Cousteau's 75g Budget Mixed Reef Build

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Upgrading my parents from a Biocube 32 to a Larger set up.

Gear:
  • 75 gal aqueon
  • Eshopps HOB overflow
  • Orlushy DC return pump
  • 2 - Sicce Xtreams 3500
  • No name 20-L sump baffle kit
  • 2 Viperspectra's
Friends in the collection:
  • Skunk scrimp
  • Yellow polyp
  • Dragons Breath
  • 2 clowns
  • Sailfin tang(wish the LFS did not sell this to them)
  • Red Mangroves
Still to transfer over:
  • GSP
  • 2 - Rainbow bubletip nems
  • Candycane
  • blue/green hammer
  • pincushion urchin

75g mixed - 1.jpeg





My favorite part is usually the plumbing. I will drop the pictures I have of plumbing the manifold and the overflow below.


Reef 3.jpeg

Reef 4 .jpeg


Reef 5.jpeg


Reef 6.jpeg
 
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I plan on takin new pics tonight but wanted to share one I found going through my camera roll.

75 reef.jpeg
At this point I had already started adding in the rock and some of the old stuff from the last tank.
 
Still a work in progress, but I have some macros, yellow polyps and mangroves ATM

75 reef progress 1.jpeg
 

WHAT PART OF LIVING WITH A REEF TOOK YOU BY SURPRISE?

  • How much space the supplies and equipment take up

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  • Salt creep, spills, and cleanup outside the tank

    Votes: 3 12.0%
  • Planning trips or finding someone to care for the reef

    Votes: 7 28.0%
  • How attached I’d get to individual animals

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • Making decisions when there’s no clear right answer

    Votes: 6 24.0%
  • How much the reef affects everyday household life

    Votes: 6 24.0%
  • Nothing in particular, I felt well prepared

    Votes: 1 4.0%
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    Votes: 1 4.0%
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