IOnceWasLegend
Supporting Member
So it turns out one of the benefits of moving from a condo to an actual house (even if it is, sadly, further from you all) is getting to upgrade tanks, too. This will be our first big tank and, in contrast to previous builds, we're planning on...well, planning this one out better, and trying to make it as clean and high-QOL as possible. We'll be assembling this over the next 6+ months, and it's with big thanks to @under_water_ninja since we're ordering it through his store.
Tank
Sump, filtration, and life support
Been paying close attention to Beanju's thread , as well as this phenomenal build thread over on R2R that's given us a lot of ideas to work with.
Stock list is a work in progress:
Current equipment list
Tank
Sump, filtration, and life support
- Sump: Synergy Reef CL-44.4
Innovative Marine RFS 50 Sump- I'd initially ordered the RFS50 sump from IM. After informing me my tank had arrived and would be delivered, they called two days later to say, "The sump is damaged, it'll be another 8 weeks for delivery." I opted to cancel the sump, get a refund, and went for the Synergy.
- Mechanical filtration: 2x Reef Diapers (since I'm bad about washing socks)
- Skimmer: Icecap K2-200
- UV Sterilizer: Pentair Smart 50w UV sterilizer
- Return pump: Ecotech Vectra M2 + L2 (M2 will power the manifold + return, L2 will power UV + return, plumbed to be redundant)
- Mounting the controllers and power bricks with 3D printed holders
- Heaters: Vivosun 500w titanium heaters (x2; temp controlled by Apex. Using two smaller heaters to provide redundancy if one goes out.)
- GFO and carbon reactors: Aquamaxx fluidized reactors (x2)
- Calcium reactor: Aquamaxx cTech T-3 + CarbonDoser regulator
- Powerheads: Ecotech MP-40s (3x to start; may dial up to 4)
- Mounting the controllers and power bricks with 3D printed holders
- Neptune Apex 2016
- Neptune Trident
- Tunze Osmolator 3155 ATO
- Adaptive Reef standard white controller board
- Display lighting: G6 Radion XR30 (x2) and G5 Radion XR30 (x2) mounted with the Ecotech 70.5" RMS rail between two RMS arms
- EDIT: I initially was waffling between G5 and G6; I settled on G6s given the increased light spread (G5 XR30's recommended spread is only 24x24", and the tank is 30" wide)
- EDIT 2: I was initially going to go 4x G6 XR30s, but @Srt4eric had a couple G5s so I'm mixing and matching.
- Refugium lighting: Kessil H380 refugium light (x1)
Been paying close attention to Beanju's thread , as well as this phenomenal build thread over on R2R that's given us a lot of ideas to work with.
Stock list is a work in progress:
- Desjardini tang
- Achilles tang
- Yellow tang
- Yellow eye kole tang
- One-spot foxface
- Copper banded butterflyfish
- Firefish
- Royal gramma
- Either Lyretail or Bartlett's anthias (x6-8)
- Banggai Cardinal
- Blue/green chromis
- Mandarin pair
- Watchman goby/shrimp pair
- Melanurus wrasse
- Lawnmower blenny
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