After a long wait.. finaly it is here!!

My own black 250

i own a 130 now .. and this tank will be put over to the 250.

ill post a few pictures so you get the idea

congrats! looking forward to seeing the setup pics and review.

Looks awesome, I wish I could have afforded a rsm instead of the NC...

congrats on the new tank. i plan on getting one. are they selling in th U.S. yet

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i seriously cant wait for the 250d to go onsale in new york.

My wife already knows that i want it.

So to Martin_S:

I sincerly wish you the best of luck from across the pond. May this tank be everything your smaller rsm is & more. I dont envy many people for there tangible items.... but you sir i do!


MORE PICS PLS!!!!!!

This weekend i will shoot more pica's

For now im bussy making water ( 30 liter a evening )

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The tank is running now.
on clear water and one pump.

i will let it warm up overnight it's about 180 liters now.. 6 Kg salt will be added tomorrow morning.

( to redsea. i didnt take the efford yet.. )

but i do got a nice picture for you

Is that how it's sitting on their stand?

Yep , this is a 250 with a curved bottem!

( well its only on the right side of the tank. )

im waiting for it to pop

I don't know if I would set that thing up in my house.

More Picas

im bussy now switching buckets from tank to tank.

from small to big .. from big to smal.. ( bio culture need to be tranfered )

and i got some live rock .( already started 2 mounths ago in a tank at a local store )
and was waiting for me.

I didn't think there was any bio culture in the water column... thought it was contained in/on the rock.

Anyway, rock looks good, and glad to see the tank progress!

what are the reflectors on this aio? is it a flat one or contoured or single light reflectors?

Is there still a chamber of death on this tank?

its contoured , one big refletor ( not every T5 its own ) 1 for 6

well. it has the same sort of 130 chamber only much bigger

inside is has foced streaming with glass plates that let is flow over and under to the pump

it even has a media rack .. ( sort of )
a plastic raster where you can lay media under and on ( so 2 types ) of do a combination on one floor.

a fine filter which can be slid in . ( one for the sid of the big pump ) ( left )

as far as i can judge now it pretty good ( execept of the curfed bottem )

now it gives me a feeling someone actualy thought things throu

for $1400 I hope so

1100 euro ( including stater kit )

Starterkit contains no substrate.

12 kg salt .
some tests..

corel buff
nitrobac
and anotherone

Same inaccurate Red Sea kits?

The reef base was a good thing to leave out.

Yep RS test kits
i use live sand. looks 10x better

wow . what a rip off. good thing you got the money. you should send that tank right back to them with a big aS" bubble in it like that. The instructions on my tank say "try to slide a piece of paper under it all around, in between tank and stand. If you can fit it under to not set it up"

looks like you could get a piece of cardboard under there

Its the glass that comes up

my importer contacted Red sea..
i talked several 250 holders it seems that all 250's got it.

So maybe its time for a callback ( sorry guys, you need to wait even longer then )

I say
Design and engineering under control
Production....FAILURE

Well some more pictures then.. as long there is water in it !

O yeah, i know.. its not full with water yet

wow that sucks. Where is the quality control?!

more pica's

the 130 is sold and out of the way

Curious, so what, if anything, was done about the bowed bottom?

I had contact woth the dutch importer. which had contact with Red Sea

Red sea answer was:

Its a result of the production process. All thanks are beeing filled with water in the factory.
So dont worry..

( is it beeing filled with stone either REDSEA )

Understood, but I guess I should have asked, did YOU do anything to help support the area?

Not that you can do anything at this point, I just wondered if you did anything to fill the gap as they say.

The tank looks great. Best of luck with it Martin!

I tryed to spare the corners
A there is pressure the bottem was flat.

its only on the right side at the back and a little on the front

and when it does break , im gonna sue someone's ass off

Sounds like a time for some class action lawsuits but until then FOAM!

Its plug and play..

No additional foam delivered!

I just pulled one out of the box at the store and it was filled up last night well see what happens it is on a roll around cart in the back next to the large floor drain

do you have the skimmer running yet, was wondering how well its working, taxes are coming and im thinking of getting this tank, and dont mean to throw you under the bus but i think i see a yellow tang in there

The skimmer was doing fine!

but after installin al my external filter ( mainly the fosphate tube of AM )
all foam went dead.. its one big bubble tank..

i turned it off.. for just now.. It goes on when im not in! ( till it starts working again )

Well, this week i had some mail contact with Redsea.

It seems that the disformation on the bottom is not Redsea standard.
We are now in close contact what to do about the problem


I'm not really happy with the news..
But its better than a complete loss of life stock and a living room filled with salt water later.
you will hear from that later

for now i got my external circulation diagram
( one note : in the diagram the phosphate filter is after the cooler... actual setup i put the phos filter before the cooler , that was a positioning thing )

Time for some more impressions



2 more

Very nice. So are you satisified with the lighting?

Yes , very much..

its WAYYYYYyyyyyyyyy better then the PL of the 130

The tank looks sweet, the lighting make everything so vibrant.

tank looks great

tnx,

I do spend a lot of time and energie in it.

and im not that easy satisfied

And a smalle ( 3 minutes ) video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzyWa4gNogA

i was waitin to see one of those bad boys setup!!! great job so far!!! cant wait to see more!!

hey stevie....guess u got a new product line in tha thoughts huh??? well as soon as more of these are puchased!

good luck wit da 2fity!

That tank looks great! Very well integrated.

I hope RSM helps you out to your satisfaction. It's better to switch out the tanks than to have it crack open, as you said earlier.

Very nice set up
Mine 250 is on the way to my home.
Did you change only the ballast or Retro fit kit includes 0-10 volt controller ?
Any link ?
Thanks

see also the lighting forum

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=185902

i replaced the 3 ballasts
and im using a profilux computer... any other 1-10v steering light coomputer will do

Please keep thread going. I am interested in buying one very soon.

soon my solenoid arrives... i can finally control my nitrate filter automaticly