6x2.5x2.5 Reef Tank Plans/Progress

[AlfaRomeo]

Reefer, will definately try to organise an event but each reefer must contribute sumthing to the tank.. a frag of SPS, mushroom etc etc.. hehehehahahaha Joking! :-)

[reefer guy]

hahaha... good thing ur tank by then is not mature enough for sps... heheh.... ok, will take care of the crash test damsel

[AlfaRomeo]

damsels? those are totally banned from the tank.. only peaceful non-territorial fishes allowed.

I accept IOUs on the SPS... so once the tank matures in 6 months or so... i can redeem the IOUs for frags .. good idea? hehe

[reefer guy]

hahaha... smart guy.....

[AlfaRomeo]

so reefer, what can you contribute to my imaginary tank? hehehe

[reefer guy]

a piece of good advise

[terryansimon]

and a couple of damsels.

[reefer guy]

hehehe

well, good luck on ur setup bro... happy reefin!!

[Tanggy]

Alfa. 110 Kg of LR? Enough meh?? I am already using 50kg for my 3footer and its only 2ft high and 1.5ft depth. Yours is a 280gallon tank (slightly less after minus thickness of glass) more then 4 times the volume of my leh. So 110kg of rockswont cover alot right. Plus 2.5 depth somemore.

But a great size. good depth can do lotsa rock placement. Regret my only 1.5 & not 2. Mine can only go for rock wall effect. But pity your back. Should be very Stiff when you finish putting yours rock. Unless you plan to climd in that is.

Dying to see your tank when it's finished.

[Dispar_Anthias]

hey hey have you got that skimmer already, hope not cos AquaC skimmer are usually more suitable for smaller tank up to ard 4 feet. For a big tank like yours, I suggest going for big skimmer like euro- reef or even huge h&S.

[AlfaRomeo]

DA, you mean even the EV-240 is not up to the job of skimming for the tank of this size... oh no...

[reefer guy]

i think ev-240 is for max 250g tank.... correct me if im wrong....

[AlfaRomeo]

Tanggy, its ok for the back breaking part. my younger and more fit brothers will be helping me with that part.. i hope! hehe

hmmm so many ppl telling me that i do not have enuff rocks.. oh no... will shift in the already purchased rocks and see the effect. if looks very empty then will go down and buy more rocks i guess..

will give gilbert a heads-up to reserve his largest pieces :-)

[AlfaRomeo]

Reefer guy,

Specifications for EV-240:

- Dimensions: 10.75" x 6.75" x 26" (L x W x H)

- Spray Induction style protein skimmer designed for in sump or stand alone use with aquariums from 80 - 350 gallons.

- Comes complete with air inlet with precision ball valve for fine tuning and collection cup drain.

- Input: 3/4" hose barb.

- Output: 1" gate valve.

- Required Pump rate: 900 - 1000 gph.

- The unit is completely self-leveling and may be installed alongside or in the sump in up to 10" of water.

Conservative estimate minus LR and other stuff , i think i will have around 200 Gallons of water only?

[CalciumReef]

thats roughly 600L of water.....150g of water....do not think it can amount to so much after you minus off LR and stuff

[ben]

alfa, u have to play safe. try not to minus all those rocks,etc.

try to have extra capacity and not being regret later. but most important now is palnning. I see u are too desperate and rushing without thinking of a better system, thats dangerous, bro. try to figure out ur sump first cuz thats the most critical part of the whole system.

[terryansimon]

yah true. always add a safety buffer. do remember that your sump also adds to the literage of the tank.

[AlfaRomeo]

Ben, have a look at page 2 of the thread. Sump design is there. Comments and improvements that you can suggest pls? thanks

[Dispar_Anthias]

Reefer guy,

Specifications for EV-240:

- Dimensions: 10.75" x 6.75" x 26" (L x W x H)

- Spray Induction style protein skimmer designed for in sump or stand alone use with aquariums from 80 - 350 gallons.

- Comes complete with air inlet with precision ball valve for fine tuning and collection cup drain.

- Input: 3/4" hose barb.

- Output: 1" gate valve.

- Required Pump rate: 900 - 1000 gph.

- The unit is completely self-leveling and may be installed alongside or in the sump in up to 10" of water.

Conservative estimate minus LR and other stuff , i think i will have around 200 Gallons of water only?

Eh usually i will go with the least gallon it can skim. IMO huge euro- reef or h&S will be much better.. Trust me

[Tanggy]

Hmm...... 6x2.5x2.5 is a 280 us Gsllon tank arounf 1100+ ltrs.

asume got like 3inch sand, minus 1inch+for the glass, 90kg of live rock. Still got like around 230 Gallon of water according to the calculator in www.garf.org. wah that's a lot of water. The finish product will be like 1500-2000kg.

Alfa, glad to hear that you will have plenty of help. Can imagine if one person do will be very the shak. Sure ganna MC after that.

Get MC sit at home and look at finished product.

[AlfaRomeo]

Yeah, if everything goes well .. will time it for the weekend and will take 1-2 days leave to admire and finetune the landscaping etc etc.. the problem is that my contractors dunt even know when they can cleanup sufficiently for me to move in the tank etc etc...

first they say mid January but now i think the dateline is slipping to mid Feb after CNY....

[AlfaRomeo]

Just came to realised that the RO/DI unit will required 4 days of constant filtering to fill up the tank! ohhh mannn , that is going to be a very very long wait...

[reefer guy]

Reefer guy,

Specifications for EV-240:

- Dimensions: 10.75" x 6.75" x 26" (L x W x H)

- Spray Induction style protein skimmer designed for in sump or stand alone use with aquariums from 80 - 350 gallons.

- Comes complete with air inlet with precision ball valve for fine tuning and collection cup drain.

- Input: 3/4" hose barb.

- Output: 1" gate valve.

- Required Pump rate: 900 - 1000 gph.

- The unit is completely self-leveling and may be installed alongside or in the sump in up to 10" of water.

Conservative estimate minus LR and other stuff , i think i will have around 200 Gallons of water only?

thanks for the specs, bro.... but don't forget, your sump water volume must be included... also, as has been mentioned by our bros, its safer to compute it without deducting sand and lrs....

but IMO, think ev-240 is good enough....

cheers!

[AlfaRomeo]

Sigh, still waiting for the interior designers to finish up so that i can move in the tank itself... now, i only see the stand at my new house.. sob sob..

Estimated date of completion for the renovation is mid-january... seems like an eternity

[AlfaRomeo]

At long last , some updates:

Bought : 10 x 10kg bags of C0 sand

2 x 20kg AquaMedic Reef Salt

3 x 4x2 Eggcrate (finally found some at Clementi!!)

1 x Marine Environment Salinity tester