Thought I might as well share some pics of my build.
I started this tank 6 months ago and it's not my first.
I like the quality if the Red Sea products and am aiming for a Red Sea Peninsula in the future.
My aquascape is made from ocean rock and I went for a bit of height with it.
I started off with Reef Octopus 110 classic and a Bubble Magus media reactor. A SunSun 11watt UVC with seperate feed pump.
I went for a Vortech MP10 and Maxspect Razor R420R 120 watt 16k.
I used ReefFlowers Pearl white sand and got it all started. Lights are on in this pic, but I didn't run the lights during the cycle process, helping kick things off with Brightwell Microbacter7. It took a few weeks until I was comfortable adding anything and I had another reef running at the time elsewhere, so I was able to start moving stock I wanted from that over a period of a month or so, before I finally broke down my other tank.
I was running Rowaphos in my media reactor and found the stock pump over powered, so replaced the pump to something with less flow but also controllable to get the right flow for the Rowa. Soon after this I decided to add a second Bubble Magus reactor to run bio pellets. I had previously ran bio pellets and got on well with them, so this seemed like obvious progress for me.
The sump is getting busy and well packed in by now, especially when I added a 3 channel dosing pump and reservoirs.
After temperature fluctuations too much for SPS to handle, I bought an Aquamedic titanium heater and controller. I keep the heater in my weir box and also a back up heater in the sump. The back up is set lower, so would only kick in if my main heater fails. The controller works well and I am pleased with temperature fluctuations of only around 0.3°C at most with this.
I saw a chaeto reactor I liked the look of during one of my visits to my local store, so decided to give it a go a week before Christmas.
It has taken me a bit of getting used to, but I am seeing pretty excellent growth and I strip it once a week and remove chaeto, to make way for more growth.
Here's a recent one of the complete aquarium.
I added some more rock to the back right corner last weekend and want to do the same to the left and middle. The reason for this is for extra space for corals, more filtration and simply asthetics.
Hope some people find this interesting or useful. Also happy to field any questions.
Thanks for checking my tank out.
I started this tank 6 months ago and it's not my first.
I like the quality if the Red Sea products and am aiming for a Red Sea Peninsula in the future.
My aquascape is made from ocean rock and I went for a bit of height with it.
I started off with Reef Octopus 110 classic and a Bubble Magus media reactor. A SunSun 11watt UVC with seperate feed pump.
I went for a Vortech MP10 and Maxspect Razor R420R 120 watt 16k.
I used ReefFlowers Pearl white sand and got it all started. Lights are on in this pic, but I didn't run the lights during the cycle process, helping kick things off with Brightwell Microbacter7. It took a few weeks until I was comfortable adding anything and I had another reef running at the time elsewhere, so I was able to start moving stock I wanted from that over a period of a month or so, before I finally broke down my other tank.
I was running Rowaphos in my media reactor and found the stock pump over powered, so replaced the pump to something with less flow but also controllable to get the right flow for the Rowa. Soon after this I decided to add a second Bubble Magus reactor to run bio pellets. I had previously ran bio pellets and got on well with them, so this seemed like obvious progress for me.
The sump is getting busy and well packed in by now, especially when I added a 3 channel dosing pump and reservoirs.
After temperature fluctuations too much for SPS to handle, I bought an Aquamedic titanium heater and controller. I keep the heater in my weir box and also a back up heater in the sump. The back up is set lower, so would only kick in if my main heater fails. The controller works well and I am pleased with temperature fluctuations of only around 0.3°C at most with this.
I saw a chaeto reactor I liked the look of during one of my visits to my local store, so decided to give it a go a week before Christmas.
It has taken me a bit of getting used to, but I am seeing pretty excellent growth and I strip it once a week and remove chaeto, to make way for more growth.
Here's a recent one of the complete aquarium.
I added some more rock to the back right corner last weekend and want to do the same to the left and middle. The reason for this is for extra space for corals, more filtration and simply asthetics.
Hope some people find this interesting or useful. Also happy to field any questions.
Thanks for checking my tank out.