Grossie Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 FTS 8/30/2020 Equipment Display : UNS 60S (24"x14"x7, 10 gallon) Lighting : Hydra 32 HD Filter/Heater : OASE FiltoSmart Thermo 100 (filter floss, carbon, Marine Pure Biofilter Media Gems) Circulation : Hygger Mini Wave Maker 1600 gph Fish SA Ocelaris SA Ocelaris black Inverts 1 Turbo Snail 1 Nassarius Snail LPS Frogspawn Duncan Torch Sofies GSP Pulsing Xenia Watermelon Zoas Green Zoas Orange Riccordia Manually dosing Tropic Marin All-For-Reef, Red Sea Reef Energy Plus. 50% water change once per week 2 Quote Link to comment
Grossie Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 Originally got this tank as a planted "pond style" tank. Hated the messy look of it, so I took it down. Stared this tank as a quarentine project. I had a 18 gallon reef with sump from 2012-2016, and I'm excited to get back into the hobby! Crazy how much coral prices have increased since then though. Filled aquarium in June. Somehow managed to overdose ammonia, so the cycle took 8 weeks. Had to do a few large water changes to get an ammonia reading that wasn't off the charts. My nitrates are a little high still as a result of the cycle. Phosphates are zero though. Just finally getting a very small ammount of diatom algae almost a month after the cycle finished. The clownfish have just been added, so I plan on feeding heavy to get at least some phosphates in. Future plans to add: variety of Euphelia rock flower annenomes to right side some encrusting coral to waterline of big sock strucure? airplants to dry part of rock, maybe some mangroves I'd like to cover the front right part of big rock structure in zoas some sps sticks on rear of the big rock structure to add some height? 2 Quote Link to comment
505nano Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 How do you like the Hygger Wavemaker? On the fence of getting rid of my jebao 1 Quote Link to comment
Grossie Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 I'm very satisfied with it. This build started as a budget build, so I took a chance on the Hygger. I think it is great value for $70. Even with it positioned in the back corner, I was able to get a really nice wave going on classic mode at 60% power. I actually had to turn it down, as it seemed like it was too much movement for my corals. The interface is pretty bad and takes a bit to figure out. You can't set a range for the random mode, so it can be anywhere from 0 to 100%. I have random set for my sunrise and sunset, but the corals seem to like it so I might try random for the main daylight mode. You also can't change the 5 time periods. I just set my time 5 hours behind, so that the "sunrise" time period starts at 10am, when my lights begin their ramp up. I've had my hair get stuck in it twice causing it to stop. It was very easy to take apart, clean, and put back together. Now I'm a little more careful to pull my hair up when I'm near the tank. My only other experience with wavemakers was an mp10 on my old build. The hygger seems like incredible value compared to it at <25% of the price. I just hope it lasts long! 1 Quote Link to comment
505nano Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 5 minutes ago, Grossie said: I'm very satisfied with it. This build started as a budget build, so I took a chance on the Hygger. I think it is great value for $70. Even with it positioned in the back corner, I was able to get a really nice wave going on classic mode at 60% power. I actually had to turn it down, as it seemed like it was too much movement for my corals. The interface is pretty bad and takes a bit to figure out. You can't set a range for the random mode, so it can be anywhere from 0 to 100%. I have random set for my sunrise and sunset, but the corals seem to like it so I might try random for the main daylight mode. You also can't change the 5 time periods. I just set my time 5 hours behind, so that the "sunrise" time period starts at 10am, when my lights begin their ramp up. I've had my hair get stuck in it twice causing it to stop. It was very easy to take apart, clean, and put back together. Now I'm a little more careful to pull my hair up when I'm near the tank. My only other experience with wavemakers was an mp10 on my old build. The hygger seems like incredible value compared to it at <25% of the price. I just hope it lasts long! Good to know thank you very much. I've been a loyal Jebao fan. But I've now had 2 fail in 3 months. So I'm moving on from them. Just ordered the Hygger mini for my biocube 16. We shall see how it goes! Thank you for your input 1 Quote Link to comment
Grossie Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 Picked up some acans and a blasto. Hitting the "ugly face" with diatoms. Still fighting high nitrates, and zero phosphates. They were at 60 ppm after a 50% water change yesterday. Did another 50% today. I've been dosing phosphate, but the tank/algae seem to absorb it right away. I received a proper clean up crew from reef cleaners yesterday. Hopefully that will help. Mangroves will likely stay in long term. I ordered some flame algae, which they replaced with this brush algae. The brush algae seems to no be doing so great? I've been lightly feeding the fish pellets, and feeding AB+ just .5ml every other day. Honestly not sure how my nitrates can be that high. 1 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Nice! The 60s is such a fan tank. I have one setup as a betta/Cory tank 🙂 Love that you made it SW! 1 Quote Link to comment
fulltang Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 How do you like that canister filter? Any leaks? Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Any updates? I am thinking about picking up a uns 60s Quote Link to comment
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