Matt Cole
Community Member
So the last two years have been crazy as my family has been in North Dallas while I've been working in San Antonio and Austin, living in apartments and commuting up on weekends. My wife has been the daily keeper of my Reefer 250 and mad props to her, never suffered a casualty. I couldn't stand not having a tank to come home to so I set up a Reefer 170 to come home to, and have my slice of reef with me. The grand plan was to get my son graduated and build a house on some land I bought outside San Antonio and I already had house plans and drawings for a 400g peninsula complete with fish room. Unfortunately life and in this case Covid squashed that temporarily and although I have my family all back under one roof, I'm in a rental house in Austin. I decided I would not be deterred on my aquarium plans however and ordered my "growing out tank" to consolidate my to tanks and have my, albeit scaled back, peninsula reef. I ordered a Waterbed 6025 at the end of May and to my surprise was delivered within two weeks.
My plan was to consolidate all my fish, most coral and some of my rock and build the rest of the rock work with Caribsea reef rock. I will give all credit to @reefdudes for his light setup on his tank, I completely copied his build. Here is the equipment list:
Tank and stand : Waterbox 6025. 60x25x24
Sump: Waterbox for now... thought about having Geosreef make me one later
Skimmer : Deltec 1500i
Return : Vectra L2
Flow: 2 Ecotech mp40 and one Maxspect Gyre
Heaters: BRS Titanium
Lights: 3 Radion XR15 G5 Pro...with setup to add a fourth as needed
Apex controller with ATO, Dos and dosing tanks moved from my 250
Two Tunze Eco lights for Cheato
Extra Hydra 26 I mounted over refugium area for use as frag system
The rock work was put together with Marcorocks cement and that stuff was awesome. Really happy with the way those turned out. I let the tank cycle using Fritz Turbo 9000 to give me a boost and have had the tanked stocked now for a week. Hope you enjoy the pics and if anyone is in the Hill Country of Texas and would like a complete setup on a Reefer 250 I will be posting it on marketplace.
My plan was to consolidate all my fish, most coral and some of my rock and build the rest of the rock work with Caribsea reef rock. I will give all credit to @reefdudes for his light setup on his tank, I completely copied his build. Here is the equipment list:
Tank and stand : Waterbox 6025. 60x25x24
Sump: Waterbox for now... thought about having Geosreef make me one later
Skimmer : Deltec 1500i
Return : Vectra L2
Flow: 2 Ecotech mp40 and one Maxspect Gyre
Heaters: BRS Titanium
Lights: 3 Radion XR15 G5 Pro...with setup to add a fourth as needed
Apex controller with ATO, Dos and dosing tanks moved from my 250
Two Tunze Eco lights for Cheato
Extra Hydra 26 I mounted over refugium area for use as frag system
The rock work was put together with Marcorocks cement and that stuff was awesome. Really happy with the way those turned out. I let the tank cycle using Fritz Turbo 9000 to give me a boost and have had the tanked stocked now for a week. Hope you enjoy the pics and if anyone is in the Hill Country of Texas and would like a complete setup on a Reefer 250 I will be posting it on marketplace.
