William's Fijicube 108 EXT, Bananna Eel

[William]

July 2022 
 

I moved in may of 2021 and upgraded my Waterbox 70:2 to a Fijicube 108 EXT. After quite a few mishaps the tank was finally transferred in early June. In the first two weeks I lost my Mombassa lionfish and and flame angelfish due to an Ich outbreak.  As things started to settle in with the tank, I was at a loss as to which direction I wanted to take the tank. I ended up deciding to make large anemones and Euphyllia the focus of the tank, with some SPS (mainly branching acros) to round it out. 

 

 

 

Aquarium specifications:

• Aquarium: FijiCube 108 EXT ~( 47.24"x 23.62"x 22.44") 108 Gallons 
• Sump: stock Fijicube 24 with media tray installed
• Return: Neptune COR 20 (will use it to feed a manifold) 
• Skimmer: Dalua Great White GW -12 
• Waterflow: MP40WQD x2 
• Heater: 2x 300w finnex heating element with Inkbird controller 
• Chiller: JBJ Artica 1/4 hp (fed by manifold) 
• UV Sterilizer: Aqua ultraviolet 24w UV, fed by manifold in line with chiller 
• Controller: Apex with WXM, PH, ORP, Salinity, Trident 
• Light: Reefi Uno x4 with RMS across tank mount  
• Dosing pump: Neptune Dose x1 (may expand) (yet to be set up) 
• Reactor: Biopellets 
• Auto-top off: Neptune ATK 
• Auto-feeder: Neptune 
• Sand: special grade arag-alive, 60 lbs 
• Rock: Existing rock from my Waterbox 70:2, Caribsea "shapes" rock 20 lbs, "arches" 20 lbs 
• Salt: tropic marin 
• Kalk Reactor: Avast K1 (yet to be set up)

 

Possible additions: macro algae reactor. 

 

 

 

Fish:

• Copperband Butterflyfish - 
• 4x Spotcinctus clownfish 
• Long nose hawkfish 
• One Spot Foxface Rabitfish 
• Yellow Bananna Eel 
• Tomini tang 
• Regal tang 

 

Anemones:

• Riterri Anemone (Heteractis magnifica) x 3
• Malu Anemone (Heteractis malu) 
• Black Widow BTA (Entacmaea quadricolor)
• Peach rainbow BTA (Entacmaea quadricolor)
• Neon green BTA (Entacmaea quadricolor)
• Mini maxi Carpet anemone x 2 (Stichodactyla tapetum)
• Aptasia 😞 (Aptasia. sp ) 

 

Inverts: 

• Fighting conch x 5 (Strombus pugilis)
• Nerite Snails 
• Mexican turbo snails 
• Short spine urchin
• Cerith snails
• Nassarius snails 
• Emerald Crabs x 10 
• Assorted hermit crabs 

 

Corals:

• Cotton Candy Torch x 2
• Dragon Soul Torch 
• Tod's torch
• Orange frogspawn
• Lemmon tip Euphyllia crista 
• Assorted Euphyllia glabrescens x2 
• Green Duncan coral 
• Fat Head Dendrophyllia Coral (Dendrophylliidae sp)
• Orange Plate Coral 
• Various Chalice corals 
• Blue Staghorn Acropora 
• sunset montipora 
• Red cap montipora 
• .... 
• Various zoanthids 
• Nuclear green palythoa (on an island) 
• Various montipora 

 

 

[William]

I went ahead and decided to take advantage of Marine depot’s JBJ chiller sale abs bought a 1/4 hp chiller. This will allow me to turn off the AC in my apt when I’m not there, hopefully saving me money over time 

[William]

Tank has finally arrived 

[William]

The glass looks good. Will set up the stand tomorrow. 
 

 

[William]

I thought I would give an update. 
 

I am pretty disappointed in the quality control and order fulfillment at Fijicube. The tank is beautiful and the stand (if I were able to finish building it) also looks good, but they sent the stand (flat pack) out with the wrong hardware kit (I’m 8 post and locks short), as well as with no Instructions. 
 

they also failed to send out the plumbing kit that I ordered. 
 

hopefully they can resolve these issues quickly… 

[William]

The missing supplies arrived Saturday. I got the stand complete (minus doors) and the hard plumbing planned out. Now I just need to glue the plumbing…. 
 

 

[William]

Major plumbing fail, pvc glue everywhere …. Fml 🤦🏻‍♂️ 

[Reefkid88]

Looking awesome so baf. Big sad on the glue everywhere lol. Its better to be glue and primer honestly. 

[mitten_reef]

On 5/17/2021 at 8:35 AM, William said:

I really like that they went with the floss tray design, having dealt with socks for the first time in my decade of reefing, what a PITA.

 

On 5/17/2021 at 8:35 AM, William said:

upper left valve and opening - what's that for?  a quick waterchange connection?  if so, genius

[William]

I need to update the steps, but the move is done, I still need to review  the bttm and set up the ancillary stuff, but everything is moved over. I also need to out the doors on it. I also ordered another Reefi Uno, as my partner thought having a Reefi duo extreme in the middle would be ugly 

[William]

I also need to scape the rocks 

[William]

[William]

Things are starting to look good. I need to finished moving most of my coral over from my nano tank. Is also picked up a Ritteri Anemone from Pacific East Aquaculture that is doing well so far. My clowns went to it in less than 5 mins. 

[William]

[William]

 

[William]

Some updates:

I am currently battling Ich in my tank 😞, I have lost my flame angel and Mombassa lionfish so far. My blue face trigger has it pretty bad, but has been getting better with freshwater + paraguard dips every other day. I plan to start up a 20L Qt tank in the next few days that I plan to make permenent. 

 

I also purchased another Riterri anemone, which is still getting acclimated. 

[William]

I need to figure out how to adjust these lights for better pictures 

[mitten_reef]

4 hours ago, William said:

Some updates:

I am currently battling Ich in my tank 😞, I have lost my flame angel and Mombassa lionfish so far. My blue face trigger has it pretty bad, but has been getting better with freshwater + paraguard dips every other day. I plan to start up a 20L Qt tank in the next few days that I plan to make permenent. 

 

I also purchased another Riterri anemone, which is still getting acclimated. 

Sorry about the fish. Losing fish is always a bummer

[William]

The Malu is the first pic, the second Riterri is the last pic. It is not doing quite as well as the first, but hopefully it will pull through. 

[William]

This is probably a better picture

[William]

27 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

Sorry about the fish. Losing fish is always a bummer

Yea, especially since I have had the flame angel for over 3 years….

[William]

One of my Riterris is not doing great, so I moved it to a hospital tank with Cipro. 
 

 

[William]

well the anemone somehow managed to get out of the colander and into the powerhead.... so its not going to make it....

 

I will have to be on the look out for another specimen from @PacificEastAquaculture as the one they sent me is doing wonderfully. I picked up a small Colorado Sunburst BTA form a fellow NYC reefer, and Will be putting it in the main display. I also got 3 different stags from him, a PC rainbow, and a cornbread montipora. 

 

With all of these setbacks, I have finally (after 20 years of reef keeping) decided to run a QT tank

[William]

[William]

Today I finished setting up the QT tank, did a freshwater dip on the Bluethroat trigger then put him in the QT tank (with copper and cloraquine phosphate)