Wicked's do-over 65RR Build

[Wickedirish]

Well, got the 65RR and am in process of getting things built and setup, stand (skeleton) is built, 55 sump/refugium in process of installing baffles, I have high hopes that I will be up and running in about one more weekView attachment 3999

 

[Wickedirish]

A few of the things that I have had come in so far, all I'm waiting for now is 48 pounds of reef saver rock from BRSView attachment 4003

 

[Wickedirish]

Got the stand finished, tank in place and put in the sandView attachment 4112

 

[Wickedirish]

First of the rock put into place View attachment 4113

 

[jenkinscrew]

Nice, I like the scape! You adding more rock or is water next?

 

[Wickedirish]

I'll be adding a few choice pieces from the 40 Breeder once I get cycled and get ready to take it down and get things transferred over, but yeah, waters next, then I have an order on the way from Algae Barn for the ultimate refugium starter package.

 

[Wickedirish]

Well, water has been in now about 4 days, finished getting the salt added last night, I ordered the Kessel H80 arm to use for the fuge but found it completely useless, maybe it can work for some builds just not compatible with what I built (another thing going to the frag swap to sell or trade, lol) so.......pondered the situation and came up with this..View attachment 4178

 

[Wickedirish]

Well, added some rock from the 40 Breeder to help cycle the tank, decided I wanted to see how the lights looked.....much more impressive over a deeper tank, super stoked about getting things transferred over next week, final aquascape will happen then as I have a couple rocks still to xfer that have featherdusters attached to them.View attachment 4200

 

[Wickedirish]

Final aquascape for now, in the middle of transferring all my inhabitants over, looking forward to some of my first corals next weekend at the fragswap =) View attachment 4303

 

[HM3105]

Nice scape! Great call on oversizing the stand by the way. Wished I had done that twice now!

 

[Wickedirish]

thx, my end result differed a lot from what I originally did messing around, I'm hoping for functionality out of the rock placement, guess we'll see, oversizing the stand was a no choice, the 55 sump dictated the size but I like the end result.