So it's time!
I've been dreaming of a Reefer for some time, so I'd thought I would finally buy one!
After about a year of doing some spare landscaping for a few elderly people, I've saved up plenty to put to this build!
This tank finally went onsale on Black Friday (Thank you Red Sea for giving me a heads up on it).
Not only did I save 10% on this awesome tank, I also didn't have to pay taxes on it, that's over $115 on takes!
After all said in done, this ran me just $2k.
I would love to tell everyone the name of the famous Saltwater website, but because they havn't updated their tax information yet.
You can search around and find them though! They're very popular to us all Please PM if you want the name of that company).
The tank came in last week. I asked the company if they could ship it the last week of December because I didn't have any vacation days left,haha.
Their customer service rocks! Cheers to them!
Look at this awesome job on packaging.
The pressed wood they used to hold the contents works great in the attic for storage!
When I unboxed everything, it was well packed into the Display Tank,
After getting everything out, I decided to take a few photos of the DT.
The stand took about two hours to build. Probably could've done it in one. The directions are very easy to read too.
I had to first move my current outdated tank from the spot where the new one is going.
After I empted the current tank, my friend and I just moved it six feet out, then put the new tank in the original spot.
If you look at the current 55G tank, you'll see the frag/egg create on top of the tank in a triangle, can anyone guess why?
Should start a poll for that... My wife owns two cats... the one likes the get on top... What's makes you more mad than a cat laying on top of your tank. How about a cat puking in the tank! Yes, that freaking happened, no losses though! Purchased a lid from Clearview many months ago. The lid was a custom too, suppose to take 77 days to make and 10 more days for custom lids. The lid should be here anytime.
The reason why I put everything back into the 55G was to get all the sand off the rocks and not live my live stock in other tanks/buckets/garage.
The new tank won't have any sand, tip for new people here/beginners, DON'T USE SAND! Sand is a trap for everything! If you're running any big wave makers on it or pumps, then you've seen your sand build up in spots and other spots you just see your bottom glass. Good way to start algae when your sand moves too much.
Sad to say, even with my MP40's on low, the Fluval I ran below just added to the sand storm!
I thought about going with a bare bottom but didn't want to scrape corals off of glass. I bought square ceramic frag plugs rather than the common cured plugs.
Didn't want to take the chance of them not being 100% cured.
I will wash these off in some fresh RODI water and place them into the tank(There was a very very fine layer of dust on these).
Will post more soon!
Ask any questions!
I've been dreaming of a Reefer for some time, so I'd thought I would finally buy one!
After about a year of doing some spare landscaping for a few elderly people, I've saved up plenty to put to this build!
This tank finally went onsale on Black Friday (Thank you Red Sea for giving me a heads up on it).
Not only did I save 10% on this awesome tank, I also didn't have to pay taxes on it, that's over $115 on takes!
After all said in done, this ran me just $2k.
I would love to tell everyone the name of the famous Saltwater website, but because they havn't updated their tax information yet.
You can search around and find them though! They're very popular to us all Please PM if you want the name of that company).
The tank came in last week. I asked the company if they could ship it the last week of December because I didn't have any vacation days left,haha.
Their customer service rocks! Cheers to them!
Look at this awesome job on packaging.
The pressed wood they used to hold the contents works great in the attic for storage!
When I unboxed everything, it was well packed into the Display Tank,
After getting everything out, I decided to take a few photos of the DT.
The stand took about two hours to build. Probably could've done it in one. The directions are very easy to read too.
I had to first move my current outdated tank from the spot where the new one is going.
After I empted the current tank, my friend and I just moved it six feet out, then put the new tank in the original spot.
If you look at the current 55G tank, you'll see the frag/egg create on top of the tank in a triangle, can anyone guess why?
Should start a poll for that... My wife owns two cats... the one likes the get on top... What's makes you more mad than a cat laying on top of your tank. How about a cat puking in the tank! Yes, that freaking happened, no losses though! Purchased a lid from Clearview many months ago. The lid was a custom too, suppose to take 77 days to make and 10 more days for custom lids. The lid should be here anytime.
The new tank won't have any sand, tip for new people here/beginners, DON'T USE SAND! Sand is a trap for everything! If you're running any big wave makers on it or pumps, then you've seen your sand build up in spots and other spots you just see your bottom glass. Good way to start algae when your sand moves too much.
Sad to say, even with my MP40's on low, the Fluval I ran below just added to the sand storm!
I thought about going with a bare bottom but didn't want to scrape corals off of glass. I bought square ceramic frag plugs rather than the common cured plugs.
Didn't want to take the chance of them not being 100% cured.
I will wash these off in some fresh RODI water and place them into the tank(There was a very very fine layer of dust on these).
Will post more soon!
Ask any questions!
