Hi everyone,
After doing a lot of reading and planning, I've finally gotten the time and stability (no more summer vacation's haha), to start my first reef aquarium. I've been keeping planted aquariums and breeding crystal red shrimp for a while, and will also be starting a new planted tank pretty soon. I might post some updates on that in this thread as well.
I was lucky and got a great deal on a red sea max 130 on craigslist a few months back, and just started setting it up a few weeks ago.
My current set up is mostly stock. I've replaced the stock skimmer with a Tunze 9002 skimmer and Stevie T's skimmer cup. I really regret not getting the media rack ( . I've got a Koralia nano pump in there that came when I bought the setup. I'll be replacing the bulbs in the next few days. I took out all of the media, and will stick in some chemi-pure elite in when my cycle is over. There is about 45 lbs of live rock in there, and 30 lbs of sand seeded with 5lbs of live sand.
I've aquascaped a few times, and I'm still not totally happy with what I have, but I might just leave it for now. I've learned a ton on this forum, thanks for all the info. Hopefully this works out haha.
Here is a picture of my RSM
Some planted tank stuff
After doing a lot of reading and planning, I've finally gotten the time and stability (no more summer vacation's haha), to start my first reef aquarium. I've been keeping planted aquariums and breeding crystal red shrimp for a while, and will also be starting a new planted tank pretty soon. I might post some updates on that in this thread as well.
I was lucky and got a great deal on a red sea max 130 on craigslist a few months back, and just started setting it up a few weeks ago.
My current set up is mostly stock. I've replaced the stock skimmer with a Tunze 9002 skimmer and Stevie T's skimmer cup. I really regret not getting the media rack ( . I've got a Koralia nano pump in there that came when I bought the setup. I'll be replacing the bulbs in the next few days. I took out all of the media, and will stick in some chemi-pure elite in when my cycle is over. There is about 45 lbs of live rock in there, and 30 lbs of sand seeded with 5lbs of live sand.
I've aquascaped a few times, and I'm still not totally happy with what I have, but I might just leave it for now. I've learned a ton on this forum, thanks for all the info. Hopefully this works out haha.
Here is a picture of my RSM
Some planted tank stuff