Sammy's 40 Gallon Breeder

[sammy113]

Hi, my name is Samuel, I'm from Puerto Rico and I've been for months lurking and learning from RC and now I decided to make my own thread to show off my 40 gallon Breeder tank.
Specs:
40G AGA breeder
Tek 36" T5HO light (4 tubes)
20L sump with filter sock, chaetomorpha, carbon reactor, PS75 Skimmer (hope to upgrade it soon) and Mag 7 for return with double returns
Koralia 3

I first started with a 16 gallon acrylic tank I made that looked like this:

And then:

And with a lot of algae on the sand bed lol:

Then decided to upgrade to the 40 gallon Breeder by AGA. This where my first plans:

And Loved this thing

 

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Then the stand built

If you are wondering how the door to the sump works... this is how. I used this things

And finally moved everything to its new home

 

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Sump:

Stand Stained

Few weeks later:

 

[WinnipegDragon]

Very, very nice. I love the 'two islands' aquascaping. I'm hoping to do something similar in my 120.

 

[sammy113]

And a few days ago looked like this:

Right now I just moved from my apartment so I had to move the tank and redo aqua scape and didn't came the same as before. Still moving stuff from my old home but will take a few updated pics of the tank soon. Thank God everything made the made the move without any problems. Corals look very happy and fish too.

 

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Here are a few pics of the corals I have

 

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And heres my prop tank

 

[steelerguy]

Very nice tank and pictures!

 

[sammy113]

Thanks WinnipegDragon and steelerguy for the compliments

 

[austinvanover]

Nice aquascaping, should be an awesome tank once everything fills in.

 

[widmer]

Well done. The prop tank is especially neat.

 

[Snowboarda42]

Tank looks great!

How many fish do you have?

 

[sammy113]

Thanks widmer and Snowboarda. I have 8 fish there:
Sixline Wrasse
Midas Blenny
Bi Color Blenny
Royal Gramma
2 Ocellaris Clowns
Firefish Goby
Yellow Tang

I want to get a flame angel or a Yellow Clown Goby. Probably I'll have to get rid of one of them to get the flame but I think I can get the clown since they are small. I know I'm a little overstocked maybe but I have around 60 gallons total with a lot of chaeto and my nitrates are undetectable. As long as my fish don't fight I think I'm ok.

 

[bph0013]

I was going to ask about your fish load/nitrates. Sounds like its going well. I just set up a 40br last month and my fish load = 1 pair ocellaris, 1 redspot blenny, 1 green mandarin (have had her 2 years, previously in a 37 gallon). I'm about to add a baby CBB as my final fish. Tank looks good. I have a similar aquascape design, not quite as much rock. I have a lot of my rock in my fuge and sump. Are you having problems with any dead spots? I can't seem to get my flow exactly how I want it. I use two basic modded Tunze 6025s. My plumbing/pump is only putting through around 300gph.

 

[MikeCentore]

Tanks look great!
What type of light is that on you prop tank?