Cad Light 12g Zoa Garden

[lilmatty5dimes]

Tank: Cad light 12g AIO modified
Stand: came with the tank
Lighting: Reef Radiance Nano 60 (thanks to begow) Radion Gen 3
Heater: Cobalt Aquatics Neo-Therm 75-watt
Return Pumps: n/a for now
Water Flow: Jebao RW-4 (little reef shop) Hydor Pico300
Filtration: Aquaclear 50 with intank media basket running carbon and GFO (thanks nanosaurus)
Aquaclear 50 with cheato and intank light (thanks to boggers for the light) took offliine
Skimmer: n/a
ATO: Tunze 3155 ATO
TOP: no top
SALT: IO reef crystal found a sale $45/box

had to sell my nuvo due to roof leak that has been going on for longer than we bought the house and it causing a ton of rotting damage and mold issue to the wall need money to repair it. i had a few corals nobody wanted to buy at which i thought was a pretty fair price and couldn't sell the clowns for $70. so decided to just start this up since its stuff i had laying around the house not being used. i got the tank off a curb alert for a local reefer who couldn't sell it for $40. thanks to his wife i shot up to his house and grabbed it and came home and did a leak test and nothing was leaking. the rock i traded an old pair of clowns for so some nice branching rock. soaked the rock in some ro water for a few weeks in the tank. did my aquascape the other day and had to raise the salinity up a tad and started the cycle yesterday. now the long wait. lol


Coral

SPS

Red planet
Joe the coral
tyree aquituberculata (bleached not looking good.
tyree flower petal
mystic sunset bleached

Zoas

utter choas
candy apple reds
super saiyan
sunny d
VDM
darth maul
wobbegongs/yodas not sure
blondie
rasta
god of war
blue hornet
rainbows
sunny d

emerald maul

blue rhinos

red hornet

emerald on fire

capt. america

la lakers

wwc spellbinder

blue macaws

wwc pink kraks

pink zippers

tyree space monster

wwc space monster

mandarin orange

chong bong

legion of fire

salted agave

purple hornet

nuke green

maul/rainbow combo

pink elephant

solar circus

king midas

god of war

electric oompa loompa

rainbow raptors

LPS

golden torch

torch

frogspawn

blasto
5 acans
gold meister chalice

Softies

tck gumdrop

[Alex B]

Awesome! Sounds like a great little budget tank! Free is always good!...well mostly good...lol

[lilmatty5dimes]

Thanks Alex. Hopefully when everything settles down and after the new year I'll be adding some sps. Until then probably just keep it a clown tank with what I've got and maybe add a few of my favorite zoas.

[Reefkid88]

Hell yeah man,this will be nice !!! What're the stocking plans ?!

[lilmatty5dimes]

now i've got a few coral just sitting in a 15g long tank with the ora premium snowflakes i couldn't sell. probably just keep those until the new year. once it mature some and starts to stabilize i'll throw in some sps or quite a few. i'm debating on whether or not to buy this http://www.amazon.com/VideoSecu-Articulating-Bracket-Monitor-ML10B/dp/B000ID7QNI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390060570&sr=8-1&keywords=LED+monitor+mountand mount an odyessa mh/t5 fixture over it. not the best fixture i know but always wanted to try mh and i have it just sitting in the garage. i'll have to get some new bulbs but i'll save up for those and get them when christmas time comes around. i'll get my bonus divided and holiday pay in december. hopefully i'll have some left after fixing the wall.

[lilmatty5dimes]

here's the set up

aquascape

2 aquaclear filters left will be the cheato and right will be intank media rack

view from the kitchen

started the cycle yesterday with this.

 

tempt holding tank

[lilmatty5dimes]

well couple of small updates friend and i bought some gel filters to block out the blue leds on the tank and all i have to say is it looks a ton better. just need to play some more to find the perfect one. here's the before and after

before

after

[lilmatty5dimes]

tested the water today and these were the results. ammonia o nitrites 0 and nitrates 10

 

i went ahead and dosed another 15ml of ammonia to see what it does in the next 24 hours to see if the tank is truly fully cycled and if it is i'm going to look for a lil 6-line to throw in there before i put my clowns in there. let see how it goes.

[Reefkid88]

That zoa collection though !!! Glad to hear thugs humming along.

 

How's all the construction going ?

[lilmatty5dimes]

thanks man. sadly that tank is a friends. he went a lil crazy at coral con and bought about 15 zoa frags and got a steal on golden torch. 4 heads for $100. want one of those pretty bad. lol. luckily for me i think i know where to go when i need some zoas in the begin. lol

 

i just checked the water parameters and its this

ammonia 2-4

nitrite 0.25

nitrate 15-20

 

i think its safe to say the cycle is pretty much done. going to get some pods at lfs and look for a 6-line.

[lilmatty5dimes]

That zoa collection though !!! Glad to hear thugs humming along.

 

How's all the construction going ?

i've already got a list going of what i would like to have in the tank. list is pretty long and thats holding back a lot. lol i think i'm going to hold off on the mh/t5 lights till after christmas. i should be able to sneak the mount on a christmas order and the mh bulb i want is the hexarc blue.

[lilmatty5dimes]

well, wednesday night i went and checked the parameters again and everything was looking good so i went ahead and transferred everything over to the new cad light tank. thursday was my day off and i got the rest of the equipment moved over and cleaned up so the new tank as of thursday is official. lol i plugged in my neo-therm and the temp on the tank was 86 or thats where it was blinking at so i think that the temp. hopefully the reason why my one bigger chalice is looking bad. had a small lil leak on one of the aqua clear that was an easy fix. the lights are 100% blue and about 40% white.

heres a few pics i took with the iphone and the gel filters.

FTS

corals

acans

chalices

only thing that has taken a beating on the transfer.

here's a video with the iphone and the gel filters. i took the filter off at the end to show the differences it does with the camera. and the

second one is the rw-4 thats in the tank. i have to say an awesome lil pump thats working great so far.

[lilmatty5dimes]

found a guy up in daytona with sunny d, super sayan, yodas, chucky brides(pink hippos), and pink elephant for $50. worth the 45min drive i think. lol hopefully have them next week.

[Reefkid88]

That's a sick ass pack for $50 man,I can wait to see that.

 

You should see the size frag of Mystic Sunset I got for $10

[acrab78]

found a guy up in daytona with sunny d, super sayan, yodas, chucky brides(pink hippos), and pink elephant for $50. worth the 45min drive i think. lol hopefully have them next week.

Get me some.... hahahah

[lilmatty5dimes]

That's a sick ass pack for $50 man,I can wait to see that.

 

You should see the size frag of Mystic Sunset I got for $10

Thanks man. Hopefully they're good of so a killer deal. That's 3 off my list if I do get them.

Have a pic? Where ya get it at? Top shelf?

 

 

Get me some.... hahahah

Haha I'm hoping he's got a ton more that I'll be able to get down the road. He had some more but they were a lil more common.

[acrab78]

Bring him some beer or wine... sounds like a good reefing friend in deed!!!

[Reefkid88]

Living Reef over in Waterford Lakes. I posted a picture earlier of it. Still in the bag. You can kinda see how big it is. It's almost a whole drag plug encrusted.

 

When are you going to pick up the new pieces ?

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, haven't updated in awhile but the tank had a bad diatoms outbreak that's finally going away after 2 weeks. It made the rock look a ton better with more color and more "live" which is great. I've been finding some killer deals near and far. Mostly far lol. Drove to daytona for some sunny d, yodas, chucky's bride, and a no namer for $50. Then to a lfs for 2 chalices that are pretty sweet and a wobbegong and no namer for $60. Then for birthday got green cap (has a different name), red planet, vdm zoa, darth maul, and bubble gum monster pink boobie chalice for $60. All in all think I've made out pretty good.

I pulled out the dslr but the laptop is acting all crazy and i can't get it to turn on so I'm going to have to figure out what to do with that now. Like i need anything to break or leak on me now. Lol

[lilmatty5dimes]

Man it's been 3 weeks since anything. I've got quite the few corals now and everything is doing pretty good. I got my iPhone back so I'll be taking some much needed pics tomorrow. And will update the coral list as well. Went a lil chalice crazy. Lol

[reefernanoman]

Man it's been 3 weeks since anything. I've got quite the few corals now and everything is doing pretty good. I got my iPhone back so I'll be taking some much needed pics tomorrow. And will update the coral list as well. Went a lil chalice crazy. Lol

Cool. It's always nice to get new corals

[lilmatty5dimes]

Here's a few that's I've gotten recently. Also have a green convict chalice to add to these. More to come.

Pink boobies

Bubble gum monster(top left) not saying it is the piece but closes thing I could find wwc situation on right.

Unknown red with blue streaks

unknown had pink speckles all in it with only blues on just hasn't colored back up yet for me.

all together on sand bed

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, got a goldmeister chalice, god of war zoa, blue hornets, rainbow zoa today. Yesterday got another sunny d frag that's a sick piece. And getting a neon toadstool. Pics to come later when everything is opened. Looks like I can't keep any caps or montis right now. Seems to look good and after 4-5 days all the color faded out.

[ninjamyst]

Well, got a goldmeister chalice, god of war zoa, blue hornets, rainbow zoa today. Yesterday got another sunny d frag that's a sick piece. And getting a neon toadstool. Pics to come later when everything is opened. Looks like I can't keep any caps or montis right now. Seems to look good and after 4-5 days all the color faded out.

how's your alk level? i have the same issue with monti too but i been keeping my alk stable at 7.7 - 8 and they are recovering color.

[lilmatty5dimes]

 

how's your alk level? i have the same issue with monti too but i been keeping my alk stable at 7.7 - 8 and they are recovering color.

I'm not to sure what the alk is. I have the API test kit not to sure how accurate it is. But I'll got test it out. I'm probably going to buy the Hanna checker for po4 and alk when I get some funds.