I wanted to post my build thread. This is my first aquarium, other than the few freshies I had when I was a kid. I was planning on small cube, but I found a red sea max s-400 for sale on craigslist for 1500.
I moved all the rock and sand, and had no idea what all the things were below the tank (The Sump). I set it up in the furnace room because it was the only open space in our house.
I reconnected everything that I disconnected and dumped the fish and corals that were in the tank and let the lady run. In the morning the water had cleared and the fish and corals seemed to be happy. I had it that way for a few weeks then I decided I wanted a new aquascape. I built the aquascape with my kiddos:
I then found a LFS to store my fish and I sold almost all the corals to the same LFS.
The new scape looked cool, and I was pleased with the results. Then my parents came to visit and my dad said "this looks really cool, it is just too bad it is in your furnace room, no one can really see it. You should put it under your stairs and have it poke out the wall." So a few negations with my wife and...
After the hole was cut an new bulkhead installed. I moved the tank over, and put the sheetrock back up.
A couple coats of paint and some trim work got her looking nice...
I set up a fuge and small frag tank in the sump, and dosing pumps.
Then I found reef2reef and realized I wanted my refugium in a more open space and where my frag tank was I wanted a skimmer, and I wanted a larger frag tank. Unfortunately I was out of room. I found an old tank at my LFS and bought it for $75, and found a frag tank on craigslist for $20. I ran 3/4 PVC under the stairs and into the furnace room for my frag tank and refugium. I also built a small work station. A few bulkheads and plumbing and we were set up for the fuge and fragging.
I let the whole set-up cycle and I am ready to start adding fish an corals.
I moved all the rock and sand, and had no idea what all the things were below the tank (The Sump). I set it up in the furnace room because it was the only open space in our house.
I reconnected everything that I disconnected and dumped the fish and corals that were in the tank and let the lady run. In the morning the water had cleared and the fish and corals seemed to be happy. I had it that way for a few weeks then I decided I wanted a new aquascape. I built the aquascape with my kiddos:
I then found a LFS to store my fish and I sold almost all the corals to the same LFS.
The new scape looked cool, and I was pleased with the results. Then my parents came to visit and my dad said "this looks really cool, it is just too bad it is in your furnace room, no one can really see it. You should put it under your stairs and have it poke out the wall." So a few negations with my wife and...
After the hole was cut an new bulkhead installed. I moved the tank over, and put the sheetrock back up.
A couple coats of paint and some trim work got her looking nice...
I set up a fuge and small frag tank in the sump, and dosing pumps.
Then I found reef2reef and realized I wanted my refugium in a more open space and where my frag tank was I wanted a skimmer, and I wanted a larger frag tank. Unfortunately I was out of room. I found an old tank at my LFS and bought it for $75, and found a frag tank on craigslist for $20. I ran 3/4 PVC under the stairs and into the furnace room for my frag tank and refugium. I also built a small work station. A few bulkheads and plumbing and we were set up for the fuge and fragging.
I let the whole set-up cycle and I am ready to start adding fish an corals.