LOL I do have a littel cube running
it is nearly 50 gallons.
The ventilation is working out well down there. I had the aquarium filled for a few months soaking the reef ceramics and It kepy the humiduty around 50% without running all the time
. I have a Humidistat / Temp controller that the fan runs on.
This is a Reef Tank in the making. I added up the cost of just Aquarium related things and was well over 10K today on this without including anything I have done in the basement in terms of finishing it. The good news is the PVC bender is here and a friend and I will take to plumbing on Sunday.
I finally started test driving the wave box yesterday as well as the other Tunze Streams I have in the aquarium. I do not beleive water motion or velocity will be an issue at all even as time goes on. I have spare Stream pumps to add in the future (buy now fight inflation later on LOL) if needed.
Their has always been a vision for this project right from the start I knew what I wanted to do. I did a drawing of what I wanted the finished in wall design to look like and we built it just that way. This aquarium was ordered 36 inches wide so I would have a decent viewing pane up the length for a better perspective and more dynamic coral placement options as well.
The main focus if this tank deal with a type of acropora species. I am a table top junky and always have been. I love them. The extra width allows for that as do those wall plates. I will as all reefers do add some favorite stags and a few other corals that are not table tops (I do not want a homogenized reef either) but want to keep a dominant type (growth pattern) all the same.
The fish species have also been choosen for this. I want to do a nice docile large angel fish as the dominant fish in the tank. Then I will build around him / her with other peaceful tank mates. I want a Gold Flake angel for this aquarium and maybe a pair of Genicanthus angels. I would like to get Bartlett's Anthias (a school) to swim in the mid tank and then round things off with some flame prawn gobies, my pair of percs, leopard wrasse and the Royale Gramma I have in the 50 cube.
Their are wide open sand bottom areas for Fungia and clams as well in the aquarium. I am pleased with the progress to date and more pleased with not rushing this project and giving myself the time to plan properly.
