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Today I received my new tank. Let me give you a little background on why I chose this tank. My very first reef tank was a 65b that I spent a fortune on. I did a ton of research. I constantly added equipment. I eventually ended up adding a home built sump. It worked great for about a month and then I just couldn't get the the water levels to even out and stay consistent. I battled cyano, Dino, green hair algae to the point where I just didn't want to be in this hobby anymore. I realized that that massive amounts of research I had done just wasn't enough. I got rid of a lot of it. Fast forward to now. I decided that through all my struggles, I had made all the right mistakes. Not everything worked out, but my fish and coral were happy and healthy. I had never lost anything. So I chose this AIO to get back into it. This tank will do everything I was trying to do myself while I learn the hobby. So here I go. The Red Sea Max Nano was my choice.
The stand is great quality. A little IKEA, but that is okay. It took an hour to build but it is solid! The tank is amazing looking. Stylish and all the equipment is well hidden. I love that it comes with quality lighting too. Con: You can only adjust blue, white and moonlight for this light. what the heck? No other spectrums? I might upgrade to an AI Prime. Got the bad boy all filled up with CaribSea Fiji Pink sand, rock that I've been curing for 2 weeks (that came from my old tank), and fresh water with Red Sea salt. Oh, I also got a new RO unit.
Side note: After all this time and after getting a RO/DI unit with DI resigns and a meter, I've found that the water from my old RO unit was coming out around 15 TDS. New water is 0TDS. I wonder if this is why I had nuisance algae problems......
Light is on. Tank is running.
Water Cleared up after about an hour.
I have a Red Sea Reef Mature Starter Kit, but the cured rock has been cycling ammonia in its tub and with the addition of the live sand, I'm not sure that kit will be necessary. I'll be testing the next few days and go from there!
The stand is great quality. A little IKEA, but that is okay. It took an hour to build but it is solid! The tank is amazing looking. Stylish and all the equipment is well hidden. I love that it comes with quality lighting too. Con: You can only adjust blue, white and moonlight for this light. what the heck? No other spectrums? I might upgrade to an AI Prime. Got the bad boy all filled up with CaribSea Fiji Pink sand, rock that I've been curing for 2 weeks (that came from my old tank), and fresh water with Red Sea salt. Oh, I also got a new RO unit.
Side note: After all this time and after getting a RO/DI unit with DI resigns and a meter, I've found that the water from my old RO unit was coming out around 15 TDS. New water is 0TDS. I wonder if this is why I had nuisance algae problems......
Light is on. Tank is running.
Water Cleared up after about an hour.
I have a Red Sea Reef Mature Starter Kit, but the cured rock has been cycling ammonia in its tub and with the addition of the live sand, I'm not sure that kit will be necessary. I'll be testing the next few days and go from there!