50g sps tank in austria (pictures!)

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hey there!


I'm a 22 year old medicine student from austria and a regular visitor of RC and really like it! Usually I read more and don't post much, but thats different today! I am starting a diary of my upgrade from my 20g tank to a new 50g tank.

I read alot in these forums, mainly the sps forum and tried to create a vision of a new tank which incorporates the things i learned/read and some of the looks i liked
a few facts:

old tank

20g rimless sps only barebottom
4x24w t5 aquaconnect
2 bw clowns
1 sixline wrasse
two seios

new tank
50g eurobraced starphire tank
10g sump/fuge combination
ATI bubblemaster 160 skimmer
4x39w aquaconnect
custom stand

plans for new tank:
shallow sand bed
cheato in fuge
use old light for frags in fuge
sps only
batch reef aquascape
nanostream 6045

plans on livestock for new tank,
additional to the fish/coral i already have:

5 longspine cardinal fish
1 bicolor blennie
1 yellow watchman goby
1 randalls pistol shrimp
anemone for clowns

i hope to get the new tank running by the weekend so there will be updates soon.

please post your thoughts and ideas on my planned setup, thanks in advance!


old reef

clowns20gaug08.jpg

fts20gaug08.jpg

sixline20gaug08.jpg


new stuff

bm160.jpg


new tank (3 sides low iron glass, drilled)
50gtank.jpg


new skimmer ATI bubblemaster 160
bm1601.jpg


look at difference of sides and backside of the tank
starphire.jpg


temporary sump (old tank)
sump.jpg
 
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I like the sixline. What made you decided to switch to shallow sand bed? Tank looks nice looking forward to seeing the build
 
i decided to go with a sandbed due to aesthetical thoughts. i missed the natural look of the sand and now that i got a more powerful skimmer in combination with a sandsifting team looks promising to me to work out well and prevent crashes.
 
9821FTS3.jpg


this is a former tank of mine , 10gallons, and i plan a similar aquascape (only larger and with more sps/larger colonies)

i love the looks of leonardos formosa forest and would love to have a big staghorn colony.
 
i think youll love that skimmer, it was awesome in my 90g. but boo on the sandbed, i currently run one right now but i hate having sandstorms. if possible i think you should get the KZargonite sand, it looks like the perfect size, not too fine and not to coarse but i dunno thats just me.
 
update!

update!

hi!

i did some work on my new tank:

painted the back of the tank blue, painted the stand with anti rust paint, glued the plumbing. coming closer to filling it with water, maybe middle of next week!

the stand is made from iron and will be coated with wood including doors in the front.

pictures:

durso.jpg


stand.jpg


tankpainted.jpg



how do you like the colour?
 
yeah its up and running with LR, will transfer livestock this weekend. sorry for lack of pics but im not at home, studying...
 
Love that tank (though I'm a "black background" guy as well)... sexy piece of glass for sure

Very nice clean look on your old systems... can't wait to see the pics of the new one up and running
 
UPDATE!

LR been in there for 1.5 weeks, had an algae bloom and half a liter of black skimmate when i came back from university.
around 11 kg (22 pounds) of LR, 4 snails, one hermit are the inhabitants in the display tank so far..

liverock.jpg


need some more money to complete the tank, so fish will have to wait, but next planned addition are my sixline and clowns and then...
a watchman goby + pistol shrimp to keep the sand clean and some kind of blenny to take care of the algae as i would need something like 100+ hermits :D

fts.jpg


next plan (maybe christmas) would be to add a fuge/sump tank which fills the whole stand, to grow frags and caulerpa and some more LR rubble and most importantly keep the water level always the same for my skimmer as i noticed the evaporation messes up the efficiency of it, although i am very happy with it as it pulled out alot of crap WITHOUT any inverts/fish in it.

my durso overflow is still keeping me busy, the cap on the top needs to be glued but first drilled to the right size and i fear drilling a too big hole...

my old tank has had some dinoflagellates going on so it has been running w/o lights for a week or so, hope to get good nitrate/p04 readings soon to introduce my sps to the system.

my bulbs from back to front:

ati aquablue spezial (10.000 k)
ati pro color (purple)
ati aquablue spezial
ati aquablue plus (20.000 k)
bulbs.jpg


current plans on water movement: 4 tunze nanostreams, at least one of them on a controller but that'll have to wait until i have some more funds :)


pictures after todays glass cleaning and rockglueing, water is a little cloudy! i was astonished they already sell purple coral glue, i like it alot!

stand-1.jpg


i'm waiting for your input :D thanks in advance!
 
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update!

transferred my almost bleached corals to the new tank, and bought some livestock today!

1 algae blennie
1 high fin banded goby
1 randalls pistol shrimp
 
pictures are not that easy, all of my new friends are hiding.. i just spotted the hi fin goby who is alyready chasing plankton but is very hard to take a pictore of..
 
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