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My 46 Gallon Bow Front w 35 gallon Sump


MurpReefer

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Hello All,

 I have not posted in a while, but thought I would give an update. I originally had a 29 gallon hexagon stand alone tank which I started in August of 2018. I upgraded into a 46 gallon bowfront with a 35 gallon sump in August of 2019. The rocks from the old tank went into the new DT, while the sand went into my refugium sump. I purchased a 55 gallon soap drum from from a car wash and pressure washed it. Testing for TDS in drum using RO/DI water reads zero. Use it for my water changes. 

 

I purchased the 46 gallon bowfront aquarium from petsmart on black friday. Drilled the holes for the overflow box and return. Built the stand using 8, 4x4 and 2x4 with 3/4 inch plywood. Purchased acrylic sheets 1/4 thick from Tap Plastics and fabricated using solvent welding for my two sumps. Side note: Great fun project, and only spent $225 on a 35 gallon sump, which is way cheaper than what you can buy. Used 1 inch bulkheads and abs to connect the two sumps. Plumbed the return with back flow prevention and overflow using abs to pvc cement and one inch pvc pipes. Using the herbie method with one emergency overflow that I maintain at a drip through a ball value. 

 

Tank Parameters:

1.026 Specific Gravity

78-79 F

Lights on for 10 Hours a day

 

Honesty time:

I have test kits for calcium, alkalinity, magnesium, ammonia, nitrate, but DO Not Test (frankly unnecessary with quantity and frequency of water changes considering early stages of tank imo). Would like to acquire Trident.

Test for PH weekly, sits at 8.2

 

Water Changes w Supplements:

30 Gallons a week with RO/DI

5 ml Kent Marine Purple Tech

5 ml Seachem Reef Trace

5 ml Red Sea Trace-Colors Iron

5 ml Kent Marine Strontium & Molybdenum

5 ml Kent Marine Coral Accel

5 ml Brightwell Aquatics Iodide

5 ml AcroPower Amino Acid

 

Replace Filter Sock every three days

 

 

The display tank following Inhabitants:

Fish:

1 Ocellaris Clownfish

1 Aiptasia File Fish

1 Yellow Tang

 

Inverts:

3 Peppermint Shrimp

10 Brown Cortez Hermits

5 Scarlets

2 Emerald Crabs

3 Trochus

10 Cerith

5 Astrae

2 Bumblebee

3 Nassarius

4 Trochus

2 Turbos

1 Orange Spot Butterscotch Nassarius

 

Corals From Left to Right:

Colony Brown Palythoa

Red Cap Monti

Blastomusa

Blue Stylophora

Kenya

Slimer Acro

Blue tip Hammer Coral

Green Star Polyps

Blue hued Birds Nest

Xenia Colony

Red Stylophoras

Purple/Green Acan

Green Spotted Mushroom

Christmas Rock flower Anemone

Zoas(blue and red center with yellow tips)

Toadstool

Pink tipped Green Bubble Anemone

Blue/green mushroom

 

45 lbs Live Rock

1.5 inch base or 40lbs Carib Sea Bahamas oolite

 

 

The display tank has the following equipment:

Hydor Koralia 3g Third Generation Circ Pump 1950 Gph

Three Hydor Koralia Nano Circ Pump 425 Gph

Eshopps, Eclipse M Overflow Box Medium 800gph

Two Macegrown 72 Watt Led Lights

One 165 W Spectra Led Aquarium Light 

BN-Link 8 outlet w Timer Surge Protector

 

The back sump( my gear sump) has the following equipment:

300watt Hygger Titanium Aquarium Heater

Aquatop Multimedia Reactor(Carbon and a touch of GFO)

Bubble Magnus Curve 5

Coralife Protein Skimmer

BRS Universal CO2 Scrubber

One Filter Sock Compartment w 4 inch sock (preferred)

6" dome Air Stone w Air Pump

10 Outlet Power Strip Surge Protector

 

The front sump (refugium) has the following equipment and inhabitants:

Reef Octopus Varios-2 DC Pump (792 gph)

Hydor Koralia Nano Aquarium Circ Pump 240gph

Hygger 6.2" Filter Media Block 7.9 lbs

1 Pound Ceramic Bio Balls

20 Pounds of Carib Sea Arag Hawaiin Black

Sun Blaze  Grow Light 2ft, 4lamps, 10000 lumens

Chaeto

1 Mangrove

 

Make my own fish food:

Cuttle fish, sardines, oysters, scallops, fish eggs(orange), nori seaweed, thrown in blender with RO/DI water.

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