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After 10 years of running my 20g Tall tank nonstop and dealing with all of it's design flaws, it's finally time for an upgrade. This time I properly designed things! Equipment: Tank: Innovative Marine EXT-50 Lagoon - 30x24x16 Stand: White Innovative Marine APS Lighting: Radion XR30 Pro (G2) with 120 degree wide-angle TIR lenses, 2x AI Prime 16HD Flow: Maxspect Gyre XF330 Sump: Trigger Systems Triton 26 V2 Return: Sicce Syncra Silent 2.0 Skimmer: Bubble Magus Curve 5 Elite ATO: Avast Marine with Aqualifter Temperature: Inkbird Controller connected to Eheim 200w Heater Dosing: Bubble Magus BM-T01 with BRS 2-part Salt: HW Marinemix Reefer Full Tank Shot (6/8/21):

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Some extra stuff. Everything but the sump is priced shipped to the lower 48. CLARISEA SK-5000 AUTOMATIC FILTER SYSTEM $250 Built, got it wet for 10 minutes but didn’t fit in sump. Roll is practically brand new. Sold Maxspect GYRE XF350 PUMP ONLY $100 Used for a week and it ended up being too powerful. Trigger Systems Ruby ELITE Sump 30x16x15 $200 Local pick up $240 shipped Used for 6 months.

Current FTS: (updating as progress is made) I started reefing a little over a year ago, I’ve learned a lot, had plenty of failures and successes but I believe I’ve learned from most of not all of my mistakes. My first tank was a trial of sorts and I feel that it’s run it’s course, pico tanks just weren’t my thing so when I realized I had the space for a larger system I started planning. This is roughly what I decided I wanted to do differently: - legit QT - sump - fuge - change maintenance habits: vacuum sandbed, test more frequently/have monitors to do that for me, wc on a more consistent schedule - apex This started 4 months ago? And this is my progress lol The stand finally got set up a week ago so now I can actually start working on some stuff. The tank on the right is gonna be my “QT” I will have dedicated separate tools and such so that proximity shouldn’t be an issue and this way I can enjoy that tank too. Maybe I’ll turn it into a frag tank at some point. It’s a Waterbox 15 AIO with stock return, 50w or 75w eheim, mp10 from old 20g, and a nanobox led. I’ll be transferring some live rock from my tank to seed it and soon after all my critters so I can shut down my old tank. Obviously tons more more to do and I don’t even have a display tank yet!! I’m working backwards and it’s kind of bugging me but I needed the QT set up to shut down my old tank and rearrange some furniture. The current plan is something like a 80g shallow, the UNS 120S (~70g) is probably what I’m going with but I am looking at custom tanks so I don’t have to drill it myself and can get a slightly larger/longer tank for the same price but I’m not sure that route will pan out. So I still need: - a tank!!! - apex + a few modules - skimmer - a hanger for the lights This is still gonna be a long build but I’ll be showing steps of the actual set up, I won’t really be listing all the equipment till it’s finalized unless there’s questions.

I split out the sump from the bundle I had listed and also put the Sump on Ebay here for $199 and you can get real time shipping quote as well. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Trigger-Systems-Crystal-Clear-Cube-18-Sump-Brand-New/273067891768?hash=item3f941d5c38:g:DcUAAOSw35Nagvi8