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Hello RC. I've been on this site for a long time, but this will be my first build thread here. It's about time. My wife and I will be moving sometime next year, and we don't want to move our current tank. Not to mention that we will be renting for an unknown time frame while selling our house and might not even be able to fit it into a condo/apartment. So we will be selling the current one and setting up a 120g and 29g tied together, until we purchase a house and so a final upgrade. I've been in the hobby for about 16 years and really enjoy doing the work myself, and to tinkering with diy fish projects. I think setting up a new tank, no matter how big or small, is probably my favorite part.
Each tank will be a mixed reef. The 29 will be mostly lps, clams, and macro. The 120 will be more sps, but still mixed. We've got a magnifica anemone and a small haddoni that we'd like to keep as long as we can, so hopefully they won't outgrow this system. I've accumulated lots of equipment over the years, so most of it will kept from the current tank and used on the new system. On to the equipment list.
Tanks:
- Aqueon non reef ready 120g (4x2x2) with black silicone, bean animal overflow on back glass.
- Aqueon 29g, drilled with standard overflow in corner.
- 40 breeder sump
Skimmer:
- Reef Octopus SRO 3000 with neck cleaner
Flow:
- Quiet One returns for both tanks
- MP60 QD for the 120. Probably something to push across the tank length behind rocks like a modded maxijet or similar. I also have a Tunze 6105 and two 6255's. I could add one on low flow if I need to disperse the flow more.
- MP10 QD for the 29g
- Diy rocket engineer stands for both tanks, skinned. I'm thinking high gloss white, but not sure yet.
Lighting:
- diy full spectrum led
- T5HO retro kits
- RapidLed diy royal blue supplement strips
For the lighting I'm going to be doing an experiment with led vs T5 to see which does best with color and growth. I've used every kind of lighting over the years, but never had the chance to compare different types on the same system at the same time. The 29g will be led only. One half of the 120 will be all T5, with royal blue led supplement for color only. The other half of the 120 will be one led fixture and 4 T5 bulbs with reflectors. Probably (2) actinic bulbs, a coral plus and a pink bulb like purple plus.
Controller:
- Full apex, 3 energy bars, wxm
Other:
- Diy methanol denitrator
- Possibly a diy lanthanum chloride reactor
- Modded eheim auto feeder. It runs on ac and is controlled by the apex
- Might use our sea swirl depending on space
- Reactor for carbon
Fish list:
- Bangaii cardinal
- Pair of pink skunks, pair of percs/occs. One in each tank.
- Chevron tang
- Borbonious anthias
- Sunburst anthias
- Cleaner wrasse
- Harlequin tusk (currently 1.5")
- Pair of Helfrichi firefish
- Lineatus wrasse
- Rhomboid wrasse
- Mystery wrasse (not a bully...yet)
- Moorish Idol
- Yellow/Scopas tang hybrid (currently 1.5")
Possibly:
- Midas blenny
We will try to keep the tangs, idol, mystery, and tuskfish if we can. But if anyone gets stressed or aggressive before we upgrade I will rehome them. I dont usually keep tangs in anything under 6', but we already have them and removing hem if needed will be easy. This list also depends on how everyone gets along in a "smaller" tank system. We currently have all of them except the lineatus.
That's about all I have time for right now. Next I'll post up some pics of the progress so far. I apologize in advance if this is a slower build, however I should have everything up and running in a month or two. Thanks for looking!
Each tank will be a mixed reef. The 29 will be mostly lps, clams, and macro. The 120 will be more sps, but still mixed. We've got a magnifica anemone and a small haddoni that we'd like to keep as long as we can, so hopefully they won't outgrow this system. I've accumulated lots of equipment over the years, so most of it will kept from the current tank and used on the new system. On to the equipment list.
Tanks:
- Aqueon non reef ready 120g (4x2x2) with black silicone, bean animal overflow on back glass.
- Aqueon 29g, drilled with standard overflow in corner.
- 40 breeder sump
Skimmer:
- Reef Octopus SRO 3000 with neck cleaner
Flow:
- Quiet One returns for both tanks
- MP60 QD for the 120. Probably something to push across the tank length behind rocks like a modded maxijet or similar. I also have a Tunze 6105 and two 6255's. I could add one on low flow if I need to disperse the flow more.
- MP10 QD for the 29g
- Diy rocket engineer stands for both tanks, skinned. I'm thinking high gloss white, but not sure yet.
Lighting:
- diy full spectrum led
- T5HO retro kits
- RapidLed diy royal blue supplement strips
For the lighting I'm going to be doing an experiment with led vs T5 to see which does best with color and growth. I've used every kind of lighting over the years, but never had the chance to compare different types on the same system at the same time. The 29g will be led only. One half of the 120 will be all T5, with royal blue led supplement for color only. The other half of the 120 will be one led fixture and 4 T5 bulbs with reflectors. Probably (2) actinic bulbs, a coral plus and a pink bulb like purple plus.
Controller:
- Full apex, 3 energy bars, wxm
Other:
- Diy methanol denitrator
- Possibly a diy lanthanum chloride reactor
- Modded eheim auto feeder. It runs on ac and is controlled by the apex
- Might use our sea swirl depending on space
- Reactor for carbon
Fish list:
- Bangaii cardinal
- Pair of pink skunks, pair of percs/occs. One in each tank.
- Chevron tang
- Borbonious anthias
- Sunburst anthias
- Cleaner wrasse
- Harlequin tusk (currently 1.5")
- Pair of Helfrichi firefish
- Lineatus wrasse
- Rhomboid wrasse
- Mystery wrasse (not a bully...yet)
- Moorish Idol
- Yellow/Scopas tang hybrid (currently 1.5")
Possibly:
- Midas blenny
We will try to keep the tangs, idol, mystery, and tuskfish if we can. But if anyone gets stressed or aggressive before we upgrade I will rehome them. I dont usually keep tangs in anything under 6', but we already have them and removing hem if needed will be easy. This list also depends on how everyone gets along in a "smaller" tank system. We currently have all of them except the lineatus.
That's about all I have time for right now. Next I'll post up some pics of the progress so far. I apologize in advance if this is a slower build, however I should have everything up and running in a month or two. Thanks for looking!
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