Good evening folks,
A little background of mine is 12 years ago I kept a 65 gallon reef tank set up for a few years and loved the whole process. My ex kept it in a divorce, thats a different story.... Anyway fast forward until now and I have been wanting another reef tank since, but have been moving around so much the last 8 years Ive just been afraid to have another only to break it down and move. Waiting around for years got the best of me and since these new AIO's are looking so good I picked up an RL 45. I still havent got it set up yet, but pretty much have everything ready to go. My lighting system will be a Hydra 26, I got a cadlights skimmer, innovative marine minimax reactor, jbj ato and a few other little things. Im waiting until mid week to get ro water half off at the lfs.
At first I wanted to go with live rock, but decided against it so I could take the time and build the scape I really wanted. So I picked up 30 lbs of marco rock locally and have been working on that pretty much all day. I paid a few cents more per lb, but was ok with it because I got to pick my pieces. Here is what I have came up with
I used jb water weld to hold the smaller pieces together so I could get it from the floor to the tank easily. At least that's what I'm hoping. I still have a few other things to do like come up with some way to hang my light and get a pump for the ATO, but hopefully I will get the tank together and cycling by mid week. I plan to keep a few fish, maybe a clown or 2 for the kids and I personally want to pair up a goby and pistol shrimp. Other than that I want to keep it mostly reef. I will post pics as things start coming together.
Anyways, just wanted to introduce myself and get started with the forum. Thanks for all the great info on here!
A little background of mine is 12 years ago I kept a 65 gallon reef tank set up for a few years and loved the whole process. My ex kept it in a divorce, thats a different story.... Anyway fast forward until now and I have been wanting another reef tank since, but have been moving around so much the last 8 years Ive just been afraid to have another only to break it down and move. Waiting around for years got the best of me and since these new AIO's are looking so good I picked up an RL 45. I still havent got it set up yet, but pretty much have everything ready to go. My lighting system will be a Hydra 26, I got a cadlights skimmer, innovative marine minimax reactor, jbj ato and a few other little things. Im waiting until mid week to get ro water half off at the lfs.
At first I wanted to go with live rock, but decided against it so I could take the time and build the scape I really wanted. So I picked up 30 lbs of marco rock locally and have been working on that pretty much all day. I paid a few cents more per lb, but was ok with it because I got to pick my pieces. Here is what I have came up with
I used jb water weld to hold the smaller pieces together so I could get it from the floor to the tank easily. At least that's what I'm hoping. I still have a few other things to do like come up with some way to hang my light and get a pump for the ATO, but hopefully I will get the tank together and cycling by mid week. I plan to keep a few fish, maybe a clown or 2 for the kids and I personally want to pair up a goby and pistol shrimp. Other than that I want to keep it mostly reef. I will post pics as things start coming together.
Anyways, just wanted to introduce myself and get started with the forum. Thanks for all the great info on here!
