Hello fellow saltwater enthusiast. I am posting this to possibly help others and to share my experiences with this particular tank as I have had many over the years.
I bought this tank about 5 years ago used from a local forum. My plan was to upgrade a previous reef tank. I had great success in the previous tank.
So I set off to set it up much the same as the smaller tank before it. I ran the same equipment only larger.
Lighting- 60" ATI 8 bulb with reef brites -blue
Mp-40's-4 flow
ATB 1050- skimmer
Bubble Magnus dosing pump- BRS two part
Cad lights-pellet reactor
BRS dual reactor- carbon and rarely gfo- could never get it to tumble
Apex controller
Heaters
JbJ auto top off
Home made sump with filter socks
Probably missing some things.
So I set the tank up built the stand filled with RODI water and reef crystals salt and hit the ground running.
I used about 200 plus pounds of BRS reef saver rock- which I cooked for about 2-3 weeks
I also put the rock from the other tank in and when ready added all my corals and fish.
It went well and I was very happy I had a big tank (to me) to fill with coral and fish(love fish)
I was buying coral directly from Jason Fox and hitting all the local fish stores to find any gems. It was very exciting and watching them grow and to just sit and look at the tank and see changes daily was great! Something I had experienced before with all the previous tanks.
This time around I seemed to be having much better success then before
A previous tank
The new tank going up
I never did a build thread which I regret
A gutter I installed to hide wires- thought it was a good idea and it worked well
Water in and rock started to go in
I bought this tank about 5 years ago used from a local forum. My plan was to upgrade a previous reef tank. I had great success in the previous tank.
So I set off to set it up much the same as the smaller tank before it. I ran the same equipment only larger.
Lighting- 60" ATI 8 bulb with reef brites -blue
Mp-40's-4 flow
ATB 1050- skimmer
Bubble Magnus dosing pump- BRS two part
Cad lights-pellet reactor
BRS dual reactor- carbon and rarely gfo- could never get it to tumble
Apex controller
Heaters
JbJ auto top off
Home made sump with filter socks
Probably missing some things.
So I set the tank up built the stand filled with RODI water and reef crystals salt and hit the ground running.
I used about 200 plus pounds of BRS reef saver rock- which I cooked for about 2-3 weeks
I also put the rock from the other tank in and when ready added all my corals and fish.
It went well and I was very happy I had a big tank (to me) to fill with coral and fish(love fish)
I was buying coral directly from Jason Fox and hitting all the local fish stores to find any gems. It was very exciting and watching them grow and to just sit and look at the tank and see changes daily was great! Something I had experienced before with all the previous tanks.
This time around I seemed to be having much better success then before
A previous tank
The new tank going up
I never did a build thread which I regret
A gutter I installed to hide wires- thought it was a good idea and it worked well
Water in and rock started to go in