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Limu 'elima (Hawaiian 5 gallon Rimless) (RETIRED)


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Retired June 2017

 

August 2014

Moving to an Aquatop High Clarity Tank: 14" x 9" x 10" (LxWxH).

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Equipment:

Aquatop High Clarity Tank: 14" x 9" x 10" (LxWxH)

Hydor Koralia Nano 240

DIY LED Array 75W

Dry rock

Filtered Ocean Seawater

 

Livestock:

Invertebrates!

 

March 2014: Old Tank

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Original Setup

 

Equipment

5 gallon Aquarium masters glass tank with black silicon

Half pipe overflow AIO setup with 300 gph pump with dual outputs

filter fiber

vexar plate under fiber

bag of biomax (very little rock in tank)

5 lbs. black petco sand

3 lbs tufa dry stone

acrylic lid with holes drilled for ventilation

DIY gooseneck LED (2x Cree XM-L cool white, 1x OCW, 3.5" x 4" heatsink, nano dimmer/driver)

Macro

Dictyota acutiloba

Dictyota friabilis

Padina sp.

Ulva fasciata aka Limu Palahalaha

Halimeda discoidea

Caulerpa sertularoides

Hypnea musciformis (invasive to the archipelago)

Amansia glomerata

Galaxaura rugosa

Liagora perennis

Laurencia sp.

Livestock

2x Sabellid featherdusters

Psuedocorynactis anemone

Pleasing anemones

Aiptasia

Common Zoanthids

Palythoa caesia

Various Sponges

Dwarf Star, Aquilonastra Anomala

Saron Shrimp, female

Hidden Hermit, Calcinus latens

Echinometra mathaei

Baeolidia moebii, Aiptasia Eating nudibranch

Red sand sea cucumber

Tube anemones

 

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Added some inverts I had laying around and was planning on using somewhere.

Small featherduster worm & rock covered in what might be pleasing anemone and black sponge.

Also the galaxaura is coloring up nicely.

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I don't have a build or even pictures for this tank build, I tend to get everything and tell myself I'll try and documents so others can learn from my mistakes/process. But that rarely happens.

It is basically a 4" pipe cut to the waterline level I wanted, and then cut exactly down the center. This was then silicone to the back wall of the tank. I had drilled two outtake holes to split my 300gph (still a lot of flow though).

 

My padina sp. algae seems to be crumbling and breaking down while everything else is growing amazingly.

Anyone have any tips for keeping padina growing and happy?

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Actually all of this is extras from the marine lab. I have only collected a few macroalgae with diving and some sponges in harbors.

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Switching gears and going to a rimless high clarity glass tank, barebottom, and focus on lab inverts! Updating first post as this goes.

Around this archipelago ADA style and quality tanks go for way more than I would spring for just glass (shipping). Found this tank at a decent price and looks as nice as can be. Pictures soon!

Old 5 gallon will go to teaching purposes.

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I didn't think I would get excited about a simple little pico at work, but damn this tank is pretty! Talk about keeping my Zen while writing!

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Could a moderator or someone please move this into pico reefs and out of macroalgae? It has been converted, sorry.

Edit: Thank you Lalani!

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I'm psyched to see these hawaiian lab inverts, it sounds like you're taking things in an interesting direction. Can you give some more specifics on the upgrade?

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I'm psyched to see these hawaiian lab inverts, it sounds like you're taking things in an interesting direction. Can you give some more specifics on the upgrade?

I'm psyched about sharing a few! Sadly even I don't know yet. The plan is to keep it barebottom, so whenever I change over species I don't have to worry about foul substrate, just change water and its clean! Light is the repaired version of my 20 long DIY led, so it can handle anything I throw in here (fits this tank much better). Fish aren't out of the question, I don't work on them but other people do. I am just going to keep it serene and simple and play it by ear!

That all said, I do have something in mind that I would like to start with...

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Wow I have not updated this thread really at all. This tank was fun for work storage when barebottom, but then one day I decided to just dump some sand from a field site into here and let it go. Besides a collector urchin and sand dwelling heart urchin, everything in this tank came out of the rocks and sand I put in here. I have only been topping this tank off with filtered tapwater (hallway water bottle filler) for about a year and done nothing else. It probably gets too cold (office is between 20-22C most days), but everything is doing just fine.
Below are two time-lapse shots of the tank from just today.

 

 

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1 hour ago, teenyreef said:

Are you still running this tank? I really love that sandbed time lapse :)

Yup this tank is still up and running! Really just sand bed and caulerpa field in it. I think I have only changed water twice? I can possible get a shot this coming work week, just got to move out a few touch tank animals I was storing in there temporarily (don't think people would approve of the 13" sea cucumber and 3" rock urchin in this little tank).

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