d2mini's "Essential Focus" Mixed Reef Build

[urbaneks]

Excited to see this! I'll be following along for sure.

 

[jwarren220]

Looking forward to your new build bud! I followed your builds on Marsh and I have been a fan of your builds for some time. Your tanks have always been gorgeous!

I was in the same boat as you in 2012. We were living in Humble in a 3200 sq ft brand new home where I housed my 200 gallon.

Then the wife wanted to move back into the city where we now reside in a 2600 sq ft home built in the 1940's that was remodeled with a detach garage. So now I have a 80 gallon with limited space. but good things come in small packages bro. =D Congrats on the new house.. What part of town are you?

Love to come check you guys out some time as I also live in H-town on the Northside in Spring

 

[d2mini]

Looking forward to your new build bud! I followed your builds on Marsh and I have been a fan of your builds for some time. Your tanks have always been gorgeous!

I was in the same boat as you in 2012. We were living in Humble in a 3200 sq ft brand new home where I housed my 200 gallon.

Then the wife wanted to move back into the city where we now reside in a 2600 sq ft home built in the 1940's that was remodeled with a detach garage. So now I have a 80 gallon with limited space. but good things come in small packages bro. =D Congrats on the new house.. What part of town are you?

Wow, that's kinda freaky weird similarity.

Love to come check you guys out some time as I also live in H-town on the Northside in Spring

I always have a pretty much open door policy with local reefers, welcome any time.
Once things are up and running you are more than welcome to come by. Except this time I won't have a frag tank room to lure you into. hahaha

 

[Pandy]

What a beautiful home! I do love the American interior design with grey walls, just looks so good!

Looking forward to seeing the tank develop

 

[stunreefer]

Thanks!
We have issues around here with having to keep the concrete slab foundations moist, and since that area will never see any direct water from the sprinklers (that i have yet to have installed), my thinking was this might help a little?
I dunno. Good intentions anyway.

Well heck, hose it down then! We have the complete opposite up here

 

[eg8r210]

Definitely following along. Can't wait to see the progress.

 

[d2mini]

UPDATE 3-30-16

More goodies are rolling in this week. Woohoo!
This was the next piece of equipment to arrive.
If you are familiar with my other builds, you'll know this item is a bit of a departure for me.
Luckily @Diesel filled me in on his (not so) secret uber special blend of bulbs. Which I have yet to order. Maybe if my dang tank would ship!

 

[revhtree]

Ah beautiful!

 

[dbl]

UPDATE 3-30-16

More goodies are rolling in this week. Woohoo!
This was the next piece of equipment to arrive.
If you are familiar with my other builds, you'll know this item is a bit of a departure for me.
Luckily @Diesel filled me in on his (not so) secret uber special blend of bulbs. Which I have yet to order. Maybe if my dang tank would ship!

Dennis...is that the PowerModule Hybrid? I have one in a shopping cart thanks to @Diesel as well, about to pull the trigger! Great looking house by the way...congrats. Looking forward to watching this build come together.

 

[Sabellafella]

UPDATE 3-30-16

More goodies are rolling in this week. Woohoo!
This was the next piece of equipment to arrive.
If you are familiar with my other builds, you'll know this item is a bit of a departure for me.
Luckily @Diesel filled me in on his (not so) secret uber special blend of bulbs. Which I have yet to order. Maybe if my dang tank would ship!

Ahhh sweet man you went with the hybrid. Going to be so happy with this fixture

 

[d2mini]

Dennis...is that the PowerModule Hybrid? I have one in a shopping cart thanks to @Diesel as well, about to pull the trigger! Great looking house by the way...congrats. Looking forward to watching this build come together.

Yessir! Thanks!

Ahhh sweet man you went with the hybrid. Going to be so happy with this fixture

I hope so.

 

[Diesel]

Dennis...is that the PowerModule Hybrid? I have one in a shopping cart thanks to @Diesel as well, about to pull the trigger! Great looking house by the way...congrats. Looking forward to watching this build come together.

The reason that Dennis has one is cause he sees my tank all the time, but I bet he would like the MH and T5's better but just not possible on this build................. am I correct? @d2mini

 

[d2mini]

The reason that Dennis has one is cause he sees my tank all the time, but I bet he would like the MH and T5's better but just not possible on this build................. am I correct? @d2mini

Pretty much. If Geisemann offered more than 4 T5 bulbs in their mh/t5 fixture I may have gone that direction.
But I don't feel like I settled, either. I've always enjoyed the look of T5 tanks and colors, I just wish they had some contrast/shimmer. The LEDs seem help with that aspect.

 

[d2mini]

UPDATE 3-31-16

I seem to have a thing for laser cut logos.
My GHL Doser 2 arrived!
I will be running Triton on this tank so this will be used to dose the Triton Elements.

 

[dbl]

Nice pick-up Dennis. I use their older style dosing unit and it's been rock solid!

 

[reefwiser]

Love mine easy to adjust dosing from your phone.

 

[d2mini]

Nice pick-up Dennis. I use their older style dosing unit and it's been rock solid!

Love mine easy to adjust dosing from your phone.

Good to know!
I used to have their original doser as well, until I switched to a CaRx.
And my Profilux 3ex controller is on it's way back from Germany right now with a new screen.

 

[MRRBW]

Glad you're back up and running, I've learned a ton from your other set ups. Look forward to see what you do with this one

 

[d2mini]

CONSTRUCTION IS COMPLETE!

If you go back to the very beginning of this thread I showed some pics of the house before we moved in. And now here you can see the changes!
A whole new office space was created with some new partial walls, dining room moved to the bay window area, and kitchen cabinet extended with new pantry and built-in microwave.
The original microwave over the stove will eventually be replaced with a vent hood that actually does it's job as a vent.

And again, here is where the tank will sit...

 

[Pandy]

dang that's one beautiful home