Wouters new Red Sea 625g2 reef

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Good day All

After years of dreaming and saving me and my wife pulled the trigger and it finally arrived and was installed the 16th of May. So i thought i'll do a build thread :)

The gear:
Red Sea Max 625G2 (130 gallon display 30 gallon sump approximately)
incl everthing Res Sea (Skimmer / reefmat / ato / reefcan 40l / Rcp / reefdose 4/ 2x reefwave45 / 2x reefled 160 / reefrun 7000DC pump)
Eheim Reeflex UV800
Eheim compact pump (for UV)
Eheim thermocontrol 400w 2x
Inkbird ITC308 wifi
Aquaforest rock 80lbs (36kg)
Live rock 44lbs (20kg)
CaribSea live sand 60lbs (27kg)
Natural sea water (we live by the sea) 165gallons

We will be going for a mixed reef (fish / lps)
Some pictures:

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Lights will be kept off for at least the first couple of weeks.

It's been running smoothly now for 10 days, so we did the first testing:

Temp 78F (25.3 C)
Salt 1023.5
Ca 380
Nitrate 3.5
Phosphate 0.55
Alkalinity 160 (7.9dKH)
 

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