60 Gallon Rimless Cube

[MIAbyss]

Newbie to the hobby. I purchased a Deep Blue Professional 60 gallon cube and stand from my LFS about a month ago. I slowly purchased the necessities to get everything up and running so I can start the cycle. Here's what I have so far:

-Tank & stand
-50 pounds BRS pukani dry rock (ended up being too much rock..it's so porous and takes up a lot of volume..put some rubble in the sump).
-60 pounds Fiji Pink sand
-small 10 pound bag of Miracle Mud for the sump
-BRS 75 gpd ro/di unit
-bucket of Red Sea Coral Pro salt
-Eshopps R-100 sump
-Eheim 1260 return pump
-Radion LED
-1 Vortech MP10wES powerhead (for now, plan on getting a second one once I'm ready to add corals)

Various other necessities (heater, glass cleaner, refractometer, reefscaping epoxy, etc...)

Water has been circulating for about 2 weeks now. Not quite done with the aquascaping, but here's how she looks so far:

Let me know what you think.

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

[welcome] MiAbyss, very beautiful setup great looking tank. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Rinkrat]

Thats a very neat tank lots of possibilities. Good luck
Dan

 

[MIAbyss]

Thanks guys! I'll post pics of my progress.

 

[MIAbyss]

Just got home and it looks like I have some diatom spots on the rocks and sand. Is that a sign that the cycle is progressing?

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

Yes, very good sign to progression. . .

 

[Lig]

Nice setup. Looks like you're off to a good start.

 

[MIAbyss]

Update: photos of finished aquascape. Tank near end of cycle, nitrates high (20).
Dud a water change to lower my nitrates and I'm thinking of getting the skimmer and some cheato. Then to CUC once the nitrates drop below 10.

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[Lig]

Your new pics aren't working.

 

[MIAbyss]

Here we go:

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[MIAbyss]

I added the CUC on Friday. Ordered from www.reefcleaners.org. John from Reef Cleaners is great.

I purchased my first corals on Sunday. A green torch frag and an orange zoa frag. Here's a quick video of them last night after the opened up a bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBC1XOUAvmY

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

Nice and clean setup,will really be nice once corals are added.great job

 

[DudeDah]

I'm interested in one of these tanks as well, are you satisfied with the quality? How much does these run?

THANKS!

 

[Touring]

I'm interested in one of these tanks as well, are you satisfied with the quality? How much does these run?

THANKS!

In for answer also

 

[MIAbyss]

Video update

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQVTuLk8P8I&sns=em

 

[MIAbyss]

In for answer also

I'm satisfied. I like the clean lines of the rimless tank. I have no issue with the build quality, but this is my first saltwater tank. I paid $350 at a LFS.

 

[kevinrf]

Love the rock scape!
Could you post a picture of your Radion map? How high is the fixture hung?
I have a 50g cube with Radion that I'm still tweaking the map for it.

 

[MIAbyss]

Love the rock scape!
Could you post a picture of your Radion map? How high is the fixture hung?
I have a 50g cube with Radion that I'm still tweaking the map for it.

I'm running them at 60% at 12K for 3 hours and 60% at 20K for 3 hours with an hour transition between. I've dialed them back a bit because I added some corals that weren't under Radions. I had them as high as 80%.

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[kad1979]

Awesome looking tank!

 

[MIAbyss]

Awesome looking tank!

Thanks!