jrpdriver's Three-o-Three build

[Wiskey]

Spectacular!!!! It's a shame that it has to come down The new one will be amazing once it grows out though!

Whiskey

[jrpdriver]

Thanks! I know but building is half the fun

[Wiskey]

Originally Posted by jrpdriver

Thanks! I know but building is half the fun

Indeed it is

Whiskey

[justsnooking]

very nice indeed, looks like its gonna be a great end of the year bonus for you.
i would wish you the best of luck but seems you already know exactly what you're
doing. looking forward to see the new tank up.

[jrpdriver]

Originally Posted by justsnooking

very nice indeed, looks like its gonna be a great end of the year bonus for you.
i would wish you the best of luck but seems you already know exactly what you're
doing. looking forward to see the new tank up.

Thank you very much! me too, I'm going crazy waiting for it to get here

[Fat Tony]

Looking good. I like the stand, everything seems to be coming along nicely. My goodness that 125 sure grew out a lot since i looked at the last picture of it!

[jrpdriver]

Thanks Tony, yeah everything is grwoing like weeds right now, I started maintaining my mg at 1600 and my calcium around 450 and the corals love it, I still keep my alk at the low end , around 8 dkh

[aquawolf]

Those are some awesome parting shots and I am now anxiously awaiting the progress pics on your new system once you get it.

[jrpdriver]

Thanks wolf

Well good news!!! The shipping company called and my tank is arriving tomorrow between 10am and 2pm, they must be owned by the cable company.

[skey44]

whoa... you got the goods this new tank is gonna be it! what are your current tank specs and philosophy if you don't mind?

[jrpdriver]

Thanks skey!

I've tried a lot of different combinations of equipment and water parameters and I've had the best results with my current parameters;

calcium around 450, alk around 8dkh and magnesium around 1600

I feed a lot and i skim pretty wet, I change 10% of the water weekley with Tropic Marin Salt.

[jrpdriver]

Well I finally have some real progress to post, just took my first break since 11:00am, thanks again for all your help Kirt!

Didn't have any body with free hand to take a picture of us carrying the tank but here it is after, it only took 4 people and it wasn't that bad, fit through the front door and everything!

Sitting around watching the paint dry...I had the baffles in the sump made black and I painted the back and sides of the sump so none of the light from the macro algae or frag section would get in the skimmer chamber

drilling a hole for the return pump connection

and finally bringing the sump in to join the tank!

[jrpdriver]

Next up was cutting the pipe

Connectin the bulk head and fittings for the return pump

Got the pump all hooked up

Ran the overflows

I ran one of the durso drains lower than the other so that a majority of the water will flow through the UV and the rest will flow through the secondary drain line. I will have both dumping into a filter sock.

[jrpdriver]

Got my probe holder section plumbed in, this will feed into a carbon reactor and then back into the skimmer section

and that's pretty much all for the day

ok, this photo was just too funny not to share, my wife told me to come here and look at this, I said "not now I'm busy with the tank" she said "get over here it is worth it" I grunted, stopped working and walked over to where she was...she was right it was worth it

[crvz]

Originally Posted by jrpdriver

and that's pretty much all for the day

Try to push yourself a little more next time.