Back in the hobby after almost a decade out. Building a red sea max 130d.

[Rusty_L_Shackleford]

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Love your collection of frags!!

Thanks! Iol im litterally typing this from the passenger seat while my wife and i are on a mini road trip to check out a couple LFS in another city that have cheap frags. Most of them were $5-$10. We went up to $25 for a few we really liked. Most of my gear was bought used. You dont have to break the bank to have a nice tank.

 

[dlaird76]

Hopefully find a few bargain beauties

 

[SeahawkMom]

This is a great thread! I still have my original Red Sea Max 130 that I purchased when they first came out, and still love it! Christmas 2019 I finally retrofitted the Steve's LED's in my hood. I switched to an Aquamaxx WS-1 skimmer, but kept the original as a back-up. I still use the first upgrade return pump Red Sea sent me. I added JBJ Mini Arctica Chiller 1/15 HP external chiller, and Tunze Nano 3152 ATO, and Red Sea ReefDose 4. I love the curved glass corners and the fitted hood. I keep looking at upgrading to the Reefer 200 G2, but then go back to old 130 because it looks so nice without the corner seams and has the closed hood. I do mainly LPS, and have old Fiji Rock from when I first started in the hobby over 25 years ago. Here's a video of my tank. (No Tang police comments please, I know I need to rehome my chubby Tang, he's grown in the past 3 years.).

 

[Rusty_L_Shackleford]

This is a great thread! I still have my original Red Sea Max 130 that I purchased when they first came out, and still love it! Christmas 2019 I finally retrofitted the Steve's LED's in my hood. I switched to an Aquamaxx WS-1 skimmer, but kept the original as a back-up. I still use the first upgrade return pump Red Sea sent me. I added JBJ Mini Arctica Chiller 1/15 HP external chiller, and Tunze Nano 3152 ATO, and Red Sea ReefDose 4. I love the curved glass corners and the fitted hood. I keep looking at upgrading to the Reefer 200 G2, but then go back to old 130 because it looks so nice without the corner seams and has the closed hood. I do mainly LPS, and have old Fiji Rock from when I first started in the hobby over 25 years ago. Here's a video of my tank. (No Tang police comments please, I know I need to rehome my chubby Tang, he's grown in the past 3 years.).

Thanks! Im loving the tanki love the fitted hood. Im not a fan of the open top and haning lights trend. Do you have the okd style steves leds? What percentage do yoy run the leds at? Currently have mind at 45%. Just introduced a couple starter sps up high but have a bunch of lps frags from midway down. My wife says we need another possibly bigger tank to go with this one so were passivly in the market fpr the right tank. Theres a red sea max 250 for sale not too far away that ive been eyeing but stuffing lights in the hood is a bit of a sticking point. I have a gen 3 radion but dont think it would fit without carving up the hood. I got really lucky with a used steves led retrofit from a fellow member here. Yours looks amazing btw.

 

[Rusty_L_Shackleford]

The tank is humming along. Im working on getting my auto doser dialed in now. I also added the yellow half bar goby ive had in QT. I have been buying up used equipment for a vage future build. The first batch i was just gonna buy the 3 wavemakers off him but then he offered to sell me everything for 175. Now im on the way home from picking up 4 x AI hydra 52 HD that i got for $150. I dont even really need it, but fortunately my wife is on board with picking up cheap gear and hoarding it for a future biggwr build.

 

[Rusty_L_Shackleford]

Recent tank shot

 

[Rusty_L_Shackleford]

Well, the wife I went a little over board at myrtle Beach frag fest last weekend and ended up coming home with over 20 frags. At one point we brought frags home, put them in the tank, then went back for more. The tank is looking pretty full. Good thing i just got a great deal on a 32 biocube and am in the process of setting it up.