WATERBOX AQUARIUMS REEF PRO 180.5 BUILD THREAD

[eatsleepreef]

I also ordered a 180.5 in black tho (it'll be in Thursday ). Thought I would drop in after seeing your you tube channel. also current water box 40.3 AIO owner!

Wow congrats! you will love it for sure.

 

[eatsleepreef]

I'm in the planning stages for a WB 180 or 220, and leaning hard towards the 220. Any major reason you went with the 180 over the 220? Thanks for this thread, I'll be paying close attention.

just felt the 220 would look to big in my living room. But honestly would have been fine.

 

[eatsleepreef]

New video is up. In this video I covered how easy it is to plumb these tanks.

 

[PaulyD88]

Hello for the Stirrer I am doing the avast marine. Will end up running the BRS Kalk for sure .

Oh ok nice yeah sucks brs only has the 4 pound bags of kalk in stock right now lol that would last a long butt time ha ha ha you think the brs kalk is better than brightwell?
How are you gonna power the scrubber? Manifold or its own pump?

 

[eatsleepreef]

I have to say that WaterBox goes above and beyond for the plumbing in this tank. I was happy to see a high quality Gate valve, smooth operating manifolds, multiple unions making the install san future maintenance really easy and lastly the use of a high quality and removable check valve.

Yup that's all of it

The glass overflow with the glass cover really sets this tank apart

 

[eatsleepreef]

Oh ok nice yeah sucks brs only has the 4 pound bags of kalk in stock right now lol that would last a long butt time ha ha ha you think the brs kalk is better than brightwell?
How are you gonna power the scrubber? Manifold or its own pump?

I’m sure the brightwell stuff is also good and yes for the ats a manifold would be sufficient. I recently switched to a PAX. But similar concept.

 

[fishybizzness]

Hello for the Stirrer I am doing the avast marine. Will end up running the BRS Kalk for sure .

It would be awesome if you did a video on setting up and plumbing the avast marine kalk stirrer! I have one that I'm going to be setting up and it would be great to see someone with experience going through the whole setup procedure!!!

 

[fishybizzness]

Hard to find good videos of actually setting up and filling up the stirrer!

 

[eatsleepreef]

It would be awesome if you did a video on setting up and plumbing the avast marine kalk stirrer! I have one that I'm going to be setting up and it would be great to see someone with experience going through the whole setup procedure!!!

Absolutely will have a video for sure.

 

[tonydig11]

I am also in the boat of just getting a new home and I have a great spot for my dream build. I will be following your progress for sure as I am still a few months away from starting.

 

[eatsleepreef]

I am also in the boat of just getting a new home and I have a great spot for my dream build. I will be following your progress for sure as I am still a few months away from starting.

Very nice. What tank you have in mind?

 

[PaulyD88]

So since you have the pax now, not gonna run the Clearwater scrubber then I guess?

 

[eatsleepreef]

So since you have the pax now, not gonna run the Clearwater scrubber then I guess?

Later I may as a comparison for sure.

 

[eatsleepreef]

New video is up


Building QT stand + Mistake with my 180.5

 

[eatsleepreef]

Skimmer was picked up. This is the new version of the GW being the DC version. From the looks of it it looks very nice and should be easy to adjust

 

[Rausch]

Awesome! Loving the YouTube videos! getting my 200 up in a few weeks and I am looking forward to the process , you are getting me inspired

 

[eatsleepreef]

Awesome! Loving the YouTube videos! getting my 200 up in a few weeks and I am looking forward to the process , you are getting me inspired

NICE!! what tank you end up going with

 

[KStatefan]

How hard will it be to remove that check valve to clean?

 

[eatsleepreef]

How hard will it be to remove that check valve to clean?

super easy its on a union on both ends. Takes less than a minute to remove.

 

[eatsleepreef]

So something I had never had space for was a QT tank. Now that I plan on keeping nicer fish and have the space I figured it was the best time to get one setup. I do plan to treat all fish with coper power for one month while also using General Cure. I am debating still on using prazi pro and if I should just use that vs GC.

So far I was able to get stand fully complete and use the pocket hole jig to make this part really easy.

Really happy with how this came out.

The final touch was to add some paint so It matches with my garage and also make sure it is nice and leveled. I have to say this whole project was very easy