[Scorpa]

Anyone purchase one of the Red Sea 65g all in one setup? My light gave out on my 29g nano and I'm looking to upgrade. What do you guys and gals think about that tank?

[Scorpa]

If i do get one, think it would be necessary to drill it for a sump/fuge?

[RyanG]

You wouldn't have to drill it, you could use an overflow system of some kind....but a sump isn't need with the max systems.

[Scorpa]

ehh overflow, cough, spills, power outage :-P I don't feel so safe living up here in Ma with and overflow and no generator on the house. But yeah I didn't think it was necessary, it was just a thought.

[Scorpa]

I will consider doing a 10 gallon fuge under the tank. I read up a little more and there is inlet and outlet pluggins I also plan to make another "plenium system" on this tank

[Scorpa]

Bought it

[Scorpa]

I changed my mind about the fuge, I will just be hooking my fluval 405 to it using the inlet and outlet ports and most likely be adding a auto topoff to it. I WILL post pictures of it once it arrives. If anyone is looking into a nice starter tank, then i would suggest looking into this. It's pricey but I would have to say it looks like a wonderful tank! I am really excited to see it! It will be coming in next thuresday, but I might not be taking it home that night. My LFS retailer said he wants to droll over it a few days

I might consider buying a chiller, but only if it comes down to despret measures in the summer. For the price of those things I think I would prefer investing in Central Airconditioning

[Scorpa]

Oh boy, what a lengthy two days.
First comes first. I had to remove my freshwater setup from the spot we plan to put the new RSM(RedSeaMax250) in. I drained it and transfered 2 fish upstairs(one jumped out of my upstairs tank and died) and I brought one to the fish store. This tank upgrade could have been a lot easier but we ran into a few problems. We had a room with two tanks in it. We would have normaly just moved out our saltwater setup but the RSM was too high to fit where it was because theres a thermostat there. So were swapping the freshwater tank with the saltwater tank and putting the freshwater one where the saltwater one was. Complicating things. Oh well, heres what the spot looked like after i moved everything and *before* I vacumed.


Now this is the old saltwater setup below.


Putting the stand together. That was a pain. Atleast we followed the instructions though


We finished the stand the next morning.


Then we went to the LFS and picked up our better half.


It wasnt peaceful getting the tank onto the stand and leaving 6 inches from the wall, but we managed.


Inside the light, aka starting to insert the bulbs.


Six light. And two built in fans on each side of the hood as you can see in the picture.


Reeses, our chocolate lab. lol.


Putting in the bulbs.




Moonlights.


The fixture rippin.


So after we fixed all that up, we made a trip to home Depot and bought some eggcrate, 1/2 inch pvc pipe, some screen, and pvc connecters. To build a plenum, its a filter you insert under the sand that works like a septic tank.


Just the basics of it. and its placement in the tank.


Cutting the eggcrate to fit over the pvc pipe.


Drilling holes in the pvc pipe to allow the airbubbles to escape. The more holes the better.


Some of our other hobbies


My scuba diving BC. What the hell might as well take pictures of it all if im already in the garage.


After the holes were drilled we threw it back into the tank to see how it looked. We made sure to get all the scraps off of it from drilling.


We used tie wraps to first put the eggcrate on the pvc.


We then coverd the entire fixture with the screen(its plastic screen) and folded the ends in, using *strong* fishing line to keep it together. And put it where we wanted it in our tank.


Then we filled her up with some sand(not livesand).


Thomas


We put on our top.


Top opened, so we can install the goodies in the back


Ripping the light after we set everything up.


Seeming as we already went out to buy eggcrate I decided to make my own magnetic frag shelf. To do this I just cut out a rectangular peice of eggcrate and glued it to a cheap sinking magnet i bought from walmart, aka wally world . As for the plugs, I bought those out of a dr. Foster & Smith catalog but you can buy those at most fish stores or even make your own. You can even use better quality magnets aswell. It would be more stable if i made it with two magnets, one on each side, but I guess I can't turn back now. It came out nice in my opinion though

I will keep post pictures as my tank progresses

Now if only my boss were a member of this forum? Then she wouldn't wonder why im tired at work!

[Scorpa]

It would be great if this could be moved to the build catagory*

[Scorpa]

Should I copy and paste the build section of this thread to the build catagory? Or i guess if worst comes to worst, remake it there?