 1000 SEQ4300 sump returns, skimmers, chiller, and reactors Closed Loop: 2 Sequence 1000 SEQ5800 2 4-Way V3 Oceans Motion Protein Skimmer: Deltec AP1004 Calcium Reactor: Deltec PF1001 w/ROWALith C+ Media Phosphate Reactors: Deltec FR1016 w/ROWAPhosÂ® Media Kalkwasser Stirrers: Deltec KM500S w/ROWAKalk Media Chiller: Tradewind IL-180-S 1.5HP 18,000BTU Heater: ? Dosing pump: SpectraPure Litermeter 3 RO-DI unit: SpectraPure MaxCap 5 stage produces 90 gal/day Lights: 3 Single 400w PFO HQI Metal Halide Ballast (12k ?) 3 Lumenarc III Pendenat Reflectors 2 IceCap 660 VHO Ballast (165w Actinic) 9 PFO Flat Night Light Moonlights Controller: Neptune AquaController 3 Last edited by cbui2; 03/10/2007 at 05:21 AM.

03/10/2007, 05:31 AM	#2
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	here's what I did on before tank arrival few weeks back on 2-15, of course first step was to clean dirty garage, then lighting and keep on going....... Last edited by cbui2; 03/10/2007 at 06:29 AM.

03/10/2007, 05:37 AM	#3
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	more work follow the next day, yeah but not too much so tired from the day before. Last edited by cbui2; 03/10/2007 at 06:35 AM.

03/10/2007, 05:39 AM	#4
saltycreefer Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Fairfield,CT Posts: 1,702	Sure you never did this before? WOW! __________________ I love being a turtle!!! Current Tank Info: Got out of tanks for a little while.

03/10/2007, 05:42 AM	#5
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	i am positive, yes i am a handy man but not reefkeeping __________________ Bart ********************* Current Tank Info: 600gal 96L x 48W x 30H 1"cell cast w/tons of equipments

03/10/2007, 05:54 AM	#6
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	next day, I feed 2/3 wires and install breaker for subpanel. cable are so big and heavy and took forever to feed them with me only. bought 35' at home depot, also can't forget the only baby girl in the house name ashey 2 1/yrs. old. since I like to work when everybody is sleeping..time stamp is a.m. up all night like usually for me, my hobby hours 8pm-4am my business 10am-6pm, lol when do I make time for myself Last edited by cbui2; 03/10/2007 at 06:33 AM.

03/10/2007, 06:11 AM	#8
Goodwin9 Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,298	You might want to look at PhotoBucket for parking your pictures. Pretty easy to use and you and increase transfers & banwidth cheaply. Got to see your pictures...

03/10/2007, 06:23 AM	#9
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	yeah redoing this now, just learning about all of this, thanks guys __________________ Bart ********************* Current Tank Info: 600gal 96L x 48W x 30H 1"cell cast w/tons of equipments

03/10/2007, 06:42 AM	#10
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	today was a very special day for me, fedex brought my present. neighbor, me and driver all did this, all my friends were at work and couldn't make it..but we manage

03/10/2007, 07:05 AM	#11
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	hey are some of my equipments that has been sitting around the house for about a month now, will be unpacking all of these soon. maybe this weekend if time comes up I'll build shelves for all equipments. also load the stand and off to received line-x treatment, so pitting & rust won't be a factor in near future

03/10/2007, 10:04 AM	#12
reefkoi Premium Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 4,072	looks like you have a few reeflo pumps there, this looks like fun, I love opening boxes __________________ 1Kw bulb club Current Tank Info: A 600gal. on Zeovit & a 240gal.

03/10/2007, 11:54 AM	#13
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	yeah those are sequence 1000's saltwater series, 5800 & 4300SEQ. I really love these pump, and I know that baldor makes the best pumps and most durable __________________ Bart ********************* Current Tank Info: 600gal 96L x 48W x 30H 1"cell cast w/tons of equipments

03/10/2007, 01:46 PM	#14
TandN Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 2,025	wow looks like its gonna be a top notch system keep up the awesome work __________________ Tanya & Nick PBITAWA!!!!!!!!! Current Tank Info: 180G SPS Tank w/ all the bells and whistles

03/10/2007, 01:59 PM	#15
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	hello tanya I noticed you don't miss any thread on this forum, thanks for checking out my forum __________________ Bart ********************* Current Tank Info: 600gal 96L x 48W x 30H 1"cell cast w/tons of equipments

03/10/2007, 02:27 PM	#16
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	any suggestion for heater __________________ Bart ********************* Current Tank Info: 600gal 96L x 48W x 30H 1"cell cast w/tons of equipments

03/10/2007, 02:30 PM	#17
ReefDoctorMicromussas Moved On Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Fringes of the REEF and cultural desert Arkansas, USA Posts: 1,240	Ahha It looks awesome so far! This will be a wonderful thread to follow. I just bought 2 of the Luminarc IIIs yesterday I am excited to see them next week

03/10/2007, 03:31 PM	#18
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	thanks doc, but i bought the large Lumenarc 3 Pendants SE with glass shield and he says just came out, since you know distributors is here in new orleans.. i just didnt want to deal with having to clean the reflectors __________________ Bart ********************* Current Tank Info: 600gal 96L x 48W x 30H 1"cell cast w/tons of equipments

03/10/2007, 06:36 PM	#19
i2ik Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Montreal,Quebec,Canada Posts: 729	wow!!! Amazing thread! Will be looking foward! Cant wait to see your progress! You are sure not going wrong with all your equipment! Quan __________________ Richard Current Tank Info: 600G system, Sifligoi3x400w with ACLS units, 2xH&S A200-2x1260, Schuran Jetstream 2 Ca reactor, 4xVortech Pump, Tunze Stream 6200, Tunze Wavebox, 4xWavy Sea Plus wavemaker, Oceans Motions 4 way, Prolifux Wireless Controller, Deltec KM500S

03/10/2007, 09:20 PM	#20
Bax Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 4,992	Fantastic equipment list, for your first reef, you sure did your homework! The sump is a thing of beauty, tank too!!! __________________ A man without a reef! Currently running a holding system with 75 & 90 tanks, 150 tub, & 100 g sump while looking at a dry 375 and scratching my head??? Current Tank Info: 75, 90 & 150 holding tanks/100g sump/ 3x TUNZE 6100 & VorTech MP40 circulation/dual 400 MH LAminis/ 12K ReefLux/ 162w T-5/ 1/2 hp chiller/GEO Kalk / MTC Pro Cal/ 36w UV & Oz/building some thing in my office

03/10/2007, 09:47 PM	#21
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	thank you all, just drop the stand off to get line-x treatment and said will be done monday afternoon. I will take a break for the weekend and start fresh building everything monday.. __________________ Bart ********************* Current Tank Info: 600gal 96L x 48W x 30H 1"cell cast w/tons of equipments

03/10/2007, 11:12 PM	#22
Scottkelly911 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Venice Beach Posts: 401	Wow, looks like someone got an AMAZING Katrina Settlement...just kidding. Congratulations on this system, it looks and sounds like you're forgoing all the mistakes that most of us make the first time around. Top notch equipment. You seem like you're really excited (who could blame you), so a big sincere congrats. I look forward to watching this all get put together and your reef grow. __________________ 12 Gallon Nano Cube DX - nano sized gobies, zoos & Shrooms

03/10/2007, 11:22 PM	#23
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 417	Your name is BART! lucky... __________________ 29Gal. Marine Livestock List: -Two yellow watchman gobies -2 Clownfish Current Tank Info: 29Gallon Marine

03/11/2007, 03:20 AM	#24
cbui2 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 2,556	thanks scottkelly and mrseptember, yeah Katrina..had 7' water at my place of business, but lucky me I had purchase premium. Took me some time to rebuild shop but got it done, lost the townhouse with all personal property, but move into this new home about 6 months ago and already tearing it down already...the way I look at it, rebuilding is a start. __________________ Bart ********************* Current Tank Info: 600gal 96L x 48W x 30H 1"cell cast w/tons of equipments

03/11/2007, 03:26 AM	#25
Mrseptember15 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Jose Posts: 417	Soo is that a yes on Bart or nay? __________________ 29Gal. Marine Livestock List: -Two yellow watchman gobies -2 Clownfish Current Tank Info: 29Gallon Marine