Hi Everyone

Bruttall · Feb 24, 2023

Hi everyone. Really new to reef and looking forward to learning much more. Also very much into DIY. I'd rather build it than buy it to be honest. Started with a 75 gallon Aqueon glass cage, 486gph pump on the sump filtering the water thru Seachem Matrix, bag of carbon, skimmer. Also have a 3100 gph pump on closed loop circulation. I went old school with this build because I had the pumps laying around and did not really have the money to buy another wave maker, the Ecotech MP40 on my cichlid tank broke my budget for a few months. I put the california style overflow box in the tank myself. Learning to cut glass was easier than I expected. Re-purposed a couple of old end tables for the stand and a 30g tall tank for the sump (to be replaced with a 20 long sooner or later). I'll apologize for the blue pictures now, I can't figure out how to set a filter right on my cellphone.

Current inhabitants include;
3 zoa frags, green star, green mushroom frag, acan frag, duncan frag, rose bubble tip anemone,
2 ocellarus clowns, pygmy cherub angel, neon dottyback and a royal gramma.
12 snails, 6 hermit crabs and a peppermint shrimp.
Tank is about 7 weeks old I guess, 30% water change 2x weekly still. will taper back to once a week in another 3 ior 4 weeks.

Yeah, I should probably mention I am already looking at a 7' x2' x2' tank to upgrade the reef tank. Why? My first tank was a 55g cichlid tank, I went to a 300g from there, built a wall in front of it. I love Big Tanks, you can do so much with them.

vetteguy53081 · Feb 24, 2023

Fish Styx · Feb 24, 2023

Greetings and welcome to the reef!

marcinpolak · Feb 24, 2023

Zach B · Feb 24, 2023

Welcome

tbrown · Feb 24, 2023

Bruttall said:
Hi everyone. Really new to reef and looking forward to learning much more. Also very much into DIY. I'd rather build it than buy it to be honest. Started with a 75 gallon Aqueon glass cage, 486gph pump on the sump filtering the water thru Seachem Matrix, bag of carbon, skimmer. Also have a 3100 gph pump on closed loop circulation. I went old school with this build because I had the pumps laying around and did not really have the money to buy another wave maker, the Echotech MP40 on my cichlid tank broke my budget for a few months. I put the california style overflow box in the tank myself. Learning to cut glass was easier than I expected. Re-purposed a couple of old end tables for the stand and a 30g tall tank for the sump (to be replaced with a 20 long sooner or later). I'll apologize for the blue pictures now, I can't figure out how to set a filter right on my cellphone.

Current inhabitants include;
3 zoa frags, green star, green mushroom frag, acan frag, duncan frag, rose bubble tip anemone,
2 ocellarus clowns, pygmy cherub angel, neon dottyback and a royal gramma.
12 snails, 6 hermit crabs and a peppermint shrimp.
Tank is about 7 weeks old I guess, 30% water change 2x weekly still. will taper back to once a week in another 3 ior 4 weeks.

Yeah, I should probably mention I am already looking at a 7' x2' x2' tank to upgrade the reef tank. Why? My first tank was a 55g cichlid tank, I went to a 300g from there, built a wall in front of it. I love Big Tanks, you can do so much with them.

Welcome to Reef2Reef! Being into DIY, this is the place for you. There's a ton of knowledgeable people here that do all kinds of amazing and interesting DIY project threads.