110 Gallon reef tank

My 110 gallon reef tank with way too much money in it for a Marine to be spending. lol

Just upgraded the Lighting to AI Sol Super Blues 1 month ago from dual 400 watt MH's and will never look back.

I will be making a build thread if anyone has questions please ask away. If i don't know the answer I'll find out and get back to you.

Austin

Very nice tank my friend. And Thank you for your service.

Nice tank!

very nice....

Thank

Thank you everyone. i just added the tank build to the Intro page. i just figured out that i should have put it on the tank show case page.

Hello everybody,

I just wanted to show my reef tank and what i've done with it. I tried to make it a "budget" tank even though that is hard to do when you love spending money on your hobby.

I bought the tank on craigs list for $100 and painted the back black with some left over spray paint in my garage. Then i used leftover lumber from a project and some small things from Home Depot( I love hate that place) to make the stand.





here's the tank and stand after postioning it.



I just so happened to find a great deal at my LFS and they had a Hamilton dual 400 watt fixture for another $100 for lighting. i know it's fuzzy.



here's the sun coming out of my house( my neighbors must think I'm growing WEED)


I had a 55 gallon reef tank prior that had a bunch of live rock and my Clown fish that has been around from the start of this hobby. ( wife killed all family and frinds of "tough Guy")



I put all the above rocks and coral into the new tank.


I also added a 28 gallon refugium from ebay for $145. and an eshopps s-120 skimmer for $135. The live sand was also from ebay i don't remember how much and the cost somewhere around $70 and 100 pounds great deals. Here is the Refugium and skimmer.





After this point reefing got real :frustrat: I wanted SPS corals and had the lights for them. they just didn't like the water CA levels so i spent $700+ on the geo CA reactor 618.



This was when the coral really started to take off.





At this point i figured i was good and didn't need to ever touch anything again........that never happens. after a year of $250 dollar electric bills every month with the house set at 82F i was sick of trying to run the AC and paying up to $350 a month( thanks California and OBAMA) so i bit the bullet and picked up some AI sol super blue LEDs.













Thanks to everyone who takes the time to look my tank over and if you have a question please ask and I will do my best to find the answer.

Wow, the AI's made such a difference in how the tank looks. It went from interrogation room glare to a nice peaceful spa. :-)

Beautiful tank!! Lots of great information, too.

I have a friend that has a fish room set up in his basement. (freshwater)
Lots of lighting down there. Police did show up to his house to check it out a few years back, as the neighbors thought he was growing weed!

Beautiful tank, sir. Thank you for your service.

Thank you for your service...You have a very nice tank, just out of curiosity how much did the leds help your electric bill? How long have you been running the leds?

Very nice tank! Those AI's look marvelous!

Sexy tank

I've had the AI's a bit over a month now. My power bill was $250 a month without AC on in the house. With the AI's I'm at $91 this month!! Big difference.

Wow!!! that is some nice extra spending money every month

I actually bought a 5.7Kw solar system to cover the electric bill. Now that I have LEDs ill be getting paid by the power company. On average the system will make 800Kws a month. My house will be at 62 degrees all summer next year without an electric bill.

The solar panels and inverters and mounting stuff.

now thats pretty cool

that is sweet

nice cant wait to see that up. and your tank looks awesome.