Living Room Nano Peninsula

[JR!]

thats it. im coming over to just stare at the tank.

ill bring beer.

[Reefkid88]

Everything looks so happy it makes me sick lol. Keep it up,you are headed to grow out mode meow,how is the HW doing ? 

[YHSublime]

19 minutes ago, JR! said:

thats it. im coming over to just stare at the tank.

ill bring beer.

Haha, you’re more than welcome! No need to bring any beer, this is on the other side of the tank:

 

 

[YHSublime]

6 minutes ago, Reefkid88 said:

Everything looks so happy it makes me sick lol. Keep it up,you are headed to grow out mode meow,how is the HW doing ? 

 

Haha, thanks! Yeah, I need to look at photos every now and then to remind myself that stuff is growing, I guess that's what happens when you work from frags. The HW is doing great, encrusting a bit, I didn't snap any photos because honestly it looks exactly the same as the last time. I did add some Speckled Kraks and Space Monsters, which reminds me, I need to update my manual book of what's in there. But I'm also done adding anything else, the HW was my last purchase, as you can see, things are already balls to the walls close, and will need moving/trimming in a few months. 

[JR!]

8 minutes ago, YHSublime said:

Haha, you’re more than welcome! No need to bring any beer, this is on the other side of the tank:

 

 

you should make a build thread for that. if i had more room in my house id build one too

 

[YHSublime]

2 minutes ago, JR! said:

you should make a build thread for that. if i had more room in my house id build one too

 

Anything you want to know I'd be glad to share, it was a fairly easy build, but a little pricey because I went with all perlick taps. It's all homebrew, I try to keep at least 4 kegs in rotation. The beer fridge is on the other side, I got yelled at for having too many cans in the "food fridge." You have enough room, I'm in a 700sq ft apartment!

[JR!]

3 minutes ago, YHSublime said:

 

Anything you want to know I'd be glad to share, it was a fairly easy build, but a little pricey because I went with all perlick taps. It's all homebrew, I try to keep at least 4 kegs in rotation. The beer fridge is on the other side, I got yelled at for having too many cans in the "food fridge." You have enough room, I'm in a 700sq ft apartment!

rofl our apartment is 888sq. i know all about that life 😄

[Reefkid88]

Are you from the DMV sir ? 

 

 EDIT: Just saw you were well #HTTR AND 2up2down lol. 

[YHSublime]

1 hour ago, Reefkid88 said:

Are you from the DMV sir ? 

 

 EDIT: Just saw you were well #HTTR AND 2up2down lol. 

You got it! Lol

[Reefkid88]

I was born and raised in NOVA 🤝

[YHSublime]

On 2/8/2019 at 6:50 PM, Reefkid88 said:

I was born and raised in NOVA 🤝

Ah, that's cool man, it's a rat race, I'm in Arlington now, just outside of DC. It's easier to tell folks I'm in DC than it is VA, lol.

 

Was admiring the tank this afternoon. 

 

 

It's not always easy. The tank glass hasn't been cleaned in a month or so, so there is coraline growing on the glass. I have water made up and will do a water change tonight, but the view from the couch is still messy:

 

 

What particularly struck me about today though was the way my mushrooms decide to all show off and lay out perfectly:

 

 

[Reefkid88]

I was born at INOVA,lived in Manassas/Gainesville for majority of my life, then Culpeper lol now I'm in the Dumbshine State. 

 

 For the tank not being "cleaned" in a month,it looks amazing. I mean the tank ALWAYS looks stellar. 

[Tigahboy]

I'm late to the party here, but I love everything about this tank!  Even the brick wall behind it.  Well done!

 

I've been out of the hobby for awhile, so I've never seen that Eshopps overflow before.  It seems like a perfect solution to run an overflow (and a Herbie to boot) without taking up a lot of real estate in the tank.  Any issues with the overflow now that you have been running it for awhile?

 

[Christopher Marks]

6 hours ago, YHSublime said:

Wow! 😲

 

This is stunning @YHSublime!

[YHSublime]

5 hours ago, Reefkid88 said:

I was born at INOVA,lived in Manassas/Gainesville for majority of my life, then Culpeper lol now I'm in the Dumbshine State. 

 

 For the tank not being "cleaned" in a month,it looks amazing. I mean the tank ALWAYS looks stellar. 

I’m a mutt of the world, who settled on VA, lol. 

 

Thanks, the glass needs a good cleaning, I did a water change in the frag tank instead.

 

1 hour ago, Tigahboy said:

I'm late to the party here, but I love everything about this tank!  Even the brick wall behind it.  Well done!

 

I've been out of the hobby for awhile, so I've never seen that Eshopps overflow before.  It seems like a perfect solution to run an overflow (and a Herbie to boot) without taking up a lot of real estate in the tank.  Any issues with the overflow now that you have been running it for awhile?

 

Thanks for checking it out! I actually did the brick wall as well. I wanted a tank that fit the room for once vs the biggest thing I could shove into a space. 

 

The overflow was, and still is the perfect solution. I had to plan for a few additional inches on the back to accommodate the external overflow box, and drill through the top slab for the overflow pipes to go inside, but I wanted form and function, and didn’t have to sacrifice on either. Takes a bit to adjust every now and then, but the mp10 on full speed is louder than anything else, time for a quiet drive soon!

 

1 hour ago, Christopher Marks said:

Wow! 😲

 

This is stunning @YHSublime!

Thanks for dropping by and checking it out, it’s a constant work in progress!

[Reefkid88]

Wait there is a frag tank too ?! 

[Tigahboy]

6 hours ago, YHSublime said:

Thanks for checking it out! I actually did the brick wall as well. I wanted a tank that fit the room for once vs the biggest thing I could shove into a space. 

Amazing!  And thanks for the feedback on the overflow!

 

[YHSublime]

3 hours ago, Reefkid88 said:

Wait there is a frag tank too ?! 

Yeah, a little 12 gallon, grow out and salt money, haha.

 

25 minutes ago, Tigahboy said:

Amazing!  And thanks for the feedback on the overflow!

 

You got it, happy to help answer any questions. This tank was designed to be taken down and moved in 5 gallon buckets, even the plumbing should be a cinch with the unions. 

[YHSublime]

Been a while since an update. Not a lot happening other than growth. I did lose the Copperband, which I chalk up to my hubris. It has been replaced with a baby yellow tang. I do, however, have bubble algae and recently somehow acquired aiptasia. I've been debating what to do here, and this Friday I have a Reef Cleaners order coming:

 

I'm hoping I didn't go overboard! 

 

Oh well, everybody likes pictures, so here's a few before lights out tonight:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An nice mini chunk of reef: JF Homewrecker, Speckled Kraks, WWC Purple Monsters

 

An eye of Space Invader Pectinia, a nice gift from a local reefer - this has been on my list for a long time, but I've never pulled the trigger on account of its long feelers

 

I cant quite get a good photo of these yuma. They are baby blue/turqouise with yellow orange and green speckled inside of them, they are stunning:

 

Borderline LTA, rainbow BTA which is just gigantic:

[vlangel]

Beautiful pics as usual.

[YHSublime]

4 hours ago, vlangel said:

Beautiful pics as usual.

Thanks for continuing to check it out! Cheers!

[Justind823]

Haha you'll probably get double what you ordered. Reefcleaners usually tosses in a lot of extras

 

Great pics as usual, the tank is looking superb 

[YHSublime]

11 minutes ago, Justind823 said:

Haha you'll probably get double what you ordered. Reefcleaners usually tosses in a lot of extras

 

Great pics as usual, the tank is looking superb 

I know, they're so good to everybody, really one of the best businesses I deal with (just in general, not even reef related stuffs.)

 

That'll be OK if I get some extra, as I also setup a frag tank, I can't remember if I shared that here or not:

It's only 10 gallons (less?) but it's housing all my BTA's and a blue carpet nem which I've become particularly fond of. And now a bunch of zoas recently added this week. It finally finished it's cycle a few months ago, but it doesn't have any fish, so I'm on a lookout for some clowns to host all those nems. I'm also battling just a little algae still, so here's to extra CUC!

 

I'm happy with the tank, sans all the mentioned problems above, I'm hoping that the 4 (I was only able to order 4, there was a limit...) peppermint shrimp get the job done on the aiptasia. I'm finally seeing some of the growing pains I expected, and having to trim back corals to keep from stinging each other now, this will be the next phase of the tank. 

[YHSublime]

Well, I got my Reef Cleaners order. I don't think I could have made a wiser decision nipping some of the problems in the bud right away. 

 

It took the weekend, but the peppermint shrimp have demolished every single invasive aiptasia that some how recently hitchhiked into my reef. 3 emeralds went into the 22, and 1 into the frag tank, and they are cleaning out the crevices of bubble algae that was starting to crop up as well. For anybody that looked over the order, you might have noticed I have the lettuce nudi's on there. There has been some algae in the frag tank that I'm not 100% sure what it is, and they seem to be taking care of it. I might have to pay them forward when they are done. I have also had to turn off the MP10 in there to make sure they are comfy, nothing seems to mind with just the return pump lightly moving the water. 

 

OH, and in biggest news, I removed the floor patch of GSP! It was approaching the rock way too fast too often, so that's one less thing.

[JaneClifton]

Lovely tank!

 

I have an Eshopps Eclipse S as well for my 29 gallon tank that I’m setting up. My first water test went pretty well, no major leaks in my plumbing that only took minor adjustments to fix. However, the water just spills through the overflow box as it is set up out of the box and it’s noisy. I’d love to see how you set it up in the end. Thanks!