Tofubox's 4ft Reef Tank

[tofubox]

Hi guys, thought i finally make my tank thread here on Reefcentral to share my joys of reefing with everyone else. I've been reefing for about 5 years now, and had my fair share of disappoints and good times. I'll let the photos do the talking. And i hope u enjoy them.

Tank specs:

Tank size : 48" x30" x20" rimless
Volume: 125 gallons
Materials: 12mm low iron glass (3 sides)
Overflow: External 2/3rds Coast to Coast with Bean Animal 1.5" Overflows (3 pipes). Overflow box is 36"x5"x6"

Equipments:

Skimmer: Aquamaxx coneS CO-3
Mechanical filtration: 1 x Filter sock
Dosing pump: Currently not in use
Chiller: Hailea 1/2hp
Calcium / reactor: GEO 618 Calcium Reactor with Digital Bubble Counter
Chemical filtration: Zeovit System, Seachem Matrix Carbon
Main return pump: Reef Octopus HY 10000 w
Wave maker: 2 x Jebao rw15, 1 x Jebao wp25
Lighting : ATI Sunpower 8 tube
Auto Topup: JBJ ATO,
Reactor : Zeovit Reactor
Return Pump: Ehiem 1262
Lighting period : 10hrs Two Blue plus, 8hrs 8 Bulb combination (blue+, coral+, Aquablue Special, Purple+)

Starting up the tank:

 

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Heres the tank at 6 months old:















And I was really excited to be able to win the tank of the quarter from my local club!

 

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Moving forward though, I always had a dream of keeping Staghorns and anthias together. With my sps growing into each other, i finally decided it was time for a rescape and to finally realise the dream tank I wanted.

Heres some pics of the rescape process:

 

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And finally the completed new look! With additions of lyretail anthias! I really like it as it is much more open now, and plenty of room for coral growth.

 

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Some additional shots of the tank and fishes!

 

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Thanks for viewing guys! Welcome your comments! Which scape was better?

 

[Pife]

Nice, looking good.

 

[tofubox]

Couple of Videos of the tank can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/tofubox/videos

 

[cleverbs]

how did you get the colonies? or did you grow them from frags? Wouldnt think they could grow that fast in 6 months

 

[tofubox]

how did you get the colonies? or did you grow them from frags? Wouldnt think they could grow that fast in 6 months

Hi cleverbs, most were grown from frags (Mainly the Staghorns, Birdnest, Poccis and montis). I have had these corals for some time now, I transferred them from my previous tank... As for some others, I got it from local reefers and a LFS we have here that imports larger colonies of sps.

 

[Djturna4thakidz]

Where did you get the light mounts? It looks really clean

 

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[macdaddynick1]

I love every single one of those 100 pictures of kittens

 

[tofubox]

Oh no, just realise i moved the photos to an album it doesnt show. let me try to rectify it.

 

[tofubox]

Well, Unfortunately i cant edit the post. So re uploading pics here.















Rescaping of the tank

 

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The new look after the scape:

 

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[GSMclowns]

How many Lyretail Anthias do you have all together in that tank?
Beautiful tank by the way