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Welcome All to HighEndOfTheLow's new build.
So new year, new house, new job, new tank, new thread!
Brief history: Uk based Reefer Couple, 12 years and 6 years experience respectively. Been largely quiet on forums for the past few years due to moving into rental accommodation, finally after ~3 years of renting we moved into our first place (September 17). Also landed a new job the beginning of November 17 finally gave us the opportunity to get a serious tank.
The previous serious tank was a 4 x 2 x 2 mixed reef / SPS Heavy.
(sorry its a grainy photo but its the only real one i have left )
Anyhow on with the new!
Tank:- Red Sea 750 XXL Deluxe (Delivery date 26th January 2018) (with net cover)
Light:- 4 x Hydra 26 HD's (to begin with) (ordered)
Flow:- 2 x Maxspect XF250 Gyres (ordered)
Return:- 1 x Maxspect Turbine Duo 9K (ordered)
Skimmer: Skimz SM163 (ordered)
This tank in honesty is going to be a lot of experimentation, a lot of new technologies compared to what we're used to and is the largest tank by a fair bit that we've owned; But I have a good LFS and friend who's played with pretty much all equipment from the cheap to the expensive not to mention a big SPS head this was his favourite combination of equipment.
The tank will end being SPS heavy with the odd softy/lps.
Stocking wise we'll merge our current tanks down into this one so currently:-
2 x Common Clowns (had them 10 years)
1 x Magnificent Foxface (had 4 months to control a small outbreak of caulerpa .sp)
1 x Possum Wrasse (had them ~5 years)
1 x Redbacked fairy wrasse (had ~3 years)
1 x Chalk Goby (had ~ 1 year)
2 x Spotted Mandarin (had the male ~4 years, had the female ~1.5 years)
Then the proposed plan is to throw in some fairy wrasse, anthias and a few tangs i'm in no real rush to stock it and let it evolve over time, we're more interested getting some fuzzy sticks back in.
Hopefully you'll enjoy.
HighEndOfTheLow.
So new year, new house, new job, new tank, new thread!
Brief history: Uk based Reefer Couple, 12 years and 6 years experience respectively. Been largely quiet on forums for the past few years due to moving into rental accommodation, finally after ~3 years of renting we moved into our first place (September 17). Also landed a new job the beginning of November 17 finally gave us the opportunity to get a serious tank.
The previous serious tank was a 4 x 2 x 2 mixed reef / SPS Heavy.
(sorry its a grainy photo but its the only real one i have left )
Anyhow on with the new!
Tank:- Red Sea 750 XXL Deluxe (Delivery date 26th January 2018) (with net cover)
Light:- 4 x Hydra 26 HD's (to begin with) (ordered)
Flow:- 2 x Maxspect XF250 Gyres (ordered)
Return:- 1 x Maxspect Turbine Duo 9K (ordered)
Skimmer: Skimz SM163 (ordered)
This tank in honesty is going to be a lot of experimentation, a lot of new technologies compared to what we're used to and is the largest tank by a fair bit that we've owned; But I have a good LFS and friend who's played with pretty much all equipment from the cheap to the expensive not to mention a big SPS head this was his favourite combination of equipment.
The tank will end being SPS heavy with the odd softy/lps.
Stocking wise we'll merge our current tanks down into this one so currently:-
2 x Common Clowns (had them 10 years)
1 x Magnificent Foxface (had 4 months to control a small outbreak of caulerpa .sp)
1 x Possum Wrasse (had them ~5 years)
1 x Redbacked fairy wrasse (had ~3 years)
1 x Chalk Goby (had ~ 1 year)
2 x Spotted Mandarin (had the male ~4 years, had the female ~1.5 years)
Then the proposed plan is to throw in some fairy wrasse, anthias and a few tangs i'm in no real rush to stock it and let it evolve over time, we're more interested getting some fuzzy sticks back in.
Hopefully you'll enjoy.
HighEndOfTheLow.