Hey guys, new(er) member here but have trolled the site for a while now. I have been slowly building my 120g setup over the past few months now. I picked up a 4x2x2 tank from another member here a month or so ago which included a stand. After a week or two of figuring out where to place the tank, yes I did it backwards, my wife and I (mainly my wife) agreed on a nice place for the tank in my home office.
So naturally the next steps of the build consisted of an item list of what I still needed and where the heck I was going to get them. So I came up with the following list of items
<ul>
<li>Sump with Refugium - Ended up going with an Eshopps R-200 and absolutely love it</li>
<li>Skimmer - Picked up a Coralife 125 from a member here, looks good so far
</li>
<li>Return Pump - Mag 12 which I picked up from another member</li>
<li>MP40 - I feel like a broken record, picked up from another member</li>
<li>Eheim Jager 200W - bought two of these for the tank - 300w was way to long</li>
<li>Base Rock - Combination LFS and ARC Member</li>
<li>Sand - A LFS opened up right about 5 minutes from my house and grabbed about 80lb of dry and 20lbs of Live (not placed in the tank yet)</li>
<li>Tops - Custom made screen tops</li>
<li>Lighting - Grabbed a Photon 48 from Reefbreeders, originally was looking at the Orbits but decided against it with the dimensions of the tank.</li>
<li>Plumbing - my local hardware store, I think my kids are now banned from this place to be honest</li>
</ul>
I ended up testing all the used items and they work like champs, so a big thanks to all those members I purchased items from. As far as the tops, I did a combination of window screen frames with bird netting. I know that their are kits for these but most of the ones I found had the white/clear screens and i wanted to go down the road of all black. And since the bird netting is super thin there is no lighting hindrance. Plus when I was in high school I worked at a window company and used to make screens.... way to many of them :confused2:.
Now on to the progress pictures:
Water testing the tank
http://www.kabweb.com/tank/IMG_0528_1.JPG" alt="" />
Original Sump that wasn't going to work for me
[IMG]http://www.kabweb.com/tank/IMG_0543_1.JPG" alt="" />
Tank and stand
[IMG]http://www.kabweb.com/tank/IMG_0578_1.JPG" alt="" />
So naturally the next steps of the build consisted of an item list of what I still needed and where the heck I was going to get them. So I came up with the following list of items
<ul>
<li>Sump with Refugium - Ended up going with an Eshopps R-200 and absolutely love it</li>
<li>Skimmer - Picked up a Coralife 125 from a member here, looks good so far
</li><li>Return Pump - Mag 12 which I picked up from another member</li>
<li>MP40 - I feel like a broken record, picked up from another member
</li><li>Eheim Jager 200W - bought two of these for the tank - 300w was way to long</li>
<li>Base Rock - Combination LFS and ARC Member</li>
<li>Sand - A LFS opened up right about 5 minutes from my house and grabbed about 80lb of dry and 20lbs of Live (not placed in the tank yet)</li>
<li>Tops - Custom made screen tops</li>
<li>Lighting - Grabbed a Photon 48 from Reefbreeders, originally was looking at the Orbits but decided against it with the dimensions of the tank.</li>
<li>Plumbing - my local hardware store, I think my kids are now banned from this place to be honest
</li></ul>
I ended up testing all the used items and they work like champs, so a big thanks to all those members I purchased items from. As far as the tops, I did a combination of window screen frames with bird netting. I know that their are kits for these but most of the ones I found had the white/clear screens and i wanted to go down the road of all black. And since the bird netting is super thin there is no lighting hindrance. Plus when I was in high school I worked at a window company and used to make screens.... way to many of them :confused2:.
Now on to the progress pictures:
Water testing the tank
http://www.kabweb.com/tank/IMG_0528_1.JPG" alt="" />
Original Sump that wasn't going to work for me
[IMG]http://www.kabweb.com/tank/IMG_0543_1.JPG" alt="" />
Tank and stand
[IMG]http://www.kabweb.com/tank/IMG_0578_1.JPG" alt="" />
