Deep Blue 30g rimless aka mistress

[lilmatty5dimes]

Video of the clowns.

http://s1122.photobucket.com/user/lilmatty5dimes/media/Deep%20Blue%20Rimless/7698A990-0B09-4903-A6F9-A0ECCE0F1008_zps2fq6cvpd.mp4.html

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, tank is in cycle mode for the time being. Checked the ammonia level on Friday and it was about 0.50 checked it today and it's looking like 0 the nitrites and nitrates are showing a lil darker color than the 0 so I'm wondering if it's about there.

The refugium area is looking pretty dirty right now. Looks like the diatoms bloom is happening down there right now.

Skimmer after 24 hours. Wanted to make sure the cup didn't overfill like last week and make a lil mess for me to clean up.

Enjoying a good ol' stogie.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, tested the tank again today and ammonia was 0 nitrites 0 and nitrates 5ish. I'm starting to get a diatom bloom on the sand bed. The refugium rocks already have it down there. I went ahead and ordered a 26x26 piece of mesh screen for a top cause I plan on having a few jumpers I think. Plus it was only $7 shipped. Should be getting my lil Facebook auction pack here on Friday the zoa frag in the refugium is looking good. I also bought a thermometer at petco put it in the tank and the tank when the light as been on for 2 hours (1:15) was 78.3. Now with the light has been off since about 4 it's (7:30) 77. Now at midnight it's 76.3. Looks like I'm going to be setting up the heater tomorrow. And I'm going to try and keep an eye out for temp a lil better and have the Mrs text me temp tomorrow. The house is always set at 77.

[teenyreef]

Looks great! I like the scape and the shallow tank look. Those clowns are adorable too

[lilmatty5dimes]

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Looks great! I like the scape and the shallow tank look. Those clowns are adorable too

Thanks. I'm loving it so far. I believe I saw your nano on the NR FB page. It's looking great. Congrats on the TOTM.

[teenyreef]

Thanks!

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, ordered my clean up crew from John at reef cleaner. Got 18 dwarf, 7 nassarius, 10 fl cerith, and 11 nerite. Plus went ahead and added the penny macro and an salifert KH/alk test to get $5 off the order. Should be here Wednesday. I think it's safe to say that the tank is done with cycling. I've got a nice diatom bloom going right now.

Here's what I dosed for the AF bio s. Seem to work pretty quickly.

Established:

2 drops of aquaforest bio s

7-25-2016

7-26-2016 along with few drops of ammonia

7-27-2016

7-28-2016

1 drop of aquaforest bio s

7-29-2016

7-30-2016

8-01-2016

8-02-2016

8-03-2016

8-04-2016

Also just tested my brute can and had it come out at 0.05ppm. I'm thinking this could be a problem later on correct.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, got my screen in from aquarium overload went to lowes and grabbed 2 white frame pieces and started making the cover. I think it came out really good and think the white looks better than the brown.

Went down to the The Madreefer yesterday to picked up my pair of clowns and got some cheato & nice chalice as well. And they also had a Lubbock wrasse so I grabbed that since I had the top.

Lubbock wrasse

Chalice

Snowflakes

[Reefkid88]

Looking good mane !!! Cant wait for this thing to be stocked and you to get your pack in,how you liking the halides so far ?

[ninjamyst]

One of my fav shallow tanks. Love what you have done so far.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Looking good mane !!! Cant wait for this thing to be stocked and you to get your pack in,how you liking the halides so far ?

Thanks man. I can't wait either. Times didn't meet up for my big z&p pack this weekend so we'll try again. I'll be getting my big pack from Glenn at coral gardens aquacultured this week as well. Those 3 pieces on the other page plus a UWW rainbow sunburst monti and Jedi monti. Trying for a few pieces tonight and then hopefully getting it shipped for Friday delivery. For the halides I absolutely love them. I just need to get a few blue bar to see everything a little longer than a few hours a day. Lol. My buddy giving me the z&p pack has a par meter so I can measure the halide so I don't cook his stuff.

One of my fav shallow tanks. Love what you have done so far.

Thanks. This week should be very eventful with corals.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, should be getting my pieces in from Glenn on Friday. It's the blue tenuis, yellow tenuis, Aussie chalice, UWW rainbow sunburst, Jedi mind trick, pink/yellow paly, superman monti, pastel rainbow Latistella, and trachy.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, got my first order in today. Glenn did an outstanding job on packaging everything and made it a great experience. Sorry for the crappy iPhone pic but here's a few.

I can't wait for the Jedi and sunburst to grow out.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, sitting in front of the tank before work and took a few pics. Finally did my first water test. Don't think it came out to badly. po4 is high but everything else looks good. I'll be buying a CA kit tomorrow the cheato I got has easily doubled in size. I usually feed a mysis cube every other day and some life 1/2mm pellets on the other days. Going to buy some coral food tomorrow along with the CA kit.

Here's one from last night and how the skimmer is working. I would say pretty good.

$40 trachy

Monti collection

Lonely zoa. Lol

Chalice is getting some good color in.

This one is getting some extra colors as well.

Few sps pieces.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, haven't had much time with the tank this week. Works been pretty busy with the Labor Day this weekend and the storm out there. But Last Saturday the neighbor and myself took a 20mile run offshore to go fishing before I had to be at work at 2. So, up at 5 to get ready and on the water by 6. The seas were 3-4ft with the occasional 5-6ft. Luckily there wasn't really any wind so that saved us a lot.

Trolling around 7mph for the fishy.

Racing it back in so I'm not late. Lol

How the day turned out.

Tested the water yesterday and here's what it looks like. I'm doing my first water change today (I've been slacking) of 10L. Everything looks good except the yellow tenuis. I think it was stung by another sps cause the bottom is a lil white and that's where the other one hit it at. The top still looks great. Since my hands will be in the tank today I'm going to try and mount the few sps on the rock work today.

Here my son helping me feed the fish. All he was asking me to do is pet them. Lol

[TheKleinReef]

Awesome build! I've always loved those shallow 30g tanks.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Thanks. It's coming along very nicely.

[Reefkid88]

Good shit on the fishing trip and you didnt get caught in the "storm" i was so mad nothing happened in land... bs.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Lol. It was one of the roughest days I've been on there but the boat handled it great. I'm in love with onboard boats now. Lol

[lilmatty5dimes]

Well, its been a crazy week and figure i need to post some updates on the tank. haven't really done anything with the tank besides hooking up my reactor due to a algae that started to cover all the rocks. figure from feeding a mysis cube every other day was probably way to much to i slowed that down and after about a month the algae is finally going away. i've added quite a bit of stuff in the last month or so my top pieces are bowsers, sunset monti, torch, and bubblegum digi. heres a few pics

FTS

algae problem

hammer

torch

bad pic of bubblegum(need to figure out where to mount this guy)

new cap tonga branch(colors under MH are completely different than radion led. guy i bought it from couldn't get the purple rim on the cap and after throwing it in the tank pop. lol)

Bowsers, fruit loop, la lakers, pink hippo, and no namers

purple rim cap

[lilmatty5dimes]

welso

sunset monti

pink hippo

Duncan and seasoning greeting

Livestock 10/15/2016

Ora premium snowflakes (extreme snowflakes

Lubbock wrasse

 

Z&P's:

Pink hippo/chucky bride

Electric Oompa Loompa(sold)

Fruit loop

La lakers

Bowsers

 

 

SPS:

Blue tenuis

Pastel rainbow Latistella

Red digi

 

Monti:

UWW rainbow sunburst

Jedi mind trick

Superman monti

Sunset monti

Idaho grape cap

Seasoning greeting

Red cap

Purple rim cap

 

 

LPS:

Trachy

Aussie chalice

Orange chalice(recessed)

Duncan

Hammer

Torch

[Reefkid88]

Looking good man,glad to see a update.

[lilmatty5dimes]

Looking good man,glad to see a update.

Thanks man. I'm still waiting for my big zoa pack.

[Reefkid88]

Buddy needs to hurry up man !!!!

[lilmatty5dimes]

Looks like I'll be getting rasta, tyree space monster, orange rainbow, sunny d, darth maul, and Mandarin orange. His pikachu and red planet didn't make the hurricane so I'll get a rainbow chalice in there place. And a chunkier piece of beach bum.

Red hornets, wow, pink zipper, cars, emerald on fire, orange oxide, utter, bebb, my clemtines, 3G, goldmiester, pink boobies, and a chunky piece of beach bum.