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Awesome, I’d love to see pictures for inspiration.

Hi All, So as my wife and I and slowly doing renovations to the house, I had to shut down my Reefer 350 for the floors and paint to be finished in the living room, I am moving my livestock to a Nuvo as the tank was relatively young about 8 months. Equipment: Tank: Nuvo 20 Stand: Homemade Skimmer: Ghost DC skimmer Reactor: IM Minimax running GFO Heater: Cobalt Neotherm 100watt Powerhead: Vortech Mp10 Qd the plan is to tank a cup of sand from the old tank and a rock and some marine pure for to start the tank and move the clowns and coral over next Wed when the heater comes in from BRS. Here are are a few pics of stand and tank. Plan on making my first meeting Saturday and meeting many of you. Also im open to any recommendations and help along the way as a novice Reefer.

Thanks fro all your Info. I plan to get another eventually. Right now I'm just trying to get everything dialed in. I don't have a ton of corals in my current setup. but it will look like much less in the system haha

Just Curious how you like the Ice Cap Gyre. I am thinking of getting either the Maxspect or Ice Cap. Is yours loud at all?

I’m upgrading to a 4ft tank and want to get a new power head. I’m torn between the Gyre and MP40. Tank will be a mixed reef. I heard great things from both. I like the look of the Gyre but heard noise complaints. This tank going into the living room noise is a big factor but i awesome want it look good and function well. I’m looking and only getting one to start and possibly another later.

So I just pulled the trigger to upgrade my Red Sea Reefer to a 425xl I plan to use the rocks that I have but also buy 50lbs more. My question is I’d like to go with a 2-3 island effect in the reef. I have one island already epoxied and I love it so I’ll move that over. I am buy dry rock. Is it possible that I i deconstruct my other island add some new rock to it, and build it outside of the tank that I will still have enough beneficial bacteria or will that rock drying out cause a mini cycle. I have a block of marine pure. I’m just wondering if I can build it outside the tank, or if I should try to construct it with saltwater in the tank to not not lose any beneficial bacteria. 250 is about 6 months old.

So I'm planning the build for the larger Red sea Reefer, and I'm considering getting my feet wet w/ an aquarium controller. Possibly either the apex classic or the jr. Just want to see if any of you use one and think if I'd be happy with the jr, or will need to upgrade? I have currently have and will be using the Kessil 360we's and spectral controller, so I feel that the apex will be used for pump, powerheads, heater, possibly doser, etc. If you do use, what do you find to be the best features of the apex

Also with moving all rocks and some sand, and a marine pure block i should not go through cycle correct?

Awesome thanks for the advice, I’m going to be pulling the trigger, the 350 is 93gallon volume, my plan is to keep my skimmer: Deltec 1351 and 2 kessil a360we. I know I’ll need a bigger pump. Do you think the skimmer will be enough for that tank?

That’s not to bad, do I use any of the old water? Or make new saltwater? Can I move the rocks and run the old tank with no rocks for a day or so?

i am considering purchase a new tank, moving from a Red Sea Reefer 250 to 350 because the I got the okay from the wife to move tank and we have the perfect spot for a 4ft tank. Before I spend the money and buy the tank. Is there a theard on moving livestock rocks etc? I’d like to get the bigger tank, but I’m very hesitant with moving the live stock. I plan to use the same lights on the tank and all the rocks. Just looking to see how hard the process is?

Hi guys looking at picking up alkalinity and calcium Hanna checkers. Do you use and like them? Also for alkalinity there are 2 the alkalinity Ppm and alkalinity dkh which one should I get?

Thank you! New to this

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Awesome I’ll try that thanks

Is there anyone how knows how to rotate and make pictures bigger in the thread?

Here are a few pictures of the first livestock to go in the tank and start my reffing journey. In the tank we have a pair of clowns, a Mocha Clown and Bullethole Clown, that we’re doing great, then started fighting a little yesterday, but have seemed to work out there differences. The first pieces of coral which both cane farm exotic reef creations, a nuclear torch and a teal hammer. Everything seems to be doing great. Though my skimmer is making foam but most is clear wondering if that could be because of the low bio load. Phosphate is at 0 and nitrate at 5ppm.

Here are a few pictures of the process of setting tank up, leak testing, cord management, aquascaping etc. First picture shows tank set back up This picture is with all the equipment installed and running leak test! Thank god it passed! This picture shows False Wall I made to mount controllers and keep the cabinet clean. Here is when the tank first got wet with salt water and showing the Aquascape.

Since joining WAMAS a week ago, and new to the hobby, I figured I’d move my build thread over here as well as R2R. A little back story on me and the tank. I have previously been in the African Cichlids Hobby the last 4 years and have just sold all of tanks and live stock to dive head first into the reefing hobby. I have always wanted a reef tank and Actually had bought this tank 4 years ago. The tank was used only during MACNA when MACNA was in DC. I walked into my LFS and they had this gorgeous tank on the floor lightly used for a great price. So I made the impulse buy a bought the tank. When I bought the tank it came with a Eheim pump and tank. I had it setup as a Fowlr tank for about 6 months before moving and shutting it down. I am now in the process of buying equipment and setting it up as my dream tank. Equipment: Tank: Red Sea Reefer 250 Lights: 2 Kessil a360w-e, Goosenecks & Spectral Controller (Planned to go with AI Hydras, but 2 lightly used Kessil came up on my local Craigslist and got a great deal) Powerheads: 2 Jebao sw8’s ) I plan to put on the back wall but we will see how it goes) Pump: Eheim pump that came with tank Protein skimmer: Either Nyos 120 or Deltec sc1351 (would love to hear opinions on these) Sand: 30lbs of Tropic Eden Mini Flakes (plan to add some reef flakes when they come back in stock) Rock: 50lbs of ReefCleaners dry rock Salt: Bought a bucket Live Aquaria Salt Mix Heater: 200watt hydor heater from a previous Cichlid Tank

Hi everyone, new hobbyist from Annapolis. I have moved over to the reefing hobby, after being in the African Cichlid hobby for the last 4 years. I have a RedSea Reefer 250, my build thread on reef2reef can be found here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/1bitereefer-red-sea-reefer-250-build.332466/I’m excited to meet everyone and get help from all the local reefers.