Onyx & Nanogurl's 120g Ocean In a Wall

[nanogurl]

Hi everyone!

Well, we did it! We finally moved our Oceanic Tech 120g reef and made it into an in wall system. We started working on this a few weeks ago, and so far everything has gone really good! The worst part was moving all the fish and corals and being scared we would lose something, but luckily everyone survived just fine!

Here is some background info on the tank. (I will edit this to keep it current)

Equipment List:

120g Oceanic Tech Tank - 48.5" x 24.5" x 25"
40" Tall Homemade Stand
½” Starboard Bottom
2 x 150MH Phoenix 14k Bulbs Inside Reef Optix III Fixtures w/Ice Cap Electronic Ballasts
75+ Pounds Figi Premium LR & Tonga Shelf
4 x Nanostream 6045s for 40x+ Turnover
40g Sump with Mag 9.5 Return
ASM G3 Skimmer
Jager 250w Heater
Tunze Automatic Top Off System

Livestock List:

Mated Pair of Ora Black Clownfish - Eight Ball & Orca
Powder Blue Tang - Ocean
Lyretail Anthias
Yellow Corris Wrasse
Midas Blenny - Jasmine
Fire Shrimp
2 Peppermint Shrimp
Porcelain Crab
Astrea & Black Grazer Snails
Blue Leg & Red Leg Hermits
Misc Stars & Other Inverts

Coral List:

RBTA
Pink Birdsnest
ORA Green Birdsnest
ORA Bird of Paradise
ORA Red Planet
ORA Borealis
ORA Blue Voodoo
Blue Tip Lemon Lime Acropora
Turquoise Acropora
Orange Cap
Purple Grape Cap
PPEs
Nuclear Green Palys
Purple Death Palys
Green Moon Palys
Tubs Blue Zoas
Safecracker Zoas
Cotton Candy Zoas
Watermellon Zoas
Bam Bam Zoas
Fire & Ice Zoas
Pink Zoas
Blue Caribbean Zoas
Kedredd Zoas
Eagle Eye Long Lashed Zoas
Blue Candycane
Frogspawn x Hammer
Hammer
Orange & Blue Ricordea
Blue Ricordea
Purple & Green Brain
Pulsating Xenia

And here is a photo of how the tank looked when we first set it up. It's been up and running since June 2008, but we transferred everything over from our previous 75g.

June 2008



And here are the final FTS prior to the move.

[nanogurl]

If anyone remembers we moved into our new house last year. OMG it's been a year already! So yea, the downstairs pretty much sat unfinished for that long. We were waiting to move the tank until we figured out what we wanted to do with the space.

Here is the wall where the tank goes.



Hole cut in the wall. It was really odd looking at that LoL



The new stand built higher then the Tech Stand.



New plubming! Best part, I had to do nothing!



Tank in place and the trim up. Everything was level.



Lights! This is how the tank looked right after getting it all setup.

[nanogurl]

Moving the fish and corals definitely was the worse. We moved them into a 30g breeder overnight using the same water from the tank when we broke it down.


We placed the live rock into a large storage tote overnight.


Fish and corals in their hotel.

[Mr.Peanut]

Looks awesome!!! Great job.

[Seamore]

Kudos, nicely done and it look like you have plenty of room for the wet room behind it.

[crvz]

I do hate moving a tank, but I'm sure the result will be worth it.

[SoK]

looks awesome, hope to do something similar in the future!

[6speedchevelle]

beautiful stuff!!

i'm jealous, the wife would never allow me to do something like that...

[nanogurl]

Originally Posted by Mr.Peanut

Looks awesome!!! Great job.

Thanks =)

[nanogurl]

Originally Posted by Seamore

Kudos, nicely done and it look like you have plenty of room for the wet room behind it.

Thanks! Yea, the room is pretty big it's like 15' x 20' or something like that. This is a photo of directly behind the tank prior to moving it.

[nanogurl]

Originally Posted by crvz

I do hate moving a tank, but I'm sure the result will be worth it.

I hope so!

[nanogurl]

Originally Posted by SoK

looks awesome, hope to do something similar in the future!

Thanks! =)

[nanogurl]

Originally Posted by 6speedchevelle

beautiful stuff!!

i'm jealous, the wife would never allow me to do something like that...

Thank you LoL.

[nanogurl]

Sooo... we just spent the last three hours painting the downstairs. Ugh! The good news is we got most of it done. Here are a couple of progress photos from the other night. I'll get some more tomorrow I'm too exhausted right now to take more.

The crown molding and trim still needs to be painted and put in.


Another view with the tank lights off. The color of the wall is light beige.


And now it's def time for a hot bath. Goodnight!

[superwizbang]

Very nice indeed. Well done friend.