Rrwilson1223
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Hi everyone,
We just bought a new home (Santa Rosa CA) last fall and decided it was time to upgrade our reef tank. Spent a great deal of time looking at tanks at the LFS and online. Finally settled on the Reefer 750 XXL. One small problem, they were on back order on almost every site I tried. Eventually, I was able to put in my order with FishTanksDirect[.]com. Within a week, John got back to me to let me know why the 750s were so hard to come by.
Turns out, RedSea had to redesign the cabinets and sumps. A little research online showed that the issue with the cabinets led to some tanks leaking. Of course, this made me a bit nervous. However, I decided to move forward. The tank I ordered has the white stand and includes the RS 90 lights.
Long story short, it took months to get the tank. Everyone at FishTanksDirect was awesome and kept me appraised on what was happening. RedSea had a couple of delays but made it up to those of us waiting with a couple hundred dollars worth of stuff.
Our old tank (110 gallon mixed reef with Kessil LEDs) meanwhile was waiting at my mother in laws house. Had the following housed there:
- Potter’s Angel
- Yellow Eye Kole Tang
- Hawaiian Toby Puffer (wife’s fish)
- Pair of Snowflake Clowns
- 1 very fat Blue Devil Damsel
- 1 bubble coral
- 4 small colonies of zoas
- 3 heads of a hammer Coral
- Refugium with chaeto
Gave up everything else with the move. Fortunately, I only lost a single fish with all the moving. Also, the new home is a mile away from the old tank so transition would be a lot easier.
I bought a hundred pounds of MarcoRock and placed it in a brute trash can with water and circulation. Added bacteria and started dosing pure ammonia for about 2 months. When the tank arrived, I had good readings from my test kits for ammonia and nitrate.
New tank is now up and running. I’ll be posting later with each step of this journey. The good news, I’m very happy and hoping to meet other reef nerds like myself.
I included a few images of the new setup.
We just bought a new home (Santa Rosa CA) last fall and decided it was time to upgrade our reef tank. Spent a great deal of time looking at tanks at the LFS and online. Finally settled on the Reefer 750 XXL. One small problem, they were on back order on almost every site I tried. Eventually, I was able to put in my order with FishTanksDirect[.]com. Within a week, John got back to me to let me know why the 750s were so hard to come by.
Turns out, RedSea had to redesign the cabinets and sumps. A little research online showed that the issue with the cabinets led to some tanks leaking. Of course, this made me a bit nervous. However, I decided to move forward. The tank I ordered has the white stand and includes the RS 90 lights.
Long story short, it took months to get the tank. Everyone at FishTanksDirect was awesome and kept me appraised on what was happening. RedSea had a couple of delays but made it up to those of us waiting with a couple hundred dollars worth of stuff.
Our old tank (110 gallon mixed reef with Kessil LEDs) meanwhile was waiting at my mother in laws house. Had the following housed there:
- Potter’s Angel
- Yellow Eye Kole Tang
- Hawaiian Toby Puffer (wife’s fish)
- Pair of Snowflake Clowns
- 1 very fat Blue Devil Damsel
- 1 bubble coral
- 4 small colonies of zoas
- 3 heads of a hammer Coral
- Refugium with chaeto
Gave up everything else with the move. Fortunately, I only lost a single fish with all the moving. Also, the new home is a mile away from the old tank so transition would be a lot easier.
I bought a hundred pounds of MarcoRock and placed it in a brute trash can with water and circulation. Added bacteria and started dosing pure ammonia for about 2 months. When the tank arrived, I had good readings from my test kits for ammonia and nitrate.
New tank is now up and running. I’ll be posting later with each step of this journey. The good news, I’m very happy and hoping to meet other reef nerds like myself.
I included a few images of the new setup.