Addinali Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 I had a old tank in storage and decided to go full old school! Maybe.....  Tank: 50 gallon Oceanic  Lighting: Viparspectra 165w  Filtration: Tidal 110 HOB (Filter floss,carbon, matrix)  Heater: Eheim Jager 150w  Rock: 34 LBS dry base rock  Sand: 25 lbs of sand  Auto Top Off: Avast Marine Works  Fish: Picasso Clown Black Ice Clown Black line Blenny Diadema Pseudochromis (Bi color Dottyback) Stippled Clingfish(my fave don't tell the others) 3x Blue Chromis  Corals:  Softies: Kenya Tree Pulsing Xenia Zoa's Palythoa's Cinnamon Palythoa Green Star Polyps  LPS: Hammer Indigo hammer Frogspawn Duncan/Whiskers Acans Neon Candy Cane War Coral Leptastrea dualing dragons meteor shower cyphastrea Golden eye chalice Green favia   SPS: Montopora Superman montopora Purple Stylophora Forest fire montipora digitata Something pink  Macro: Dragons Breath Chaetomorpha  Invertebrates: Ultra red/yellow rock flower anemone Ultra dark red rock flower anemone Red bubble tip anemone 5 cerith snails 3 Hermits 2 Mexican Turbo Snails 2 trochus snails     I may turn this into a normal tank with updated equipment. But for now I wanted to see how well current upgrades on old ways of doing things would work out.        2 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Sounds like a fun project 2 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 8, 2020 Author Share Posted May 8, 2020 A little bit clearer this morning. 2 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 5 minutes ago, Addinali said: Getting there. I like the double arches 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 9, 2020 Author Share Posted May 9, 2020 1 hour ago, WV Reefer said: I like the double arches Thanks! 2 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 9, 2020 Author Share Posted May 9, 2020 So I was going to go old school with the Hydor Koralia but ...... I went to the LFS I used to work for and they have a new pump they helped design. And I got it and other than the cord being in the tank it's amazing.   It's so small and puts out 2642 GPH with a controller that has so many settings you could get lost. Design and warranty right here in Knoxville. So I'm cool with that. 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 New light will be here tomorrow!  I went with the viparspectra 165w 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share Posted May 11, 2020 Got the new light installed! 1 Quote Link to comment
IHaveADegreeInMarineBioBut Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Following along! 2 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 I see the other tank is out of the picture now. How much new rock and livestock and how much from the other tank? Are you expecting a mini cycle or no? Looks pretty sweet for less than a week old. 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 2 hours ago, IHaveADegreeInMarineBioBut said: Following along! Thanks 2 hours ago, debbeach13 said: I see the other tank is out of the picture now. How much new rock and livestock and how much from the other tank? Are you expecting a mini cycle or no? Looks pretty sweet for less than a week old. Yes the In 14 is beautiful but horribly desired the filtration design is just not good. I moved all the livestock from the other tank. I added about 20 pounds of dry rock and had 14 pounds of rocks from the last tank so I'm at about 34lbs of rock. Mini cycle is always possible but I will do water changes to keep everything down so the inhabitants don't get to upset. I use to work at a fish store throwing a tank together in one day was not uncommon. As long as you have live rock and plenty of bacteria from another tank. Normally everything does just fine. Â Thank you. Â I may have added a few more things I will post later. Â 1 hour ago, lizzyann said: Love the double arch! Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 New guys! Â Black Ice Clown and a Cling Fish 1 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Nice additions. I was thinking the same thing. Decent amount Live Rock plus WC = no cycle or soft cycle. 2 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 Dragons Breath is my Favorite!! Macro that is all. Â Â 2 1 Quote Link to comment
Ratvan Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 15 hours ago, Addinali said: New guys!  Black Ice Clown and a Cling Fish What species is that clingfish? Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 @Ratvan.  Stippled Clingfish(Gobiesox punctulatus) 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 This guy's wants to be in all the photos. 1 Quote Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 Got most of our planting and gardening done. Side note baby bearded dragons are getting along. 2 Quote Link to comment
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