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Hello Nano-Reef! I've been waiting a while to get back into the hobby after breaking down this pico reef build due to frequent moves for school and work. Now that we're more settled in one place, my wife and I have decided to start up a new reef and bought ourselves a Red Sea Max Nano. Livestock plans are pretty set in stone at this point: Mixed SPS/LPS Fish Ocellaris clownfish pair ✅ Helfrichi firefish Yellow watchman goby Pink streaked wrasse ✅ FTS: 1/25/20 Table of Contents: 7/24/19 - First FTS 9/18/19 - September FTS 10/14/19 - October FTS 11/12/19 - November FTS 12/21/19 - December FTS 1/25/20 - January FTS (6 months) Equipment: Tank: 20G Red Sea Max Nano Lighting: AI Prime HD x2 Filtration: stock protein skimmer Heater: 75W Cobalt Aquatics Neo-Therm, Inkbird Temperature Controller Flow: MP10, stock return pump ATO: Tunze Osmolator Salt: Red Sea Coral Pro Media: BRS carbon and GFO Rock & Substrate: ~15lb BRS Reef Saver Rock, ~3lb KP Aquatics Uncured Live Rock 15lb Caribsea Dry Aragonite Special Grade Reef Sand Maintenance: 5-10 gallon water change weekly Replace filter floss weekly Replace carbon monthly ESV 2-Part ESV magnesium Feeding: Hikari pellets daily Reef Roids twice weekly Frozen mysis weekly Fish: Pink-streaked wrasse Black and orange ocellaris clownfish pair Invertebrates: Cerith and dwarf cerith snails Nerite snails Nassarius snails Banded trochus snails Scarlet cleaner shrimp Blue porcelain crab Corals: SPS Red montipora capricornis Red montipora setosa Forest fire montipora digitata Sunset montipora Dinosaur egg montipora Green slimer acropora Oregon tort acropora Vivid's fundip acropora WWC snow drop acropora RMF last dragon acropora GSC red robin acropora ORA pearlberry acropora ORA red planet acropora JF fox flame acropora Red dragon acropora Hawkins echinata LPS Fluorescent tip purple torch Peach/pink hammer Purple tip green frogspawn Jack-o-lantern leptoseris Green duncan Brown/green candy cane Various acan/micromussa colonies Red/green war coral Neon green candycane Red/green blastomusa Warpaint scolymia

Wife decide she want the tank to go from okay to as good as I can make it. A challenge I happily accepted. Tank is a Redsea Reefer XL425. Goals for this project is to better(fully) automate & failsafe the system as I travel 28 days at a time for work. Secondary goal is turning the wiring and controls from embarassing chaos to display quality. Current Equipment: 2 kessill 360s, 1 Mp40, Knockoff DC return pump, Semi ATO (kalk on a timer + redsea internal ATO tank), JBJ 1/10hp nano Chiller. Heater of some wattage (forgot but works) Ancient salt ruined ReefKeeper that is limping (shuts down if bumped at all). 2 crappy small bottom fed bio pellet, carbon(GFO) reactors. Incoming Equipment: Apex + Trident, Apex ATK,Break out Box and DOS, PM1, Apex COR15, 2 aquamax reactors, 1 aquamax Bioppellet reactor, Clarisee Auto Roller SK 3000 Aquamax Ctech t1 Calcium reactor. A bunch of plumbing material (pipe,Valves etc.), Home depot wood and (plexi)glass for controls cabinet, cheap periastic pump (CaRx feed potentially temporary ). Makeup water container TBD based off available room in control stand. and Redsea cover to keep jawfish from becoming dog food. Current Inhabitants: 2 warrior baby clowns (ocellaris) (RIP Death and Destuction) Lawn mower blenny Leopard wrasse Coral Beauty 2 pajama cardinals Aiptasia eating File fish (name is alie) Brittle star 1 Urchin All the Aipatsia. and 4 lost apparently on strike berghias. CUC: Snails,hermits, 2 RBTA Down the road Plans: Add backlight to controls display that changes color based on Apex error alerts, Webcam to apex fusion feed phyto farm in garage Phyto chiller/doser Actual Continous duty periastatic. Full water chem tests (ICP or equivalent) Blue Spotted Jawfish Purple dartfish Buy more(all the) Frags 🙂

Hi all! I'm new to saltwater aquariums but not new to freshwater. I've been keeping freshwater all of my life, from 150gals to having 10 tanks at once. Now I live on the third floor of an apartment complex with a 20gal long planted tank filled with shrimp and a betta. Basically I'm trying to say I have a good amount of knowledge on basic stuff. I've been trying to decide on what aquarium I should get for saltwater reefing. I've been looking at the Coralife Biocube 32, as I found a kit that comes with an ATO, protein skimmer, and wavemaker, all for around $700. So this would still allow me to buy all the other essentials like heater and ro/di system on my budget, and possibly upgrade the light if need be. But I have been told it's not the best tank because of the curved glass, which often cracks. I've been recommended innovative marine tanks and red sea tanks. The innovative marine tank that is 30 gallons is a lot longer than what I was wanting, and it with a stand costs as much as the biocube kit. So I would still need to get the protein skimmer and all of that. Now the Red Sea Max E-170 is absolutely gorgeous. It comes with a built in protein skimmer, and comes with amazing lights. It has two filter outputs, so I don't think I would need a wavemaker. But the tank and stand is $1,365, which is WAY more than I was planning on spending for the tank alone. So my dilemma is: is the biocube good enough? Should I save up for the innovative marine or red sea tank instead? Do any of you have experience with these tanks: good or bad? I would love to hear any opinions or advice. Thank you so much, Dailyn

See bottom of post for most recent pics Updated fts 9/16/18 What was there... What will be there.... In the process... A dilemma I ran into... Coming together.... Updated fts 11/12/18 Updated fts 3/13/19

Alright everyone! Here is a start to a new beginning, I recently shut down a nuvo fusion 10g (wee tanked) as well as a rimless 70 gallon which I did not post on here before in order to set up a Red Sea Reefer 170!!! I tried my my best to go with top notch equipment and so far I think I've done pretty well! So on to the specs thus far and then some pictures! Tank : Red Sea Reefer 170 Return pump : Ecotech Vectra M1 Powerhead : Ecotech Mp40w Quiet Drive Skimmer : Reef Octopus 110sss Light : Ai Hydra26HD ato: tunze nano ato Salt: DD H2Ocean pro+ mods: stock ato to refugium mod (sicce 1.0 for pump) filter sock changed to shaker cup mod for filter floss Current livestock: Gladiator clownfish pair Leopard wrasse Full moon goby 5x sexy shrimp 3x peppermint shrimp designer zoa/palys torches leathers Bluespot clam Anemones sps And now onto the pictures! If you have any questions feel free to ask!

Hello all, I am new on this forum and this is the journal of my tank - RedSea Reefer 350

This came up in a PM suggestion for wider exposure, and including a download link as I had forgotten to reference the hosted STL's in my build thread. Anyone that has done testing with Red Sea or Hanna checkers will know what a pain drying out the cuvettes is. I've almost broke some a few times, and recently got a 3D printer.. so I designed and printed these: cuvette_holder2 by Kyl, on Flickr cuvette_holders by Kyl, on Flickr The STL files for both the Hanna and Red Sea versions (along with sizing test prints) are available to download on Thingiverse. One thing to note is that I'll be revising designs slightly when some more time becomes available. Temporary cap storage while drying will likely be included in a v2, but these currently work quite well for the main goal - securing the cuvettes while they dry out instead of falling and breaking. Happy printing and reefing!

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