CookieRdReef
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My 180g reef tank is 1 year old today 
This is my second reef tank. The first was a 75g that was up for 1.5 years before I broke it down to start this one. I started this with mostly soft and few LPS with the intention of keeping is as easy as possible. Somehere along the way things went well and I added more SPS including some acros. My life is crazy busy with 4 young kids 8 and under so I don't pay as much attention to the tank as I would like sometimes.
Almost everything I do and use is on the "cheaper" side. The tank is a 6ft Reef Pro 180g which was less than half the price of the Red Sea and Waterbox of the world. My lights are $165 Nicrew 150w with AI HMS railing system. Pumps are 2 AI Nero 3s behind the rockwork, plus 2 Jerepet wavemakers. My skimmer is a Simplicity DC 240. I run carbon and have a refugium which I use a $30 Amazon LED to grow cheato, GSP, and some xenia. I dose a small amount of All4Reef daily. I don't have any kind of controller.
Most of my corals started as $10-30 frags from Aquasd or my LFS. I have 19 fish total including Yellow Tang, Convict Tang, Blue Tang, One Spot Foxface, Bluethroat Triggerfish. CUC includes 3 Cleaner Shrimp.
Hopefully I can update this thread on year 2
This is my second reef tank. The first was a 75g that was up for 1.5 years before I broke it down to start this one. I started this with mostly soft and few LPS with the intention of keeping is as easy as possible. Somehere along the way things went well and I added more SPS including some acros. My life is crazy busy with 4 young kids 8 and under so I don't pay as much attention to the tank as I would like sometimes.
Almost everything I do and use is on the "cheaper" side. The tank is a 6ft Reef Pro 180g which was less than half the price of the Red Sea and Waterbox of the world. My lights are $165 Nicrew 150w with AI HMS railing system. Pumps are 2 AI Nero 3s behind the rockwork, plus 2 Jerepet wavemakers. My skimmer is a Simplicity DC 240. I run carbon and have a refugium which I use a $30 Amazon LED to grow cheato, GSP, and some xenia. I dose a small amount of All4Reef daily. I don't have any kind of controller.
Most of my corals started as $10-30 frags from Aquasd or my LFS. I have 19 fish total including Yellow Tang, Convict Tang, Blue Tang, One Spot Foxface, Bluethroat Triggerfish. CUC includes 3 Cleaner Shrimp.
Hopefully I can update this thread on year 2
