The Coral Reef Bar. Open for Business!

[reefle]

Hey guys, I figured it would be a good time to show my custom tank build to the world!

im just a hobbyist with no professional building experience so please bare with me. almost everything I did was from youtube or googling.

hope you enjoy!

8/1-8/10 building the stand, sump, setup







8/10-8/24

Creating Dryrock, putting up cabinet doors, Painting, Repainting, Setting up electronics

continued in comments!

 

[reefle]

8/10-8/24

Creating Dryrock, putting up cabinet doors, Painting, Repainting, Setting up electronics



8/24-9/14

Rock Setup and Cycling

 

[reefle]

9/15 to 10/1

added fish friends and some small frags.



10-1 to present

got a couple more radions, vortechs, also took a breakdown tank from someone on cragslist and added his family to mine!

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

Fantastic @reefle Cheers for starting this new thread and sharing !

 

[Pat24601]

Just wow!!! Extremely impressive! How long did that take you?

 

[reefle]

@Pat24601

building the stand took me about a week. my timeline is a little off above. as I was cycling I put together the laminate top, the canopy, painting, etc.

 

[SPR]

Very nice and looking forward to more pictures when you get chance.

How much water does it all hold as in what size is tank?

 

[reefle]

@SPR

160 gallon up top
30 gallon refugium gravity fed into a 40 gallon sump

footprint is 48x48x16