Waterbox infinia frag 125.4 shallow reef

[daanvb]

Currently reefing in a Waterbox 60.2.

I ordered a infinia frag 125,4 to make a shallow reef (maybe with some red and white mangroves I’ve hanging around) will be delivered in a couple of weeks.


Planning the reef, ordering stuff. 1st project control board:

Gear:
3x Votech MP 40’s
1x Vectra M2
2x radion xr15 g5
EcoTech battery
Neptune apex a3
Inkirb WiFi with titanium heater
Spare Eheim heater set on 1 celcius lower
Aquamedic Uv with small pump
Dosing pump (currently jecod) jet to decide if I change it.
Red Sea ato
Curve 5 skimmer
Refugium Led
Innovitech X Filter Roller.

Moddeling the control cabinet (50*20*75cm)
Planned the front face waiting foor a drill with the right diameter for the feed through holes.

Now up: constructing the cabinet and in arrange the inside.

 

[daanvb]

 

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[Gumbies R Us]

Following along!

 

[daanvb]

Labelling to make it easy replacing gear. Done for the day.

Next up:
Drilling holes in the front to feed the wires through.

Sanding and painting

 

[skey44]

Love what you’re doing with organization. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

 

[daanvb]

 

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[daanvb]

Current setup,
60.2 Waterbox
Micro reef (from AliExpress, pnw on its way to make it more practical)

Really like the collors, Monti’s that I added are starting to grow en have good color pop and polyp extension.
Like to start with some acro’s, mangroves (red a white) and the macro algae in the new shallow reef when is cycled a stable to make a lagoon like tank.

Anny suggestions for some bright not to finicky acro’s?

 

[skey44]

Cali tort, red planet, and green slimer are pretty good places to start for easier/faster growing Acropora.

 

[daanvb]

Thanks, love the colours on the cali tort and the red planet!

 

[daanvb]

Drilling holes planning the board. I love it when a plan comes together

If alle the planning and drilling is done, I will disassemble the board and paint it black.

 

[daanvb]

Paint Job done, dosing lines in position. Up and running on my old tank to get familiar with apex fusion. The MP40’s and Vectra are a bit much for this tank and they have to wait for the arrival of the Waterbox 125.4. Love the MXM module, now learning to program the rest from the apex system.

 

[skey44]

Looks awesome! Nice job. Can’t wait to see it go under the cabinet.

 

[jimmypencil]

I’m thinking about getting this tank. The only thing that seems to be a deal breaker is there is definitely not room for a kalkwasser container in the stand right?

 

[daanvb]

I’m thinking about getting this tank. The only thing that seems to be a deal breaker is there is definitely not room for a kalkwasser container in the stand right?

Tank is still in shipment so the information I have is from the Waterbox site and @skey44 is my hero every time I want to know something he grabs his tape measure.

The space outside of the sump is very limited. I’m going to replace the ATO reservoir for a slimmer one to open up some space in the cabinet.

The sump is quite big so you could place it in the sump

 

[jimmypencil]

Tank is still in shipment so the information I have is from the Waterbox site and @skey44 is my hero every time I want to know something he grabs his tape measure.

The space outside of the sump is very limited. I’m going to replace the ATO reservoir for a slimmer one to open up some space in the cabinet.

The sump is quite big so you could place it in the sump

thanks, was it on back order when you ordered the tank? I was about to pull the trigger last night but it says it’s back ordered.

 

[daanvb]

Tank is still in shipment so the information I have is from the Waterbox site and @skey44 is my hero every time I want to know something he grabs his tape measure.

The space outside of the sump is very limited. I’m going to replace the ATO reservoir for a slimmer one to open up some space in the cabinet.

The sump is quite big so you could place it in the sump

thanks, was it on back order when you ordered the tank? I was about to pull the trigger last night but it says it’s back ordered.

I don’t know, I live in The Netherlands and ordered it at my LFS.

 

[daanvb]

Last information the tank wil arrive in 1 to 2 weeks

In the meanwhile tank swap practice with my micro reef. From a AliExpress tank to a kickass micro reef from @PNWCustom

 

[daanvb]

Even managed to get a micro refugium

And some more pictures