Braeden's 22 Gallon SPS Dominated Cube

[axe_man16]

Just a question for you. Maybe i missed something in the write up, but i noticed that the water level in the sump is almost at the top. Have you checked to see what happens when there is a power outage and your pump syphons water from display to sump. Just a thought, i have my water level only half way up my sump so that it will not overflow incase of power outage and just incase my floats malfunction.

[Aquaticguy11]

I have checked that and everything is fine. Only 1 inch of water from my main display drains into the SUMP when the return pump is off and the SUMP holds that amount of water. Thanks though

[toytech]

Its cycled, but i would guess that the capacity of your bacteria is still a little low .If it where me i would add fish one at a time and wait a decent time between fish .Oh and nice tank by the way , love the dimensions .

[Aquaticguy11]

Ok, Do you think that adding 2 small true percula clowns (1 inch) next week would be fine? My uncle is bringing them up from Vancouver so should I tell him not to bring them? Also thank you for them kind words. I also love the dimensions.

[Aquaticguy11]

Day 45: Added 2 corals!! Yay!

Zoanthids



Green Pocillopora. Yes I know it is not green. When I bought it, it had a little bit of green in it but it was under an 20,000K bulb. I am using a 10,000K bulb so there is no green on it at the moment.



Day 55: Added 5 pieces of SPS. I got all of these corals for $40. I was pretty happy about that. I just laid them in the tank on the rock for the time being. I glued them in the day after.

Green Millipora




Pink/Purple Millipora



Purple Poccilopora??


Birdsnest??


Blue Acropora??


More updates to come. Give me advice. Thanks.

[toytech]

Im sure the 2 clowns will be fine , your bacteria population will catch up quick , you just dont want to add 6 fish at once because it wont catch up that quick.Corals look great for just a 10k bulb , thinking of adding any blue suplements?

[Aquaticguy11]

Originally Posted by toytech

Im sure the 2 clowns will be fine , your bacteria population will catch up quick , you just dont want to add 6 fish at once because it wont catch up that quick.Corals look great for just a 10k bulb , thinking of adding any blue suplements?

Ok sounds good. I bought this fixture with the 10,000K bulb from my Uncle and I will probably just switch it for a 14,000K bulb within the next month or so. I think this will make the corals pop.

[Aquaticguy11]

Update:

Here are some recent pictures of the corals.

Zoanthids

Day 1 in my tank


Day 14 - Looking more plump and healthy


Green Pocillopora

Day 1


Day 14 - Looking a lot lighter coloured, is this good?


Green Millipora - Mounted now, lots of polyp extension



Pink Millipora - great polyp extension as well




Blue Acropora - Polyps coming out a little bit


Purple Pocillopora


Birdsnest - Nothing new


Full Tank Shot - March 28, 2012



These are up to date pictures. Enjoy and Comment.

[ensquire]

Man, I have to get a macro lens soon, Nice pics.

[Aquaticguy11]

Originally Posted by ensquire

Man, I have to get a macro lens soon, Nice pics.

Haha, that's funny that you say that. I don't even have a macro lens. It is just a Fujifilm FinePix E500. My mom payed like $300 bucks for it about 6 years ago. I was surprised that it took pretty good macro shots. Thanks