My 360 reef thats non reef safe

[is_that_a_fish]

Here's my 360 I just set up. Finally done with the transfer. Tons of work lol. Now to relax hopefully.

It's 96x36x24
Running 4x250w metal halides
14k on sides and 20k in the middle Running from left to right, max 3 on at any given time, trying to mimic the sun moving over it.

I have two closed loops running supporting the rock structure like a skeleton.

Did all the things I wanted to do as a kid lol.

Inhabitants:
CUC
Dog face puffer
blue spot puffer
yellow watchman goby
yellow head goby
emperor angel
Honeycomb rabbit
blue tang
Scopas tang
Naked cinamon pair
Morph occelaris pair
Yellow damsel
Blue green chromi
Niger trigger
marine betta
flame hawk
midas blenny
flame tail blenny
cleaner wrasse
lunare wrasse
Dragon wrasse
Engineer goby
Black and white chromis

Wish list:
Morish idol
Clown tang
Clown trigger
Humu trigger
blue throat pair
4 mono fish
talbot damsel
maybe a few more goby/blenny/firefish


Running an ancient aqua c skimmer with a new dc pump.

In the time since the early 2000s there really hasnt been anything that touches the tried and true methods.

My non reef safe reef. Some of the fishes are still hiding when I took these.

Anyways enjoy. Ill take more pictures once I get everything fully cleaned and settled.

Also someone buy my 93 cube my wife is gonna kill me if its here much longer.

 

[is_that_a_fish]

Here's some build pics

Drilled thru some rock and affixed them so that my live rock could have a solid foundation while the closed loop provides flow. Dual use! Lol

I was a durso guy, who's herbi? Found out i like him better.

 

[Swank1987]

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Drilled thru some rock and affixed them so that my live rock could have a solid foundation while the closed loop provides flow. Dual use! Lol

I was a durso guy, who's herbi? Found out i like him better.

I like the closed loop plumbing in the live rock. Very cool.

 

[is_that_a_fish]

I like the closed loop plumbing in the live rock. Very cool.

Thank you. I knew i wanted a closed loop, and I knew i wanted to use rods to hold my rock together as im tired of avalanches. So I put them together. I thought about drilling the tank more and adding the pumps externally but for simplicity sake and ease of use I left the pumps in the tank. And less holes in the aquarium body the better for me.

Took a little patience and a giant coring drill bit but once I got the hang of it went thru like butter. Just had to keep the bit wet, and used dry rock so im not trying to grip slimy rock.