120 Gal Salty (Nemo kicked out Black Clown!)

[JTang]

After switching over to salty on my 46 Gal Bowfront just over 6 weeks ago, I went n picked up a 120 Gal last Sunday. It was quite fun moving it upstairs! We barely made the turn and I don't think I'm goning to move it again within the next few years! LOL

Tank has been drilled on the back and it came complete with all the equipments since the seller was leaving the hobby.

Here's is list of the main equipments in the package: Items in RED were added later.
120 Gal Tank (4'x2'x2')
White Stand
30 Gal Sump
2x250W (14,000k) M.H. with lunar lights (12 LED's), 4x65W PC (2x 454, 2x 10,000k)
AquaC Romora Pro Protein Skimmer + AquaC EV120
DIY In-Sump Algae Scrubber
Vertex UF-15 Bio-pellets
Return Pump
4 power heads: Koralia 3 x2, Evolution 1050 x2 linked to Wavemaker.
ATO w. 5 gal reservoir
80lbs Liverocks, Livesand

After 4 days of hard work, the system is finally up n running. Currently cycling with couple of green chromis. Will be adding 3 more next week.



Pictures time!

After cleaning, rinsing, filling n draining the tank twice...






Filling the tank slowly using R/O water. Yes, slowly.... It took almost 3 days until it's finally filled to the top. Salt is being mixed in the tank that's why the water looks cloudy.




After a thin layer of sand, the big, base pieces of rocks are put in place.




Then stacking the med. size pieces...
My intention is to create as many caves n bridges as possible, while leaving room for coral placements.




Topping up the tank to get the system going. As for the sump, I have the following...
1st chamber: bag to catch debris - only for week 1 and will be taken out soon. Protein Skimmer.
2nd: 200w heater
3rd: Liverock rubbles and couple of crabs that I found while cleaning the liverocks
4th: Return pump




With the new 2x250w Metal Halide n my old Coralife 4x65w Power Compact.






M.H. Off






Lunar...






Thank you for looking!

[budahrox]

Looks great John
Welcome to the Dark Side
Mwahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers!!!

[Ursus sapien]

Congrats on taking the plunge! Hope you have fun with it:-)

[Claudia]

Looks great, seeing SW tanks make me feel on setting mine up lol

[onefishtwofish]

looks great John!

[STANKYfish]

Nice upgrade on the tank. Lots of room to play with. Your aquascape looks very impressive for a newbie to the "dark" side.

[monkE]

wow im jealous! looks amazing man, nice job with the LR, can't wait to see it with some coral

[gklaw]

Looks great already !

[JTang]

Thanks everyone for the kind words!

I will soon have to get some stock out of the 46gal n transfer them into this one. It is overloaded with all the fish n corals that came with the 120gal. Nitrate has gone up from 20 to 40! Not good!

[target]

Looking good so far. Can't wait to see the corals.