So here is the plan
I am making a 22 gallon Cadlights bare bottom reef with no fish and very little clean up crew. I havent decided that if this tank will be strickly zoa ( which i planned for) or a reef with have some SPS and LPS. the light is a 150watt Sunpod with a 14000k bulb. there will be calcium dosing and ATO and by the end of april there will be a tunze 9002 skimmer and a jbj nano chiller.

22 gallon cadlight nano (bought courtesy of oceanreeflections.com )
20lbs Live rock (bought courtesy NR's Six)
150watt 14000k sunpod ( ditching the 4X24watt T5's) (bought courtesy of NR's joncat24)
2 -Hydor Koralia Nano's (bought courtesy of NR's joncat24)
Macro Alage (cheato) (bought courtesy of NR's medachef)
Ultralife Float Switch and Aqualifter Pump (ATO)
dual head peristaltic dosing pump (dosing E.S.V. B-Ionic 2-Part Calcium Buffer)


items not bought
Tunze Skimmer Nano Doc 9002 bought but using a Aqua C Ramora
1/15HP JBJ Arctica Nano Chillers bought

items in rear compartment
Seachem Purigen
Seachem SeaGel
Boyd Chemi Pure Elite


If i missed any thing in my discription or you have any ideas please drop me a line

I will post pics soon

Cheers


I decide to get a bigger tank will be here on thrusday

hey guys do you thing 150 watt HQI is too big for a 9 gallon tank?

I would just stick with 70w.

well i guess iam going to have to but another light i already bought the 150w.

Wont the 20" sunpod be hang over the sides of the tank, you should of bought the Coralife Metal Halide Pendant Fixture or a clamp lamp.

yeah but i figured it would but i got a really good deal and i could always put 150 on a future tank but i will try it on this one and if it doesn't work out i will just get another light i am in no rush

Tagged Scotty. Look forward to following along.

look at the 70W sunpod or 70W viper light, or hellolights or illuming retro 70W pendents.

yeah i am looking for 16.5" sunpod 70w hqi i am not in a rush yet i am going to see how blinding the 150w is going to be on this guy if it doesnt work out so be it. i know someone on this site will trade 150watt for a 70 watt if i was going to place a bet

Can you return the 150 and get the 70?

bought it off Nano reef its not a big deal i got the light ,2 extra bulbs and2 Koralia Nano's for $220 shipped so i didnt lose any money in my book. i can always sell it off and break even again

Yup! Great score!

I got my tank today and the glass was cracked on the bottom so i called cadlights and they are going to make me a new one this sucks i hate waiting. my new tank is going out on thrusday it look i am going to start my new tank out of a rubbermad bin for now hahahaha

well since my last tank broke i decided to get the 22 gallon model istead of the 9 gallon. whoooo more coral

I got my taank in the mail today and it is so sweet i didnt know that the glass would be so thick well i am going to set it up this weekend after i test the rock water were the LR is chilling i will post pic's as soon as i get the tank up and running

Cant wait to see it Scotty good luck setting it up.

well here are a few pics of the new tank. all of the LR and a few frags are in my frag tub along with the 150watt sunpod. i am going to get this tank set up in about a week and half due to me being out of town

i just realized i havent posted any pic of my new tank so here it is it been running for about 3 weeks and i have added a few things but not alot i am going to tank it slow. my new tank place in my house is in a unused broom closet...man i need to get a bigger house so i can buy more stuff

That' looking pretty F-in sweet there guy. I really like the eggcrate frag section under the over flow section. An idea I might have to use steal and use on my own.

thanks that frag rack is somthing i threw together until i can get a stong enough magnet to hold up my frag rack/ cheato holder that i made

i just wanted to add a few macro shot from my tank i took yesterday

I got some new zoa its a colony of about 300+ i brought them home and wow the color changed for yellow center to off white and the others are other good morphs i am pretty glad with what i bought

good looking 22 gallon. I really wanted to get that tank, but I thought the display width was too short. You did a great job aquascaping with about 10" though

thanks and it only 9" but there is a lot display length so i am still pretty happy

I went to Fiji Reef Today and i pick up this nice ORA Montipora spongodes

here is my new ORA Seriatopora guttatus (Green Bird's Nest) i think but i am not completly sure it might be Green Stylophora but that is another debate

here is the new Blue Acro I Picked up today for cheap

here is a pic of a new zoa i bought

well i hope every thing i have bought over the last few weeks last i was told that i have to fly to Mati in the Philippines on thursday to do some engineering work and i wont be back until the 31st. well i guess we will see is the auto top of and dosing works when i am not there

here is a nightshot of the tank i just took

well plans are off for mati now i am just flying back to califorina and here is another tank update i got some orange monti today

Brilliant zoa's LOVE the colors on your newest ones!

My new ORA Bali Green Slimer Acropora its about 5" and it only cost $45

here i made a nice night shoot of the green slimer

Here are the pics of the shipment i got today from spankey all of the new corals are on the frag squares except for the small piece of Tyree Undata

ORA Marshal Island Tri Color,Acropora Loripes,Larry Jackson Tri Color

ORA Blue Millipora,ORA Montipora Spongodes,Green Slimmer,Blue Slimmer

Chips Acro

Orange Cap (free)

Purple cap


great stuff

well i got another shipment of great sps corals from NR member spankey today and i have to say my frag rack is filling up very fast

Here is a great tabling Acro i got yesterday

wow nice pickups! You need to hook me up with some of those ora blue millies and slimer...

good stuff

Fraggle reef has this labled as "green pocilopora". It may be that. I got some that looks identical. Nice Tank!

So could you give a quick summary on what you do to keep your water quality where it needs to be with such a nice selection of SPS? I will be setting up a 16g nano shortly and plan to do SPS as well so any advice would be great.

Love how you have this set-up by the way.

It is important to keep you approach simple dont over dose on chemicals just keep to the basic rules of sps coral.

Calcium:
Minimum level 400 ppm.
Ideal level 450 ppm

trace elements: I only add three
Strontium 8–12 ppm (Strontium is in very high concentrate in the worlds oceans so i think corals need it)

Iodine .08 ppm ( potassium iodide to be exact is one drop per 20 gallons from a eye dropper every week or so)

Magnesium 1200–1350ppm ( very important and needs to be tested i test after each water change)

Ammonia: Should be at or near zero

Nitrite: Should be zero

Nitrate : Should be well below 10 ppm, but optimally as close to zero is best.

Phosphate : Should be below 0.3 ppm

pH : 8.2-8.4 acceptable range.

Alkalinity
3.2-4.5 meq/L considered optimum.

Temperature 78-84°F

Salinity :1.025 to 1.027 (specific gravity of natural sea water) is considered optimal.

The use of a good quality protein skimmer helps to keep organic compounds levels down

Water Movement: SPS corals require a water surge to flush debris from their surfaces. so the more the water flow you have the better off you are

SPS require high light levels produced by T5HO fluorescent or metal halide lighting 6-9 watts per gallon

the items i put into my tank to take care of Phosphates and other unwanted is, purgien, seagel carbon/phosphate conrol and chemi-pure elite with ferric oxide to contol silicates

well i hope this helps

Here is a pic of a beautiful Acro Colony i got today it even came with this little Tetralia commensal crab a must for any Acro colony

Nice tank. It's shaping up well. I was considering this setup too. It looks pretty shallow from front to back- how much room do you have from the front of the glass to the wall of the overflow for aquascaping?

Thanks!

its about 9" wide from the glass to the back wall and 23 1/2" wide and 13" deep for water level it gives you a lot of room for display and a lot of room for skimmers and heaters and decent size refugium for maro alage extra rubble and plenty of space for chemipure and other carbon cleaning agents in the back

well i have got and traded a lot of new things lately i got two Oregon Blue torts two large Acro colonies and Acro Efflo







so what do you guys think?

I think i have a pistol shrimp......great. i am hearing some clicking coming from my tank i think i might of either had a mantis hitchhiker or a pistol shrimp free loader

ah.... false alarm no mantis or pistol just with all the flow a pieace of live rock was tapping against the glass. i guess i jumped to conclusions. on a side note i am thinking of buying a Sunpod 250W HQI to replace my Sunpod 150W HQI. i have a frined how has a brand new one and is selling for cheap. do you guys think 250watts is too much for a 22 gallon tank? I have a 1/10 jbj chiller and it stays at a pretty steady 79 degrees

I noticed in your pics there was no skimmer- are you using one? I saw on your first post mention of the Tunze 9002 which you chose not to buy.



Thanks!

i am using a protien skimmer but i am using a Aqua C Ramora with a MJ1200 i have the 9002 DOC still in the box but i am getting good results from the aqua c for right now but i still might go with the 9002 so for right now the ramora wis working great and thanks i need to change the tank breakdown

My SPS corals as of July 9, 2008

2- ORA Marshal Island Tri Color (resembles purple bonzia- purple with neon green polyps)
2- Green Slimmer
ORA Blue Millipora
Acropora Loripes (purplish grey with white polyps)
Blue Slimmer
2- Larry Jackson Tri Color
2- ORA Chips Acro
ORA Montipora Spongodes green/green
ORA Montipora Spongodes green/purple
Purple Monti cap
Orange Monti cap
Reverse Pokerstar Monti
Montipora Undata
Alexander the Grape Montipora Cap
Strawberry fields montipora
ORA Tri-Color Valida
Oregon blue tort
Cali blue tort
Acropora Efflorescens
Greg Hillar Aqua Delight
Eddie Bauer Acropora Vermiculata
Green with purple tip long Stalk Acro
Acropora Cerealis pink and purple with yellow tips
Acropora Tenuis pink with purple tips
Blue with green polyps Millipora
German Blue polyp digitata

Thanks for the pic of your skimmer and info. I'm downsizing to the 22g cadlights and am unsure whether to stick with the mce-300 I have or get the tunze. I had a remora pro as well, and the issue I had with is was the noise as it was quite loud. How's the regular remora noise wise? Ken at oceanreeflections said he recommends the Tunze, so if you do set it up I'd love to hear your opinion.

Thanks for answering all of my questions by the way!