famousdan314 Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Anybody heading to the OC fairgrounds for Reef-A-Palooza? If so enjoy this entry fee coupon! Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted October 16, 2014 Author Share Posted October 16, 2014 new photos!!! 4 Quote Link to comment
RollaJase Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Looking really good . 1 Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted October 16, 2014 Author Share Posted October 16, 2014 Looking really good . Thank you Rolla Jase! Quote Link to comment
HOTWATER Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Tanks coming along splendidly the coris wrasse is a knock out! 1 Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Tanks coming along splendidly the coris wrasse is a knock out! Thanks HOT WATER, so glad I picked him up. So much personality and the bright yellow coloration can only be rivaled by the yellow tang. Quote Link to comment
HOTWATER Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Thanks HOT WATER, so glad I picked him up. So much personality and the bright yellow coloration can only be rivaled by the yellow tang. The yellow tang is a beaut for sure, have you seen any aggression with your gramma and the coris? Quote Link to comment
k4ndyk1ng Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 looks so cool, i want 1 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Hey Dan, try a different birdsnest coral, those pink ones are sloooooow but the fact you kept it alive and pink is a good thing. Just trying to spread the SPS addiction. 1 Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 The yellow tang is a beaut for sure, have you seen any aggression with your gramma and the coris? I only noticed a small amount of aggression with the royal gramma towards the coris the day after having added the royal gramma. The royal was the last fish I added since I've heard they can get tempermental. Being he was last he found a nice cave that he claims for himself. The Yellow coris is a little larger as well so that may be another reason why they are behaving. So far I havent seen any aggression between all five fish. I'm done with fish stocking and they all have their own niches or areas of the tank they call home which I think keeps aggression down. My clowns are aggressive towards my hands...lol. The female b/w clown nips me whenever I try to stick my hand in for anything including adding frags. She hits pretty hard and almost always startles me, I usually stick a net in the tank when I have to glue a frag to keep her from attacking me. :-/ Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Hey Dan, try a different birdsnest coral, those pink ones are sloooooow but the fact you kept it alive and pink is a good thing. Just trying to spread the SPS addiction. Lol, I think I just might. I love the look of a nice healthy sps, I just haven't had much luck so far. Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 I went to RAP this weekend, this event never fails to disappoint. Tons of frags and vendors with freebies. JBJ rattling off prizes. I won a free gravel vac and got hooked up with some other things. I picked up a green torch with three heads for $10 and a neon green leather, I still need to id it. I'll post up pics soon. Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 Some quick cell phone pics from this week's water change. Love the new green torch. Quote Link to comment
Jredd06 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 This is a great build! I'm also in the process of the same build with a diy stand I love the jbj looks so much better then the popular Im series. The dimensions are deft a lot nicer the lids are my only complaint. But I had a question I have the same ligt and tank and what are your settings at for the light % and how long a day? I was gonna start at 40% peek for 2 hours on a 8 hour light day. Thanks 1 Quote Link to comment
Hellsinki Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 very motivated by this thread. I just started my JBJ30RL 2 weeks ago.. 1 Quote Link to comment
reefernanoman Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Nice tank! I love the aquascape. 1 Quote Link to comment
youngreef Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 FTS 10-17-2014 FTS 09-30-2014 FTS 06-05-2014 A quick background about me starting the hobby. In 2012 I began my first SW tank an 8 gallon Aqueon Evolve after having owned several Freshwater tanks for several years. The inspiration followed our family trip to Hawaii where I spent almost all of my time in the water. Needless to say I became addicted to the hobby and love keeping the SW tank. I really enjoyed the simplicity of an AIO aquarium and so I decided to purchase the JBJ rimless for both price and style of the tank. I never started a build thread with my small tank so I thought I would start one for the 30 gallon. I ended up purchasing a new JBJ 30 that was on display out of the box at my LFS and bought it for $212 with tax! Awesome deal! Here is a quick list of my build some are purchased while others are on the shopping list. JBJ 30 Gallon Nano Cube RL Series Dimensions: 23.6" x 19.7" x 16.5" (60 cm x 50 cm x 42cm ) Filtration: Acrylic Filter Wall w/ Dual Overflows Dual return Nozzles Designated Heater Column Designated Refugium Column The Stand Custom Built Stand 25"W x 21"D x 38" H Current Equipment Lighting- Maxspect Razor R420r Nano 60W Heater- Eheim Jager 100W Jaebo a3500 660 gph return pump (added "Y" fitting) WP-10 Wave Pump and Hydor Koralia 240 Wave Pump PLS-50 Cadlights Protein Skimmer DIY Custom Acrylic media rack JBJ Auto Top Off IM Skkye Light 8W for Refugium Future Equipment Reef Controller Jebao RW-4 Tank Contents Carib Sea Aragonite Sand 30lbs 5lbs crushed coral 25 lbs live rock Fish Ocellaris Clownfish B/W Ocellaris Clownfish Yellow Coris Wrasse Royal Gramma Firefish Goby Potters Angel ICH Six Line Wrasse Rehomed Bully Bi-color Dottyback ICH Inverts 2 Green Maxi Mini Carpet Anenome 2 Electric Blue Hermit 4 Scarlet Red Hermits 2 Reef Hermits 1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp Various Snails, Ceriths, Astrea, Trochus, and Nasarius Corals 1 branching Purple/Green Hammer Coral (3 heads) 1 branching Hammer 2 heads1 Duncan Coral (6 heads) 1 green Torch Coral (3 heads) 1 neon green Nepthea Coral Mushroom Colony and Misc. colored mushrooms ...Blue, Red, Orange, Green, Superman 2 Florida Ricordeas Encrusting Green Star Polyps Pulsing Xenia Zoas, purple palys, green palys, and whamming water melons 2 Red Montipora (Accidentally fragged itself, sweeet!) wow looks amazing I also purchased a jbj 30 rl. I was wondering what camera you used? Thanks Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted February 3, 2015 Author Share Posted February 3, 2015 This is a great build! I'm also in the process of the same build with a diy stand I love the jbj looks so much better then the popular Im series. The dimensions are deft a lot nicer the lids are my only complaint. But I had a question I have the same ligt and tank and what are your settings at for the light % and how long a day? I was gonna start at 40% peek for 2 hours on a 8 hour light day. Thanks I'm sorry I haven't responded or checked the site in a while. Just finished some crazy construction at my house and was super busy. I don't have my settings memorized, but I ramp my lights up starting schedule from 7 am to 630pm. This allows more viewing time and a very slow increase in lighat intensity. I tried to imitate the natural sun with the hottest peak or brightest setting around 330pm. At the highest level I have chanel A at 68 and B at 88. Hope this helps. very motivated by this thread. I just started my JBJ30RL 2 weeks ago.. Congrats, It's a beautiful tank. I feel as though it's classic in style and isn't necessarily trendy. wow looks amazing I also purchased a jbj 30 rl. I was wondering what camera you used? Thanks I use a Sony Nex 5N Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 My Yellow Coris Wrasse went to heaven... Somehow he squeezed through a tiny gap between my screen mesh top and the glass and went carpet surfing. I replaced him with another yellow Cori's wrasse however he's the Indonesian species with the silver belly and just isn't the same he's been in hiding for two days now. My other wrasse was very active and rarely hid Quote Link to comment
edekgb Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Sorry to hear about your Coris Wrasse - It was a very good looking fish and I am thinking about getting one for my JBJ 30. I have read thru this thread and I find it very interesting. I have just gotten a JBJ 30 and love it. Question? How did the Chaeto in the back compartment go? Do you still have it back there? Does it come apart and end up in the middle chamber with the pumps? Question? Do you still run the Cadlights skimmer? Do you like it? Is it kinda noisy? Does it go haywire and overflow when you dose stuff? I Don't have a skimmer yet because I am debating on running without to try to keep it as clean looking and simple as possible. If I break down and get a skimmer, this is probably the one I will get (Cadlights) - It's just reading about the noise level, water level, micro bubbles that this thread mentions has me wondering. 1 Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share Posted March 6, 2015 Sorry to hear about your Coris Wrasse - It was a very good looking fish and I am thinking about getting one for my JBJ 30. I have read thru this thread and I find it very interesting. I have just gotten a JBJ 30 and love it. Question? How did the Chaeto in the back compartment go? Do you still have it back there? Does it come apart and end up in the middle chamber with the pumps? Question? Do you still run the Cadlights skimmer? Do you like it? Is it kinda noisy? Does it go haywire and overflow when you dose stuff? I Don't have a skimmer yet because I am debating on running without to try to keep it as clean looking and simple as possible. If I break down and get a skimmer, this is probably the one I will get (Cadlights) - It's just reading about the noise level, water level, micro bubbles that this thread mentions has me wondering. Hey Ede, Yeah I'm stI'll bummed about my wrasse, I bought another replacement corris wrasse 2 weeks ago and haven't seen it. It's either dead or hiding. As far as the Chaeto goes I'm still running it in my three stage filter basket I made. I don't have any issues with it getting everywhere. It has close to doubled in size and have it running on an opposite light cycle. I recommend it as its as close to a refugium you can get in these all in one tanks. Helps maintain Ph, keep down nuisance algae and allow for population of pods. As far as the skimmer goes I did experience a lot of the issues everyone had mentioned. I had a ton of micro bubbles, I contacted cad lights since I live local I went to their warehouse and they replaced the pump with a slightly smaller one, old oump was over skimmin and producing too many bubbles in the display. I've heard all the issues with the cad lights skimmer was fixed in their newergeneration one Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share Posted March 6, 2015 Photo update time!! but first theres been lots of changes since the last photo shoot. The other day I came across a crazy deal and bought a huge colony of green hollywood stunner chalice it was literally almost a foot wide for only 45 bucks. I fragged some nice pieces for myself and some friends and for trading and then took the colony to my LFS for store credit. They gave a crazy good trade in value and I picked up an elegance coral, a white frogspawn, and an acan frag. The elegance coral alone was going for 59.99. Saweet deal! Anyways, I also got some nice local reefers to trade me some coral for some chalice frags and got some big green leather sinularia frags. really added some nice color to the tank. Here are the pics from today! Mr. Gramma! he thinks he's the boss. in reality my B/W Clown is the boss! My new elegance coral. : ) Macro shot of my duncan colony still 6 heads, at least its as close as my lens would go. Green Sinularia Boss lady with some pulsing xenia in the background. Firefish, my kids call him Tiger, dont ask me why. FTS Top/ Aerial View!! My Favorite! 3 Quote Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 So I purchased and installed the cobalt aquatics neo therm 100W heater today to replace the eheim jager. The new heater is super sleek, fits in the heater column much nicer and feels robust and durable opposed to the glass heaters. One thing I noticed though was how warm my true tank temp was running at. I have an ambent air digital temp thermometer, and a stick on thermometer and they would constantly be contradicting. The neotherm was reading between 82 and 83 which would explain my slow coral growth. The only thing I could think of causing the heat is my return pump. So I'm going to replace it with the new jebao dc pump which I've heard are quieter and run much cooler since they are drawing less energy. Here's the link of the one I'm getting, I'm pretty sure it's the new model as I haven't seen it in red. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/161228259502-0-1/s-l1000.jpg Quote Link to comment
youngreef Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 hey dan i was wondering if and how you have a refugium set up on your tank Quote Link to comment
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