Jeff's Red Sea Reefer 425XL Build (Nice and slow)

jeffery6846 · Mar 10, 2019

Hello Everyone!! Just getting back into the hobby and have been setting up my new Red Sea Reefer 425XL over the last month. Now that things are settling down and my hands are dry I'm able to start this thread. I'll be adding lots of pics and showing how I plan to incorporate all of my equipment and plumbing.

I ordered the tank, stand and sump from Marine Depot and it arrived 8 days later. Setting up the stand was simple enough. The directions were in fine detail so I had to hold up to a light and squint my eyes often but I got through it.

jeffery6846 · Mar 10, 2019

After I had the tank running for about two weeks I couldn't take the sand storms because of the fine sand that I initially purchased so I changed it out. Back on track now but you can checkout the link to the post about it.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-200-dollar-mistake.568041/#post-5809591

jeffery6846 · Mar 10, 2019

I have the V3 sump and have been playing with a lot of ideas on how to incorporate all the equipment that I have and want to run in the future. So far I have the skimmer running and will be hard plumbing a carbon and GFO reactor here soon. Ultimately the second chamber will be the Refugium. Heres a picture of the current sump with the two reactors in "mock" so I can see how much room I'll have.