[kimoyo]

I'd been trying to decide on a new tank for a while. I knew there were things I didn't like when I had my 120G in my apartment. Every time I left I would worry about some flood happening. And I didn't use the top 12" for any corals, it was really just open space for fish to swim around. I definitely wanted to make the tank shorter so I could go down on lights and no matter where I put my 120 in my bedroom, I could only use 2 panels to look in. The first thing I decided to do was to make it an AIO (All In One) tank. I mulled over it for awhile but LeslieS's thread really made me commit to doing it sooner than later.

I put thoughts to paper (or cad program in this case) and came up with this.





And then I made designs a reality with this.



I finished it yesterday and these are the first pics today. It will fit perfectly on my 120G stand which is great but its only 15" tall with a water height of 14" in the display. I'll clean it up and take some better pics once I get it home.

[kimoyo]

So the idea of this system is in part based on the KISS method (Keep It Simple Sucker), make it as simple as possible. I wanted to eliminate all the extra plumbing and gadgets so I designed the tank around that. I could have gone with a calcium reactor but decide to dose two part instead. I've seen a lot of nice tanks maintained with just two part and some tanks with water changes only, so I know 2 part can work, its just a question of how it will be dosed. I also went with the 14" tall water height so I could use either a 150W or 175W metal halide. The extra foot in height was nice but I want to focus mainly on corals. So here's a list of equipment that will hopefully be used.

Tank: NY Acrylics 1/2" AIO ( so cool to say that)
Water movement: two Hydor KORALIA 3 powerheads
Return Pump: Hydor Seltz L35 pump
Lighting: 2' PFO Solaris (gonna save up for this one)
Top off/Dosing Pump: Reefdosing pump / Tunze Osmolator
Skimmer: NY Acrylics very soon but for now I'll be using a Das EX-2 I got for a good deal on here.
Carbon/Phosban: 1 or 2 phosban reactors. Depends on how many will fit.
Chiller: 1/4hp Aqualogic trimline cyclone that I kept from my 120G.
Controller: ACII
Equipment will be obtained over the next few months. I have a bunch of live rock that will be cooked in the tank for a month or two ahead of time.

So here's another thing I'm excited about. I will be using 100% NSW (natural sea water) for this tank. I'm going to head out to the tip of LI, collect about 100G for my first trip. Then I'll probably go out every 2 months and get 40-80G. I hope to change at least 20G (50% display volume) once a month. Since the tank is smaller I was really thinking of doing 100% water changes every month but haven't decided yet. I'm still researching everything I have to do with the water but I would prefer not to have to process it. Although, I do have very strong UV that I could run the water thru in a closed loop if needed.

For livestock I was planning on a bunch of corals, sps, lps, etc. And for fish right now I'm set on getting a Golden Angelfish. But other than that its pretty open.

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

	LPS Large Polyped Stony corals – In the aquarium hobby this is a common division of the species of stony corals based upon the visual assessment of the size of the polyps. Corals in this category were among the first stony corals to be kept successfully in captivity and include many very beautiful species. Commonly kept Genera include Euphyllia (hammer/frogspawn coral), Favia (brain coral), Plerogyra (bubble coral), Lobophyllia (meat/tooth coral), and Caulastrea (candycane coral). LPS corals also include the popular solitary non-colonial stony corals such as Fungia (plate coral), Cynarina (button coral), Trachyphyllia (open brain coral), and Herpolitha (tongue coral). Like their SPS counterparts, LPS corals require good water quality, intense lighting of the appropriate spectrum, adequate water movement and regular supplementation of calcium.

[kimoyo]

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[masterswimmer]

Dude, market this and make yourself a cool million.

That's a beautiful design and well put together. Kudos and best of luck with it. I'm stoked to see it running.

swimmer

[Deanos]

A master at work.

[Tonyscoots84]

holy crap i really like it... great work

[kimoyo]

Quote: Originally Posted by masterswimmer Dude, market this and make yourself a cool million.

Not on MR, home of the "where the $5 frag at" hobbyist.

This is version 1, I have a few other designs I want to do but can't until I make my skimmers, I was limited on this design with the Das. Once I can design/make the skimmers, I can incorporate a new tank for them which I'm looking forward to.

Deanos, Tonyscoots84 Thanks.

BTW, in the picture is says there will be a fuge compartment but thats a remote dsb area now. Once I get it cleaned up I'll explain the flow.

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[Awibrandy]

AMAZING

[Pedro]

Pretty cool design. Nice to see when ideas become reality. Would love to see it once it's all done and in operation.

[chazertis]

man, you didn't prepare us or anything. just those CAD drawings and then BAM! done! nice tank