Jdm18’s sps build

[Jdm18honda]

Hello I am Chris i live in St Aug FL I have been out of reefing for about 10 years.
I recently came across a really good deal on a tank and decided to get back in.

My previous last tank was a reef savvy 110 rimless that was set up for about 5 years.

The new to me tank is a deep blue 80 gallon rimless that I found on marketplace

I will be doing a ATI 48x8 build t5
The sump is a eshopps R200 3 gen
The skimmer is a red sea RSK 300

I will be setting up a Sps QT tank and fish QT also and I have about 50 pounds of live rock cycling for the next month or so ( family trip in April so no real rush to set up the tank )

Over the sps qt tank I have a 24x6 build ATI sunpower dimmable

And will be using the 40 breeder as the fish QT when I get to that point

That’s about as far as I have gotten in about 2 weeks

My main display light should be here by the end of the week

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Following along!

 

[Jdm18honda]

Small update today
The ABS sheet came in last night I trimmed it and cut out the corner overflow
Lights will be here tomorrow and working on plumbing this weekend

 

[Jdm18honda]

Got most of the plumbing knocked out today and the light came in

 

[esquare]

Looks like you have got a good start. That light looks great over the tank.

 

[Jdm18honda]

Looks like you have got a good start. That light looks great over the tank.

Was ever it’s up and running the light will be about 8 -10” from the water and could adjust it higher or par readings are to high

 

[esquare]

Was ever it’s up and running the light will be about 8 -10” from the water and could adjust it higher or par readings are to high

Good thinking.

 

[Jdm18honda]

Tank has been up for about a week. I do some ammonia to start the fishless cycle put a little bit too much in a 10 gallon water change and started my frag tank QT set up.

Went out of town last week for Legoland for the kids birthday. Stop by worldwide corals had a pretty good time.

 

[Jdm18honda]

We LL it been a bit busy here the tank is cycled and ready for fish, so is the SPS quarantine tank
I installed a apex a3 on my main tank I ordered a controller board from adaptive reef, but it came in damaged, so waiting for the replacement. Should be here tomorrow.

started my light cycles on both tanks starting to see a little bit of algae forming on the rocks

We are going on the cruise in two or three weeks more than likely to wait for fish.

I ordered some rock and sand from Tampa Bay live rock for the display and the refugium will not be here until may

 

[Jdm18honda]

One month update no to much going on
Got the apex a3 hooked up and running definitely a step up from the digital aquatics. I had back in the day.

Started the lighting cycle about 2-3 weeks ago
Some alge on the glass and rock work
Still have not turned on the skimmer
And currently no refugium running

 

[esquare]

Wow, nice PH right off the bat.

 

[Jdm18honda]

Wow, nice PH right off the bat.

it has about a .20 to .25 swing
At night it’s usually 8.0 to 8.1
Hopefully once I get the refuium up it will be more steady

 

[esquare]

it has about a .20 to .25 swing
At night it’s usually 8.0 to 8.1
Hopefully once I get the refuium up it will be more steady

I'm in the process of setting up a refugium now as well. One thing that helped my nightly ph swing was dosing Kalk at night. I dose Kalk at night and 2 part during the day. That has me at 8.2 during the day down to 8.17 at night and another drop to 8.15 just after it switches from kalk to 2 part in the morning.

 

[Jdm18honda]

I definitely think it’s going to be different. Once I get fish and other items into the tank pH was a factor on my last Aquarium idid two part then we will see how the tank progresses

 

[Jdm18honda]

First fish went through QT and is in the tank.
I went with a coral beauty kids named him Frank

 

[danimal1211]

Very nice setup!

 

[Jdm18honda]

well its definitely been a hot minute since i have updated the build life has been getting crazy, my 11 year old and his team have moved on to state championship with first lego league for robotics it is being help at seaworld this weekend.

 

[Jdm18honda]

i did try some sps corals about 4 months ago they did not do to hot in my main tank but did well in the QT tank but i lost them during the winter when one of my 3 heaters went out so i have not been ready to get more corals yet

we got a 3d printer for the family for Christmas so we have been trying out that and it has been running nonstop since we set it up