IM EXT 200 Peninsula Build

[Chris.sturgis]

New build incoming!! Purchased a Innovative Marine 200 gallon system with their sump. Lead time says 6 months but hopefully it will arrive before then. Customer service has also been great from IM since I already had to contact them and they helped me out right away.

Current stock list 3/31/24
8 chromis
1 Yellow tang
1 scopas tang
1 hippo tang
1 yellow wrasse
1 melanurus wrasse
2 bangi cardinals
1 cleaner shrimp

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

New build incoming!! Purchased a Innovative Marine 200 gallon system with their sump. Lead time says 6 months but hopefully it will arrive before then. Customer service has also been great from IM since I already had to contact them and they helped me out right away.

Welcome to the IM club, can't wait to see what you do with it.

 

[Aaron W.]

Great choice! I have the non-peninsula 200 EXT and love it. So much so I recently ordered a 170 EXT. I was expecting the same 6 month wait but they had one ready for me in about two weeks after ordering!

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Great choice! I have the non-peninsula 200 EXT and love it. So much so I recently ordered a 170 EXT. I was expecting the same 6 month wait but they had one ready for me in about two weeks after ordering!

Same thing happened with mine.

 

[Chris.sturgis]

Great choice! I have the non-peninsula 200 EXT and love it. So much so I recently ordered a 170 EXT. I was expecting the same 6 month wait but they had one ready for me in about two weeks after ordering!

I hope it’s not 6 months but I’m also not in a rush since it wasn’t really a planned purchase. At 50% off though I couldn’t resist!

 

[Chris.sturgis]

Tank has already shipped and now I’m in scramble mode. I can’t decide on sand or no sand so I need your help on deciding. Vote above

 

[MeezusReef]

I purchased my IM200 EXT in November '23 and received it about 6 weeks later. I was expecting Mar/Apr delivery. Great tank. I am plumbing now, but going slow. Enjoy the build! I will certainly be following along.

 

[Chris.sturgis]

Tank arrived today and it’s in one piece. Now it’s time for the hard part of moving it into the basement.

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Tank arrived today and it’s in one piece. Now it’s time for the hard part of moving it into the basement.
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Looking good @Chris.sturgis

 

[Chris.sturgis]

Tank made it into the basement in one piece.

 

[BiGGiePauls33]

Tank made it into the basement in one piece.
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ooh la la , nice and frosty. Enjoy brotha, come help me finish setting mine all up and you'll be able to bang your out no problem

 

[Chris.sturgis]

No leaks! Pretty impressed with the IM plumbing and sump so far. All schedule 80 fittings and piping. Only modification I need to make is add a check valve to the return line and I added a union on the drain line with the gate valve so I could spin the valve.

 

[Chris.sturgis]

Sand bottom it is.

 

[Chris.sturgis]

It is coming along. Still have to figure out a rock scape that incorporates my existing scape that will be transferred to this tank

 

[Chris.sturgis]

Working on some rock scapes, using this technique worked out great for wet rock

I plan to break down my Oceanguard 435 next weekend and transfer everything over.

 

[Tankful]

What’s your stocking plans?

 

[Chris.sturgis]

What’s your stocking plans?

Mixed reef with the standard stocking list of tangs, wrasses, etc.

 

[Tankful]

Sounds cool!

 

[Spaceman]

Mixed reef with the standard stocking list of tangs, wrasses, etc.

Standard tangs? Cmon there is sooo many to choose from!!

 

[Chris.sturgis]

Standard tangs? Cmon there is sooo many to choose from!!

So far I have a scopas and hippo along with a bristle tooth in my current tank. Got any yellows laying around lol