Hi guys,
Haven't posted in a while as work has been keeping me running all over the country for some time now.
I got a 1.8m x 0.6m x 0.6m around April/ May and been working on and off on it as when I am at home, Sunday was D-day and with the help of a friend, we emptied Lockdown and Slowdown, custom 1.2m tanks and in came the 1.8m. This was due as 2 weeks ago I lost almost all my fish due to my Magnificent nennie went walkie walkie into my wave maker on the morning as was leaving for work for a week away. Managed to save my purple tang, breading pair of black saddle back clowns, 2 chromis and zebra moray eel. Only coral lost was the nennie. Did 60% water change in 30 min as had to take the risk and leave for out of town work and well it paid off. Sadly lost my Red Sea Dejardine Sailfin which I had for 5 years, power blue, scopia, hogfish, orange shoulder, 2 goldies, blue belly regal and some other too.
The tank is all 12mm machine edge polished and I replaced the front viewing glass as I accidentally scratched it bad with my bikes hand guards. Sump was rebuilt to the way I wanted and to fit my equipment, Skimz SM302, BM 160 Reactor, DCP 8000, RedSea ATU, 15w UV fed by 2000L/H pump and 4 head dosing pump. Tank fitted with 4 x OW25 wake makers 2 x Zetlight Qmarven 2 6600's. I enclosed the front and sides of stand. My main objective was no wires to be seen which I successfully accomplished and everything is on a switch panel. The whole system is powered through an Eaton 3Kw inverter which I got 2 from work and I added 2 additinal battery packs which gives me about 8 hour running time. 2nd inverter going to power house lights, have total of 5 inverters throughout my house so loadshedding is a breeze.
Move went well and by Sunday afternoon my house was back to normal and clean again.
Lights still need to be suspended from roof and dosing pump plumbed and setup.
Some pics for your viewing:
Haven't posted in a while as work has been keeping me running all over the country for some time now.
I got a 1.8m x 0.6m x 0.6m around April/ May and been working on and off on it as when I am at home, Sunday was D-day and with the help of a friend, we emptied Lockdown and Slowdown, custom 1.2m tanks and in came the 1.8m. This was due as 2 weeks ago I lost almost all my fish due to my Magnificent nennie went walkie walkie into my wave maker on the morning as was leaving for work for a week away. Managed to save my purple tang, breading pair of black saddle back clowns, 2 chromis and zebra moray eel. Only coral lost was the nennie. Did 60% water change in 30 min as had to take the risk and leave for out of town work and well it paid off. Sadly lost my Red Sea Dejardine Sailfin which I had for 5 years, power blue, scopia, hogfish, orange shoulder, 2 goldies, blue belly regal and some other too.
The tank is all 12mm machine edge polished and I replaced the front viewing glass as I accidentally scratched it bad with my bikes hand guards. Sump was rebuilt to the way I wanted and to fit my equipment, Skimz SM302, BM 160 Reactor, DCP 8000, RedSea ATU, 15w UV fed by 2000L/H pump and 4 head dosing pump. Tank fitted with 4 x OW25 wake makers 2 x Zetlight Qmarven 2 6600's. I enclosed the front and sides of stand. My main objective was no wires to be seen which I successfully accomplished and everything is on a switch panel. The whole system is powered through an Eaton 3Kw inverter which I got 2 from work and I added 2 additinal battery packs which gives me about 8 hour running time. 2nd inverter going to power house lights, have total of 5 inverters throughout my house so loadshedding is a breeze.
Move went well and by Sunday afternoon my house was back to normal and clean again.
Lights still need to be suspended from roof and dosing pump plumbed and setup.
Some pics for your viewing:
