geoxman
Premium Member
Hi everyone it has been almost 1 year since I posted pictures of my old tank and I just thought I would update. This tank was set up in Feb of last year and most everything was combined from my 29 and the old black tank
My old tank was virtually the same as the one that I have now except it had a few things that really bugged my.
1. Lack of flow-I do not like to see powerheads or cords so a PH was not an option
2.I hated my old overflow design, it left too much from the top of the tank to the water level.
3. un polished acrylic top of the aquarium
4. lighting.
So the tank is 38X38x11 all black acrylic top down view aquarium. The old one was 36x36x12 all black acrylic top down view aquarium.
With my design of the new one the water level is 1/8 of an inch from the top of the aquarium, so it almost looks like it will over flow. The old one had about 2 inches from the top rim-which i hated
The new one is lit by (2) 250 DE Helios HQI 20K bulbs and PFO HQI ballasts
The old tank had 1 400w lumenarc mini with an XM 20K SE and run on an M59.
The old tank had a mag 12 with two seio 620's that were visable as well as the plumbing, which I hated.
They new one is powered with a mag 24 and the plumbing makes it almost impossible to detect. I also am running (2) Seio 1500 which are also pretty well hidden. The best way to spot any of the flow is too look for bare spots.
The new one also has a custom overflow box built on the rear of the tank. The old one had dual internal overflows, which I hated.
Since I knew the flow was going to be great I also got rid of almost all of my ricordia that I had in the previous tank. I have a few but they never expand because of the flow.
In June I went on a reverse lighting schedule and soon after that SH*& hit the fan at work, medical, and family issues. I kept up on the maintenance, a water change once a month, feed the croals and fish, dose two part but I never saw the tank or paid any real attention to it as there were other problems to take care of. During that time I also unhooked my Octo 200 and threw in an aquac remora with a MJ 1200 because it had a drain plug and I did not want to put forth the effort of cleaning a skimmer. During that time I almost if ever was active on RC or my local club--kind of the summer blues
Around the first part of Nov I was debating on shutting everything down because I really did not give a crap and I had not seen the tank in 6-7 months. Out of the blue one day I fired it up during the day and this is pretty much what I got.
The growth was incredible and it was very visable as to what the more dominant polyps were. The Indo and the Solomon stuff had taken over almost everything in their path.
I lost many of slow growing polyps because they were over taken. I also lost a few due to being knocked to the substrate or behind rocks.
I have since pulled the skimmer.
I feed the corals the the "pappone" (sp) twice a week as well as chromaplex and SC reef plus. I dose two part and have a 35 gl fuge in the sump that is lit 24/7
Ca is always 480
Alk is 10dkh
Iodine I run high 0.08-9 mg/l
Nitrate-I never check
Mg-1450
I run carbon about 5 days out of the month.
2 weeks ago I also started dosing C--Thanks Pufferpunk!
Pictures are very hard to take because of the lights as well as the flow. I have many of corals less then 1/2 inch under the water and if I shut off the main for pictures, they would be in air and it would not make for good pictures
Good luck with your tank and it is great to see new names on this forum!
Full tank view in Sepia
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Full tank view in color
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front left view
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right rear view
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My old tank was virtually the same as the one that I have now except it had a few things that really bugged my.
1. Lack of flow-I do not like to see powerheads or cords so a PH was not an option
2.I hated my old overflow design, it left too much from the top of the tank to the water level.
3. un polished acrylic top of the aquarium
4. lighting.
So the tank is 38X38x11 all black acrylic top down view aquarium. The old one was 36x36x12 all black acrylic top down view aquarium.
With my design of the new one the water level is 1/8 of an inch from the top of the aquarium, so it almost looks like it will over flow. The old one had about 2 inches from the top rim-which i hated
The new one is lit by (2) 250 DE Helios HQI 20K bulbs and PFO HQI ballasts
The old tank had 1 400w lumenarc mini with an XM 20K SE and run on an M59.
The old tank had a mag 12 with two seio 620's that were visable as well as the plumbing, which I hated.
They new one is powered with a mag 24 and the plumbing makes it almost impossible to detect. I also am running (2) Seio 1500 which are also pretty well hidden. The best way to spot any of the flow is too look for bare spots.
The new one also has a custom overflow box built on the rear of the tank. The old one had dual internal overflows, which I hated.
Since I knew the flow was going to be great I also got rid of almost all of my ricordia that I had in the previous tank. I have a few but they never expand because of the flow.
In June I went on a reverse lighting schedule and soon after that SH*& hit the fan at work, medical, and family issues. I kept up on the maintenance, a water change once a month, feed the croals and fish, dose two part but I never saw the tank or paid any real attention to it as there were other problems to take care of. During that time I also unhooked my Octo 200 and threw in an aquac remora with a MJ 1200 because it had a drain plug and I did not want to put forth the effort of cleaning a skimmer. During that time I almost if ever was active on RC or my local club--kind of the summer blues
Around the first part of Nov I was debating on shutting everything down because I really did not give a crap and I had not seen the tank in 6-7 months. Out of the blue one day I fired it up during the day and this is pretty much what I got.
The growth was incredible and it was very visable as to what the more dominant polyps were. The Indo and the Solomon stuff had taken over almost everything in their path.
I lost many of slow growing polyps because they were over taken. I also lost a few due to being knocked to the substrate or behind rocks.
I have since pulled the skimmer.
I feed the corals the the "pappone" (sp) twice a week as well as chromaplex and SC reef plus. I dose two part and have a 35 gl fuge in the sump that is lit 24/7
Ca is always 480
Alk is 10dkh
Iodine I run high 0.08-9 mg/l
Nitrate-I never check
Mg-1450
I run carbon about 5 days out of the month.
2 weeks ago I also started dosing C--Thanks Pufferpunk!
Pictures are very hard to take because of the lights as well as the flow. I have many of corals less then 1/2 inch under the water and if I shut off the main for pictures, they would be in air and it would not make for good pictures
Good luck with your tank and it is great to see new names on this forum!
Full tank view in Sepia
Full tank view in color
full left view
front left view
right rear view
rear left
more rear
rear right
