JGarza's Red Sea Reefer 250 Build

DunkCityReefer · Nov 24, 2015

They keep getting better and better. Ready whenever man good luck with the rest of the build

Bong703 · Dec 20, 2015

I ordered the Reefer 250 and was wondering if anyone modified it to increase the sump size? Is that a bad idea? I'm thinking bigger sump more space without the clutter. Also I haven't seen anyone on here with a refugium sump for the 250

jgarza · Jan 14, 2016

Well it's been a while since I've updated this thread. I love looking at full grown tanks and then looking at mine makes me sad! I've since added some frags and some fish. Just taking things slowly at first before I go crazy on coral

The tank has been up for about 2 months now and going strong! I wanted this tank to be SPS dominant but the girlfriend isn't that big of a stick fan, go figure! I'm slowly but surely changing her mind. She loves anything that moves in the water like any new person to this hobby. That's what got us hooked in the first place right? Since I don't have all the room in the world I'm making sure I only add things that I love to take up the real estate. Anyways enough of the talking and here are some pictures.

FTS 1-14-15

Current fish list

Small Yellow Tang
Purple Firefish
Small Leopard Wrasse
Tailspot Blenny
More to come soon..

Current Corals

JF Suntan Digi
JF Fox Flame
RR Lady in Pink
Jerry Garcia Tenius
Red Planet
CC Needle in a Haystack
TCK Rainbow Infusion
BC Bananas Bananas Bananas
WWC Grafted Monti
USC Pinky the Bear
UC Insanity Rainbow
Rastas zoas
Meteor Shower
Loki Favia
Rainbow BTA

Current Equipment

BRS Reactor with ROX
Nyos Quantum 120
Ecotech Vectra M1
Ecotech MP10qd x2
Smart ATO

Under the tank

Side View

Some Coral Shots

$Daniella\'s Rock.jpg$

The last rock is the girlfriends rock she put what she likes on it! The yellow tang was being a photobomber as you can tell by the pictures. Thanks for looking!

revhtree · Jan 15, 2016

jgarza said:
Well it's been a while since I've updated this thread. I love looking at full grown tanks and then looking at mine makes me sad! I've since added some frags and some fish. Just taking things slowly at first before I go crazy on coral The tank has been up for about 2 months now and going strong! I wanted this tank to be SPS dominant but the girlfriend isn't that big of a stick fan, go figure! I'm slowly but surely changing her mind. She loves anything that moves in the water like any new person to this hobby. That's what got us hooked in the first place right? Since I don't have all the room in the world I'm making sure I only add things that I love to take up the real estate. Anyways enough of the talking and here are some pictures.

FTS 1-14-15

Current fish list

Small Yellow Tang

Purple Firefish

Small Leopard Wrasse

Tailspot Blenny

More to come soon..

Current Corals

JF Suntan Digi

JF Fox Flame

RR Lady in Pink

Jerry Garcia Tenius

Red Planet

CC Needle in a Haystack

TCK Rainbow Infusion

BC Bananas Bananas Bananas

WWC Grafted Monti

USC Pinky the Bear

UC Insanity Rainbow

Rastas zoas

Meteor Shower

Loki Favia

Rainbow BTA

Current Equipment

BRS Reactor with ROX

Nyos Quantum 120

Ecotech Vectra M1

Ecotech MP10qd x2

Smart ATO

Under the tank

Side View

Some Coral Shots

$Daniella\'s Rock.jpg$

The last rock is the girlfriends rock she put what she likes on it! The yellow tang was being a photobomber as you can tell by the pictures. Thanks for looking!

Your tank may not be full of coral but it sure has a great foundation for success! Great job!

jgarza · Jan 15, 2016

revhtree said:
Your tank may not be full of coral but it sure has a great foundation for success! Great job!

Thanks Rev! The shelf rock looks so white because I recently added it. Wanted the extra real estate.

jaysauce · Jan 20, 2016

What kind of frag rack are you using?

jgarza · Jan 20, 2016

jaysauce said:
What kind of frag rack are you using?

It's a frag rack from Zen Reef. They have some great acrylic stuff. It has pretty strong magnets and can be used on 1/2" glass I believe.

revhtree · Jan 20, 2016

So clean!

go29 · Feb 29, 2016

whats your opinion on the nyos skimmer? Haven't been able to find a lot of reviews on the 120 so curious how you like it.... GORGEOUS build !

jgarza · Mar 3, 2016

go29 said:
whats your opinion on the nyos skimmer? Haven't been able to find a lot of reviews on the 120 so curious how you like it.... GORGEOUS build !

Thanks! I really like it a lot. It's a great skimmer imo. Very quiet and pulls some nasty stuff. It's also easy to adjust to your liking. When I get a bigger tank I'm definitely going to go with another Nyos!