UABSleeper Red Sea Reefer 350 build!

[UABsleeper]

Are those metal valves? Curious if the are reef safe.

You had me a little worried if in my gate valve was metal or not I had never even considered if the part in contact with water is metal so I had to do a little more research.. looks like the only part on the gate valve that's metal is screw holding the wheel on.. at least that's the only thing that a magnet will stick to.. the actual knob may be aluminum it's non magnetic and coated so not to concerned about that.

here is a picture of the valve stem and the actual valve from the outlet side..

Hopefully nothing to worry about

 

[Girthrockwel]

Nice looking setup! I live just a few minutes north of Birmingham.

 

[UABsleeper]

Nice looking setup! I live just a few minutes north of Birmingham.

Awesome I lived on hwy 280 there for several years while I was in anesthesia school! Great place beautiful town just to busy for me when I finished I had to get back to Mississippi! Reef live aquariums is who really got me into the saltwater hobby!

 

[LittleMaui]

The custom lid is certainly more $$, but it's hard to compare the look. The Reefer tanks are so nice looking, I decided to bit the bullet. Quality is good. The lid is very light, but strong. It's easy to remove for tank maintenance. I was referring to the red gate valves.

 

[UABsleeper]

New fish arrived today a beautiful male melanurus wrasse

A coral beauty

And several banded Trochus snails and a tonga fighting conch snail! All appear to be alive and healthy for now!

 

[Brent Behringer]

Any pics with the new lid?

 

[UABsleeper]

Coral beauty is a little less shy now! Both fish appear to be eating well and doing good!

 

[UABsleeper]

Any pics with the new lid?

No pics yet I just ordered the lid last week.. site says they have a 6 week lead time.. so it will be a little while before it arrives.. as soon as it gets here I will get a pic of it though

 

[UABsleeper]

Alright so finally the tank is starting to look like a reef! Got corals from the biocube into the tank this past week and today got in my wins from the cherrycorals live sale! Everything looking great so far!

my euphyllia garden is coming along nicely I won the gold frogspawn in the live sale!

fire digit was put into the tank today and already has some nice polyp ext

ora hawkins echinata

Elegance coral

Basto

cali tort acro

rock anemone

 

[UABsleeper]

On a down note looks like my coral beauty is not doing so hot.. I'm thinking it may have a flat worms or ich not sure which he has several spots on the side of his face..

He is still eating some right now so going to try to feed up the garlic in his food.. hopefully he will get over it

 

[UABsleeper]

Finally broke down and bought an apex! Been wanting one of these for a while!

More equipment means more wires.. wires drive me nuts so I decided to build a stand to hide everything and mount my probes to.. here is what I came up with!

It has a door so I can access cables it turned out a little thicker than i intended but I think it will work!

Most of the new corals are doing great! Only one that looks like it's going to be a goner is the Hawkins ora.. looks like it has developed RTN.. I tried dipping in coralrx again.. but from everything I read their is no real hope for it..

 

[UABsleeper]

An interesting pic I took of my elegance coral this evening don't have a clue what it's doing but it looks rather interesting

Here is a pic of it just yesterday

My euphillia garden is coming along nicely though

 

[UABsleeper]

Decided I would do a little cord management this weekend and finished building a cabinet to hide all my wires! What y'all think

 

[UABsleeper]

Got a new shipment of some corals in today from the aquasd eBay and forum live sale! I got some beautiful 10 in total after they threw in a free one and I still didn't spend over 150$ highly impressed with these guys! @AquaSD

Here are some of my hauls

These chalices are not the most colorful but at 5 dollars I couldn't pass them up.. we will see how they color up in my tank

 

[UABsleeper]

Decided on a doser and finally pulled the trigger Monday during the Labor Day sales ordered the
Aqua medic ReefDoser 4
And decided to try out the ATI Essential supplements!

Also picked up this dosing container on amazon.. looks like I should be dosing by next week!

 

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Looking nice and happy!

 

[zack801]

Tank is coming along nicely! Is the rock you're using Pukani? If so did you end up curing it at all? I've got some now that iI'm building the aquascape for and i've read they can leach phosphates pretty bad.

 

[UABsleeper]

Tank is coming along nicely! Is the rock you're using Pukani? If so did you end up curing it at all? I've got some now that iI'm building the aquascape for and i've read they can leach phosphates pretty bad.

Thanks! Yes I used pukani.. not sure if I got lucky or what I did cure it in salt water for a month with carbon.. also I broke up a lot of the rock when I was making my scape and was able to clean out some of the critters on the inside.. I think that was

I also ran gfo and carbon after the cycle in order to remove any that might be released.. so far my Hanna checker has read 0.00

 

[Slayvoff]

Just curious, did you choose to not quarantine your new fish? If you didn't does it worry you that one may be diseased like the Coral Beauty and spread to others?

 

[zack801]

Thanks! Yes I used pukani.. not sure if I got lucky or what I did cure it in salt water for a month with carbon.. also I broke up a lot of the rock when I was making my scape and was able to clean out some of the critters on the inside.. I think that was

I also ran gfo and carbon after the cycle in order to remove any that might be released.. so far my Hanna checker has read 0.00

That is awesome news! I haven't cured mine yet but fingers crossed it doesn't take too long. I'll be following along with your build :)