150g 10 months and going

jeffrey holloway · Jan 22, 2017

Here are a few pics of my 150 build. Hood and stand are DIY.
Tank: 150g starfire "glasscages"
Sump: Trigger emerald 39
ATO: Tunze 3155
Skimmer: started with Skimz SM 203/Now Lifereef
3 BRS reactors: Co2 scrubber/GFO/Carbon
BRS 6 stage RODI
Skimz 120 Zeovit reactor
Lights: 6 T5s/Kessils AP 700/2 Kessils 160 tuna blue added on later
Flow: 2 tunze 6095/2 tunze 6055/ Maxspect Gyre 250
Return: Reef Octopus Various 6
Control: Apex Gold; pm2, vdm, ASM-par meter, 2 PB8, 1 PB4
Dosing: Neptune DOS
Heat/cool: 2 finnex 500w heaters/ 1/2 hp penguin cooler
Corals and fish are doing great, I will post better pics of the tank after my son take some pics for me with his camera. best I could do with my phone camera. Tank look a lot better than these pics. I had a few bumps here and there all part of learning. Thanks everyone for all the valuable info I received over the last year.

Gator1970 · Jan 22, 2017

Looks good!

jsiker · Jan 23, 2017

Nice setup. I see you have a similar RODI unit and the exact same wash basin I'm using at home. How did you hook up the inline water to the RODI?

jeffrey holloway · Jan 23, 2017

The connection came with the RODI system. Ran the connector from my cold water line "PVC" to the sinks coldwater line flex tube.

xREEFINaintEZx · Jan 24, 2017

Awesome setup! Anything you can think of you that you would have done differently?

revhtree · Jan 24, 2017

Looking great!

Man I hate all the wires involved in a reef tank! Can't wait to see what you do with them all!

jeffrey holloway · Jan 24, 2017

"xREEFINaintEZx" I can't really think of anything that would have done different as for as the set up. I spent a lot of time deciding on the equipment, and everything has performed as advertised. I Look at this a a learning process that will have updates and changes as I go forward in the hobby. The only thing I can say that I could have done better is the QT process. I put things in my tank that never should have gotten in there. But on the brite side of things it taught me how to get them out also. I can't thank this site enough being there with the info that I needed to get through my bumps in the road.