Jason's 211g SPS angel reef

[Jason Austin]

Time to move into a larger reef! Coming from a 40 breeder and moving up to a 211g planet aquariums PVC hybrid eurobraced aquarium. Ordered the aquarium through Bill at Custom Reef Creations. Bill took the time to offer great advice and help with the design of this very sweet aquarium. The dimensions of this tank are 48.5" long, 34.5" wide and 30" tall. The planet aquariums steel poweder coated stand is 38" tall and will get skinned.

Bill is also building a custom acrylic sump. The sump is not yet complete, i'll update this thread once it's done.

The plan for this tank is to be SPS dominated. The majority of SPS will be acropora and more than likley encrusting montiporas. For live stock I plan on adding a Blue Line angel and maybe a red sea Regal Angel. I'll be adding three more Bartlet's Anthias to my pair and maybe a pair of colorful wrasses. I will not be adding any clown fish to the new tank .

More to come.

 

[revhtree]

Wow this should be a great build! Keep us updated!

 

[Mr E Wrasse]

sweet tank, looking forward to seeing more

 

[Jason Austin]

Equipment list, have:

SLS 400W dual 400w MH ballast
two luminmax elite pendants
coralvue reeflux 12K 400w mogul bulbs
oceans motions 4 way
reeflo super dart gold return pump
Octopus DNW 150 exteranal skimmer
Custom Reef Creations acrylic sump (build in progress)
a heaping handfull of cepex true union ball valves
100lbs of pukani rock (rock is now cured)


Equipment list, needed:
super reef octopus external 5000
48" TEK reflectors and 2 Blue + T5s
skinned stand
build hood
100lbs of figi pink sand

 

[TriggerThis]

thats huge!!!

 

[Mrfresh]

O yes I will for sure be following this one

 

[Palting]

Quite an investment you've got going! Should be a great build with your experience with the 40 breeder. Good luck!!

 

[Jason Austin]

I've had a 120, 65, 60cube, 75, and a 125 before. The 60 cube and 120 were sps dominated. I'm stoked to have the room for larger fish and more space for acros to fill out.

 

[Jason Austin]

Well sumps not here yet but I thought I would get a head start on cycling the new reef. 48 hours and po4 is doing great. I cured the pukani for almost a month with Lanthanium chloride treatments and 100% water changes.

 

[Reef Fever]

oOooOo :nerd: following along

 

[Jason Austin]

Going to add some sand tomorrow hopefully!

 

[kungfujoe]

Great start!

 

[Jason Austin]

Checked PO4 again. .02. Looks like the pukani is done leaching. God bless Lanthanium chloride!

 

[Duffam3434]

Thats a Beautiful Tank!! Cant wait to see Fish and Coral going in!! Keep the Updates Frequent!!

 

[TD2K]

Great choice on the tank, we love our Planet Aquariums 225 gal tank and steel stand.

our build thread:
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/la...-225-gal-slowest-reef-tank-build-history.html

 

[Stomp]

very nice custom tank.

 

[Jason Austin]

We have sand! Talked with Bill at CRC and decided to use 80lbs of special grade live sand. Good enough for wrasses and heavy enough to withstand the flow I'm going to put through this reef.

 

[TD2K]

Yay!!!

 

[Jason Austin]

Built the durso pipe, full siphon pipe and the 4 1" returns yesterday.

Here you can see everything except the other 2 1" returns.

 

[Jason Austin]

Cut, painted, and urithaned the bottom board. The piece is 3/4" ply.

Turned out nice.