25g tank, work in progress

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Since my 27 liters tank was becoming too little for my impulses, I went ang got another tank. This is actually the biggest I ever got (used to have a 20g peninsula).

I went with the 25g peninsula from Waterbox because I wanted a AIO tank between 15 to 30g and it perfectly fits on my desk at home.

 

The setup :

• Tank : Waterbow peninsula 25 mini
• Return pump : aqua medic 1.3 (I wanted something dead silent, I wasn't disappointed)
• Light : AI Prime HD
• Wavemaker : jebao SLW 10
• ATO : some mechanical cheap thing
• Filtration :
  • filter floss + carbon in chamber 1
  • biomedia + chaeto in chamber 2
• Heating / cooling : 200w unbreakable heater and desktop usb fan both on Inkbird controler

 

 

The cabinet unded the tank holds the food, towels and all the little I need for maintenance. Everything is plugged in on another cabinet.

The ATO tank is around 20 liters.

 

 

Current livestock :

• Frostbite clownfish
• Purple euphyllia ancora
• Green euphillya paraancora
• Red and Green lobophilla
• Rainbow acan
• Red rodhactis
• One pissed off goniopora
• Gold leptoseris
• Phoenix montipora
• Some zoas  that I hope to turn into a zoa garden
• Snails and hermits

 

The rockscape is pretty simple and made of 3 rocks. 

The sand layer is really thin (transfered it from my 27 liters tank). I currently like it as it is.

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The tank is currently hitting th beginning of the ugly phase on the "new" rocks. They are only a few weeks in.

 

I ordered some snails, the CUC should be strong enough to take care of the algae. Should be here next week.

Also got :

• a new euphyllia
• 2 more fishes to befriend the clown 

I don't plan on adding more fishes after that, 

[Reefkid88]

Looking good so far. 

[debbeach13]

Congratulations on the new set up. Very clean and organized. I hope you enjoy it for years.

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Thank you!

 

My order was delivered today. That new hammer is really yellow (bottom left), I hope it will acclimate nicely to the tank.

 

Half the zoas are looking pissed...can't figure out why. The Sunny D's were looking great and now they are...different.

 

 

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Sorry for the qualité but they keep Moving around. Here are the two new fishes I got last week :

 

 

The dragonet is still a baby but it's captive bred. 

My zoas are still looking like sh*t. I started to feed more heavily so my nitrates and phosphates go up. I don't test but I know the current bioload of the tank is still low compared to what I used to run in the 20g.

 

My clown is still in the small cube, I will put it black in the 25g next week. It should be less territorial.

 

That euphyllia is acclimating slowly. I will have to think of a place where to glue it.

 

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Current state of the tank :

 

• Zoas are still looking ugly and some are probably going to die. Never had this many problems with zoas before. 
• Rest of the corals are happy (except the caulastrea, but it looked like that when I got it. Let's not mention the gold hammer, I kinda dropped it while trying to glue)
• The good news is that Harvey the clownfish is finally behaving nicely

It's now time for growth. I probably won't change anything in the next 3 to 4 months.

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Some more photos

 

 

That little guy is seems to be eating well. 

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It's been a while since I posted. Things are going slowly but steady, I had to move the rocks for better flow and I went overboard with a new light (Hydra 52).

 

 

 

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I had some difficulties with the way some corals looked, not totally happy, not totally crappy. I figured the flow was my main problem, too direct for some, not strong enough for others.

I ended up ungluing most corals and using some eggcrate.

It s not the most beautiful setup, but they seem to enjoy it.

 

 

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It s been a while, had to simplify things a little. Tank is still in progress, some corals don't like it, others do.

Gonna move in my new house at the end of the month, I hope to work on the tank afterwards.

 

Some shots worth posting :

 

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Moving the tank have been a bit more challenging than expected but after 3 weeks it s getting better.

 

Current state : 

 

 

 

Took some time to make my own adaptations to an Ikea stand. It s note entirely done, but I m really happy with the result so far.