Reefer Deez
Reef junkie
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My second tank was born June 10th 2017. I am new to R2R but I have lots of pictures of my progress. I hope someone will enjoy watching the build and I also hope to get some helping opinions along the way! So here goes.
Tank is a red sea reefer XL 425 deluxe with black cabinet
Lights 2 AI hydra 26 HD
Pumps and power heads 2 MP 40s
A vectra M1 return pump and a second vectra L1 pump for a future manifold for reactors
My skimmer is a vertex omega 150
The only reactor that I have at the moment is a BRS deluxe running ROX 0.8 carbon
Controller is a Neptune Apex with a DOS and DDR for dosing alk and cal
I also have a jebo 4 head dosing pump to dose red sea trace elements A, B, C, D
I stated off bare bones with little knowledge to the hobby and learned as I went by making mistakes and learning when something went wrong. But now I have for this awesome community called REEF2REEF! I've only been a member since September but I just really started to use the site recently I will post pictures of what I have so far and will update every time something is added and if and status changes in the tank.
My future plans are to add a vortech module to the Apex for better control.
A par meter to measure par in the tank but I can't choose between the seneye or the Apex model.
An Apex leak detection kit. One senor for the cabinet around the bottom of the sump and one for the top of my skimmer collection cup to turn off the skimmer if it full and about to overflow.
Im still trying to decide if I want to run a reactor with bio pellets with a reactor for gfo or do I want to go with a zeovit reactor but I will save that for a later discussion.
An Apex water flow monitor kit.
I'm in the process of building a water mixing station and trying to do automatic water changes with the Apex but not threw a ddr set up.
Thank you to everyone who may view my build and comment!
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Tank is a red sea reefer XL 425 deluxe with black cabinet
Lights 2 AI hydra 26 HD
Pumps and power heads 2 MP 40s
A vectra M1 return pump and a second vectra L1 pump for a future manifold for reactors
My skimmer is a vertex omega 150
The only reactor that I have at the moment is a BRS deluxe running ROX 0.8 carbon
Controller is a Neptune Apex with a DOS and DDR for dosing alk and cal
I also have a jebo 4 head dosing pump to dose red sea trace elements A, B, C, D
I stated off bare bones with little knowledge to the hobby and learned as I went by making mistakes and learning when something went wrong. But now I have for this awesome community called REEF2REEF! I've only been a member since September but I just really started to use the site recently I will post pictures of what I have so far and will update every time something is added and if and status changes in the tank.
My future plans are to add a vortech module to the Apex for better control.
A par meter to measure par in the tank but I can't choose between the seneye or the Apex model.
An Apex leak detection kit. One senor for the cabinet around the bottom of the sump and one for the top of my skimmer collection cup to turn off the skimmer if it full and about to overflow.
Im still trying to decide if I want to run a reactor with bio pellets with a reactor for gfo or do I want to go with a zeovit reactor but I will save that for a later discussion.
An Apex water flow monitor kit.
I'm in the process of building a water mixing station and trying to do automatic water changes with the Apex but not threw a ddr set up.
Thank you to everyone who may view my build and comment!
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