Well, first off thanks to this club for being awesome. I have met more generous and knowledgeable people here than ever before.
Thanks for the nomination.
Here is my Red Sea Reefer 250
FTS
I’ve had the tank for exactly a year...almost to the day. I picked it up on April 12, 2018. This was a used tank and had some fish and a few corals but it wasn’t in the best shape and had been neglected a bit. But it was lest free and had no major issues so I saw an opportunity to get a nice tank without the ugly stage and swings of a new tank.
Here is is the day I moved it
I’ve made a bunch of changes over the year I’ve had it but am very happy now. Here’s the equipment list.
2 Hydra 26’s with custom mounts
1 AI Prime Fuge for growing chaeto
2 Vortech MP40’S
2 Vortech MP10’s
Reef Octopus Regal 150S Varios Skimmer
Reef Octopus automatic neck cleaner
BRS CO2 reactor
BRS mini media reactor with GFO
Reef Octopus various 3 (I think) return pump...It’s the first generation
2 cobalt 150W heaters
Apex Classic with Vortech module (WXM)
Apex DOS with DDR
Tunze 3155 ATO
Trigger Saphire 10g ATO container
2 Ecotech Battery backups in tandem hooked up to one MP40
Customized Red Sea sump with blue tide acrylics divider
Under the hood
For dosing I’m up to 70ml of b ionic 2 part per day to keep things going. I add magnesium when I see the need which is almost never thanks to b ionic
For feeding, I’ve been feeding Red Sea reef energy A and B every day when I feed the tank my custom mixture of rods food, reef roids, mysis, selcon, and reef nutrition phytoplankton, oyster feast and ROE. My auto feeder goes off 2 other times a day, which feeds Neptune’s cross over diet. I’ll switch to reef nutrition CDO when I run out...same stuff anyway.
I dose red seas trace elements base on calcium uptake every week.
In order to get a fuge with the limitations of Red Sea’s sump, I had blue tide acrylics make me a custom divider, and removed the stock filter sock holders. This gives me about a 7 gallon fuge. I also use a tee off my return pump as a manifold to run back into the fuge to add more flow. It shoots water along the bottom to keep detritus from settling. The other side feeds my GFO reactor.
I have packed this thing full of corals. I am very much in grow out mode now. I’ll keep certain corals trimmed while letting others grow to get the whole tank filled up. Here are some pics...