Tofubox's 4ft Reef Tank
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Hey guys, just a little update on the tank.
Everythings going well. Haven't suffered any casualties at all since the rescape. Thank god for that.
Sps are doing better than ever now. Colours are really coming out. I havent actually changed anything except my salt mix to HW marine mix. Also stopped using colour elements.
Current maintenance regime:
1. Weekly one barrel of water change - Hw Marine mix left mixing overnight
2. Zeovit Spongepower - 4 drops every other day
3. Zeovit Zeobak - 4 drops twice a week
4. Zeovit Start3 - Morning and evening daily 0.5ml
Not dosing any other additives or zeovit products at the moment, seems to be doing well. Perhaps quality of salt makes a difference.
Lighting has remained the same:
ATI Sunpower
Front to back: Blue plus, Coral plus, Blue Plus, AB Special, Purple Plus, Blue plus, Coral plus, Blue plus.
Switched on for 8 hrs all 8 bulbs, 10hrs 2x blue plus.
Honestly, I want to try supplementing with led strips. But all the led strips out there are just too bloody expensive. Im a really poor reefer, so probably wont be supplementing leds anytime soon.
Fish list:
1 Yellow Tang, 1 Flame Angel, 1 Diamondback Goby, 1 Longspine Cardinal, 1 Lemon meringue wrasse, 10 Lyretail Anthias (1 male, 9 Female), 2 Black ice clowns
Everythings going well. Haven't suffered any casualties at all since the rescape. Thank god for that.
Sps are doing better than ever now. Colours are really coming out. I havent actually changed anything except my salt mix to HW marine mix. Also stopped using colour elements.
Current maintenance regime:
1. Weekly one barrel of water change - Hw Marine mix left mixing overnight
2. Zeovit Spongepower - 4 drops every other day
3. Zeovit Zeobak - 4 drops twice a week
4. Zeovit Start3 - Morning and evening daily 0.5ml
Not dosing any other additives or zeovit products at the moment, seems to be doing well. Perhaps quality of salt makes a difference.
Lighting has remained the same:
ATI Sunpower
Front to back: Blue plus, Coral plus, Blue Plus, AB Special, Purple Plus, Blue plus, Coral plus, Blue plus.
Switched on for 8 hrs all 8 bulbs, 10hrs 2x blue plus.
Honestly, I want to try supplementing with led strips. But all the led strips out there are just too bloody expensive. Im a really poor reefer, so probably wont be supplementing leds anytime soon.
Fish list:
1 Yellow Tang, 1 Flame Angel, 1 Diamondback Goby, 1 Longspine Cardinal, 1 Lemon meringue wrasse, 10 Lyretail Anthias (1 male, 9 Female), 2 Black ice clowns
Yeah, unfortunately i had to break off alot of the sps colonies that had already encrusted on my old rocks and remount them. Im glad I made the change, feels like a brand new tank. Also had the chance to clean up the tank in the process.
Oops! I accidentally missed him out! Good spot!
Djturna4thakidz
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Where did you get the light mounts?
Hi Glaukos, I would say its 80% similar in the pics. 20% goes to white balance setting i have on my phone camera. I use this app called "A better Camera" with white balance set to "cloudy Daylight". This setting gives me the closes look to the actual tank.
[/QUOTE]Happy there where no casualties:beer:Always a tricky part after a rescape!Well done![/QUOTE]
Thanks alot for the kind words!
So far, I haven't had any problems with all my wrasse. Used to have 2 yellow coris and a melanuras wrasse. They behaved well. I than took the 3 out and replaced with a single Lemon meringue wrasse.
Hi Dijurna, I custom made the light mounts at a local alu profile shop. Basically its 4 corner brackets, and a standard alu profile. Drilled the brackets into the wall to make the mount.
Djturna4thakidz
New member
It looks really nice! Thanks
