I ended up finding work in the city I currently am in so I chose to upgrade my system. Here’s a quick picture of what’s in the works.
New Reef Build
- Thread starter Lepisosteus
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Whoa! Beautiful equipment. Wish I had that in my budget right now. Will be watching to see how this turns out!
Mixed reef. Closest to the overflow on the left there will be 3 mp40s. SPS will dominate rock structure on the left and progress out to LPS the softies. Still plan to add 20-30lbs of live rock
Looks awesome!
If you don’t mind, could you try to keep track of your budget and let us (me) know how much everything is running? I’m very interested in starting a reef tank at some point, but have no idea what kind of costs I’m looking at.
If you don’t mind, could you try to keep track of your budget and let us (me) know how much everything is running? I’m very interested in starting a reef tank at some point, but have no idea what kind of costs I’m looking at.
Hahaa. If you insist. My last reef I can tell you I set up with top of the line equipment for $2500. It was 80 gallon bowfront, radion lights, mp pumps etc. I hunted down deals to piece it together, always swapped for better equipment. I sold that reef for $6000 which allowed me to purchase this setup. Price in CDN$$, “*” indicates I already owned it so it carried over to the new build. So far:
Red Sea reefer 650 deluxe system: $6500
3 Ecotech mp40 WQD: $1650*
Ecotech Vectra m1: $550*
Apex 2016 with WAV wavemakers: $1750
Vertex omega 200I skimmer: $1000*
Rock: $500*
RODI water unit: $200*
Coral: I estimate my total will be around $2000
Salt: $150 initial
Refractometer: $30
Total as of today:
It was either this or a custom acrylic. Didn’t want to go custom acrylic as I would have to tear down the tank (cut it apart) when I move out of my apartment. I will likely be posting a few upcoming custom acrylic builds though.
