new build thread

This will be my second build The first was a 400 gallon peninsula with dual sided viewing from two rooms So I wanted to do something a little bit different and this is it It will plumb to my 400 gallons sump thru a low wall I will build I got a couple pictures here and more to come I know we...

I'v been out of the hobby for about 6 years but, I'm back. This time I am going bigger than any tank I've had before. I use to have nano aquarium's that I posted about on my YT channel. I was big into DIY back then and how I could make a nano tank the best it could be or ways to save money, etc...

🪸 The Tiniest Coral Lab in America Welcome to my build thread for The Tiniest Coral Lab in America — a fully functional coral farm packed into just 120 square feet. We already run a full-scale coral farm that takes up the entire basement of our house, but we needed a dedicated addition — a...

Sooo.. A little back story over the years of reef keeping I have kept a reef tank more than half my life (roughly 20 years now) but I crashed my 90 gallon sps dominate system about 6-7 years ago. Didn't have the funds to recover so I ended up selling everything 2 years later. 2 years ago I...

Okay everyone. Been a long time. Hope the reefs are thriving. 😂. I took a few years off after I sold my last set up. I’ve been considering jumping back in for awhile and I found the deal of a lifetime. 90g Corner Overflow tank with stand and sump for $150 on Facebook marketplace. The guy...

Hello everyone! My wife and I have been out of the hobby for about four years now. About a two months ago I got the itch and started stopping by some local shops. Long story short the wife gave me permission to get a tank that would fit in our living room without being too obnoxious size wise...

125 gallon build. Dont know what im doing really. Low budget. Pretty much everything is DIY. Sump is 20 gal long(small I know). What are some tips and things i need to know. What sand, rocks, sump media, and do i need quarantine tank?

New build going up! Love this tank so far. Finally got around to adding a few coral. Equipment: ○ Tank - tideline 62 gallon lagoon aio ○ Lights - 2x prime 16hd ○ Skimmers - 2x nero 3 ○ Doser - simplicity doser (4 pumps) ○ Heater - x2 100w titanium brs w/ helio controller ○ ATO - Duetto 3d...

Hello! I have been on R2R for quite a few years, but usually just lurking in the background reading endless forum posts and trying to learn from all the incredible people on here. There are some incredibly smart people out there and I enjoy learning from each of you. I am looking at taking...

Hi everyone, I finally finished my build for my Cade 600 Reef S2 last night and I am ready to post my build thread. I upgraded my IM 20 gallon AIO to this beauty. I always wanted a Cade, the clarity of the glass is breathtaking in person. Aquascape: I had built my aquascape 1 week prior. I...

Hello everyone, I started on this journey about 6 months ago. I was looking into starting a smaller tank but came across this tank at one of my LFS's prior to the official release of the mariner. Ended up snagging it that day and dove head first into the hobby. I wanted to post some day 1 versus...

I am obsessed with this hobby and figured this would be a great way to keep tracks of my progress as well as share all my trials and tribulations. AIO Landen 26g 60p reef tank. 18mo into the hobby but I did move the tank into another room of my house 6 months ago...so basically started over...

My previous tank was a 120l Aquaone, after 2 years of saying we can’t get that fish to my wife favourite fish (angels) we spotted an unbelievably good deal on a waterbox 8ft monstrosity. After measuring the area we concluded that it needed to be a smaller and looked at the Neptunian...

I've been blessed to be in the saltwater aquarium hobby for 18 years and have had many different systems my wife and I recently purchased a new construction home and during that process of looking at pre-existing homes I excluded certain properties knowing that the aquarium build would not work...