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Official Lifegard Aquatics Crystal (AIO) Aquarium Club!!
ReefahBarra84 posted a topic in All-In-One Tanks
Aloha!!! Well, it seems that there was enough interest to make an official Lifegard Aquatics Crystal (All-in-one) Aquarium thread! The purpose of this thread is for all of us to come together, discuss, modify and just collaborate in general about our awesome, yet underrated Aquariums. LIFEGARD Aquatics has been around for quite some time, and while their main focus is on Commercial Aquaculture, they were cool enough to make nano-tanks for the hobby! I will also create links directly to everyone's personal tank journals as well! Even though I just ordered the 24.09 AIO, I'm going to begin to link people's tanks and get this party started! I know some of you have expressed your frustrations with lack of options for modifications, custom caddies, etc. I will be personally reaching out to INTANK about making many of the mods and gadgets they make for all the other brands, for us as well! First things first. The following is a breakdown of the (AIO) tanks that Lifegard Aquatics currently makes for the hobby ; The "Peninsula" (AlO) Style 3.8 Gallon CRYSTAL Aquarium with Built-In Side Filter (#R460003) by Lifegard Aquatics 7.43 Gallon CRYSTAL Aquarium with Built-In Side Filter (#R460002) by Lifegard Aquatics 14.26 Gallon CRYSTAL Aquarium with Built-In Side Filter (#R460001) by Lifegard Aquatics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "Standard" (AIO) Style 4.14 Gallon CRYSTAL Aquarium with Built-In Back Filter (#R460007) by Lifegard Aquatics 9.98 Gallon CRYSTAL Aquarium with Built-In Back Filter (#R460006) by Lifegard Aquatics 24.09 Gallon CRYSTAL Aquarium with Built-In Back Filter (#R460005) by Lifegard Aquatics- 499 replies
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Hello everyone! This will be my first reef tank ever, hopefully it helps that I've only had nano and pico tanks anyways. All my stuff is more or less still in the mail and most will arrive on the 10th Anyways, the important stuff: Tank: Lifegard Aquatics 3.8 gallon aio peninsula Substrate: Carib sea arag alive special grade Salt: Aquaforest Reef Salt Salinity measuring: Swing Arm Hydrometer Rock: roughly 3lbs dry rock Heater: 25w compact hygger Filter: 80gph adjustable pump Uniclife Media: filter floss for now Lights: Nicrew 30W Reef LED + more precise controller eventually Stock: I'm planning on softies and potentially lps (space allowing) Potentially a clown goby and/or some sort of shrimp
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Well well well, here we are again. New tank, new build! Here's what we've got! Equipment Tank: Lifegard Aquatics Crystal AIO 4.1 gallon Return Pump: Sicce Syncra Nano Wavemaker: Hygger Mini Wave Maker Heater: HiTop 50w Light: 2x Noopsyche K7 V3 75w LEDs Stocking List: Fish: TBD Corals: Zoas/Soft Corals: Misc. Zoas LPS Corals: Duncan Jingle Bells Cyphastrea Ultra Leptoseris SPS Corals: WWC Grafted Monti Mystic Sunset Montipora Sunset Montipora TG Halloween Stylocoeniella ASD Rainbow Millepora Misc. Millepora Broken Arrow Tenuis Green Pocillopora Tri Color Acropora Purple Bonsai Acropora Forest Green Acropora Inverts: One Cerith Snail One lonely red legged hermit crab Probably some Aiptasia somewhere lurking... Current FTS (19 February 2022) I picked up this aquarium on a sale (along with another small tank, but let's take one thing at a time 😉 ). This small "all in one" pico (or nano at the most) is only 4.1 gallons. Not as extreme as many of these crazy hooligans showing off their one gallon reef bowls, but this thing is pretty small nonetheless! Being an AIO, filtration will be taken care of with coarse foam and plastic bio media (these are stock supplies that came with the tank). With this aquarium being so small it's a little difficult to find equipment that will work/fit, but I ended up using a spare NeoTherm that I had lying around and I ordered an Asta 20 (the marine version) from amazon for lighting. I've read the controller for this light is a hot mess but the light seemed decent enough to fork out the $50 to get (I'll let you all know how I like it). Like mentioned in the list, I am planning on using a small media reactor and skimmer, both of which I'll be making (parts are in the mail). I've always liked the DIY aspect of the hobby and enjoy the challenge, but am more into making things that are not only functional, but have as much quality as I can muster (aka I'm not rolling with hot glue and water bottles). I'll probably make a separate thread on making these two pieces. Stocking will be kept to a minimum, being such a small volume of water, but I kind of want to keep that all a surprise until it comes in and everything is happy and doing fine. I've had a lot of experience keeping nano planted aquariums so small volumes of water are no issue with me, but I still have a lot to learn with this niche in the hobby and am excited to see what comes of it! Updates to come. Thanks for stopping by!
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With social distancing having no foreseeable end in sight, my significant other gave me the green light on a pico/Nano bookshelf build. My Waterbox 70:2 will also appreciate this as I have been messing with it too much as of late. The tank will go where my pico contest tank Was previously. I will also use most of the equipment I used on my pico contest tank. I have decided on the Lifeguard Aquatics Crystal 7.3 gallon peninsula. Tank: Lifeguard Aquatics Crystal 7.4 gal peninsula. Light: Nanobox Tide Return: Sicce Micra Skimmer: Reef glass Skimmer Heater: 50w neotherm Flow: Hygger Eco-slim ATO: XP Aqua Heater: Viaqua 50w, Inkbird controller Filter Media: 250ml seachem matrix Sand: 5lbs live sand Rock: KP Aquatics live rock Dosing: DIY Kalk reactor powered by Kamoer x1 doser Livestock: mantis shrimp (Neogonodactylus curacaoensis) Blue Eyed Cardinalfish Coral/inverts: SPS: Red planet, Infected green Stag, Red monti cap, green monti cap... LPS: candycane, orange lepto Softies: ricordia Yuma, ricordia Florida, red mushroom, orange jawbreaker mushroom, forest fire rhodactis Anemone: “Black widow” bubble tip anemone, Red mini carpet anemone
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Lifegard Crystal 24.09 gallon: Back to the hobby with my son
spiffish posted a topic in Nano Reef Journals
Hello folks! Back in 2013, I had a complete tank disaster. I had a Solana 34 cube running for five years. It had its ups and downs (the downs were when I got busy with life and didn't maintain it well). One day, in the middle of the night, I awoke to the sound of water. The tank had burst a leak in one of the seams. Much effort went into getting the livestock in containers to keep everything alive but I had a huge mess on my hands to clean up. In the midst of the chaotic scramble to manage the tank catastrophe, my wife came out of the bathroom with a positive pregnancy test (after trying for quite a while). "This is the best day of my life" I said amongst the buckets of salt water, rocks, and towels. Fast forward to Christmas 2018. My now five year old son loves animals and science and I thought that this would be the year to get back into the hobby- making this a great father-son type activity to do together. I am prepping what I can to have everything ready, but ultimately on Christmas morning the empty tank will be wrapped on a stand in the living room, ready for us to learn how to set it up together. I am planning to make a brochure type thing with the steps spelled out over the coming weeks so he can see and understand the process (Ex: day 1: fill tank with sand, rock, and saltwater, day 2: test water parameters and temp, etc) EDIT- Current FTS: On to the tank and equipment: Build goals: Mixed reef (lots of Zoas and soft corals) Mix of inverts and fish Clean crisp aquascape and display Modern overall design to compliment mid-century decor Keep it simple equipment wise, but go for quality when I can Be able to leave this for a couple of days out of town without someone checking on it Any suggestions on how to do this worry-free? Tank: Lifegard Crystal 24.09 gallon low iron glass 45 degree mitered corners All Glass. The wall separating the back chamber from display is dark tinted glass, the back is covered in black vinyl. This was the largest tank I could fit in the intended location within my budget goals (got for $150 on black friday sale) I could find hardly any information on this tank, it seems like a poorly marketed recent release, but the quality looks great! More info here: https://www.marineandreef.com/Lifegard_Aquatics_24_09_Gallon_Crystal_Aquarium_p/RRL31942.htm?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIssHTxJei3wIVF1mGCh17CgXcEAQYAyABEgKEk_D_BwE Lighting Kessil a160we blue tuna Gooseneck mount Kessil controller I really love the shimmer effect and the overall aesthetic of this light Other: Dry rock (found a 40lb box on amazon for $1/lb) Fiji Pink Live sand Cobalt aquatics 100w heater XP Aqua Duetta ATO (I have read lots of good about the Tunze, but This was almost half the price, and both sensors are optical vs the float backup on the Tunze, though I like the smaller pump and tubing in the Tunze) Back chamber: ??? I have no idea on how to set this up! I am thinking about making an in-filter style acrylic filter basket for intake chamber Basic set up plan: Plan aquascape and rinse rocks in fresh water Mix saltwater in plastic tubs, add rinsed rocks and bio-spira to jump start cycle (one week before christmas) Christmas: add sand and rocks, add water, set up light and back chamber (run polishing filter pad to help with sand debris) ?? Eventually, I may add a skimmer or some sort of fuge depending on how things go. I may also make an acrylic top for this depending on evaporation and livestock. For now, I will start simple! I would love your thoughts/feedback/advice on the questions below: EDIT: Moved the following questions to a post in beginners forum. Feel free to comment here or ignore my questions in this thread, since the journal is meant more for documentation. Any advice on setting up the back chamber? (see pics below) Do I plug the hole on the intake down near the bottom, or use the included intake thing? Are the intake grates too small? What do? The return doesn't have any sort of end on it to direct the flow, any suggestions? What basic setup plan should I follow after christmas day? I have never done a set up with only dry rock, life sand, and bio spira... is that enough to start the cycle and eventually turn my rock into LR? When can I add first Basic Zoanthids, inverts, or fish? Any suggestions on a book or internet guide that spells out all the reef keeping (better if nano-reef focused?) so I can use that as a guide to learn this together with my son? Any complaints, criticism, insults, or generally tomfoolery are appreciated! I want to get this right and have some fun doing it 🙂 On to the pics of the tank (I could find no good pics of this tank online anywhere, maybe this will be helpful for someone!)
