jayq16
Community Member
Not my first tank but bringing me back into the hobby earlier than expected…and that’s great! You can check out my previous build a Red Sea 250 that I had to take down when I moved back in 2019.
Fast forward a few years later and I’m now settled, married, and with 2 amazing kids under 3. My wife and I agreed that I can jump into a reef tank again when our girls were 5, but lucky her ;) on our evening walks we found a waterbox reef 100.3 on the curb free to a good home so we’re starting a few years ahead!
This was back in August. It was missing the bottom overflow unions which took me a month to get since waterbox doesn’t make this model any longer and I had to order direct from China.
There was also a chip in the sump, minor and probably fine, but gave me an excuse to upgrade to a Trigger 26 gal sump :)
On to the build details.
Filtration:
Trigger platinum 26 gal
Boys quantum 160 skimmer
Flow:
Echo tech vectra L2
Mp40 x2
Lighting:
Radion g6 pro x2
AI blade Grow
AI blade Glow
Heater: IM Helio 400 watt
ATO:
Trigger Sapphire 5 gal sump
Tunze Osmolator 3
Battery backup/UPS: Anker C1000
Scape:
50 lbs or so dry Marco rock
8 lbs TBS
Livestock:
Ocellaris perc pair
Tasha goby
Helfrichi fire fish
Lawnmower Blenny
Bangai cardinals x3
Conch, hermits, snails
Coral:
This is where I get in trouble, Vivid aquarium is close to me
SPS
Pink Cadillac
Confetti
Ultimate Purple monti
Green cap monti
Oregon tort
Bali shortcake
Strawberry shortcake
Terra red
Toxic table
Green slimmer
Beach bum
Rising Phoenix
Pink Floyd
Orange passion
Walt Disney
Home wrecker
Millie
PC Rainnow
Firecracker
OG Avenger
Fox flame
Blue Millie
TGC Cherry bomb
LPS
Acans
Dragon tamer torch
And one bubbletip
Fast forward a few years later and I’m now settled, married, and with 2 amazing kids under 3. My wife and I agreed that I can jump into a reef tank again when our girls were 5, but lucky her ;) on our evening walks we found a waterbox reef 100.3 on the curb free to a good home so we’re starting a few years ahead!
This was back in August. It was missing the bottom overflow unions which took me a month to get since waterbox doesn’t make this model any longer and I had to order direct from China.
There was also a chip in the sump, minor and probably fine, but gave me an excuse to upgrade to a Trigger 26 gal sump :)
On to the build details.
Filtration:
Trigger platinum 26 gal
Boys quantum 160 skimmer
Flow:
Echo tech vectra L2
Mp40 x2
Lighting:
Radion g6 pro x2
AI blade Grow
AI blade Glow
Heater: IM Helio 400 watt
ATO:
Trigger Sapphire 5 gal sump
Tunze Osmolator 3
Battery backup/UPS: Anker C1000
Scape:
50 lbs or so dry Marco rock
8 lbs TBS
Livestock:
Ocellaris perc pair
Tasha goby
Helfrichi fire fish
Lawnmower Blenny
Bangai cardinals x3
Conch, hermits, snails
Coral:
This is where I get in trouble, Vivid aquarium is close to me
SPS
Pink Cadillac
Confetti
Ultimate Purple monti
Green cap monti
Oregon tort
Bali shortcake
Strawberry shortcake
Terra red
Toxic table
Green slimmer
Beach bum
Rising Phoenix
Pink Floyd
Orange passion
Walt Disney
Home wrecker
Millie
PC Rainnow
Firecracker
OG Avenger
Fox flame
Blue Millie
TGC Cherry bomb
LPS
Acans
Dragon tamer torch
And one bubbletip
