Harold's Acrolandia Reefer 350

tux67 · Mar 14, 2016

I am new-ish to the hobby and after 6 months with a nano, I have taken the plunge and bought the Reefer 350. Any advice would be gratefully received.

First questions (of many I suspect). How many bags of sand. I am in the UK so I need to convert this to KG. [emoji3]

TheHarold · Mar 14, 2016

tux67 said:
I am new-ish to the hobby and after 6 months with a nano, I have taken the plunge and bought the Reefer 350. Any advice would be gratefully received.

First questions (of many I suspect). How many bags of sand. I am in the UK so I need to convert this to KG. [emoji3]

I was feeling generous so converted it for you, 45.3592 kilograms!

Here is my huge photoshoot!

Robink · Mar 14, 2016

Looks nice. Did you have any problems during the transfer?
I just got a Reefer. Didn't set it up yet because I have to move my 75 gallon. I have a lot of corals, mostly sps and zoas. Was going to have both tanks running at the same time but that's a lot in my living/dining room.
Like the refugium setup.

TheHarold · Mar 14, 2016

Robink said:
Looks nice. Did you have any problems during the transfer?
I just got a Reefer. Didn't set it up yet because I have to move my 75 gallon. I have a lot of corals, mostly sps and zoas. Was going to have both tanks running at the same time but that's a lot in my living/dining room.
Like the refugium setup.

No issues during the transfer. I ran the Reefer 350 with 100lbs of new live sand for a week with some dirty filter floss and the skimmer on to get the bacteria going and skim out the new sand junk and then just transferred everything over

Robink · Mar 14, 2016

Great!! Thanks.

TheHarold · Mar 14, 2016

Robink said:
Great!! Thanks.

No problem! Enjoy

tux67 · Mar 16, 2016

TheHarold said:
I was feeling generous so converted it for you, 45.3592 kilograms!

TheHarold · Mar 21, 2016

Its going fantastic!

TheHarold · Mar 23, 2016

Anyone?

revhtree · Mar 24, 2016

Very nice job!

TheHarold · Mar 24, 2016

revhtree said:
Very nice job!

Thanks! I thought my post was invisible for a bit

go29 · Mar 24, 2016

Love your build! How do you like the aquamaxx co-1 skimmer? I'm thinking about using one on my new build and seems like yours is keeping up with the tank.

maroun.c · Apr 2, 2016

tank looks very neat can't wait tonsure it after ur frags have grown.

TheHarold · Apr 16, 2016

TheHarold · Apr 16, 2016

go29 said:
Love your build! How do you like the aquamaxx co-1 skimmer? I'm thinking about using one on my new build and seems like yours is keeping up with the tank.

It works great! Once set I haven't adjusted it at all, gets nice dark skimate all the time.