doctor_random
Experienced Reefer
- Location
- New York, NY
Wingo the genius has done it again! This is a see-through tank installed in a partition between my living room and my den, with walk-arounds on both sides. The bamboo cabinetry was designed and installed by Hugo Cheng Construction, unfortunately long I knew Wingo (life would have been easier if Wingo was involved from start, but that's another Manhattan architect apartment renovation nightmare story...)
Wingo has done an amazing job of creating a spectacular tank in my home in Manhattan, and has allowed me a great start as a novice marine tank enthusiast. As time progresses, I hope it will be a full-on reef tank, it now has LR plus a few easy SPS (cactus), and some leathers, frogspawn, zenia, kenya tree, and mushrooms. We had lots architectural constraints, and you can see how things turned out.
Current livestock: 3 False Percula clowns, a Coral Beauty, 2 Convict Gobi/Blenny's, 2 cleaner shrimp, and a bunch of snails. I hope to add a bigger cleaner crew soon, an algae blenny, a few blue reef chromis, and a purple tang. Wingo has all sorts of other ideas for stocking as well...
Attached are pix of the custom 56" wide by 27" high by 17" deep acrylic tank (1/2" acrylic throughout ) (about 100 gal), 10 gal sump (on left side of DT) powered by Rio 3100 return pump (return goes through JBJ chiller located below DT -chiller has it's OWN fan-powered exhaust system ("the chiller for the chiller" as Wingo calls it!))
I have a Lifereef skimmer in sump, powered by in-sump pump, filter bag on DT gravity drain to sump. To right of DT is gravity-fed refugium, about 15 gal. Refugium has float-valve based ATO system attached. Below refugium is salt-water reservoir (now being used as QT). Plan is for real QT to be installed below sump on floor of left-side cabinet, with chilled DT water return used as cooling fluid for a heat-exchanger plate in the QT. Coming soon...
The amazing technical feat Wingo has pulled off is a custom high-powered LED lighting system installed in panels a few inches from the DT water surface. The LED system produced nearly NO heat, its SUPER BRIGHT (yes, plenty of shimmering and all that), and will support SPS growth (my tank is deep, so SPS may be limited to upper zones, or until I want to modify LED panels for increased intensity). LED panels are going to be computer controlled via DMX software - fully dimmable. Panels consist of strong white and blue LEDS. There is a red LED "spy light" to catch a peek a night without the livestock knowing. This has been a blast to look at the inverts at night. The whole system is LED driven.
I have Buckeye Field Supply 75 GPD RO/DI filter under kitchen sink, which is about 30' away from fish wall. Under kitchen sink is RO/DI reservoir, and an Aquatec pump to push top-off water through an in-wall conduit, up through ceiling, and then down into refugium. RO/DI shutoff is by back-pressure switch, refugium water level controls the Aquatec pump. RO/DI waste plumbed into kitchen sink.
Also in early stages is custom-plumbed water change system, which will pump reserve salt water in holding tank up to DT while pumping "old" DT water back through ceiling conduit to drain plumbed under kitchen sink.
I will post more pix as soon as I can figure how to on my album. For now, Wingo has two pages of pix up here.
http://aquaprobuilder.sunsun-usa.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=10
Enjoy! I know I am!!!!!
D_R
Wingo has done an amazing job of creating a spectacular tank in my home in Manhattan, and has allowed me a great start as a novice marine tank enthusiast. As time progresses, I hope it will be a full-on reef tank, it now has LR plus a few easy SPS (cactus), and some leathers, frogspawn, zenia, kenya tree, and mushrooms. We had lots architectural constraints, and you can see how things turned out.
Current livestock: 3 False Percula clowns, a Coral Beauty, 2 Convict Gobi/Blenny's, 2 cleaner shrimp, and a bunch of snails. I hope to add a bigger cleaner crew soon, an algae blenny, a few blue reef chromis, and a purple tang. Wingo has all sorts of other ideas for stocking as well...
Attached are pix of the custom 56" wide by 27" high by 17" deep acrylic tank (1/2" acrylic throughout ) (about 100 gal), 10 gal sump (on left side of DT) powered by Rio 3100 return pump (return goes through JBJ chiller located below DT -chiller has it's OWN fan-powered exhaust system ("the chiller for the chiller" as Wingo calls it!))
I have a Lifereef skimmer in sump, powered by in-sump pump, filter bag on DT gravity drain to sump. To right of DT is gravity-fed refugium, about 15 gal. Refugium has float-valve based ATO system attached. Below refugium is salt-water reservoir (now being used as QT). Plan is for real QT to be installed below sump on floor of left-side cabinet, with chilled DT water return used as cooling fluid for a heat-exchanger plate in the QT. Coming soon...
The amazing technical feat Wingo has pulled off is a custom high-powered LED lighting system installed in panels a few inches from the DT water surface. The LED system produced nearly NO heat, its SUPER BRIGHT (yes, plenty of shimmering and all that), and will support SPS growth (my tank is deep, so SPS may be limited to upper zones, or until I want to modify LED panels for increased intensity). LED panels are going to be computer controlled via DMX software - fully dimmable. Panels consist of strong white and blue LEDS. There is a red LED "spy light" to catch a peek a night without the livestock knowing. This has been a blast to look at the inverts at night. The whole system is LED driven.
I have Buckeye Field Supply 75 GPD RO/DI filter under kitchen sink, which is about 30' away from fish wall. Under kitchen sink is RO/DI reservoir, and an Aquatec pump to push top-off water through an in-wall conduit, up through ceiling, and then down into refugium. RO/DI shutoff is by back-pressure switch, refugium water level controls the Aquatec pump. RO/DI waste plumbed into kitchen sink.
Also in early stages is custom-plumbed water change system, which will pump reserve salt water in holding tank up to DT while pumping "old" DT water back through ceiling conduit to drain plumbed under kitchen sink.
I will post more pix as soon as I can figure how to on my album. For now, Wingo has two pages of pix up here.
http://aquaprobuilder.sunsun-usa.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=10
Enjoy! I know I am!!!!!
D_R
