BCRIBS Red Sea Reefer 170 Build Thread

Jerzyray · Aug 4, 2016

Great looking tank. Was wounding what live rock did you go with?

BCRIBS · Aug 4, 2016

Thanks! Ended up going with real reef rock. 35lbs

Jerzyray · Aug 4, 2016

BCRIBS said:
Thanks! Ended up going with real reef rock. 35lbs

Nice thank you. I just order the same tank.

BCRIBS · Aug 4, 2016

Jerzyray said:
Nice thank you. I just order the same tank.

Nice! I am really happy with it. I would recommend getting a little larger grain of sand then I have because when you crank the wave maker up it creates a vortex of sand!

Jerzyray · Aug 4, 2016

Ok I'll keep that in mind, the best part to me is putting the hole thing together

BCRIBS · Aug 4, 2016

For sure! Amazing what this little tank has added up to. Now that mine is all loaded up its about growth! Also putting together a mixing station soon.

Jerzyray · Aug 5, 2016

Love it!!!! I just set mine up last week in the garage..

BCRIBS · Aug 10, 2016

BCRIBS · Oct 10, 2016

Finished Water Station. Nice to have on demand rodi water.

revhtree · Oct 24, 2016

Nice job! How's the tank doing?

Clayton Jessup · Oct 24, 2016

Very pretty little tank! Very nice water station

that is quite the stack of yetis that you have wow

BCRIBS · Oct 24, 2016

Clayton Jessup said:
Very pretty little tank! Very nice water station that is quite the stack of yetis that you have wow

Thanks bud, I am a gear junkie, so reef tanks are right up my alley. Have a yeti for every type of situation, Camping, Boating, Hunting, fishing, beach, etc. Love those things!

TylerMoralez · Oct 24, 2016

Very nice tank! Love looking at the growth of the birdsnest.

BCRIBS · Oct 24, 2016

Thanks! I bought the birds nest prior to my dosing pumps and I ended up possibly burning it with alk fluctuations, Or at least that is my best guess. I pulled it out because it had receding. There was several points where it had fused to the rock and they are re-sprouting.. It should provide an interesting look once they start growing larger. Its the fastest growing coral in the tank so I am not too bummed.

pelphrey · Oct 24, 2016

Awesome build! That growth is amazing, so is that water change station!

BCRIBS · Oct 25, 2016

Thanks!

BCRIBS · Dec 27, 2016

Just set up the Apex JR. I wanted a basic controller to shut off dosing pumps in the event the PH spikes and shut off the heater if the temp gets to high. I still need to do some cord management, mount the display and install the leak detection probe. The alarms, Monitoring and email/sms features are a nice bonus.

y4ngel · Jan 4, 2017

What type and how many marinepure block(s) did you use and where did you put it? Are you able to take a picture of it? I'm setting up my 170 this coming month and need to decide on how much and which MarinePure block to get.

Chrisfish · Jan 4, 2017

BCRIBS said:

Beautiful tank

BCRIBS · Jan 4, 2017

y4ngel said:
What type and how many marinepure block(s) did you use and where did you put it? Are you able to take a picture of it? I'm setting up my 170 this coming month and need to decide on how much and which MarinePure block to get.

Hi! I went with the 8" X 8" X 1" then I sawed it into 6-8 pieces and I placed it underneath the auto top off right where the overflow tubes are in the sump stacked. They are really fragile so you will need to rinse well with rodi after you cut it down. I have a large bioload and with the live rock, sand bed and marine pure it seems to be handling it.