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Tristian's Reef : 325 Gallon Build Prbly Flooding the Floor Again...

asonitez

asonitez

Hi,
I'm Tristian aka Asonitez. I have a problem.I flood floors (Floodicus Floorus Maximus). - There I said it. My wife (Reefus Wifus Hotticus) despite her better judgement allowed me to buy a tank. So I bought a tank and made a build thread.

187 Funky Dimension Prbly Gonna Flood Floors Build.

After not flooding the floors for a whole 8 months. I flooded the floor. (Just a little bit.)


Later that night - my wife turned to me and said. : I think you went too small. That tank is nice but its already growing out and your completely out of space. I don't like how it doesn't take up the entire stand either. You should get a new one.

I immediately jumped on the coach website, ordered a nice clutch purse, and a 200 dollar gift card to ULTA in her name. I also called her mom and told her she raised a good daughter, and I don't mind the beatings she gives me because I know its because she loves me. --domestic abuse is no joke kids..--

I also went to my office upstairs and started planning my new build. This will be the last build. It's scary to say that but it will literally be the largest tank that I can fit in the space my wife gave me and afford. Yes that's right... My Sugar Mama set a budget. So I guess I'll have to get the rest from my girlfriend....reminds me I need to order another purse.

Here is my Display as it stands a Day ago and some of the Adventures I will be getting up to to support the build!


So...

The Equipment

Tank: AGE 96 X 30 X 26
Overflow: Synergy 20"
Water Movement: 4 X Apex WAV Power heads and 2X Gyre 250's
Lighting: 4 X Radion G4 Pros
Stand: Framingtech.com Extruded Aluminum Stand Customized
Sump: Crystal Aquatics Stealth 60
Skimmer: ReefOctopus Regal Elite 250SSS
Ozone/UV: AquaUV 54w UV Sterilizer

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Will be Transferred from my current tank
250LBS of Cured Real Reef Live Rock (Need to pickup another 75lbs)


Sump is 2 Weeks Out
Tank is 8 Weeks Out
Stand is 2 Weeks Out

Estimated Time of Completion: May
Probable Time of Completion: - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

I'm going to be documenting the build here and on my YouTube Channel: Tristian's Reef
 
ecam

ecam

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Welcome back Tristan !!!! U’ve been missed
 
asonitez

asonitez

Here’s a quick idea of what the framingtech.com stand will look like.

It will be wrapped in acrylic and have some cool things cut out for some backlighting :)


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iTzJu

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Tristan! dude another build so soon? and man, you filled up the other tank quickly!

Also, I met the guy you sold the nano-box ati light too! haha i went to buy a light from him too and he said he picked up this new light and when he started describing it, i was like, i know who sold you that. lol
 
Trio91

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Hey Tristan, I took a peak at your youtube channel and you vids are great bud. I'm now a suscriber so keep those vids coming.

Just one thing, I think the background music drowned out your voice a bit in your last video. But overall, great job bud
 
asonitez

asonitez

trio91 said:
Hey Tristan, I took a peak at your youtube channel and you vids are great bud. I'm now a suscriber so keep those vids coming.

Just one thing, I think the background music drowned out your voice a bit in your last video. But overall, great job bud
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Yeah I'm getting a lot better at the youtubes - thanks for the feedback on the music :)
 
asonitez

asonitez

Just a quick update today. I have started working with my stand maker to design and build my stand. My existing stand is around 40" high. After all is said and done this gave me quite a bit of working distance inside of the stand to do things.
This time around the tank will be 26 vs 24" high. Those extra 2" + the 3/4" Plywood and 1/2" foam will make for a VERY high tank.

I'm thinking of making the sand 36" Tall. Do you guys think that this is too short? The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to find out what people hated about their stands. I don't know many people WITH aluminum or Steel stands and I'm hoping to
get a few tips and pointers of what to look out for.

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Finally - Here is the SUMP that I have ordered and will be using: It measures: 60 x 22 x 16 tall

My EXISTING sump is 54 X 24 X 18 (it has a 12" chamber for ATO which reduces the over all size of ACTUAL sump area).
Although using the synergy overflow for this tank I WON'T have that much "backfill" going into the sump when I CUT my return off . Any tips in this area?

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Trio91

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I'm a short guy so for me even the 36" tall stand is tough. I'd never be able to reach the bottom if I'd had to get my hand in there.

Personally I've never had a metal stand before
 
asonitez

asonitez

Hey Guys went down to Reef-A-Palooza to do some fishing and buy some corals. Here is DAY 1 of my adventure!
I got to meet some of the people building my new fish tank and a lot of my sponsors!

 
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