150 Deep Dimension with Basement Sump and FragTank

I've been working on a whole new set up at my house and wanted to share. I currently have a 75 gallon reef tank that has been running for about a year and a half.

This has been a good tank but space is limited and as I'm sure many of you can relate I wanted something bigger. The hardest part about going bigger was not finding what I wanted or where to put it but convincing the wife. Here is what I did. We currently have 3 bedrooms in our house, two are occupied and the third bedroom contains this tank. That meant all I had to do was to find someone to occupy this room so the tank had to go somewhere else. As soon as my wife found out she was pregnant she gave me the thumbs up to put a tank in the other room. I made sure she knew it wasn't going to be this tank but one that would look good in our main room, she didn't care because she just wants this out of that bedroom. It worked like magic and I got right to ordering the new set up.


I went with the 150 Deep Dimension because it fit the space much better than any 6 foot tank. The good thing about ordering a Driftwood stand is that Dion can save your hide when it comes to something you don't think about. I wanted the tank to sit higher than the banister so the side view wasn't lost. After I ordered it he called to make sure it would fit through the door... The big problem with a deep dimension tanks is they don't fit through standard door ways without being turned sideways. I measured everything and found, with height of the stand that I wanted, the stand itself would not fit through the door. Can you imagine coming home with a new set up that you can't get through the front door... So if you look close you can see that the stand itself has a pedestal that it sits in to give it the height back. I am so glad Dion had me measure!

The canopy opens from two sides so I can get to the back of the tank a lot easier.

Anyway, that is the story of this tank. Sorry if it was boring.

you mean all i have to do to get a bigger tank is have a baby?! brb.

sleepingdeep that is exactly what I am saying. Who knew it was so easy...

Hahaha best opening story ever. That's looking good man I'm jealous. How do you get a water tight seal on those blue drums?

Ha, Thanks Will! I actually have bulkhead and uniseals on both drums. They're so big it's pretty much flat where I drilled the holes.

Hey! How's the cycling going? What's it testing out at?

It feels like a lot has changed since my last update so I took some new pictures of where I'm at now.

I cycled the tank for about a month before I first added 3 firefish to the tank. Since then I have added 2 banggai, a red banded goby and a pistol shrimp. I let a green anemone loose on the rocks so it could hopefully find a comfortable spot to stay put before I put coral in and I put another anemone in the EA acclimation box to introduce my clowns to an anemone. I origianally put 5 clowns in the box with the anemone but later found one partially digested by the nem and another was M.I.A. so I guess it was lunch....








I have also been slowly moving all my coral down to the frag tank and adding equiptment along the way. I finally have all of the coral downstairs so I can hopefully sell the 75 gallon soon.











Thanks for looking.

Dang man, that is coming along nicely! I love the idea of a basement sump, especially since it is not on the ground.