1bitereefer Red Sea Reefer 250

[1bitereefer]

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

[1bitereefer]

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.

Edited December 13, 2017 by 1bitereefer

[1bitereefer]

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.

[1bitereefer]

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

[YHSublime]

Tanks looking good!

 

I really like the Red Sea tanks, they are gorgeous. I use a 3rd party application (Flickr) to add my photos, I've not learned how to utilize our internal one.

[Origami]

It looks like you're attaching photos to your post. You'll quickly run out of storage space doing that. As YHSublime said, use a hosting service like Flickr and embed the image link here. It saves us server space and is easier for you overall. Another alternative is to set up a WAMAS gallery (from your profile) and embed links to your gallery image here. Those won't count against your post storage space.

[1bitereefer]

It looks like you're attaching photos to your post. You'll quickly run out of storage space doing that. As YHSublime said, use a hosting service like Flickr and embed the image link here. It saves us server space and is easier for you overall. Another alternative is to set up a WAMAS gallery (from your profile) and embed links to your gallery image here. Those won't count against your post storage space.

Awesome I’ll try that thanks

[1bitereefer]

https://flic.kr/p/EmFfu7 Edited December 14, 2017 by 1bitereefer

[Origami]

Nice try. But the way that you embed a photo is a tiny bit more involved than just copying and pasting the share link. Instead, select the BBCODE tab and copy that code and paste it here.

If you do that, you'll get both the picture and any caption data that you posted. However, if you only want to embed the image, delete everything except for the image (img) tags and everything between them.

For example, the code for your flickr image looks like this:

 

 <url=hxxps://flic.kr/p/EmFfu7><img>hxxps://farm5.staticflickr.com/4528/25175545198_5816b8ee4d_n.jpg</img></url><url=hxxps://flic.kr/p/EmFfu7>Untitled</url> by <url=hxxps://www.flickr.com/photos/158057194@N07/>Jason Messineo</url>, on Flickr

 

Note that I've changed the square brackets [ and ] to angle brackets < and >, and the https to hxxps to not confuse the forum software and show you what you should do.

 

See the bold, blue underlined text? That's the stuff that you want to keep. Delete everything else. Once you do that, you'll be left with the embedded image only without all the other stuff.:

[1bitereefer]

Thank you! New to this