This pass summer my waterbox 170.4/5 crashed lost a bunch of sps for months ,decided I wanted a 6 foot tank since I was not a fan of the waterbox . I found a aqueon 210 (72x24x30) for cheap in New Hampshire, guy said it was perfect shape and needed a top brace fixed he wanted 600 . Paid $400 picked it up took it home to find it was not perfect. After a few weeks I found a top brace for it , fixed that vinyl wrapped the back black . Now to the stand I wanted a custom open front stand to show off my sump. So had a friend build one (still not finished) . Since I hated the waterbox sump it took a while to find a sump I liked, finally found the ice cap 36xl reef sump (36x24x16) with passive flow refugium and auto top off built in. Over the spring and summer I collected base rock about 400pounds or so just because I knew I was thinking about this . Tanks now up and running has about 350-400 pounds of rock in it with a lot of caves , I like the more natural reef look vs open tank look . Tanks lit by 6x ai hydra 26hd running ab+ and 4x54 t5 running 6 hours a day . After the set up in October the tank took another crash I lost pretty much all my sps some lps , I’m guessing it went through a mini cycle from the née base rock I added . Things are looking up now my wonderful girlfriend got me a early Xmas gift for the tank a apex trident . Now I’m trying to get everything stable and hopefully add sps by the 1st of the year . Now the waterbox was turned into a freshwater planted.
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