After about 3 years with AIO tanks my wife and I have pulled the trigger on a bigger tank.
We currently have 2 reef tanks. One is a waterbox 20 nem tank which is trucking along well. The second, the one I'm upgrading from, is a aquatop reclife 40 aio. I have had it about 2 years now. We just want more room for fish and corals. After alot of back and forth between waterbox 100.3, redsea 425, sca, and planet aquariums I finally settled on the fiji cube 81 ext. Main reasons I have chosen this were the sump, external over flow, dual returns, and price point.
EQUIPMENT:
Fiji cube 81
Fiji 24 sump
Varios 6 return pump
Finnex 300w titanium heater
Tunze nano ato
Hydra 32 HD x2
AI Nero 3 x2
Skimmer undecided between rsk300 and great white 5
The tank will be a LPS dominant tank, the wife and I enjoy our torches and trachys. I will be making every attempt to make this tank as simple as possible I do leave for work for long periods of time so can't have it to complicated don't want my wife to have to deal with alot of in depth stuff all the time. That being said I will have a controller at some point but haven't decided which one yet. I'm planning on taking the set up slow with a long cycle trying to be patient with this tank. All of the equipment I have picked after alot of research and past experiences with the products on current tanks. I'm undecided on the skimmer mainly because I haven't ever had a big skimmer or a sump to hold one for that matter. I am between the Redsea RSK300 and the Dalua Great White 5. I would love suggestions or reviews on these two or like skimmers in same price points.
First big step is getting an electrician to run a 20 Amp circuit to the living room. We have an older house and alot of things plugged in already in the living room so don't want to push my luck.
That's all for now I'll post pictures along the way. Thanks for reading.
We currently have 2 reef tanks. One is a waterbox 20 nem tank which is trucking along well. The second, the one I'm upgrading from, is a aquatop reclife 40 aio. I have had it about 2 years now. We just want more room for fish and corals. After alot of back and forth between waterbox 100.3, redsea 425, sca, and planet aquariums I finally settled on the fiji cube 81 ext. Main reasons I have chosen this were the sump, external over flow, dual returns, and price point.
EQUIPMENT:
Fiji cube 81
Fiji 24 sump
Varios 6 return pump
Finnex 300w titanium heater
Tunze nano ato
Hydra 32 HD x2
AI Nero 3 x2
Skimmer undecided between rsk300 and great white 5
The tank will be a LPS dominant tank, the wife and I enjoy our torches and trachys. I will be making every attempt to make this tank as simple as possible I do leave for work for long periods of time so can't have it to complicated don't want my wife to have to deal with alot of in depth stuff all the time. That being said I will have a controller at some point but haven't decided which one yet. I'm planning on taking the set up slow with a long cycle trying to be patient with this tank. All of the equipment I have picked after alot of research and past experiences with the products on current tanks. I'm undecided on the skimmer mainly because I haven't ever had a big skimmer or a sump to hold one for that matter. I am between the Redsea RSK300 and the Dalua Great White 5. I would love suggestions or reviews on these two or like skimmers in same price points.
First big step is getting an electrician to run a 20 Amp circuit to the living room. We have an older house and alot of things plugged in already in the living room so don't want to push my luck.
That's all for now I'll post pictures along the way. Thanks for reading.
