Doug,s 180g Reef Cube
 

Tank is a cube shaped 180g. 4ft.H...3ft.W...2ft.H. All 1/2in. glass with two 4in. braces. Tank has a starfire front, that we have somehow scratched, {see scratched glass thread}.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...8Full_tank.jpg

Filtration includes a turf scrubber, dumping direct into the aquarium and a beckett skimmer, running from the sump. Mag 12 return pump, ATS dump and a Tunze 6080 stream pump provide the current.

It has a large single corner overflow with a 1.5in. drain.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/508/8Overflow.jpg

Its a bare bottom, except for the 3ft. by 2ft. aragonite coated piece of acrylic form my 90g. Most of the rock sits on this. I used several pvc pipes again to provide homes and tunnels for the fish, especially my clowns.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/508/8Bottom.jpg

Some of the stock is from my 90g. Still have a 3+year old mandarin, 3,one

Yr. old PJ cardinals, 3, Ora Percs,which have now formed a female, male and it group. And of course my adult copperband.

I sold the Kole tang so I could make new additions at the same time.

Added a baby sailfin tang, baby scopas tang and a juvie Foxface. All have been fine

together. The Foxface has already cleaned up most of the bubble algae.
:surprise:

Eat like a bunch of pigs already but thats fine with me and I have planned my filtration to handle it.

Here they seen me working near the tank and are having a general "where the food" meeting.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...sh_meeting.jpg

I will add some pics soon now that the other lighting is in place. Besides supplement actinics and normal outputs, I,m experimenting with a single 400w Iwasaki. The pendant is fairly high to give it spread and the Iwasaki still has the punch to cover it or at least thats the idea. :lol:

Looks great Doug!!!

Doug! I found it! The tank looks great. I like the PVC tube idea. Just wondering, are clowns more likely to lay eggs on a smoother surface (ie. PVC) than bare rock??


Also how is the aragonite coated bottom faring?

Christy :)

Neat idea with the PVC tubes under the rock for tunnels..
Looking Good Dougie!! :cool:

How bout some closeups of those Clams.. :mrgreen:

Nice tank!! I bet those PVC tunnels really open it up for swimming room vs. a big pile o' rocks!
Cheers,
Aaron

It seems fine. Had some red turf algae on the front portions in the 90g, hoping that does not happen here. A little current cleans the detritus fine.