sps build

Hey everyone, Really happy to be here and to share the journey, progress, and care of my reef tank with you all. This is actually my 5th reef setup, but before this I only ran smaller nano tanks like the Waterbox Cube 20 and 25 Peninsula. I’ve kept both LPS and Acros in those, but even after 4...

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...

HELLO R2R friends! Follow along for updates on my Cade 2100 S2 sps dominated mixed reef build. The tank is about 1 year old now, but I wanted to document and showcase the journey. Hopefully it highlights some tips/tricks while also revealing some of my mistakes and how to avoid OR learn from...

I don't know if there's any real way to quantify this, but I'd love to hear from the heavy stick heads. I've grown SPS in the past but my current build I'm hoping for a stick-dominated tank (wife likes the flowy stuff so we will see). Does anyone have a 'density' of acropora that they like to...

I’m starting the build conversion of my 500 gal (8’x34”x36”) acrylic tank to an sps reef. I had already purchase 5 kessil ap9x for a different project. I’m considering using my 60” 8 bulb t5ho ati sunpower fixture that’s sitting on a shelf in combination with the kessils. Led/T5 hybrids are my...