New house New tank 210 gal with basement sump

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  1. flyguy91318

    flyguy91318 Astrea Snail

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    Bare with me its still a work in progress. We just bought a house well 6 months ago and wanted to do things right this time seeing that we had some problems with the 125gal set up we had previously. So we sold the 125 and found the 210 on sale so we are starting all over.


    210 gallon All-Glass tank with dual overflows plumbed with 1 inch pvc to the basement where we have another 45gal long just for the fudge and our old 55 just for sump, so roughly another 80gallons between the 2. A Panworld 250PS pump to bring it all back up stairs into the DT. 160lbs of sand and 200lbs of live rock from our previous tanks. It has been up and running for about 2 weeks now and still have a long way to go.
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  2. 1.0reef

    1.0reef Giant Squid

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    thats awesome! nice scape to;D what are you going to put in there?
     
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  3. Arman2K

    Arman2K Coral Banded Shrimp

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    I love your rock work... very nice looking setup...
     
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  4. anb

    anb Coral Banded Shrimp

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    Looks really good! Congrats on the new house and new and bigger tank. I've seen in wall tanks so the "guts" are in another room, behind the tank obviously, but never in another room BELOW! You've earned cool points in my book for something new (to me, probably not everyone)...
     
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  5. barbianj

    barbianj Hammer Head Shark

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    Looks like you're off to a good start. Are you a member of MARS or WRS?
     
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  6. flyguy91318

    flyguy91318 Astrea Snail

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    so far we are thinking a purple tang, and would like another naso and corals at some point just haven't really decided. Still waiting on the cycle at this point

    I am on mars

    And thanks for the compliments everyone
     
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  7. Anya

    Anya Bristle Worm

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    You guys are amazing! Wish one day I can plumb mine like that. Thumbs up on patience
     
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  8. flyguy91318

    flyguy91318 Astrea Snail

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    So just an update it has been a while since I have been on here. Well so far the tank has been up and running for 6 months with no real problems. Other than we need to re plumb the overflow lines 1inch just isn't draining enough so we had to choke the pump down some. So hopefully that will be next weekends project

    So far the stock list consist of
    SailFin Tang (Desjardini)
    Achilles Tang
    Blue Hippo Tang
    4 Black Clowns
    3 Chromis
    Lyretail Anthias 1 male 2 females
    Blue Throat Trigger
    Emperor Angel
    Filamented Flasher Wrasse
    Coral Banded Shrimp
    Cleaner Shrimp

    Few corals
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  9. nyvw

    nyvw Skunk Shrimp

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    Amazing tank! I love the basement sump. Makes me wish i drilled a hole in my wall behind the tank to our "storage" room in my basement, woulda gave me so much more room for a bigger sump/fuge
     
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  10. bwalker9801

    bwalker9801 Zoanthid

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    Very nice setup! What are you using for lighting?
     
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