560 Room Divider Build. Follow the fun....
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What a great tank build - the kitchen island and tiles look fantastic. Hope the Turkey in Mexico was good because its time to get back at it 
Awesome build! Thank you for sharing. I think we've all learned a bit from your carpentry skills. Can't wait to see filter setup.
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Awesome! I told my girlfriend about it and asked where could we put something like this in our house and divide a room. Mind you I've recently upgraded 2 tanks within the past 3 months. She said, "Keep this up and we'll put the tank as a divider in between us in bed." Needless to say I'll be living vicariously through you for a while.
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Well, finally got my custom sump built and the plumbing put together and the Apex configured. I think I went a bit crazy with adding floats and running an RO line from my garage directly to the top off res. (Went over well that I drilled a hole through the wall.) I still have quite a bit of work to do. We decided to get rid of the dining room table and extend the stand so the bar is facing the tank. The tank is long enough to have seating for 6...should work well.
A few notes:
1) Closed loop has one center drain at 1.5" and returns to 4 3/4" returns. The pump is a ReefFlo Hammerhead 5500+ GPH
2) The return pump is a 3000 GPH ReefFlo Dart and also has 4 expansion ports to be used for the Skimmer and other items.
3) The refugium is 100+ Gallons measuring 60x22x18 running miracle mud. I decided to go with mud because I had such great luck with it on my previous tank. However, I will still run my skimmer and refuse to have a 1" sand bed.
4) I have an Apex Neptune with two DB8's and a breakout box hooked to 4 switches (Sump High, Sump Low * 2 (Redundant), Res Low). I love being able to get alerts on my iPhone...nerdy!
5) I rinsed and rinsed and rinsed the substrate but it's still cloudy. As you can tell in the pictures.
6) I ordered 5 27" Maxspect Razor LED fixtures. Once mounted and added I'll post the update.
7) I have 500 lbs of rock coming on Tuesday and will start the grueling process of drilling and inserting acrylic rods for the rock scaping. I may add another 500 lbs depending on how it looks.
I'll post more updates when I get the rockscape, lights and bar built.
Cheers!
Tom
A few notes:
1) Closed loop has one center drain at 1.5" and returns to 4 3/4" returns. The pump is a ReefFlo Hammerhead 5500+ GPH
2) The return pump is a 3000 GPH ReefFlo Dart and also has 4 expansion ports to be used for the Skimmer and other items.
3) The refugium is 100+ Gallons measuring 60x22x18 running miracle mud. I decided to go with mud because I had such great luck with it on my previous tank. However, I will still run my skimmer and refuse to have a 1" sand bed.
4) I have an Apex Neptune with two DB8's and a breakout box hooked to 4 switches (Sump High, Sump Low * 2 (Redundant), Res Low). I love being able to get alerts on my iPhone...nerdy!
5) I rinsed and rinsed and rinsed the substrate but it's still cloudy. As you can tell in the pictures.
6) I ordered 5 27" Maxspect Razor LED fixtures. Once mounted and added I'll post the update.
7) I have 500 lbs of rock coming on Tuesday and will start the grueling process of drilling and inserting acrylic rods for the rock scaping. I may add another 500 lbs depending on how it looks.
I'll post more updates when I get the rockscape, lights and bar built.
Cheers!
Tom
Reading back through this and must have missed this message. I got the tiles and island from the Green River Fossil company out of Utah. Material is very easy to work with and cuts well. The island was honed and has a matt finish, but the backsplash tiles are sealed in their natural state and all the fossils have been lasered (which looks amazing).
