Tank Now 4 Weeks Young...

[SuperBlades]

A quick piccy of my new reef since moving house and breaking down my old one. The tank specs so far:-

4*2*2 Clearseal tank and cabinet
Fluval 304 as a Rowaphos and Carbon chamber
3 Powerheads and 1 ugly internal filter, just temporary ;)
Deltec MC600 Skimmer
4 T5's, each bulb at 54w
3 T8's.
Trigon Heaters x2
Approx 60Kgs LR
Live sand bed

As for inhabitant, 2 TMC Percs, 15+ red legs and 30+ Turbo's. A couple of softie frags.

Will start to stock up a wee bit more next week, mainly softies, the odd peice of LPS...

Any opinions...

Ta

Will

[Matt I]

nice

[jamie reefer]

Hi Will

nice tank looks good mate cheers Jamie

[spssco]

hey thats a great tank you got almost the same spec as me

But i am almost a week into maturation and just struggling with some brown algae business ;) anyway good luck mate looks nice with those clownfish in there.

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Deltec MCE600 Skimmer
eheim 2329 Marine
4 Maxijets PH1200s
Arcadia T5 4x54s
Aquamedic Mini Cooler
30kg Fiji Live Rock

Pav

[SuperBlades]

Tell me about it mate!! I had serious problems with diatoms. Probably due to the fact that i didn't fill with RO. A good phosphate remover and plenty of flow should do the trick. Mine took about 3-4 weeks to die off :angry:

[Mik3y6]

Love the aquascaping, gives the fish plenty of room too swim and looks great too. :thumbsup:

[SuperBlades]

Thanks. That was the idea of the aquascaping, to allow fish such as tangs plenty of open water. Looks a bit different to other reefs too

[SuperBlades]

Just thought I would post an update. Gone are the T8 tubes I ad and added is a Arcadia Lumiare T5 unit. This enables me to house 8 T5's over the tank. 4 whites and 4 blue. I'm really pleased with the result, looks really bright.

I've had a little shuffle with the rockwork and added a few more corals and a lovely blue sponge.

Any comments?

Thanks,

Will

[SuperBlades]

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[SuperBlades]

An update of how the reef stands today.

Going through a cyano outbreak at the moment, mainly in the dead spots. Sandfisting hermits and starfish seem to be dealing with it.

[SuperBlades]

The sponge has been in the tank for almost 2 weeks now and is already showing signs of new growth. Really pleased that its doing well. the other pieces in the LFS turned white after only 2 days

[SuperBlades]

My pride and joy. Been in the reef for just over 2 weeks now, eats almost anything, not polyps though YET!!! He/She has even munched his/her way through a few aptaisia in the reef, I didn't know they eat them, but hey - he/she does! :D

[SuperBlades]

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[SCOOB]

lovely setup, love that blue sponge, i hope it keeps its shape.

what do you plan to do when that angel is fully matured tho'??

[SuperBlades]

Thought I would post an update of how the reef is developing.

Unfortunatley I had an outbreak of ich, my Yellow Tang and 2 Percs came through it Ok, but after treating with RX-P for over 2 weeks, the Emp, which was showing signs of recovery dissapeared :( . I had to strip the rockwork back to find it, but when I did, the hermits had beat me to it :huh:

Anyway, the tank is now totally different and all inverts and fish seem to be doing well :D

[SuperBlades]

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[SuperBlades]

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The right side is less populated with coral, but gains its interest from the cave and reef atoll

[SuperBlades]

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