Hey everyone,
I have been a member here at ReefBuilders.com for a few months now, and love every minute of it. This site provides much needed advice, input and assistance to aquarists of all experience levels. In my past of searching through many forums for answers to certain questions, I found this forum the easiest to navigate as well as the most interactive amongst all the members.
I have been caring for FW tanks since the age of 8, gradually progressing to larger FW tanks over the years, then finally joining my father in his hobby of caring for SW tanks. I had a 150g Reef in my previous home, but since we had to temporarily move to a very small apartment while the new house was being built, I had to leave my precious system and all the equipment back at home. Since the house has been built, the 50g Bow has sat empty for 4+ years until the basement was finally finished. Now that the basement is complete, we decided to start another reef setup (quite smaller of course.) Since having found this wonderful forum, I decided to start a new thread of all the upgrades, problems, processes and additions I/we will go through while enjoying this Reefing experience.
The pictures I will post are from Day 1 of setting up on through the present day and so forth into the future. I know things may look somewhat bare now, but we do plan on adding quite a bit of stock to this tank. So having said that, I hope you enjoy what you see/will see, and stay tuned regularly for build updates.
Here we go:
Day One of initial setup (Cycling) 55lbs LR, 40lbs LS, Stock CF Light, Original Aquascape 
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Display and Sump/Refugium in corner behind bar (Yes those are Bio-Balls lol) 
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More pictures to come very soon, stay tuned!