Nice! Where are you at? As far as to just have it ready to put water in it and start cycling, really not much. I have my sump plumbing all dry-fit, I have to take it apart now and glue it all together, I want ti add a total of 4 reef octopus octopulses pumps on the back wall, 2 on each side of the overflow which will be controlled off a hydros wave engine, still need to buy the octopulses and the wave engine. I also need to get all of my controllers and what not mounted and cords ran neatly into my wireways that I still need to mount on what I’m calling my control wall above my sump. And then my ocean direct sand to have a 2 inch sand bed and I’d also like to get 20-25lbs of KP aquatics live rock and about 5-10lbs of Australian live rock to work into my aquascape to help seed the tank along with the ocean direct sand. BUT I’m going to want to place that live rock in a separate tank for at least a week or two to try and make sure it didn’t come with anything that will turn into a disaster down the road like aiptasia or make fish go missing like gorilla crabs or mantis shrimp. Then work it into the aquascape and then put the sand in and begin filling with water and start cycling.Looks great. If u need any help I’m semi local. It seems a lot of reef guys are also car guys. What else are you waiting on?
But past that, I still need to buy lights, I’m going with 3 kessil a500x’s and then I’ll still need a uv which I’m going with pentair. And a custom clear screen top lid for the tank made by LidYourReef (ReefinAintEzy on Facebook). But I don’t need that stuff just to have the tank cycling. But definitely want to have that stuff obviously for when the fish and corals go in.