Steve's Reef 265g Build

[steveb]

Waiting is the hardest part. More time to plan.

Where are you planning on picking up livestock from around our area?

In case I missed it, which leds?

Almost there!

Some of the local stores, online, most anywhere lol...

MarsAqua 5x165w leds + t5

 

[steveb]

It won’t win any beauty contests but I put the divider in for the refugium.

 

[steveb]

Cleared up FINALLY while I was out of town!

Can I say THIS sucks... and I will most likely be bat crap crazy by the time I’m done..

 

[steveb]

Finally done. Ran out of the siporax and decided to use some marine pure balls I had.

 

[steveb]

There be salt water in the sump!

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[Flippers4pups]

Looks awesome!

 

[Flippers4pups]

What corals are you planning to get?

 

[steveb]

It’s going to be mixed. I have some sps and lps in a couple of frag tanks that will go in first.

Have been struggling with the lps side ever since I went into the hospital a little while back. Probably done 6 x 50% water changes now but the chalices keep receding. Very frustrating.

 

[Bryson.bobby]

Great looking setup

 

[steveb]

So a long story....

I have a fish room that uses APEX classic. Either lightning or bad network switch port took out the ethernet interface on it. So I had to pull my classic off this tank and load the programming into it for the fish room.

Received my replacement APEX from Neptune and have it hooked up and partially programmed now. Still moving things back to the EB8's.

However I thought I would get cute and add reed switches to the doors so the APEX can turn on cabinet lighting auto-magically when a door is opened. That is four hours of my life I wish I could get back.

What a pain in the rear mostly due to my aged eye site and lighting trying to screw those tiny screws in for the switches.

 

[steveb]

Also starting to think the 2 MP60's may be too strong if I want sand in the tank.

 

[Michael Naegeli]

Awesome build bro! If u gonna get rid of the 60’s for a good price I may be interested for my 6 ft Rsr... my 40’s aren’t getting done well enough... thinking of adding a couple 60’s along w the 40’s for some serious flow

 

[steveb]

Awesome build bro! If u gonna get rid of the 60’s for a good price I may be interested for my 6 ft Rsr... my 40’s aren’t getting done well enough... thinking of adding a couple 60’s along w the 40’s for some serious flow

Bare bottom?

 

[steveb]

Oh I also purchased some macro algae today. Going to put it in the sump and see what it does. If it starts declining I will throw into my fish holding tank.

 

[Michael Naegeli]

Bare bottom?

Nope 2” sand bed my 40’s full tilt can’t help keep sand clean at all, especially after a couple years of use

 

[steveb]

20% on the 60’s. The 2 40’s in the back aren’t even powered up.

I just switched one pump to anti-sync last night. I need to move the sand back and see what happens now.

 

[Michael Naegeli]

Wow... crazy! They will lose some steam after a while... good luck w ur adjustments...

 

[steveb]

Had some help this evening. Made some nice progress. Refugium light installed. Auto-water change plumbed. General cleanup and putting things back on the Apex.

Some free loaders took up residence. Said they do me a solid testing things out and helping with the cycle.

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[steveb]

Hooked up doors and float switches to break out box. Pretty neat to open the cabinet doors and have the lights turn on. ;Happy

 

[steveb]

added:
amphipods, copepods, macro algae
hybrid black tang
black cap basslets