I just wanted give an update on the progress on my tank upgrade. The tank (a custom made 415 gallon from Mitch at Inter-American, dimensions 122"X28"X28", regular 3/4" glass) has been shipped and is in Salt Lake City, Utah as of yesterday per the tracking on Consolidated Freightways. Of course I'm leaving for vacation next week so the tank will sit in the freight warehouse until I get back and will bring it home on July 9th. Still taking volunteers who are into heavy lifting!
I have nearly everything else except the rock and the sand which I'm going to get uncured rock and cure it in the tank. I just got my custom made protein skimmer and calcium reactor from Andy at Myreef and have my sea swirls, ampmasters, etc. all sitting and waiting on the tank to arrive. I ended up buying a steel frame stand from Mitch so I don't have to worry about building my own and that was a sigh of relief. I also ended up buying a custom 135 gallon sump from Mitch as well.
Oh well, I took a couple of pics of the skimmer, reactor and waste collector and thought I would post them. I put a diet coke can in the pic to give you a size perspective, also the stand in the background is a 24" tall stand. They are actually taller than the stand, but the pic was taken at an angle so they don't look taller. The skimmer is 8" OD riser tube and collection cup and the reactor is 6" OD and 24" tall. The skimmer is just over 26" tall and was designed short and fat to fit in my stand but still give me more contact area than a 36" tall 6" OD riser skimmer would. It has dual beckett injectors and I plan on driving it with 2 Mag 12 pumps. I'm going to use the single chamber reactor I have now as a second chamber for the reactor that I bought from Andy.
Andy was a great guy to deal with and has excellent prices.
Here are the pics:
Hopefully I will get the tank up and running mid July and will keep everyone updated and will post pics of the tank when it comes in.
FWIW, Nathan

I have nearly everything else except the rock and the sand which I'm going to get uncured rock and cure it in the tank. I just got my custom made protein skimmer and calcium reactor from Andy at Myreef and have my sea swirls, ampmasters, etc. all sitting and waiting on the tank to arrive. I ended up buying a steel frame stand from Mitch so I don't have to worry about building my own and that was a sigh of relief. I also ended up buying a custom 135 gallon sump from Mitch as well.
Oh well, I took a couple of pics of the skimmer, reactor and waste collector and thought I would post them. I put a diet coke can in the pic to give you a size perspective, also the stand in the background is a 24" tall stand. They are actually taller than the stand, but the pic was taken at an angle so they don't look taller. The skimmer is 8" OD riser tube and collection cup and the reactor is 6" OD and 24" tall. The skimmer is just over 26" tall and was designed short and fat to fit in my stand but still give me more contact area than a 36" tall 6" OD riser skimmer would. It has dual beckett injectors and I plan on driving it with 2 Mag 12 pumps. I'm going to use the single chamber reactor I have now as a second chamber for the reactor that I bought from Andy.
Andy was a great guy to deal with and has excellent prices.
Here are the pics:


Hopefully I will get the tank up and running mid July and will keep everyone updated and will post pics of the tank when it comes in.
FWIW, Nathan