Mermaid Gardens 180 build

[Mermaid Gardens]

Our 75 is full so I guess it's time to go bigger.

We went to the springs last night to get it from Kio707. (Sorry I forgot to take pics). Thanks to all of you who helped load it. We appreciate it.

This was our unloading crew.

They had to navigate through hoarders central.

And down these steps.

Using a cart, make shift rope pully, a lots of muscle and straining.

Not quite an entire wall of tanks. It will be when we move the 30 cube anemone tank from the next room.

Can't wait to get it cleaned up and filled with water.

Oh the possibilities. A new tank is like a blank canvas waiting to be painted.

 

[kio707]

Very nice!

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

Got it filled, all the bulkhead leaks fixed and cycling. Got a 6' 3 MH fixture with compact Fl lights on each side I am going to convert to MH with LED accent lights. Hope to have that done soon.

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

10' of tanks. My 75 and 180, still have to move the 30 cube in next to them then will have almost 12'.

 

[SkyShark]

Wow, that's pretty cool. Will you be plumbing the tanks together? Shared sump or something?

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

Yes plan to plumb them all together. Want to figure out how to run them together with individual sumps If possible so i can isolate them If necessary. Havn't figured out exactly how to do that yet without having a flood...

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

ReefBrite's installed in my MH fixture and in the canopy. Needs new bulbs but working for now...

Also got my ATO setup and finishing running my RO line to the tub.

P.S. I ended up with an extra 72" Corallife MH 3 bulb (400w) fixture with extra ballasts. If you would be interested PM me and we can work something out.

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

Got a 3 hour power outage test tonight. Transformer blew up in our neighborhood tonight. Remarkably no floods. The only problem I had was for some reason my 75's ATO overfilled a little when it came back on and caused my skimmer to overflow. But not bad.... Was about to go find a generator to get pumps running when the power came back on.

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

The tank is starting to come together a little bit. Got everything (except the anemones and a few leathers) moved from the 75.

We also picked up some goodies from coraljunkie. He had some awesome corals and some really great rock. Thanks man.

 

[Haddonisreef]

Looks good!

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

Thank you. It's coming along.

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

We added a scoly  .

A shot of the fish room.

 

[mpastries]

An entire fish room is such a fantastic dream ... I don't know how many of us will get to enjoy that level of aquaria. Nice work!

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

Thanks. It is a dream come true! We love it! Since there's no ocean front property in Colorado... we had to make our own. +1 for diy.

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

I am almost ready to post pictures and pull back the curtains on my next new build. Will introduce you to my new tank and it's super cool inhabitants soon!

 

[Mermaid Gardens]

My 180 is filling in well!

 

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More pics of the fish room.

 

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[sharkboy99999]

Is this in the 180g? What kind is it?