135 gallon Oceanic Tank in progress

[Brando457]

I am new to MR, but have been in the SW hobby for about 5 months now, I started with a 14g biocube and have recently purchased a 135 gallon oceanic RR tank.

I am in the process of refinishing my room/expanding it and pretty soon will be setting up the 135 gallon tank.

As it stands the things I have are:

135 gallon oceanic RR tank
30 gallon sump
72" 3 x 150 MH Coralife Aqualight fixture
ASM G2 skimmer

more to come, but figured I'd start the thread and say hi.

I am an NJRC member and this hobby brings me happiness.

 

[NYreefNoob]

definately would get a bigger skimmer, best of luck and we like photo's

 

[sjsoto]

waiting for pics. and welcome to mr

 

[skimmerman100]

pics please

 

[fishman1069]

Id probably go with a bigger sump for a 135. At least a 40 breeder. You have to remember if the power goes out, your sump has to be able to handle the overflow from the DT. Good luck with the build

 

[dubs]

pics please and welcome to mr happy reefing

 

[Brando457]

http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l240/Brando457/oceanic/

Pictures of tank as it stands. I will pickup my stand hopefully by Thursday.

Currently I have 2x30 gallon tanks to use as sump/fuge the fuge will be fed by the overflow t-ed off and then gravity feed into the sump.



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[Brando457]

http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l240/Brando457/oceanic/

Pictures of the tank that I am doing. More to come! I have 2x30 for sump/fuge.

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[Brando457]

teaser pic

 

[Rawle]

Welcome to MR, Good luck!

 

[bruce922]

Welcome to MR. Keep posting pics so we can follow your progress with you build.


Bruce

 

[Brando457]

So I got into saltwater fish around october, and went from recently a 14g biocube to a 135 oceanic tank. Here are some pictures of the progress.

After talking to a member on another forum he suggested I check out MR, I almost forgot I had a build thread going here.

Anyway here is the progress of my tank so far:

I started with

and this

From that simple wall came

I got the tank filled with RO + salt and the rock










Here are 2 videos of everything


















I changed a bunch of things today, but don't have my camera unfortunately. Hopefully this can hold everyone over for now.

 

[Brando457]

 

[Brando457]

Stock list right now includes:

Fish:
2 ocellaris clowns
1 six-line wrasse
coral beauty
4" hippo tang out of QT

Coral:

3 acan frags
2 hammers
giant torch coral
candy cane
trumpet
frag of zoo, big rock of zoo


about 60 snails in total

I feel like I'm forgetting something, but that seems right

 

[Brando457]

added an acan lord colony and bunch of other corals today!

setting up a new sump tomorrow hopefully

 

[bbreef240]

welcome to mr....

 

[Brando457]

New acan addition thanks to bogliman:



And some other new additions:







Also picked up a new sump from j10369:



Plan on setting up a fuge so should be fun

 

[Brando457]

Current stock list:

2 ocelaris clowns
Six line wrasse
Hippo tang
Yellow tang
Yellow watchman goby
Coral beauty
Bluespot jaw
Mandarin that eats frozen food
Baille (spelling) (from Vietnam) true perc

And a Maroon clown fish going in 20 gallon tank of it's own.

Anyone have any info on the true perc? I see stores selling pairs for like $250 jw about it.

I think I'm done for with adding anymore fish lol, not many others I like nor do I want to overstock my tank.

Coral wise I am adding a bunch of acan frags from mrcoral and picking up an open brain tomorrow.

Also added an acan lord colony from a fellow mr member. Once I get my digi I'll post more pictures!


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[Awibrandy]

Very nice up & coming reef you've got there.

 

[Brando457]

So I got tired of waiting for the damn digi and decided to take some pics although crappy with my iphone

Frag rack loaded with 4 acan frags & war coral from Mr. Coral, Captain America Paly thanks to mnat!!!, black hammer and ricordia mushroom from reeftoreptile

Also on my travels as I mentioned I stopped at Trop Aquarium and picked up the bali green slimer, which I wanted for some time. One frag went to 9supra already for his amazing gesture of helping plumb my new sump.

and here is a full tank shot