well after my long absence from the forums do to almost being homeless because my land or was on foreclosure and for 1year and 9months paying my rent and never told me till the day the bank when knocking on my door telling me i have a few days to move out and cut my electricity for 7 days almost everything die in my tank all my fish and some of my corals die

well i to make a long story short i start it my tank in my new home this time i made everything new and with a different setup then before new sump, new skimmer , calcium reactor, kalkwasser reactor ,carbon, phos reactor, and a dinitrate reactor well stop the chatting and let me show you some pictures feel free to ask any Q?

first the tank 180g with dual overflows will have to redo the stand because my stand was setup like and island
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup001.jpg
the sump is 48L X 20W X 20H with a refugium area and a frag area which is being use for the skimmer for now until i finish my new skimmer
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/mysump2.jpg

i replace my sand
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup004.jpg
new R/O unit dual DI 5stages
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup022.jpg

more pics trying to see how it will fit
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup002.jpg

calcium reactor
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/newcalcmdsc1.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup014.jpg
the twins
phos and carbon
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup029.jpg
the kalkwasser reactor
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup020.jpg
rock work i am using acrylic stands to give my rock the free standing look
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup007.jpg

water is in
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup011.jpg

ligths 3 lumermax with 400w bulbs 20k
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup009.jpg

this is my skimmer i am working on
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/2.jpg

things are geting in place
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup023.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/102_1044_edited.jpg

well i will post more pictures later i hope you guys enjoy the build and there is more coming

looks great Manny !! sorry to hear about all the problems, though.

what doesnt kill us only makes us stronger.

WELCOME BACK MY FRIEND !!

thanks man i hope to catchup with the site wow i am missing like 2000 post and is true about that this setup i looks like is going to be really good is working really really efficient

Wow Manny, looks like it's going to be a heck of a setup! Looking forward to following along. I wish I had the ability to work with acrylic like you do :up:

thanks i hope so to for now everyting is working really really good my ph is alway at 8.3 and cero in all the bad stuff lets see in a month or tow

Manny, I am sorry to hear about your troubles. I know you will com through this and your tanks will be better than ever.

hey carmi is OK that game a a reason to start a better tank and better setup
here are some updates

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/allthepics160.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/allthepics165.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/allthepics161.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/allthepics157.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/allthepics158.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/tanknewsetup043.jpg

Hi Manny, looking good. I like your company name on the equipment!

thanks carmi

well i was looking at my tank today and its full of hair algae and i only had one big yellow tang so i deside it to go to the holesaler and get me some more fish i just got a few more yellow tangs 4 and hippo tang still have to diside what ells i am geting here is a pic
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/allthepics169.jpg

in other hand even with the algae i test it the water and everyting is perfect my tank is only beeing runing for a month i add it the corals tow weecks ago and i have grouth already

i guest all the equipment is doing what they are suppost to

well i just want to show some more updates

OK first i am having a small test here i grab some of my frags from my frag systems the ones which was not doing good and add them to my tank staring today i want to see how long they get to recuperate and how well they do in my systems design i will post pictures every week just to see how much better or worse they are doing

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/corals001.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/corals002.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/corals003.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/corals004.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/corals005.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/corals006.jpg

note there is not much color in the frags

Hey Manny, how much media do those carbon/phosban reactors hold? How are they plumbed in?

the carbon hold about 3 to 4 lbs and the phos will be able to hold about 5 or 6 small container of phos media if you like i just add it 1 for now and this is how it looks
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/allthepics157.jpg
not even a 1/16 of the chamber they are plum with jonguest fitings 3/8 pvc flex tubing

Wow, that's one full phosban container in there? That's a huge reactor. I'm lookin for something larger than the standard TLF reactors for my upcoming 220. How much would one of those run?

phurst send me and email manny@marinedesignsystems.com i will be adding the reactors tomorow to my site

wow, thats a bit rough, the story bud, not your work. im pretty much always impressed with your work bud. And i see you've jumped into the sellers market now too! good luck, producings some quality @#% there bud, keep it coming.welcome back :D

thanks veriann here are some more pics how the tank looks now
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/DSC_0001.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/DSC_0003.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/DSC_0008.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/thesaent14/my%20tanks/DSC_0006.jpg

nice - whats that thing hanging from the surface?