Hey everyone. I recently joined R2R and wanted to share my current journey on my Cade 1200 build. I have been in the hobby for over 20 years, but due to a move I left my last tank in Florida and have been out of the hobby for the last 5 years. One positive of Covid has been no travel for work which led me back to the hobby.
I started researching tanks in mid 2020 and explored custom tanks with my LFS, Reef Savvy, Planet, and finally settled on the Cade 1200. I wanted to go with Reef Savvy, but at the time the build time was too far off, which is somewhat ironic as my current build does not seem to be happening sooner.
I am planning on an SPS dominant tank and ordered the Cade 1200 from Algaebarn (great experience and service) during the November special and received the tank, rock, salt, sand around Thanksgiving, and the journey begins.
I determined I wanted to go predominately with GHL, so I began obtaining my equipment:
- Abyzz A100 return pump
- GHL Profilux
- GHL Standalone Doser
- GHL Mitras Lx7 x 2
- MP40s x 2
- GEO 36AFR custom sump (more to follow on this experience)
- Nyos skimmer
- GHL ION Director on order
I thought this would be a good start for the build thread. I will have more to follow on the work over the last 3 months to include my approach to replacing the Cade sump. I am looking forward to learning from all of you as I go through this journey.
I started researching tanks in mid 2020 and explored custom tanks with my LFS, Reef Savvy, Planet, and finally settled on the Cade 1200. I wanted to go with Reef Savvy, but at the time the build time was too far off, which is somewhat ironic as my current build does not seem to be happening sooner.
I am planning on an SPS dominant tank and ordered the Cade 1200 from Algaebarn (great experience and service) during the November special and received the tank, rock, salt, sand around Thanksgiving, and the journey begins.
I determined I wanted to go predominately with GHL, so I began obtaining my equipment:
- Abyzz A100 return pump
- GHL Profilux
- GHL Standalone Doser
- GHL Mitras Lx7 x 2
- MP40s x 2
- GEO 36AFR custom sump (more to follow on this experience)
- Nyos skimmer
- GHL ION Director on order
I thought this would be a good start for the build thread. I will have more to follow on the work over the last 3 months to include my approach to replacing the Cade sump. I am looking forward to learning from all of you as I go through this journey.