Truely shallow reef tank build

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Originally Posted by Mike-fish

what is in the left reactor

hydroton

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Originally Posted by tang daddy

The build is coming along nicely, what lights are you planning on running on this set up?

for now and possibly long term depending on growth i get out of it and temperature, im going with a 72" 3x 250w halide w/ 2 t5ho but i will only be running 2 of the halides. if i dont have any heat problems i ill probably stick with the halides but the other 2 options are a arduino build (already have all the parts except the actual leds) or a vertex illumina 260

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Did some work on the tank this morning.

Speedwave is hooked up with temporary lines, dry rock placed randomly in a pile, salinity at 1021

Hopefully on the weekend ill get more of the stand finished so I can organize all the cords, get the reactors online, mount the controllers for the speedwaves, give my coralife my fixture some much needed tlc, and add some sand.

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Plans for my lighting have changed a bit (wife doesn't like the coralife, says its to bulky) so I'm going to hang 2 250w 20 000k de pendants over the tank and some 3w blue diy pendants for moonlights. Reactors are online and I pick up my vertex omega from oceanic on Friday.

Still haven't made any progress otherwise except for the tank is now officially cycling.

As bad of an idea it may be, I do not plan on using a qt tank for fish as the only 3 fish I care about putting in the tank are an Achilles, a bariene, and a purple tang and I've found they don't handle qt all that well, I'm just going to be picky about where they come from.

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Tank is completed its cycle as far as i can tell...

Installed my new vertex omega 150 and love it, apparently I had some excess nutrients as it pulled close to 3gal in 2 days

And it's quiet



Started on the light



First coat done, now for some sanding and a few more coats. Hoping I bought enough paint as high temp paint isn't cheap

[Seth81]

Your tank makes me want to build a new tank...and it's only been a year for me...augh my poor wallet

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Tbh IMO it's kind of an eye sore right now... Gotta get some doors built

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So I've been slacking on finishing the stand but I have added some livestock...

Fragged all the zoa and paly colonies in my nano and transferred them to the tank and added a Red Sea sailfin, a maculiceps tang and a bariene tang

[Azzkr]

Tank looks awesome so far. Did you get the lights hung yet? are you going to leave it open in the top or build in a cabinet?

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Originally Posted by Azzkr

Tank looks awesome so far. Did you get the lights hung yet? are you going to leave it open in the top or build in a cabinet?

Still haven't finished the lights, for now I'm just running 2 250w de 20000k pendants

No canopy going with an open top

The bariene and maculiceps tang have been coming out alot more now and are both eating although they're both still skittish while I'm near the tank



Tomorrow I'm going to do a water change and siphon all the gravel out that was on some rock I had in there temporarily