Dbo's 65g BIG UPDATE-Upgrading to 125

Well this time around i am trying to do everything right.
i had a 40g then a 55g then a 90g and i learned alot about what not to do with a tank and im hoping this tank i can prevent all those mistakes. first things first buy quality equipment the first time around.

Current FTS


Here we go
65g reef ready glass tank
Bashsea BioFuge Sump
Vertex IN 100 Protein Skimmer
Mag 9.5 return
Tunze Aquawind Fan
Canopy with 2-175w 14K metal halides and 2 ati pure actinic t5's
Reef Keeper Lite
Vortech MP40
Spectrapure ro/di unit
Red Sea Coral Pro Salt
50 lbs BRS Pukani Dry Rock
40 lbs Special Grade Reef Sand.
ATO single switch fed by Toms Aqualifter.

I will be filling it this weekend.;D

 

a couple pics to hold you over.

 

Godd start hope all goes smoothly

 

Sand in. Plumbing going in tonight.

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lookin real pro man! your biofuge looks money!! whats your main goal? sps dominated or mixed reef? love the lighting and vortech too!

 

Nice! I'll have to check it out one day! Biofuges always look money!

 

Thanks!
Prob going to do a mixed reef but really leaning towards more sps.

Shes up and running now. Everything went real smooth other than the drain. it looks and sounds like a jet in a hot tub. some fancy pvc work should do the trick lol

Crappy Cell Pics

 

You have some very nice lighting there, I like the scape as well, it looks great.

 

Thanks. Now the long wait for your user name to show up lol

Any one have any fixes for the drain issue. It's blowing bubbles in the sump and its pretty loud. The actual overflow is pretty silent. I'm.thinking maybe a t with a vent?

 

For the overflow into my sump I have a two fold approach:

1: it's a 1" PVC pipe. The vertical section leading into the sump has about 10" of slots and holes drilled/cut into just to the point where the pipe is still soundly held together. it is important to have holes both above and below the water (about 5" above and below) and this will help a lot.

2: filter sock - 200 micron felt filter sock from BRS. Cheap, reusable, very effective at helping to minimize microbubbles and silence the overflow, all the while filtering out some larger particulates as well!