WATERBOX AQUARIUMS REEF PRO 180.5 BUILD THREAD

Glad to see you on here! Have seen many of your videos but don’t use YouTube much but I’m here everyday and will be excited to follow along for the ride!
Hello Nick! Great to have you following along. I can’t wait to start adding fish then corals on this bad boy.
 
Hi there, just following up from the YouTube video. Awesome tank for sure. Looking forward to watching this tank come to life. Thanks for the great videos.

James
 
Hello Everyone!! this is my first time here as I am pretty new to the forum world. Id like to start by introducing myself, My name is Antonio also known as EAT SLEEP REEF on instagram and YouTube. I started the hobby about 3 years ago and slowly have evolved to this beautiful build I am about to embark. Id love to use this as a place you all can follow along this great build as well as share input and all in all have a great time. This new build is going to be a WaterBox 180.5. I have decided to run the original sump as I feel it has a pretty good layout and seems to have plenty of room for expansion for what I am trying to do. My plan for this tank will be a slight mix reef but really catering to SPS dominant as time goes on and the tank matures. I will be listing full specs below on what I plan to run and would love to hear your inputs.

SPECS
Tank - WaterBox 180.5
Sump - Stock sump
Return Pump - Vectra L2
Heater - Eheim 250w
Wave makers - Mp40 x2 on either end
Lights Radion Xr30 G5 Blue x3 with diffusers
Skimmer - GW5
ATS - Clear Water Cw100
Kalk Stirrer - Avas Marine K1
Calcium Reactor - Not sure what brand
ALK Tester - GHL KH Director
Controller - GHL ProFilux 4
Rock - CaribSea LIFE Rock
Sand - CaribSea live Special Grade
Cycling - Dr Tims one and only with ammonia too
Fish Food - Rods Food
Salt - Tropic Marin Pro
Other testers - Hanna Instruments

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Hi Antonio,
I've followed your YouTube channel since the beginning of JBJ.
Welcome to R2R man
 
Nice build.. I see that your thinking about upgrading your sump. What are you thinking of going with? I also have the 180.5 and leaning towards a geo build sump. But what Im looking forward to is how your going to change your plumbing... maybe I could pick your brain about that... since we have same tank.
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