The Making of an 80g Lagoon

[nanoreefer22]

Tank is in the house! Stand too..

Cleaned it up and it's better than I thought it would be. I'm reconsidering moving the drain, since 42 viewable inches on one side wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I'd cover up the overflow box with a black piece of acrylic siliconed to the outside of the tank.

So I'd have a 48inch side, a 24inch side, and a 42inch side (because of overflow box) viewable. The other 24inch side would be against the wall and be paint black.

Anyhow onto the pics. Thinking of going with black starboard, siliconed to the bottom of the tank and putting 1/2inch of sand over that. Even if the sand gets blow around the black starboard wouldn't look as bad as just glass.

Both Vortechs would be against the back wall, since I don't want anything obstructing the flow.

Pics? Of course....

Dirty...

Clean

Stand (will be skinned with plywood) plants will be moved...

 

[duke62]

going to be nice kris. only problem with the 80 shallow tank is your sps are going to out grow it quick. but other then that they are cool tanks. keep the pics coming

 

[nanoreefer22]

thanks J I thought about that, gonna keep the rock work very low through the tank, no more than 6-7inches high anywhere..but this is probably easier said than done

 

[JonnyJ]

yes, keep it very very low... shallow tanks & sps only work with low rock work.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Gonna be a mixed reef, can't go full blown SPS (wife doesn't take much interest in those colorful sticks)

Thinking SPS in a couple areas, a couple islands made of tonga branch, millis along the edges of islands and stags in the center. I can't wait to set this thing up For the rest of the tank, softies and LPS for some movement. Lots of fish, lots and lots of fish

 

[duke62]

ALOT of fish means bigger skimmer. i got one LMAO

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Kris gonna be a nice tank. Maybe u can keep this one for longer then a month :lol2:

While ur spending money get a better skimmer

 

[jadakiss]

very nice tank looking forward to ur progress

 

[nanoreefer22]

Thanks fellas!

You really think I need better than an ASM G4, recirc and gate valve mod?

 

[duke62]

kris skimmers have come a long way since the best asm came out sure it will work but there are so many options out there for more efficient skimmers

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Def. would get a better skimmer.

 

[nanoreefer22]

I suppose you guys are right. Just thinking of the G3 I had on my 65g some time ago, that thing was a beast.

What would you guys go with? 80g display + 40G Sump?

 

[dubs]

super reef octopus 1000 and if ur tight on space u can get the space saver the pump is inside the skimmer

 

[duke62]

super ref octopus 2000

 

[Tonyscoots84]

I got the space saver 2000 really good skimmer

 

[nanoreefer22]

I'll look into that one, 3 recs can't be round.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Just wondering, but do you guys think that the octopus 2000 would out skim a ASM G4 with 2 sedra 5000's recirc and a feed tee'd off from the main drain of the tank?

Just asking because I have all the parts I need for the G4...

The super reef does look nice though.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

pic is not shown kris :sigh: lol

 

[nanoreefer22]

Anyone see any harm in removing the grid from this stand.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

im not no engineer but i dont think it should be any problem it looks flimsy anyways..