30 gal. Hex Specs.

[Koddie Doo]

30 Gallon Oceanic Hex

Lighting:
1-150 watt MH, 12500K

Filtartion:
30 #’s Live Rock
CPR Pak Pak 2, MJ1200 Mod., Airstone Mod.

Flow:
CPR Bak Pak’s MJ1200
MJ1200 through 3 outputs
Zoo Med 212

296+296+125=717 GPH Total

24x Turnover

Base:
30#s Carribsea “Pink Fiji” Sand

Corals:
Solomon Salmon Digitata Coral - Aquacultured
(Montipora digitata) x 3
Green Apple Cap Coral - Aquacultured
(Montipora capricornis)
Canary Porites Coral - Aquacultured
(Porites cylindrica)
Hairy Mushroom, Hitchhiker
Starpoyps
Buton Polyps, Hitchhiker

Inverts:
Orange Tuxedo Sea Urchin
Turbo Snails x 8 approx
Margartita Snails x 15 approx
Nasslius Snails x 2
Blue Leg Dwarf Herrmit Crabs x 6
Scarlet legged Dwarf Hermit Crabs x 6

Fish:
Flame Angel
Green Cromis
False Percula

Parameters:
Temp:80
pH:8.3
Ca:480
Alk:8
Sg:1.024

Feeding and Additives:
Purple Up (Ca. and Iodine)
Supper Buffer (Alk. and pH)
feed once a day either spnge, brine, formula 1 and 2, Plankton

 

[Im Lon 2]

Looks good. The PH seems a little High, and the is your alk 8. or do you mean Dkh?

You might want to do a little reading on the purple up. I thought I read in the Chem. forum that it really is not doing anything to the tank.

Other than that it sounds good! How do you like the Hex? Have any pics?

 

[Koddie Doo]

http://thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91949

here is a link of a coule pics moved some of the frags around but for the most part the same

 

[Im Lon 2]

That right, I have tried once before to view them.. It wants you to sign in, anyway of flipping them to RC or even photobuck, that works better IMO.

 

[latazyo]

lon, like you dont surf every aquarium board out there

 

[Im Lon 2]

:lol: I really don't anymore, for the most part I'm just on here.

 

[Koddie Doo]

http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o96/kmw504/

 

[Im Lon 2]

Looks good. How long has it been setup? Is the bottom drilled pushing the flow upwards?

 

[Koddie Doo]

it has only been set up for about a month now,
i have a "spraybar" underthe sand that is powered by a MJ1200 it is position abouy half way up the back of the tank ,

not drilled little to new to "nano's " to jump that far into it

 

[Im Lon 2]

Still a good idea. it has to be tough just hanging a power head in there, this way it pushes water up words and keeps from pushing sand ever where.

 

[Koddie Doo]

Lon,
i added a couple of pics to the bucket one of spraybar and one of leak test,

its pretty clean looking you can only see the powerhead from 2 of the 5 views i would of loved to have a cls but the stand id so narrow i cant fit a sump under it, and the girlfriend said sump to the side was not an option

next time

 

[Im Lon 2]

I like that! Thinking of doing that On my 10 gallon Nano. Maxijet 1200 right now tends to blow sand from one side to the other. I want to make it a Seahorse tank with Zoo's, so I don't want a lot of flow but at the same time need to make sure I have movement in the tank so algae don't build up.

 

[Koddie Doo]

i like the idea the only thing i would improve on would be the hex is tall and tight and there is not a good way for me to have flow across the sand bed so i need extra clean up crew th help with the detrius, and i dont know how much flow i lose from the first outlet to the next to the next, watter still comes out the last one but not as much