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36x36x24 CUBE | Pink Spider
Hi all, I'm new in here ! :biggrin:
I'd like to present you my current set-up ; it's a 135 gallons with a 50 gallons sump in the basement. To make it short, it's been around ten years now that my boyfriend and I are blowing money on that awesome hobby. We started it up with a small 25g reef tank to quickly turn it over to a 77g one. A year passed and once again we started to think this was too small and we wanted a bigger set-up. We transfered everything in a 90g. Thereafter we still weren't happy yet. We needed something new... we always had a crush on butterfly fishes and angel fishes, since most of them aren't reef safe we changed our reef tank into a fish only one. So we bought a small 60g for our corals and things and we transformed our 90g into a FO. Months later we found out this was lots of work taking care of two salt water aquariums considering we weren't at home during the week and we had to take care of our two dogs while at home. So, we bought ourselves a house last year and started to build up our dream tank : a 180g reef tank in the dining room with a 90g sump in the basement. Now we were happy.... throughout a year at least. The house experienced some humidy problems with that much water and the electricity bill was a bit expensive for us considering we had three 175watt MH, a large water pump in the basement that's riding up water 13' high and a deshumidifier running 24/24 7/7. So we had to think this over........ again. I then suggest my boyfriend to sell everything out... but of course he disagreed on this. So we reached a compromise on decreasing in size everything. That's where we currently are in the story, since 3 years now we own a 135g cube tank of 36x36x24 with a 50g sump. Since we wanted it to be our LAST reef tank, we equiped it with the best hardware. Here are some pics of our evolution during those past years, enjoy ! Our first reef aquarium 10 years ago (25g) http://oneilcastro.com/gallery/d/54182-2/001_25g.jpg Our second reef aquarium (77g).... observe the fixtures ! A Giesemann MH at the left and a PC Coralife one at the right... lol http://oneilcastro.com/gallery/d/54185-2/002_77g.jpg 90g reef tank (and FO time later) http://oneilcastro.com/gallery/d/6157-2/Reef_90g.jpg 60g reef tank http://oneilcastro.com/gallery/d/54188-2/004_60g.jpg 180g reef tank http://oneilcastro.com/gallery/d/7232-2/180g_008.jpg and then, our current 135g cube. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/...e857477f_b.jpg |
36x36x24 CUBE
Here are some pics of the project build up 3 years ago.
My boyfriend and I made the stand ourselves http://oneilcastro.com/gallery/d/56260-1/004.jpg Tank was ordered from Aquarium Obsessed (AO), I think they closed last year. :( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ient/face2.jpg That picture gives an idea of its size. ^_^ http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ient/face3.jpg The stand is still not finished, but the switch has been done http://oneilcastro.com/gallery/d/644...BE135gal02.jpg Stand is done now http://oneilcastro.com/gallery/d/90420-1/aqua03.jpg What it looks the first year : http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/...e857477f_b.jpg The second year : https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_...25A92011-2.jpg What it looks today : http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6...10c2c727_b.jpg |
Now let's talk about more serious matter. :lol:
EQUIPMENT Lighting : Giesemann Spectra 24'' 250w MH + 4x T5-HO 24w Skimmer : Deltec TC1655 Controller : Profilux plus II Powerheads : 2x Tunze 6055 + 1x Tunze 6045 Others : Media reactor Phosban150 | Avast Kalwaser Stirrer | Emperor Aquatic 40w UV filter LIVE STOCK | Fishes 1x Achilles Tang 1x Pyramid Butterflyfish 1x Declivis Butterflyfish 2x Oscellaris Clownfish 2x Scissortail Gogies 1x Hellfrichi firefish 1x Red Head Goby 1x Engineer Goby 2x Yellow Clown Gobies 1x Swissguard Basslet 1x Lubbocki Fairy Wrasse 1x Adornatus Fairy Wrasse 1x Flame Fairy Wrasse LIVE STOCK | Inverts 1x Serpent Starfish 2x Sandsifting Starfishes 2x Cleaner Shrimp 1x Bullseye Pistol Shrimp 1x Emerald Crab 3x Mini Carpet Anemones 1x Purple Long Tentacles Anemone LIVE STOCK | Corals Purple Monticap Green Monticap Pink Bird's Nest Puple Millepora Pavona Frogspawn Hammer Green & Purple Blastomusa Favia Candycanes Trumpet Green Duncan Rhodactis Discosoma |
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Wow that's a nice tank :) I too hope to upgrade my little cube to a larger one one day :D
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That looks fantastic! Great choice of fish too! Is that Declivis well behaved? Any nipping?
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He ate all my zoas, killed 2 mini carpet anemones out of 5 and likes to nip at SPS like pocilopora and acropora. But besides those things, he really is a nice and very interesting fish to observe. He's very lucky to be my favorite fish in the tank.... ;) |
Very nice, but now the very serious question.
Who's the dead guy in the 77 gal, a former boyfriend maybe?:lol: |
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I bought it 10 years ago and it's in my reef tanks ever since. ;) |
I meant to ask, what kind of camera did you use for the pics?
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SWEET!
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This is a great tank!
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This is the cube tank size that I have been always wanting for a long time. Love the way you set it up between the sofas ... a very good location.
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Beautiful tank and LOVE the livestock choices!!! Very well done
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Gorgeous tank and beautiful fish :thumb:
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Stylish room all around and a very nice tank. I'm surprised they built a tank that small on site lucky you! They've been closed for a couple years now I think.
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Hi Pink... welcome to Canreef.
You got a great tank going there. Hope to see more of it as it progresses. :biggrin: |
Thanks a lot everyone !
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That is very awesome, thanks for sharing with us!
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Love the declivis! Great tank and everything else too. :)
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Awww, my Declivis wanted to eat my new pincushion urchin. :( I had to move it to the sump unfortunately.... well actually there's a lot of algae out there so he's gonna be happy, but I wanted a urchin in my cube. :cry:
Damn you Declivis. :lol: |
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8389/8...58b95703_z.jpg
And with my new lighting kit (three Radion was just overkill so I decided to sell one) : http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8072/8...bb330c34_b.jpg |
That is a great looking tank. Quite inspirational.
Amazing pictures too, I love how you took a few shots of your fish and showcased one with a pair of others on the side. Keep up the good work! |
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Great pictures!!
How is the declivis butterfly doing? |
I want a declevis so bad!
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Awesome build and very nice tank!
How do you like the switch over to LEDS? notice any difference in coral growth? |
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Ouch, that would be a tough one to lose to jumping! :( Sorry to hear.
How was he behaved in a reef, did he pick at any of the corals? |
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He ates evering single zoanthides I had and was nipping at some acropora corals (but wasn't killing them). |
Great looking setup! For what it's worth I love the skull, gives a little pirate theme to the reef.
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Okay, so I sold my 135g. cube recently and my boyfriend and I are currently working on a brand new set up !
It's a 88g shallow reef (40x30x17) and it should look like this when it's done : http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8382/8...6b57965b_b.jpg |
Last week-end we finished working on the wall, here's a quick look of it :
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7352/8...3c8d24b3_z.jpg And yesterday we received the new tank :mrgreen: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7314/8...d23c705b_o.jpg |
nice it will be interesting to see it build.
new house ? |
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