🐠🪸 My First Marine Aquarium – DIY Reef Project
My first marine aquarium, now running for 6 months! I’m learning everything on my own and personally designed and built the sump, modified the cabinet, and installed the entire electrical system myself, including internal lighting, three protected power outlets, circuit breakers and an electricity consumption monitor.
Equipment includes two AI Hydra 32 HD lights, a Bubble Magus skimmer, Jebao pumps, a 100 W heater, refugium, bubble trap, DIY automatic top-off and sensors, plus 35–40 kg of live rock.
Currently home to 16–17 fish, crabs, a shrimp, a sea urchin and snails.
🌊 My dream is to create a beautiful reef full of colorful corals. I’m still learning, so any advice is welcome! 🙏🪸
It happened!🥳 My first reef tank, well i still need the equipment but yeah
What I bought:
-Tank: 100x40x40cm (160l/≈42g)
-Sand: 10kg
-Salt: 10kg
-Reef rock: 4,4kg
-Bacteria starter
-reverse osmosis filter
P.s. there will be more stone dw!
Starting to fill out
Hi this is my first salt water tank; it is 4 1/2 months old.
🐠🪸 My First Marine Aquarium – DIY Reef Project
My first marine aquarium, now running for 6 months! I’m learning everything on my own and personally designed and built the sump, modified the cabinet, and installed the entire electrical system myself, including internal lighting, three protected power outlets, circuit breakers and an electricity consumption monitor.
Equipment includes two AI Hydra 32 HD lights, a Bubble Magus skimmer, Jebao pumps, a 100 W heater, refugium, bubble trap, DIY automatic top-off and sensors, plus 35–40 kg of live rock.
Currently home to 16–17 fish, crabs, a shrimp, a sea urchin and snails.
🌊 My dream is to create a beautiful reef full of colorful corals. I’m still learning, so any advice is welcome! 🙏🪸
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