Strickland_673's 25g Reef Build

[Strickland_673]

Ok so it's been 2 years since I've had a SW tank, and since my freshwater just crashed, I now have a 25g (31X11X16) empty and screaming to be filled.

So the last time I had SW it was strictly FOWLR this time, once I upgrade my lighting I want to dip into the reef side of things.

So let's start with what i've done over the past month and a half:

So first I took the nuked and dried base rock that I had from my 55g Blow out and started to lay out some aquascaping. I know a lot of you wont like it due to it's symetrical shape.




So then I broke out some KRYLON FUSION satin black spray paint and went a little crazy.

Back of tank.


Intake tubes and collection cup for my POS skimmer (seaclone)


and probably the craziest was the canister of my Rena XP4


Then I super glued my canopy back together, since i hacked it apart from my FW when I had to fit the Hagen Glo in there, and gave it a nice clean coat of spray paint as well


After all that dried and cured for a day or two I then filled the tank with saltwater and let the salinity settle out, then I put my live rock in first and then the sand(20LB of live sand) instead of having the rock on top of the sand(which caused my last blow out). Sorry first pics are with my old FW light bulbs

Sorry no REAL cloudy pic.

One day in, running filter floss!

2 days in:


2 weeks in with new Geissemen Actinic + and Aquablue:



I had started the cycle by letting a couple of frozen shrimp rot in the tank, So then i added the first of my CUC. Some blue legged hermits.



Hope you guys and gals enjoy. More updates to follow.

Future upgrades:

Rapid LED lighting ~ 14-20 LEDS unsure of number i want yet.

Replace that POS seaclone!!!!!!!!!