My First Salt Water Set up

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For a long time I've always been facinated with Salt water Aquariums and Everything that comes with it.
Ive had Fresh water aquariums for quite some time and ive had and have from nano fish to monster fish when it comes to that side of the hobby. But even after having couple of 300 gallons systems running at the same time it started to get a bit boring for me.
I was skeptical to get into salt because i thought it was gonna be very difficult and because of the cost but after realizing how much money i had already spent on Fresh water i figure might as well go into salt since its what ive always wanted, for the challenge and i was already in the thowing money out the windown path of the aquarium hobby lol

I started this build back in early jan after my girlfriend got me the tank set up and the RO/DI set up as a xmas present.

Here is the list and some of the upgrades i done so far.

BRS 6 stage RO/DI
Red sea Reefer 425 XL
Octo classic 202-S
Corallife turbo -twist 6x
Radion XR15 Blue with difffuser and tank mounts
AI prime fuge with mounting arm
Neptune ATK
Mighty jet XL return pump
Maxspect MJ-GF2K Gyre flow pump
Along with a couple of run of the mill power head i had laying around from my fresh water set ups.

I will be upgrading my return pump and the power heads very soon.

I wasn't taking constant pictures of the set up as it went along but i will be starting from now on lol

So here is what i got. Any feed back will be well appreciated.
The last picture of it its from a few weeks ago, ill get an updated one tomorrow.

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Got pics of your gf? She’s gotta be awesome in my book! Tank looks brilliant as well!

Nice transition to the high salinity system.
 
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Ill get some pics of the corals more up close later on today.
 

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Just some of the corals...
 

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