40g breeder ariving on fri.

I tore down my 75g a while back do to lack of time. I got some extra cash from the holidays and decided to setup a new tank. I wanted to do some thing different so I ordered a 40g breeder. What I have:

150 pounds of lace and LR ( going to pick out the best peices to make a cool scape)

modified 75g stand

20g long sump/fuge

2 fishes carbon reactor

overflow and mag 5 return

several koralia and sicce powerheads (not sure on what to use for flow yet)

2 bags of seaflor special grade sand and some random sand for the fuge

2 bags of reef crystal salt

heater

I will be purchasing a coral life super 65 skimmer from my LFS and a 4 bulb HO T5 from marineland as well. I will have the stand and sump/fuge ready for the tank on fri. Hopefully I will have the tank scaped and filled with water to start my cycle on sat.! I am going to pick up a few peices of LR from an est. tank to seed the lace rock and a nice dead shrimp to get the cycle started.

For now I am going to work on getting the old sump cleaned and start making some RO and salt water. I plan on making this an SPS tank with a few reef safe fish. Should be a fun build!

A few selected rocks soaking in the tub. More pics to come this week!

 

congrats on getting back into the saltwater arena

looking forward to seeing what you do with that rockwork in this set up

Steve

 

40b rock!!! Good luck with the build, and let's see more pics

 

Congrats on getting back into the addiction. Nice selection of rock. Sounds like you have a good plan in mind.

 

Thanks for the kind replies! I am taking this build slow and do have some really good plans. I did a mock up scape on some cardboard last night (at 4:30am lol). I have a good SPS scape in mind, I just hope I can remember how to put it back together! I have been doing a lot of research on here and am pumped for the tank to arive this week!

I am going to beef up the stand today with more 2x4's and build a little internal shelf as well. More pics to follow.

 

Just a little tease. This will be one of the future residents:

 

Looks like you're off to a great start!