New Here... And Just Started Up My First "Real" Reef Build

Broadfield · Oct 10, 2015

My name is Toby and I'm from Normal, IL. I bought one of the new Red Sea Reefer 450's a couple of months back and it's starting to take shape. I have had a couple of AIO nano's in the past, but this is my first external sump setup... loving it!

jrpark22000 · Oct 10, 2015

welcome Aboard Toby. Glad to have you on CR. Would love to see some photos

maidia · Oct 10, 2015

Welcome to CR...Hope to see some nice pictures there..

Broadfield · Oct 10, 2015

Well, my wife decided to let me turn the dining room into a reef viewing room. I'll get some pics up soon.

Broadfield · Oct 10, 2015

View from my living room, sitting on my couch.

Cubano32 · Oct 10, 2015

Broadfield said:
View from my living room, sitting on my couch.

welcome to CR...Very nice clean tank

now the waiting game for all the coral and fish

edin0009 · Oct 10, 2015

welcome Toby very nice tank, do you have some pictures from front of the tank would love to see the rock work

ajreefer721 · Oct 10, 2015

Wow! Looks amazing! Definitely want to see some front shots!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Broadfield · Oct 10, 2015

Here's an early shot after cycling, before I got all of my lights on.

Smitty · Oct 11, 2015

Hello and welcome to the site. Glad to have you aboard.

Sent from my Note 5

Broadfield · Oct 11, 2015

Sump area:

Chiller area converted to house all of the electrical items... Apex Energy Bars, power supplies, Apex controllers etc:

madjoe · Oct 11, 2015

Broadfield said:
Sump area:

Chiller area converted to house all of the electrical items... Apex Energy Bars, power supplies, Apex controllers etc:

Daym dude thats flippen sweet and i havent even gotten to the pics of the tank yet just the sump and electrical . Does your tank have its own ipad hell i dont even have my own ipad lol

jrpark22000 · Oct 11, 2015

Very clean and well thought put, nice work! Can't wait to see the attention to detail on the livestock.

jeffy · Oct 11, 2015

Clean build!!!

sk8elenex92 · Oct 11, 2015

Very nice setup!

Broadfield · Oct 11, 2015

The view coming down my stairs. I had some leathers etc from my previous nano that I transferred over and I just picked up some frags from an AquaSD live sale.