World Wide Corals Coral Farm Build Thread (not open to public)

[World Wide Corals]

We thought we'd share the progress of our coral farm with the reefs.com community! Feedback welcome!

Some specs:

• 4 - 132" x 60" x 18" Propagation Tanks

• 1 - 144" x 48" x 30" Show Tank (for growing colonies)

• 1,000 square foot building

This farm will not be open to the public. It will allow us to propagate corals like never before. We will be able to stock the retail store, website, live sales, ebay, etc. with hundreds of different frags simultaneously. We will have the space needed to propagate all the rare corals that are currently growing in our show tanks. It will also house new quarantine setups and receiving tanks for fish and corals. We are very excited about this farm as we believe it will take us to the next level and enable us to provide you guys with a much more diverse and much larger selection of WWC corals.

We plan to have the farm complete in the next few months. It will plumb into our existing systems, so no cycle.

We still have to:

Finish installing lighting, plumbing, water pumps/powerheads, frag racks, etc.
16' shipping and fragging area.
Setup receiving tanks and quarantine.
Plumbing R/O and Salt VATS to the systems.


We are expecting the sumps any day now and the A/C will be running next week so we should have part of the system online very soon!

Here's a few pictures with plenty more to come!

 

[World Wide Corals]

We built a platform to stand on for easy access to the farm show tank.

We have started plumbing the runs to the sump.

Here is some of the plumbing under the farm tanks.

and more..

and more..

We are very excited about our 5 new PantaRhei Hydro Wizards that will provide laminar flow for the farm.

Here you can see just how much room these frag tanks hold. We put some temporary frag racks in them for now. We will design some kind of modular egg crate racks soon that will be uniform across the tanks.

First hood is now suspended! Looks much better!

We used all thread to suspend it so we can raise it up and down.

Tried to capture the flow on this tank, its nuts!





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More hoods going up.

Hood over show tank is up.

Starboard is in.

Top-down starboard.

Front shot starboard.

We built a platform for side access too.

Re-did some of the plumbing.

Valves, first pump, anti-vibration pad in place.

Top-down shot.

First hood now suspended.

3rd farm tank hood now up.

We painted the show tank access platform black and added sandpaper so no one slips.

Monster brand new heater we ordered from Aqua Logic for the system.



plenty more to come...

 

[salpet]

wow looks like some wild tanks good luck

 

[fisharefriends2608]

Ohhhh myyyyyy

 

[Josh]

Wow, crazy build.

 

[ohana888]

need any help? hiring? will work for livestock! :beer:

 

[troywalkerphoto]

Hell, I want to work there!

 

[World Wide Corals]

need any help? hiring? will work for livestock! :beer:

Hell, I want to work there!

We are looking to hire two people. We need a salesman on the floor preferably bi-lingual and someone with a little computer skills to help grow our online division.

 

[rookie07]

Wow! Awesome.

 

[jr973]

awesome build and project

 

[ssdawood]

This is an inspiration to build one exactly like this in my basement. One day hopefullly.

 

[ssdawood]

Did Reef Savvy made them tanks. Craftmanship is outsanding.

 

[World Wide Corals]

A few more pics.. a lot of progress being made lately..

Shipping/bagging/fragging station is underway!

New ReefBrite XHO and T5 ready fit kits for the farm!

X-Large 36" sink

Plumbing in the pumps.

Long home runs to the tanks.

4" drain

 

[Dace]

Thanks Victor, This knocks my Tank Build out of the MR top 5 tank builds...lol
Awesome build and welcome to MR my friend

 

[janey]

WOW, Makes me wanna Move to Florida ...

 

[World Wide Corals]

We removed all the tanks/sumps/plumbing we had accumulated over the years.. it was a mess. Now just a clean 4" drain to the farm.

Our good friend Luis removing 2 180g tanks from our retail floor. We won't need them now that we have the farm.

So much more room now in the shop. We still have to finish the tile and close in the plumbing so you don't see it.

Mounted the lights in the hood for the farm show tank.

This frag tank used to be where we take frag photos for online inventory. Now it will be re-used as a coral receiving/quarantine tank.

4 hoods now suspended, only 1 more to go!

more pictures coming soon...

 

[World Wide Corals]

We have blacked out the background with vinyl of the show tank. Aqua-scaping being done right now!

 

[Macropora]

We have blacked out the background with vinyl of the show tank. Aqua-scaping being done right now!

That tank is huge! Going to make a great display.

 

[World Wide Corals]

Here is a time-lapse video of the aquascaping. Probably could've position the camera a little better. It was my first ever time-lapse. Done with a GoPro HERO3. I will post more detailed pictures of the rock work soon.

Make sure you put it in HD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adur2YSKvXw

 

[polywise]

WWC -- man you guys must have quite the electric bill.

Awesome back room you are setting up.