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Thanks, a lot of thought went into this build. I tried to take a little piece of every mistake that I could remember making and made an attempt to correct it... Back to the depth of the aquarium. I could not reach the back bottom of the 320 and that caused me a lot of issues. I knew that was...

Thank you! I'm on the Coast not the valley. About 15 minutes south of San Luis Obispo. In the 5 cities area.

Oh the lights I forgot about that. I like the look of a floating canopy. I had 6 reefi uno 2.1 in my 320 and am happy with them, I added 4 more. I'll probably never run LED without t-5 so I had to make room for all of that. I used solar mounting rails to mount my lights. I just printed a...

I did not do much to the shed. It's been there since I put in the 120. But I did need to move the baffles in the sump. I also did some cable management using 3d printed multi board. I also needed to make more room as I added and return pump and 3 more drains for a total of 6 1.5 drains and 2...

Ok out! Now the building can start. I ended up going with good old-fashioned wood due to the fact that I'm a fairly competent woodworker and doing steel was going to cost about $2,000 plus all of the skinning. Since the only thing going underneath my tank is storage. It didn't matter to me...

Next was getting it out of the house. It had to be rotated to go through the door frame. I had five local reefing friends and give me a hand.

These were some of the colonies that came out. Although I could find no visible signs of acropora eating flatworms or any other pasts, I decided everything should go through a potassium chloride dip before it went into the holding system. Sadly most of the large colonies did not survive...

Ok where was I? Oh yeah 1st task was clear out the space and get everything into a " trashcan reef" on the other side of the room.

No way dude, the 25 in is the best. My sleeves have not been soaking wet since October! The tank is going to the high school in Cambria probably next week. A friend of mine runs a program there trying to get the kids interested in Coral restoration, etc

Getting back to the only wanting one aquarium. I decided I want to get the one that will be there indefinitely. So I decided to go as big as I possibly could for the space. My wife and I sat around figuring out exactly what the maximum possible size would be for the space. Then, We swung into...

I had gotten to the point with my 320 gallon where I was feeling crowded. Seems crazy for that much volume but the tank was kind of a strange dimension being not quite 6 ft long and 30 in tall. I have never been the kind of person that wanted multiple aquariums. I prefer to have one running...

I figured I'll do a bit about me in a 2nd post before getting to pictures and the build. I moved across the country to California from Rhode Island in the summer of 2018. There I had set up my 1st saltwater aquarium in 1998 and then my 1st reef in 2004 and had been consistently running since...

Adding progression pictures to the first page seems like a good idea. 1/1/2026 From viewable side Tank stats Display: 475 gallon custom Glasscages 120x36x25 with 2x synergy Reef Shadow V3 Sump: diy 75 gallon old fashioned sump Frag: custom 35 gallon 48x20x10 Qt: 20g tall end of line...

Thanks. I'll start a tank journal in the subforum ASAP!

120x36x25 Yes I do but I'm fallow until the end of December.

Thanks everyone, this is community I've been missing since west ward move! There's not really much of a central coast club, just a Facebook group.

I already paid my 30 dues.

Is the club holding fairly regular meet ups?

I started to chronicle the build of the 470 on Instagram. But I think I might be too old to use Instagram properly. Lol I never wanted to be on TV and basically you have to make a video all the time. It's tough for me to get the desire up to do that.