Dan's 150 Rebuild

[Sobo's Reef]

Amazing. Lil bit of vinegar, lil bit of water and a razor blade scrapper, should be clean in no time. How long until its okay to put something in the tank? Like will the vinegar be dried up and out in 3 weeks?

 

[jgraz]

What's the tank foot print. I used 60lbs in my 90 and it gave me 2-2.5".

 

[Sobo's Reef]

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[jgraz]

120lbs starting point. Depending on the amount of open space you have. that should give you 1.5-2" if you have a good amount of rock sitting on the bottom.
Heck if you go with the tropic Eden and you get to much, I'll buy what's left.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

120lbs starting point. Depending on the amount of open space you have. that should give you 1.5-2" if you have a good amount of rock sitting on the bottom.
Heck if you go with the tropic Eden and you get to much, I'll buy what's left.

That's what I was thinking. I'm not gonna go with the tropic eden stuff tho that's too expensive, plus like I said, I can get 3 bags of pink fiji for free at aquarium center bc I get $60 off my next visit Lol

 

[MatteZ]

120lbs starting point. Depending on the amount of open space you have. that should give you 1.5-2" if you have a good amount of rock sitting on the bottom.
Heck if you go with the tropic Eden and you get to much, I'll buy what's left.

I should have a bunch of reef flakes left when I'm done. I figure I would rather have too much than not enough and have to wait to get more shipped to me

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Okay real quick tho, back to my previous question. How long before its okay to put water in this tank? After cleaning it with vinegar

 

[jgraz]

I should have a bunch of reef flakes left when I'm done. I figure I would rather have too much than not enough and have to wait to get more shipped to me

Matt let me know

Okay real quick tho, back to my previous question. How long before its okay to put water in this tank? After cleaning it with vinegar

Dan you should be good to go as soon as its dry. The smell may linger, vinegar is like that. By the time you clean the tank of algae then give it a good rinse all will be well. Don't forget some people dose vinegar.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Ahhh good point John. Awesome thank you. This should be easier than I thought it'd be. Rinsing it out is gonna be the tough part lol

 

[Mike S]

Reef Flakes seem to go a long way. I put 90# in my 315 and I thought it was too much. I ended up pulling out about half of a 5 gallon bucket a few weeks ago and may take out some more.

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[Sobo's Reef]

It does look like nice sand. I just can't bare to spend $40 for 1 30lb bag when I can get 3 20lb bags for free lol

 

[Cdiggy]

I bought a 40# bag of sand (can't remember what kind) do my 12x36 and it gave me about 2-2.5" depth so using that math 3x that much would do the same depth for your tank so 120# I think would be more than enough if you wanted about 2" of depth.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Alright that sounds like the common number so we'll see how that works out.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Well I ordered the plumbing supplies last night, should be here in a couple days. I ordered 1 of 2 wp40's from eBay. I decided to go with 2 wp40's and 1 wp25 since I already have one. Hopefully in the next couple days, gonna order my return pump or go out and buy one.

Also cleaned the whole tank last night, algae came off rather easy so now I just gotta rinse it off(somehow) and let it dry stand is being built as we speak, things are rolling

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Stand is coming together quite nicely so far

 

[dan_k]

Looking good dan I'm sure it wasn't cheap is this the same person that built your canopy

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Thanks, yeah, same guy Dan.

 

[TanksNStuff]

Looks pretty sturdy Dan. Should work out nicely.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Looks pretty sturdy Dan. Should work out nicely.

Thanks! Yeah I'm happy we were able to go without a center brace for the sump area they can be such a pain sometimes

 

[Sobo's Reef]

So enough talk about the set up for now. Let's talk livestock. What I will be transferring over
-Powder Blue tang 4.5"
-Yellow tang 4.5"
-Male blue throat trigger 3-3.5"
-Christmas wrasse 4"
-1 green chromis 2"
-Bicolor blenny 2.5"
-Green clown goby 1"
-2 percula clowns 2-3"
-Pink spotted watchman goby 3"
-Yellowhead jawfish(if still alive)2.5"

Inverts:
Red coral banded shrimp XL
Various kinds of hermits
Various kinds of snails
2 peppermint shrimp

My question to you guys is, what other fish would look good in here? Was definitely thinking of getting a female blue throat trigger but any other ideas?