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~ MCC Reef Paradise ~ 60G Rimless Tank

I haven't had a tank for over 2 years now. The last time I was here was for my 20G long tank. It was a great learning experience and a very simple set up with many used parts from other local members. Do to work I got too busy and lost interest/time to take care of the tank. Some of the corals started to die and I got hit by flatworms. So I sold the tank and its contents when it still worth some value. The picture is of the 20G long before it went downwards.

http://www.nano-reef.com/index.php?a...tach_id=121950

Flash forward to 2013 !! Work is more stable now and I have moved out so it was time to set up something that will last longer. I decided to go sumpless again as I like the piece of mind and simplicity of the whole set up.

Here is a list of the equipment:

Tank: Hagen 60G rimless tank - 48"x19"x16"
Light: Ecoxotic Panorama Marine Pro LED
Skimmer: Tunze 9004
Circulation: 2 x Tunze 6025
Reactor: Phosban 150 w/ Ehiem Compact Pump 600 + GFO
ATO: Tunze Osmolator 3155
Heater: Hagen Marina 200w
Salinity: Refractometer

I use a Aqua C Remora Pre-skimmer Box to hide the Ehiem Compact Pump 600 and the return tube.

Current Livestock:

2 x Black Clownfish
Blue Tang
Yellow Tang

2 x Cleaner Shrimp
Blue Legged Hermit Crabs
Astrea Snails

Frogspawn Coral
Hammer Coral
Torch Coral
Various Ricordias
Blue/Red Mushrooms
Various Acans
Duncan Coral
Neon Candycane Coral

85lbs of Liverock

I m planning to experiment with bio pellets one day instead of GFO. I want to add another Ecoxotic Panorama Marine Pro LED. One is currently enough and everything looks great and growing, but I just want to add more light to the tank.

As for stocking. At the moment just LPS and softies, maybe one day I will venture into SPS world. Fish wise I might add one more fish, but other than that I want to keep my bio load from fish low.

I do 5 gallon water change per week with Instant Ocean salt.

http://www.nano-reef.com/index.php?a...tach_id=122035

Looks great, love how its sumpless :)
KISS.

Great tank :) But do get ready for some tang police chewing up you ;)

Had to return one of the Aussie Frogspawn to the LFS. It was throwing 'tentacle' pieces everywhere and killing off my acans =(

On to better updates, upgraded the light to dual AI Sol. Built two pillars to hold it up. Amazing colors =)

http://www.nano-reef.com/index.php?a...tach_id=122798

Still acclimating the light to the tank so its at 25%/40%/45% (WH/B/RB). Plan to be 35%/65%/75% =)

Beep Beep. Any Updates?

Shipment of 9 mini colonies of zoas and ultra scoly coming this week =)

Nice tank! Any new pics?

very nice....love em acans:wink:

Very nice softie tank!

really like your acan garden. things keep looking better with every update.

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Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 834515)

really like your acan garden. things keep looking better with every update.

Thanks!

its time to slowly work on the zoas/ric garden. but so far i havent found anything i like.

Coming along nice buddy

Wow, the clowns look huge man, what have you been feeding them! LOL

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Originally Posted by Timbits (Post 834545)

Wow, the clowns look huge man, what have you been feeding them! LOL

Hey man!! its 5 months ... don't they grow?? The large one is almost the size for the blue tang !! They are around 1.5x the size since i got them from you =)

I feed mixture of flakes and when I am not lazy i prepare PE Mysis + selcon + garlic

Haha I'm jk around, they look good man. Glad to see they are doing well =)

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Originally Posted by Timbits (Post 834655)

Haha I'm jk around, they look good man. Glad to see they are doing well =)

almost didnt survive the first night remember? when my heater broke and water at 20 degrees lol

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Originally Posted by MCC (Post 834783)

almost didnt survive the first night remember? when my heater broke and water at 20 degrees lol

Oh ya I remember! Whew, good thing they made it okay :biggrin:

Trying SPS again and added more pieces of zoas to replaced the dead stuff. The purple/green lobo is recovering from its sting, but candy cane coral has died 3 heads =(

Devils Armour Zoas
Sunny Ds Zoas

Red Planet
Yellow Milli
Purple Monti Cap
Purple Pocci
Purple Valida
Purple Bonsai
Dark Green Acro w/ brown tips

http://www.nano-reef.com/index.php?a...tach_id=128771

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http://www.nano-reef.com/index.php?a...tach_id=128773

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