My 130gal Cubed reef. (picture intense)

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15738178#post15738178 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kmu
Just changed my mind on my cube, it was gonna be a 30x30x20 cube, now Im gonna make it 36x36x20.

I really like the way your 36" cube looks with a 24" lighting fixture

I might use a single ATI powermodule 10x24 T5 fixture

Good choice :D I think that would work very well, and your fish would appreciate the extra room.

Even when I have just my 4x24w t5's on, the tank is pretty well lit, so with 10 tubes and at 20" depth you will have no problem.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15739232#post15739232 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by flying_dutchman
Did you added the SPS yet?

No not yet, I don't want to add them back until I have some form of automated Calcium supply, I have a Calcium reactor to hook up but I am now thinking about using the balling light method to keep the paramaters ultra stable, currently looking into the GHL computer/dosers.
 
Beautiful tank!!! I'm planning on my next tank with the same dimensions. Please keep the pics coming

Thanks, will post another update on friday, got an Aussie blue tip elegance coral, a bright pink fungia plate coral, some nice zoas and a maxima clam being delivered.
 
nice setup precko and a good equipment selection. did you buy the four female lyretails so that one would transform into male?
 
nice setup precko and a good equipment selection. did you buy the four female lyretails so that one would transform into male?

Thanks, Yeah I thought that would be the best way and luckily the pecking order was established pretty quickly without too much bickering, also in most LFS round here they only seem to get the females in anyway and it is good to see the transformation happen, I would recommend them to anyone with a suitable setup they are real pretty upclose and always out swimming about in the open.

My Powder blue tang has been sold to a local reefer for his new build, this will be six months down the line though, it will be sad to see him go but I figure at his size and the amounts he eats is worth at least 3 smaller fish so either going to increas the amount of lyretail anthias or get a couple of nice wrasse.
 
New additons, the zoas have not opened fully yet so no pic of those.

Australian blue tipped elegance.
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Pink and green fungia plate coral.
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3 inch Maxima clam, rubbish photo but it is in an awkward spot to get a good picture, much brighter blue than photo shows.
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Its looking beautifull

I got one question, since you painted 2 sides of your tank black.

Yesterday I bought a black vinyl acrylic based paint to paint black the back panel of my reeftank.

Well before I did it on my tank I tried the paint on a small piece of glass around 15" by 15", after 16 hours the paint still hasnt dried up completely and I can still peel of some paint with my fingers if I apply some pressure and slide my finger across the paint.

Did you encounter the same problem and left it dry up alot more or I got the wrong paint?

The also had oil based paints but I didnt want to try those.
 
Excellent tank. How thick is the glass? I am wanting to build one almost exactly like yours and I get a lot of different reccomendations on how thick it should be.

Keep up the great work and keep us updated!
 
I have heard and seen nothing but good results with Vortechs. I think it would complete the clean and neat look you have going.
 
Its looking beautifull

I got one question, since you painted 2 sides of your tank black.

Yesterday I bought a black vinyl acrylic based paint to paint black the back panel of my reeftank.

Well before I did it on my tank I tried the paint on a small piece of glass around 15" by 15", after 16 hours the paint still hasnt dried up completely and I can still peel of some paint with my fingers if I apply some pressure and slide my finger across the paint.

Did you encounter the same problem and left it dry up alot more or I got the wrong paint?

The also had oil based paints but I didnt want to try those.

I had no problems like that, I painted mine outside and it was a real hot day with sun shining directly onto it so the paint was literally drying as soon as it went on the glass it took me 4 hours to do 8 coats, the first coat is always the hardest to get to 'stick' to the glass, did you wipe down the glass before you painted it? Make sure there is no oily residue on the glass and it is clean.
 
Excellent tank. How thick is the glass? I am wanting to build one almost exactly like yours and I get a lot of different reccomendations on how thick it should be.

Keep up the great work and keep us updated!

Thanks, not too sure how thick it is in inches but it is 15mm thick, 3/4" is 19mm and 1/2" is 12mm, so right in the middle of those two.

It was built by a well respected tank maker who has been in the business over 30 years so when he told me 15mm would be fine I was happy to go ahead.
 
I have heard and seen nothing but good results with Vortechs. I think it would complete the clean and neat look you have going.

Yeah, I will probably do it at some stage the Tunzes are great but I love the clean look and they are just a bit too big inside the tank and the cables are a bit messy inside the tank too.

probably go with a MP40w and a MP20.
 
looking really nice; i love the location of your tank in the room.... beauty now we need micro pictures of corals and fish's.... thank you again
 
looking really nice; i love the location of your tank in the room.... beauty now we need micro pictures of corals and fish's.... thank you again

Thanks for the kind words.

Will be sure to get some individual pics of fish and corals soon. :fish1:
 
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