Tuni's 80g Rimless Tank Thread

[tunicata]

 

[tunicata]

Hey Folks,
This weekend I put my 120g set up for sale and installed my newest set up: 80g rimless.

Specs as of 4/19/14:

Equipment
80g Rimless Deep Blue Aquatics Tank- 48x24x16
1 Apex Jr. w/ EB4, Temp (Now Aquacontroller 3 w DC8)
Controls: Heater, Lights, Return Pump, Fuge Lights
ATI 48" 54wx6 Non Dimmable Fixture hung from metal conduit pipe (Changed from the ATI to the Evergrow IT2080 for 3 mos then went back to the ATI 4/18)
62 g Custom Acrylic Sump
Custom stand
ASM G4 Return Pump (Now SRO 2000INT)
Manifold plumbing system w/ 3 reactor/auxillary ports, 1 WC port
2 BRS Dosing Pumps (offline ATM)
1 MRC Calcium Reactor (offline ATM)
WP40 (switched to the WP25 now that i have sand)
Custom Breakout Box i/o

Chemical Based
Prodibio Reef
Polyp Lab kit- Bacteria, Coral Food, Stimulant, Aminos
Reef Plus (vitamins, and essentially all of the minute things folks dose like strontium, iodine, potassium, etc but all in one bottle)
Red Sea NoxPos
2xTLF Reactors- GFO (Rowaphos), Carbon (Seachem Matrix)
ESV Salt (Changing to Coralife in a week say...May 1st)
RODI H2O
BRS 3 part (not dosing atm)

Environment
Bare bottom (Sand as of March 17th, 1 inch of Fiji Pink)
Minimal aquascape in DT, extra rock in Sump
Custom Aquascape from Alternative Reefs
Custom Acrylic Frag rack from Friend


Future target:
Flame hawkfish (personality)
Lineatus wrasse (one with deep coloration not just pale striped)
Coris Wrasse (beautiful...)
2 female (not sub male!!!!) Fiji Anthias to make a harem with my Super Male
Achilles Tang

 

[jcs11236]

Post pics of your goodies!
How the anthia doing

 

[tunicata]

Lol, I actually haven't taken pics of anything yet.

The anthias is fine. I'm told he might night eat for a while.

I know I saw him eat at the store so I'm not worried. Im told this may be simple new fish behavior from my friends that have this fish.

But I did get 1 super male anthias, 4 pepp shrimp, and 1 nice yellow fiji leather piece.


Also, I am so glad I went back to T5s. My purple death frags actually look purple and not washed out wannabe purple but really is brown kind of shade.

 

[knutez24]

You staying with the t5's now? I'm trying to figure an easy way to get a couple t5's mounted so i can run Blue + bulbs with my kessils.

 

[tunicata]

Yea, I switched back to the t5s. With all the bulbs running the colors are so much better.
Without the purple plus some corals look bland.

Hm, mounting t5s may be a bit difficult for aesthetics since you have the kessil.

I'll think on it.

 

[tunicata]

Test post:

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[tunicata]

test

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[tunicata]

Hm, so I came home from this week long trip to find that:
My mandarin fish died.
My skimmer was overflowing.
All other fish had ich (well, everyone except for 1 clown)
My gorgeous red table had white tips.
A few other sps started to die from the base.

I did a quick 5 g water change and the next day all remaining fish were fine (save for the hippo).

So, needless to say, my tank is relatively unhappy now.

I'm thinking of getting one of my friends to hold my SPS for the summer, since I will be in and out for days at a time. Yes, the system was automated, and yes, my wife did all the things I asked of her.

I spend good money, or get good trades and I hate to see these SPS die over the summer.

I really liked that mandarin. I had him eating pellets!!! He was huge!

 

[knutez24]

Sorry to hear Will. Its a tough hobby sometimes. Just stay the course and it will be fine.