After unexpectedly losing my father last year, I broke down the big system I had setup, it was just too painful to go into the basement fish room, and still is today, he would always come in and sit with me while I messed with things, come in to listen to music, and just to chat about life, going down there now is just this massive empty void. I now work full time from my home office, so I wanted to do something, take my mind off work when I am stuck in this prison, I mean house for 20+ hours a day. I needed to have a tank that had everything up here so I didn't have to go downstairs, I will still have my water tanks down there, but I am working on drilling a couple small holes in the wall for some tubing to run up, then I won't really need to go down there.
I picked up Jim's 525 XL today. I was going to get a Red Sea 300 from PR, but then both of my coils went out in the AC last week, so that was an expense I didn't want to have, then PR called and said there was a guy that wanted the 300 XL, so I went ahead and passed it on to him, then Jim's post popped up. I figured I would sell the lights and that would offset the cost for me and not make this investment too much....
Well... I forgot I got rid of all of my new bags of sand, all of my rock, my skimmers, and so on. I went ahead and called in a favor from one of my suppliers and got a killer deal on the Caribsea Rock with a stick that runs through it so even an idiot like myself can make the rook look half decent, I ordered 3 kits of that, should arrive Tuesday or Wednesday, the 5 bags of sand arrive Monday, the UPS guy will hate me this week. So I have just about everything for this system to get up and going.
MP40 - will arrive this week, need to order 1 more
MP10 x 2 (I think the glass it too thick, so I will sell these most likely, but would like to have on back wall)
Sicce Return Pump - Syncra SDC 7.0 WiFi Controllable Pump
Sand - 100 pounds of Special Grade Caribsea
Rock - Caribsea kit rock
Skimmer - Bubble Magnus (came with the tank, this will be sold and a Bubble King will be ordered)
UV - need to order a new one figures I just sold my other one a few weeks ago lol
Lighting - Noopsyche K7 V3 x 3 with Reefbrite Kits (going to have to make something special to make this work, they were designed to use the K7 V2)
Media Reactor - 2 x bubble king media reactors
Controller - Coralvue Hydros
I picked up Jim's 525 XL today. I was going to get a Red Sea 300 from PR, but then both of my coils went out in the AC last week, so that was an expense I didn't want to have, then PR called and said there was a guy that wanted the 300 XL, so I went ahead and passed it on to him, then Jim's post popped up. I figured I would sell the lights and that would offset the cost for me and not make this investment too much....
Well... I forgot I got rid of all of my new bags of sand, all of my rock, my skimmers, and so on. I went ahead and called in a favor from one of my suppliers and got a killer deal on the Caribsea Rock with a stick that runs through it so even an idiot like myself can make the rook look half decent, I ordered 3 kits of that, should arrive Tuesday or Wednesday, the 5 bags of sand arrive Monday, the UPS guy will hate me this week. So I have just about everything for this system to get up and going.
MP40 - will arrive this week, need to order 1 more
MP10 x 2 (I think the glass it too thick, so I will sell these most likely, but would like to have on back wall)
Sicce Return Pump - Syncra SDC 7.0 WiFi Controllable Pump
Sand - 100 pounds of Special Grade Caribsea
Rock - Caribsea kit rock
Skimmer - Bubble Magnus (came with the tank, this will be sold and a Bubble King will be ordered)
UV - need to order a new one figures I just sold my other one a few weeks ago lol
Lighting - Noopsyche K7 V3 x 3 with Reefbrite Kits (going to have to make something special to make this work, they were designed to use the K7 V2)
Media Reactor - 2 x bubble king media reactors
Controller - Coralvue Hydros
