Fluval Chi 6.6 Gallon. First SW tank.

[TurboCamaro]

Thanks guys. Loving the black sand choice too!

Nothing ordered for the tank yet, but I pulled my Ocellaris Clown and a Cerite snail out of the other tank and put them in this one.

Ill grab a new pic later.

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[TurboCamaro]

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[TurboCamaro]

Eh, sorry for the crappy pic. Ill grab a better one soon.

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[OrQidz]

Love the DIY AIO! Looks very good. I like the vertical rock face as well.

 

[NeilFox]

Very nice work with the plastic compartment! Any updates?

 

[TurboCamaro]

Very nice work with the plastic compartment! Any updates?

Small update. Im finding that this tank will be best suited as a non-fish tank. Inverts and corals only. The clownfish is a messy eater and keeps letting food fall down. I feed him one piece at a time.

So needless to say i wound up with a pretty large hair algae bloom, and pulled all my snails out of the other tank to put in this one. Good call too cause that made mose of the eggs in the other tank hatch.

Bonus there cause I dont have to buy more snails now!

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[TurboCamaro]

Monthly-ish update.

Coraline woot woot!

Ive been letting the hair algae grow as its absorbing whats leaching from the rock. Dont have to clean the glass lol.

Ill clean it out in another few weeks and catch it all to get it out of the tank.

Nothing other than that really. Levels stable and tank is performing nicely.

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[TurboCamaro]

Having some lighting issues at the moment, need to get that squared away and give the tank a good cleaning.

Updates soon.

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[TurboCamaro]

Snails eating the last of the algae, and some Kenya trees for nutrient export. The Ocellaris Clown and Sri Lanka Fire Shrimp get along very well together

The Coraline algae is progressing, and I'm starting to get some on the epoxy as well so that's awesome.

I dialed back the lighting to a 15w ebay Led "par38" bulb. The original 19 was too much and burned out. I got a Wal mart par38, too much wattage so I went back to the ebay bulb for the blue spectrum too. For the price I buy several; cheap enough to just pull the board with the Leds and toss the rest when it burns out.

I also finished modifying the clamp lamp specifically for this tank and I'm pretty happy with it.

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[TurboCamaro]

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[TurboCamaro]

The Coraline is progressing rather quickly and the Kenya trees are doing great. I know the Kenyas are pretty hardy "weeds" so no suprise there.

Since the Coraline is doing so well with the ebay light I'm gonna frag some of the watermelon Zoas from the other tank, some candy cane and some of the Acro.

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[vsanchez949]

Looks good!

 

[TurboCamaro]

Thanks!

So I've added in the watermelon zoas, some candy cane, and the acro. I can still move them around, just testing to see which ones will do best where.

Also finally made the light the way I wanted it originally.

It doesn't glare like it does in the pics.

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[BeachVacationer]

Nice build! I have a Spec V reef tank going on 2 years now. I really like these tiny AIO tanks. So small but one can do so much with these.

I see that you have a full cover over your tank. How warm does the water get? Mine runs at about 81.5 degrees with my lights on full and a small wave maker in it. I'm thinking of placing a quiet fan near the tank to get it down to 80 or below. Not sure what type of fan would be very quiet. My setup is very quiet and noisy fan would be out of the question

 

[TurboCamaro]

I honestly don't know the temp. The back inch and a half is open on the lid, over the back section to cut down on evap, but still have gas exchange. I don't run a heater but everything seems very happy.

I've since added a Bluetooth controllable LED strip for moonlight. It's also multicolor and multi mode selectable. Works great and allows me to change the backlighting on the light fixture and color of the moonlight. I took a 30 second video of it in color change mode I'll upload to YouTube in a bit.

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[TurboCamaro]

Here is that video. More info about it in the description.

https://youtu.be/Vv4eKOU7gvA

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[TurboCamaro]

Nice build! I have a Spec V reef tank going on 2 years now. I really like these tiny AIO tanks. So small but one can do so much with these.

I see that you have a full cover over your tank. How warm does the water get? Mine runs at about 81.5 degrees with my lights on full and a small wave maker in it. I'm thinking of placing a quiet fan near the tank to get it down to 80 or below. Not sure what type of fan would be very quiet. My setup is very quiet and noisy fan would be out of the question

Just hit the water surface with the IR gun an hour after lights on and temp is 80°

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[Razorback reef]

Nice.

 

[TurboCamaro]

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[TurboCamaro]

I absolutely LOVE the LED moonlighting. I'll take a few detailed pics of the inside soon. I swapped out the 3-led strip for a 6-led strip for more brightness. May add a second strip too.

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