Hi everyone! Jumping back into the hobby after an 8 year hiatus.
Decided to create a mixed reef with a peninsula tank that will divide my living room and kitchen areas.
Wanted to go big, so decided to go with the Red Sea G2+ S950 Peninsula.
Tank is 200 gallons and sump is 50 gallons.
Going to go all in with Red Sea. So ordered the following:
Lighting: 4x Reef LED 950s
Return pump: Reefrun DC 900
Filtration: Reefmat 1200
Skimmer: Reefer DC 900
Circulation: Reefwave 45 x 2
Using about 150-200 lbs dry Marco rock that I’ve already aquascaped and glued together. Will use caribsea live sand
Will begin cycle using liquid ammonia and Dr Tim’s One and Only. Will monitor ammonia using the Seneye Reef aquarium monitor. Otherwise using Hanna testers.
The tank arrived last week:
It was very well packaged / protected
Then built the stand. The stand has an aluminum frame that’s built first, then wrapped with the wood cabinet. It looks sleek but it was not fun the put together. After a lot of screwing…then unscrewing…then screwing again (but this time the correct way) I got the stand together:
Got it leveled and then on to the hard part. Getting the 500 pound tank from the garage to the living room and up onto the stand. Got some fairly cheap suction cups from Home Depot and called a bunch of friends. I have to say they were very doubtful that this would be a successful mission. But we ultimately got it moved!
I was then able to finish to finish building the stand:
And dropped in the Marco rock that I had glued together a couple of weeks ago:
Going on a trip with family so I will take a pause here. But when I return I will start making the salt water. I plan to mix it in two 44 gallon brute trash cans and add it on as I go, on top of the caribsea live sand.
Please let me know what you guys think. I’ve been out of the hobby for a while and things have changed a lot so I have lots to learn!
Decided to create a mixed reef with a peninsula tank that will divide my living room and kitchen areas.
Wanted to go big, so decided to go with the Red Sea G2+ S950 Peninsula.
Tank is 200 gallons and sump is 50 gallons.
Going to go all in with Red Sea. So ordered the following:
Lighting: 4x Reef LED 950s
Return pump: Reefrun DC 900
Filtration: Reefmat 1200
Skimmer: Reefer DC 900
Circulation: Reefwave 45 x 2
Using about 150-200 lbs dry Marco rock that I’ve already aquascaped and glued together. Will use caribsea live sand
Will begin cycle using liquid ammonia and Dr Tim’s One and Only. Will monitor ammonia using the Seneye Reef aquarium monitor. Otherwise using Hanna testers.
The tank arrived last week:
It was very well packaged / protected
Then built the stand. The stand has an aluminum frame that’s built first, then wrapped with the wood cabinet. It looks sleek but it was not fun the put together. After a lot of screwing…then unscrewing…then screwing again (but this time the correct way) I got the stand together:
Got it leveled and then on to the hard part. Getting the 500 pound tank from the garage to the living room and up onto the stand. Got some fairly cheap suction cups from Home Depot and called a bunch of friends. I have to say they were very doubtful that this would be a successful mission. But we ultimately got it moved!
I was then able to finish to finish building the stand:
And dropped in the Marco rock that I had glued together a couple of weeks ago:
Going on a trip with family so I will take a pause here. But when I return I will start making the salt water. I plan to mix it in two 44 gallon brute trash cans and add it on as I go, on top of the caribsea live sand.
Please let me know what you guys think. I’ve been out of the hobby for a while and things have changed a lot so I have lots to learn!