Red Sea Reefer 425 XL Mixed Tank
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currentking
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Incredible tank. I just moved to Parkland and I have been out of the hobby for about 6 years or so and am about to pull the trigger on a 425xl. Did you do anything special with the plumbing and how did you install the call reactor?
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I hard pluming the return line with two gate valve for using media reactors, but to be honest Im not using the media reactor as is not necessary for bio-load. At the beginning I was doing carbon and gfo, but now I only use gfo when is necessary.
The reactor is on a separate cabinet, feeding the reactor with a versa pump “pushing water through “
When you’re ready for corals shoot me a PM, I always have some frags around.
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Well, decided to move on from the t5 after probably a year. So now I got two additional radion xr30w pro g4 for a total of 3. Calcium reactor have been solid for the last few months so basically now the plan is let it grow until no more room is available.
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currentking
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Stellar setup! Do you know your par on Lights? Thanks for the offer on frags as well. I may need to take you up on that one day!
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Thanks!
I do dose trace elements from Tropic Marin, following their label recommendations. Also I try to do monthly or bi-monthly ICP test and correct elements that are out of recommendations. Because the tanks is full now, the consumption of trace elements is very high so water changes and reactor is not enough.
Robinson
Beautiful setup! I’ve recently been floating the idea of a new 425 setup. Would love to see the updated sump area pics including the calcium reactor installed. Have you had any issues with the sump you’d would change at the start of your build if you were doing it over again?
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Been almost a year since your last photo update, time to share a new one with us!
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Robinson
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Sadly this was the last picture, February of this year tank had a leak. Lucky me I already had plans for an upgrade and the new tank was around, still the tank was not ready for the transfer and had to place all corals in an emergency tank. All of this in a rush. As expected I lost all big colonies but was lucky enough to keep frags.
This is the last picture of this tank before the storm.
I need to create a new thread for the new tank, I have now an IM 200EXT
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You still using the xho’s for supplemental
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Wow appreciate the update tank looks immaculate I need a little supplemental for shadowing but want pop since a kinda am fairly new led guy I loved my t5’s/kessil combo and always wanted reefbrites but if you look up reviews I can’t even see the thousand good ones I was use to seeing from before its like the consensus has changed and the reviews deleted 
def makes the decision tough
def makes the decision tough
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Robinson
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Yeah, consensus has changed by a few pushing new LED bars that “are better”. When the true is that is al about user experience and coral health / growth. Also application is very important, meaning if you are just supplementing and lights are going to be relatively close to the water line than reefbrites will do the job perfectly. If you are looking for super par increase and bars are going to be installed far away from the water line then you will be better with others lee bars that can push that.Wow appreciate the update tank looks immaculate I need a little supplemental for shadowing but want pop since a kinda am fairly new led guy I loved my t5’s/kessil combo and always wanted reefbrites but if you look up reviews I can’t even see the thousand good ones I was use to seeing from before its like the consensus has changed and the reviews deleted
Now, look for tanks that have been with whatever bars they picked up running for at least 2 years and lets see the corals. You will be surprised that you can find a lot of killer tanks with reefbrites, specially the ones running t5, and they all look good. Another bars that you will see killer tanks is from Orphek.
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