dbk07 Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Hi everyone, I'd thought I would go ahead and share my piece of the ocean here. I started this thing back in the summer time and actually got the idea from another reefer. I kind of stole the AIO idea from him lol. The back 6 inches form the sump area of the tank. Water goes into the overflow on the right into a little diy media basket with carbon, floss and some deNitrate. then goes into the skimmer/heater area and finally back into the display via a hydor seltz. Display area itself is about 36x12x16 so about 30g. Excuse the noob scaping haha.6/11/2015 January 2015Fish:2 occelaris clownfishChromisYellow Watchman GobyInverts:Cleaner Shrimpwhole bunch of snailsEquipment:SCA 301 Protein Skimmer2 Jebao rw-4100w Hydor heaterGFO reactorEvergrow D120Spartans Revenge zoaAnother FavSay helloforgot what this one was calledFreebie Acans(really all those heads came free with an order I made) Link to comment
gypsyzNthievz Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Welcome! Nice tank and thanks for sharing it with us. Link to comment
Halo_003 Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Very nice. Any chance you could get detailed pics/plans of the sump/AIO area? Link to comment
dbk07 Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 I can try to make a mock up on paint. Can't really get any pictures of the back. I really wish I took some pictures during the actual build Link to comment
dbk07 Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 In a nutshell here is how it is. I actually had the acrylic made for me by Marc at Melevs Reef. Yea I know, time to dump the skimmer water haha. Link to comment
dbk07 Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 So I noticed something the other day. Tested my water after water change got this,Alk 8.6 khCa 420 ppmMg 1350One week later I test right before the water change and I'm at 7.7 Alk and 400 Ca . Is it time to start dosing? Link to comment
dbk07 Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 I've started dosing B-Ionic 2 part once a week to help with stabilizing Alk. Seeing better result from the coral especially the acro's. Water change today so I've decided to show you guys is the rack I created to go into the first chamber. Acrylic with some egg-crate siliconed together. Does a lot better job of forcing water through than the all egg-crate rack I made when I first started. Space it takes in the chamber Link to comment
dbk07 Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 So it'a been awhile since I posted this but I've updated first post with current FTS. Nothing really different. I've since taken the gfo reactor off and only run it when i really need to. I've been dosing seachem reef fusion 1&2.growth shot for comparisonabout Jan As of today Link to comment
pgrVII Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I like your tank alot I also have an aio 40 breeder. Link to comment
dbk07 Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 You did peninsular style right? Sometimes I wish I did that style rather than put the wall along the length of it, but I'm liking the progress. Link to comment
pgrVII Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 You did peninsular style right? Sometimes I wish I did that style rather than put the wall along the length of it, but I'm liking the progress. Yea lol and sometimes I wish I did it your way haha. Just one of those things I guess. Link to comment
dbk07 Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 It's always a hassle for me to pull out my skimmer haha. At least once a month I have to take it out to pull some snails out of the pump intake. I swear they plan this lol. Link to comment
pgrVII Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 They do plan these events hahaha. I decided on the peninsula style though cause I figured it would leave plenty of room for my hands to do things.... like mess with the skimmer. But sucks I lost 6" of swimming space for the fish. Link to comment
dbk07 Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 Yeah I feel you on that one. I lost 6" of floor space and ended up impulse buying more coral than I have room for. My YWG was pissed I took it's lawn for frag space. Link to comment
pgrVII Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Yeah I feel you on that one. I lost 6" of floor space and ended up impulse buying more coral than I have room for. My YWG was pissed I took it's lawn for frag space.I know haha at the time it seemed like a big upgrade from my nano cube 28 and it is but already I'm like crap I'm at 5 fish and some decent sized coral here and there and anemones and I gotta be selective about what else is going in there and where. I think I'm going with some more sps and zoas. Link to comment
dbk07 Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 So....I messed up. I ended up bleaching some birdsnest frags. Pretty sure it was because I left them out of water while I was cleaning the rack. I was just so into it I didn't even realize what was happening haha. Damn shame.... Link to comment
pgrVII Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 It's all good dbk07 you still have a great looking tank Link to comment
MrNanoReef Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Nice setup you have there. Nice frags hope they were able to recover soon, i miss my bird of paradise birdnest, i lost it when i use peroxide to treat some rocks of bryopsis. what is the birdness with green base? that's nice Link to comment
dbk07 Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 I think the birdsnest was sold to me as a paradise but I'm not even sure anymore.Got a little bored the other day and went thought I'd try something. Since I've seen people try to grow frags in tubberware and rubber maid totes I though, why not a 5g bucket. So I took a par38 I had laying around and got some reef rubble, tossed it in a bucket with some eggcrate over it. Just trying it out with some cheap zoa/palys I had. We'll see how this turned out Link to comment
dbk07 Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 Look what I just got in today! Big thanks to MrReefer81 for making this thing Its just got carbon, denitrate and purigen sitting in it right now but might add some chaeto into it. Link to comment
pgrVII Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 What's all this to do?! That's awesome looking! Lol I just ordered the floss holder for the nuvo that intank makes. Thinking of switching to a brs mini reactor. But this is an impressive media rack solution for a custom aio. Link to comment
dbk07 Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 What's all this to do?! That's awesome looking! Lol I just ordered the floss holder for the nuvo that intank makes. Thinking of switching to a brs mini reactor. But this is an impressive media rack solution for a custom aio. It just holds a pad and some measly bag of carbon and seachem denitrate. I'm in the middle of being convinced to grow some chaeto in it as well haha Link to comment
pgrVII Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 It just holds a pad and some measly bag of carbon and seachem denitrate. I'm in the middle of being convinced to grow some chaeto in it as well haha Do it up no reason not to really. Link to comment
dbk07 Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 It's been so hot here that I've had to unplug the heater and one of the rw-4 pumps. Just have one on random mode now. I've been thinking about getting new lighting for this thing. The evergrow d120 has worked very well and done a better job than I expected but I think it might be time to move on. Thoughts? Link to comment
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