Waterbox infinia reef 190.5

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New to the hobby. Have had a lot of freshwater tanks and decided it was time for something new. Watched a ton of you tube and reviews on different brands of tanks and decided to go with a waterbox infinia reef 190.5.

DT Equipment:
Lights 3: XR15 G6 Pro
Return pump: Sicce Sdc 7.0
Flow: 2 Ecotech MP40QD
ATO: Tunze 3155
Dosing: Brightwell reefcode A&B-P
Sand: 100lbs caribsea special grade

Sump equipment:
Mechanical filtration: Reef factory smart roller M
Skimmer: Maxspect jump sk-400
Heater: IM Heilo 750W

 

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First stared with leak check and insuring level with water

 

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Next day started filling with ro and off to the races

 

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It cleared up pretty quick in about 24 hrs and added a triple dose of Fritz turbo start 900

 

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Got all the plumbing done had to order a metric to standard union to plumb the refractory smart roller. Also had to use a reducer to go back down to metric once entering the smart roller I wish there was a way somehow to get metric piping in the US but for now this works.

 

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Took about two weeks to cycle then added my two clown Fish that I had in quarantine for about a month I quarantined in a 15 gallon water box AIO. They seemed pretty happy to have a big tank with sand and rock.

 

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Nice tank

Thank you I didn’t even know this really existed when I started so I’m trying to get everything compiled for a build thread

 

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Once the clowns went in I got a purple tang then he got to hang out in the quarantine tank.

 

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Originally got these heaters in hopes that they would work that ended up not being the case barely could hold 76° and showed condensation within them after about three weeks ended up upgrading to innovative marine Helio

 

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Added the purple tang, the same day I received my captive bread yellow tang from biota

 

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Fast-forward a couple weeks wanted to try a couple easy corals found a local reefer with a website and ordered some stuff for pick up. He was out of stock of what I wanted. He ended up, giving me a bunch of free stuff, including a couple acros my first thought I’m gonna kill all this stuff but we’ll see how it goes

 

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Here was the beginning of the ugly stage I ordered some cuc from reefcleaners they got delayed in shipping so only about half lived he send me more though so all is well got some turbos from the lfs

 

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Here comes the ugly stage. It came on pretty hard not sure if was 100% diatoms initially, but it quickly turned to dinos I had already preemptively bought a UV sterilizer and plumbed it directly from the return pump to the display because I was planning on getting a powder blue tang, and lower the risk for parasites I believe I ended up getting the large cell Dino because the UV sterilizer seem to have no effect. Also ended up switching the single arm mounts to the Eco Tech rail mount because of sagging.

 

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Got some more corals a couple weeks later that I managed to keep everything else alive I built some confidence.

 

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I made it to get the dinos to clear up 90% Mainly by dosing, nitrate, phosphate, phytoplankton, adding pods Also, in this picture, I received my powder, blue tang, and a male lyertail anthia which I sourced through Dr. Reef. I also have another order with him that I am waiting on with three female lyertails and melnarus wrasse.

 

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The tank has been clearing up quite well corals all seem happy noticing a lot of growth have managed to stabilize, nutrients without dosing

 

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Attached is a recent video of the tank.
This photo I took today the lfs got a bunch of Fiji colonies in that he was selling for extremely cheap decided to send it for only 100 bucks. He’s had them for about three weeks now and they’re finally starting to color up so we’ll see how I do with it, about 350 to 360 near the peak of the colony.

 

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Moved things around a bit

 

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Moved things around a bit

Your tank is doing great!

 

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Your tank is doing great!

Thank you