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PICTURE UPDATES! SOLANA 34 gallon


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Tank looks great so far- I like your taste :D

 

Can you post a picture of your back chambers? I have been thinking about adding a fuge in my tank.

 

Thanks

 

Mike

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What do you have inside the fuge after all? I'm looking into getting this tank also. Can you take a picture of the fuge? Are you using that skimmer that comes with it?

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I am using the skimmer that came with it, all I did was take out the mechanical bio media and sponge etc and in its place put some live sand, live rock rubble and a ton of cheato and a snail. I then built a refugium light for the back.

 

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Oh I see. Is there a way to add a chiller to that far left side if you remove that ATO? Can that come out and place the pump that powers the chiller?

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Oh I see. Is there a way to add a chiller to that far left side if you remove that ATO? Can that come out and place the pump that powers the chiller?

 

Yeah, In fact thats exactly what I'm going to do. I'm going to be keeping the ATO and just drilling another hole for the tubing for the chiller. It should work out nicely, but I'm waiting because I want a certain kind of hosing that looks alot nicer and I have to order it off of the internet and I figure I might as well get a nice sized order together before I go ahead with it. I'm actually going to be getting some VHO actinics at the same time for the off hours of the halide. I'll have pics as soon as it happens, I'm assuming by the end of the month.

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Well....Long story...but I ended up getting PAID 4 dollars to take this carpet anemone, I couldn't pass it up. So hopefully he won't grow much more till I'm ready for setting up my 90 gallon reef. But he's looking healthier every day

 

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Hows the Solana coming along? I just picked one up and am studying how to set it up. Im using exactly the same set up as you but am considering drilling and installing a sump in the cabinet, but I like the simpler approach to just having a small fuge in the back. Still working out for you?

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PICTURE UPDATES!

 

A little explanation of what I've gone through in the past year. Needless to say the carpet anemone melted away about 2 days later so that's no longer with us. I then had a traumatic "melting of my tank" due to me forgetting to change the settings back to normal on my heater before I put it back into the tank. Needless to say temps hit high 90's and I lost ALOT. So I've been in the process of rebuilding and revamping my tank since then. I still have my original clowns, and watchmen. I got each of them their symbiotic life partner. A BTA for the clowns and a pistol shrimp for the watchman goby. Everyone has been very happy and my corals have been doing amazing. I'm getting great zoanthid growth as well as full polyp extension on my leather toad. My pavona has been going sweeper crazy for the last month and that's about it. I will pick up a frag here and there when I'm around a shop but for the most part i'm just being patient and letting things grow. I do 20 percent water changes weekly, and dose once a week and do phyto every other. Bulb is a 14k ushio and I also run a 50/50 T5 setup simultaneously. All questions and comments are welcome.

 

 

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So after a year of a nanowave, I've decided I need to upgrade to a bigger tank. So I went out and picked up the new Current USA Solana 34 gallon seamless cube with 150w Pendant halide.

I've just started cycling today, so I'll be updating with pics as they come along. Let me know what you guys think and I'm also looking for a possible clip on refugium light....any one heard of one? Links? Thanks

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I just bought one of these, and I'm using the stock skimmer. I noticed in your pictures you left the bio balls and media in the skimmer . (Not the stuff in chamber 2) The LFS guy told me to take out all of those bio balls. (chamber 2 and the skimmer) The water in the chamber area sounds like a rushing river. Is this why? Should I put all of those balls back in?

 

Also my skimmer keeps popping up...is that normal? Like its sort of floating...

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Ok, It's been a while since I updated my tank profile. I have made some changes. I now have 2 mp10'2 , Tunze 9002, and a Tunze Osmolator Universal 3155. Things are ok, but I need to work on my placement of things now since many of these corals were bought as frags and have grown in now. As always, I"m open to advice / suggestions.Thanks!

 

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