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I'm setting up a brand new tank and want to invite you for a ride. As with my previous builds, I try to document in both diary and video formats. Pictures are are must.
Quick intro: I live in Toronto, Canada. You may have seen two of my previous tanks: Winterfell Reef (100 gallons) and Pragmatic Reef (180 gallons). There's a number of videos on the internet for both of them. While I'm still enjoying Pragmatic Reef, for over a year now I've wanted to have a second tank, much smaller, something that would host only my most special corals.
The goal for this tank is the following: have a small tank that can be moved if needed that will serve as a backup for my most valued possessions, something is easy to maintain and that will give me an opportunity to try out different equipment than on my main tank. I also want to try a few additives from a few companies and see their effect on the tank's inhabitants.
The vision for this tank is an elevated aquascape, modular, easy to work on and access. Lots of places for fish to hide in. This time around I'm going with lots of tiny fish - the tank will look busy, but primarily with various vibrant little fishies.
As you can see, the goal and vision for this tank is very... practical. Hence the name of the reef and the build thread. I plan to document this on the forum as well as on my YouTube channel.
I will talk more about the equipment in my next posts, but for now let's start with my choice of aquarium.
Originally I was planning to do a custom build as usual, but on a smaller tank the cost is too prohibitive. Plus at this time I did not want to spend too much time designing the stand, sump, etc. I've decided to get something pre-assembled and that comes as a package. After some thinking I ended up choosing a tank from Red Sea - one of their Red Sea Reefer series, a 250 model. I like its length of 36'', the front-to-back is only 20'', which is pushing it, but I can live with it. Their small overflow, the quality of that stand and silent design is what caused me to make up my mind.
So a few days ago I've picked up the tank and immediately dove right into it.
Let's see how it will turn out. In the next post I will talk about my equipment choices.
P.S. My Pragmatic Reef was picked as Reef Central's Tank of the Month in March 2016.
Quick intro: I live in Toronto, Canada. You may have seen two of my previous tanks: Winterfell Reef (100 gallons) and Pragmatic Reef (180 gallons). There's a number of videos on the internet for both of them. While I'm still enjoying Pragmatic Reef, for over a year now I've wanted to have a second tank, much smaller, something that would host only my most special corals.
The goal for this tank is the following: have a small tank that can be moved if needed that will serve as a backup for my most valued possessions, something is easy to maintain and that will give me an opportunity to try out different equipment than on my main tank. I also want to try a few additives from a few companies and see their effect on the tank's inhabitants.
The vision for this tank is an elevated aquascape, modular, easy to work on and access. Lots of places for fish to hide in. This time around I'm going with lots of tiny fish - the tank will look busy, but primarily with various vibrant little fishies.
As you can see, the goal and vision for this tank is very... practical. Hence the name of the reef and the build thread. I plan to document this on the forum as well as on my YouTube channel.
I will talk more about the equipment in my next posts, but for now let's start with my choice of aquarium.
Originally I was planning to do a custom build as usual, but on a smaller tank the cost is too prohibitive. Plus at this time I did not want to spend too much time designing the stand, sump, etc. I've decided to get something pre-assembled and that comes as a package. After some thinking I ended up choosing a tank from Red Sea - one of their Red Sea Reefer series, a 250 model. I like its length of 36'', the front-to-back is only 20'', which is pushing it, but I can live with it. Their small overflow, the quality of that stand and silent design is what caused me to make up my mind.
So a few days ago I've picked up the tank and immediately dove right into it.
Let's see how it will turn out. In the next post I will talk about my equipment choices.
P.S. My Pragmatic Reef was picked as Reef Central's Tank of the Month in March 2016.
