Natural Blue's Red Sea Reefer 250 Build

gobble said:
Is the bucket topping off the ATO? If so what did you use to do it?
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The Brute trashcan next to the tank has my live rock cycling/curing. I'm not going to use the stock ATO. If you go back in my thread a little ways you'll see I bought a 16 gallon ATO container and Tunze Osmolator for topping off my RO water.

I plan on making the stock ATO into either a refugium or an algae scrubber. Just afraid to drill the glass!
 
The collection cup on the Skimz skimmer is making me rethink my purchase. It's impossible to get off, but I put a ton of grease on the o-ring so it's getting a little better. Still need to figure out how to cleanly manage all the cords, they are so long so even coiled up they're an eyesore.





 
Where did you get that 16g container for your ATO water? I have been looking for something like that to fit in my Innovative Marine Nuvo SR-120 stand.
 
A pair of Black Ice Clowns and 3 Turbo snails entertain me now. I did get a small diatom bloom on two rocks at opposite ends of the tank but the Turbos are knocking it out quick.



 
How do you like the gyre so far? I've been looking at it but I am leaning back towards an MP40qd. The neptune WAV looks cool but I've read its way too powerful for a reefer 250
 
drkcurrent said:
How do you like the gyre so far? I've been looking at it but I am leaning back towards an MP40qd. The neptune WAV looks cool but I've read its way too powerful for a reefer 250
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So far the Maxspect Gyre appears to be one of my best purchases. I love it. I've got it on pulse mode and I can't turn it all the way up for fear of the wave of water it creates topping the lip of the glass.
 
Well, I got busy and have neglected this thread so here is an update.

Skimz Skimmer - So far, I'm not impressed and it's really giving me fits. I plan to see if BRS will exchange it for another one or let me exchange for a Reef Octopus or Bubble Magus.

The Tunze ATO and my 16 gallon top off reservoir have been amazing. I can go 2 weeks I believe without doing anything. I went a week and a half but then I thought I should top off cause I'm not sure if it's good for 16 gallons to just sit there for two weeks. I wonder if I need a pump to keep it moving?

The new Kessil AP700 has been pretty rock solid so far and I'm playing with my light setup.

Livestock so far includes:

2 Black Ice Clowns - These guys will already come to my hands when I feed pellets.

Green Star Polyp - I could watch the GSP all day long flowing and it's growing like crazy.

3 Turbo Snails and 3 Trochus Snails - All doing a good job of cleaning.

1 Conch Snail - doing a good job keeping the sand clean

1 Starry Blenny - This guy has a lot of character. The wife and kids name him Merlin from the Disney movie Sword and the Stone. Lately, he's been chillin in the GSP.

Today, we added a beautiful FrogSpawn, green monitpor capricornis, a pink with green polyp stylophora.

I'm keeping the lights down low on deep blue right now so the iPhone takes terrible pics in the blue light but I'll add some better pics later.





 
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