Hello all,
My name is Dave. I am not new to R2R, I just don't post much.
We recently put money down on a new house, and I used it as an opportunity to build my dream tank - well, really close. I had a DSA105 for about a year with some pretty decent success with SPS. I knew that if I had to move a tank, I would prefer to sell the 105 and upgrade. Of course I started out thinking that I would use a lot of the same equipment from the 105 however a nice reefer came over and gave me a really fair offer for everything, so I accepted it. We moved the tank to his house in October and the guy was nice enough to give me my fish and some corals back when my new tank was set up (which is cool because the pair of clownfish were my first fish purchase ever, 4 years ago, and they are still going strong)!
I started out looking at a custom tank, 72x30x24. Of course I reached out to every builder for quotes and was blown away by the 5K+ quotes from most of them. Right as I was about to pull the trigger on a tank from a builder DSA announced they were going out of business. I am in AZ and DSA has a distributor here, so the local distributor was blowing the DSA tanks out. I wanted a 6 FT tank, and knew I wanted more than 24 inches front to back (especially with the giant DSA overflow box - which I eliminated...), so the 175 PRO was perfect. I picked it up for an unbelievable price (granted, there is no warranty, but that was the decision I made).
A quick list of the components of the tank:
DSA 175G
Synergy Reef Overflow
Reef Octopus DC5500 Return Pump
Reef Octopus Elite 200 INT Skimmer
(2) Vortech MP40wQD
(3) Kessil 360W
(4) 80W T5's - LET retrofit kit
Stand - DIY (This was the most important thing for our brand new house - I had a cabinet color and style I was trying to match, I got really close, but not exact. Close enough to make the wife happy, so that was important.
Trigger Systems Tide Line 48
Apex System (this will control EVERYTHING of course)
(2) Ehiem Jager 200W heaters - Ive had really really good luck with these, and they always say if you find something that works, stick with it.
BRS Pukani (purchased it for Black Friday sale, it has been curing ever since)
That pretty much sums things up - lets get to some progress pics (yes, there are ALOT).
My name is Dave. I am not new to R2R, I just don't post much.
We recently put money down on a new house, and I used it as an opportunity to build my dream tank - well, really close. I had a DSA105 for about a year with some pretty decent success with SPS. I knew that if I had to move a tank, I would prefer to sell the 105 and upgrade. Of course I started out thinking that I would use a lot of the same equipment from the 105 however a nice reefer came over and gave me a really fair offer for everything, so I accepted it. We moved the tank to his house in October and the guy was nice enough to give me my fish and some corals back when my new tank was set up (which is cool because the pair of clownfish were my first fish purchase ever, 4 years ago, and they are still going strong)!
I started out looking at a custom tank, 72x30x24. Of course I reached out to every builder for quotes and was blown away by the 5K+ quotes from most of them. Right as I was about to pull the trigger on a tank from a builder DSA announced they were going out of business. I am in AZ and DSA has a distributor here, so the local distributor was blowing the DSA tanks out. I wanted a 6 FT tank, and knew I wanted more than 24 inches front to back (especially with the giant DSA overflow box - which I eliminated...), so the 175 PRO was perfect. I picked it up for an unbelievable price (granted, there is no warranty, but that was the decision I made).
A quick list of the components of the tank:
DSA 175G
Synergy Reef Overflow
Reef Octopus DC5500 Return Pump
Reef Octopus Elite 200 INT Skimmer
(2) Vortech MP40wQD
(3) Kessil 360W
(4) 80W T5's - LET retrofit kit
Stand - DIY (This was the most important thing for our brand new house - I had a cabinet color and style I was trying to match, I got really close, but not exact. Close enough to make the wife happy, so that was important.
Trigger Systems Tide Line 48
Apex System (this will control EVERYTHING of course)
(2) Ehiem Jager 200W heaters - Ive had really really good luck with these, and they always say if you find something that works, stick with it.
BRS Pukani (purchased it for Black Friday sale, it has been curing ever since)
That pretty much sums things up - lets get to some progress pics (yes, there are ALOT).
