Sebastiancrab
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I like your setup. Can you take a picture of the front of the cabinet with the door closed?Hey Everyone!
Im going to start my build thread in hopes I get some pointers and help along the way. My last reef tank was in 2011. I had a 54 gallon corner tank and a 120 gallon reef tank. I loved it! However I was promoted and moved my family from NC to CA. Had to sell it all. We are now back in NC and my wife refuses to let me get another tank at home (I spilled a lot of water back then). So....I got one for my office lol. She can’t control me there! Here are the details of the tank:
Reef Octo 32 gallon. Dims are 24x18x18. Will be a small mixed reef. Bought it off A local forum at a great deal that included the tank, plumbing, sump, skimmer and return. The skimmer and return pump are 5 years old so I’m going to replace them and may also buy a new sump unless I win what’s in my cart at BRS . Everything else I’m buying new.
Filtration: BRS biopellet reactor combo kit w a sicce 1.5
Turbo Media Reactor side flow medium - Lifegard - for my gfo and carbon
I will get a new skimmer and will probably get a Bubble Magus Curve 5
Rock & Sand: 20lbs Hawaiian Black live sand
Life Rock Shapes 20lbs Caribsea
A few random pieces, around 10 lbs of live rock from my lfs
Flow: Reef Power RP-M
2 tunze nanostreams 6015 *need some advice here, thinking of putting the RP-M on a side and the 2 Nano streams on the back facing forward* Reefbreeders recommenced the two nanostreams on each side and the RP-M on the back.
Vectra S2 return pump *this may be overkill...what do you think?*
Lighting: After weeks of research I settled on the Reefbreeders Photon 24-V2+. I’ll dial it back but would rather have too much versus not enough. Almost went Hydra 32 or Red Sea 90 but decided against those. I’ll upgrade eventually to a larger tank, it’s inevitable
ATO: Reef Breeders Prism ATO bundle
Test Kits/automation: MC 120 PH Monitor w probe and mounting kit from Milwaukee Instruments
Aqua chef Fish Feeder for weekends
Marine Depot Refractometer
Finnex 200 watt titanium heater w controller
Hanna ultra low range phosphate checker
Red Sea marine master care test kit
American Marine Pinpoint wireless thermometer
Aqua forest calcium and magnesium test kits
Then I have the electrical organization stuff I bought. Algae barn rapid cycle kit and the media itself, epoxy, etc. I’ll be using Red Sea Coral Pro salt with lfs RODI water. In a month or two I’ll get a dosing pump for the aqua forest 3 part system with Acro power in the fourth pump but I’m not there yet.
Should start putting it all together Monday thru Thursday as orders come in. Picking up the water, salt, return pump, sand and some rock on my way to work Monday. Will post pics and updates as I go along. For livestock I’d like a pair of clowns and maybe a Pygmy angel or small wrasse. We’ll see.
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