The Frankenstein build

[Yooper Reef]

Well I will slowly be adding to this build thread. I started this tank in March 2023 when I was home after my son was born. The story behind this tank goes a little something like. I acquired it from my brother 10 years ago when I was still in school. We built a very unengineered box stand and I acquired some components along the way. Sump, return pump, skimmer, AI primes. Nothing ever came of the tank while I was in school. I graduated and moved to the far north in very small rural town. This tank sat around for 7 years and followed me on multiple house moves without ever being set up. One day I stubbed my toe on it and decided it was time. Additionally we had a whole house generator installed which gave me a lot of peace of mind due to losing power quite frequently, the longest time being 5 days.

March 2023 the build begins

We added fish and corals fairly quickly

 

[dstockwell]

Lookin good.

 

[Yooper Reef]

And we added more

 

[Yooper Reef]

And more

 

[Yooper Reef]

And a bunch of frags and we are at our current state

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Loving the way the tank is turning out!

 

[Yooper Reef]

Todays updated. Swapped out my AI blades for an orphek atlantik icon

 

[Yooper Reef]

Working on the Orphek settings. I’m going to increase the length of my max photo period from 3 hours to 6 hours and see what happens. With this I’ll keep an eye on alk consumption as I would assume that will change with more light

 

[mizimmer90]

Looking great! The rockwork is very nice; It reminds me of a cascading bonsai tree style!

 

[Yooper Reef]

Looking great! The rockwork is very nice; It reminds me of a cascading bonsai tree style!

This was the inspiration. Really didn’t take into account how big the colonies would get

 

[Yooper Reef]

I haven’t updated in awhile. Here’s some photos. We have a few new fish. 2 chromis and one basslet