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Hello N-R.com family, Last you heard from me I was building a Red Sea Reefer 50 gallon reef tank, but I had to break down the tank when I moved and only recently had a chance to set it back up. Rather than going back to the 50 gallon reef tank, however, I turned that into a planted freshwater discus tank. My first love in reefing came from a smaller nano tank, and I lost some of the love as the tanks got bigger and more complicated. I finally convinced the fiancee to let me start another tank, and settled on a nano reef for my return. So pull up a seat and follow along.... Over the course of the last 10 years, I've had a number of tanks with varied success, and I hope to put all the lessons learned from those tanks together in this build. Rules of the road: Simplicity is king. 15 pieces of equipment just create more opportunities for failure. I am going to do the basics, and I'm going to do them well. Some (light) SPS. I like some SPS Corals, and I might try a frag or two that amuse me, but this tank will go back to my love of LPS, softies, and (hopefully) a clam. Fun, active, and healthy. I want my reef to thrive, the inhabitants to be healthy, and to have a tank that I can get lost staring at for hours. I settled on this tank and equipment after hours upon hours of extensive reading and research. I've tried complex systems like algae scrubbers, CO2 reactors, etc.... now I'm going back to the more time tested and proven techniques. That's not to hate on any of the other stuff.... it just became too complicated and removed the fun. My tank in college was very simple, it thrived, and it was a blast. Time to return to that....though with a little nicer gear too 😉 Equipment: Innovative Marine NUVO Fusion Pro Peninsula 20 Gallon tank Kessil A360X light with wifi InTank media basket Aqamai KPS Wavemaker pump eShopps Nano Protein Skimmer ZeoVit dosing schedule Cobalt Aquatics Neotherm 75W heater Aqua Gadget Spin Stream Nozzle XP Aquatics Duetto ATO system Livestock: Planned pair of clowns Planned goby/shrimp pair Something else, TBD I also ordered 20lbs of Fiji Pink sand, and will get live rock to seed the tank. I also plan to use Tropic Marin Pro Reef Salt because I like that they use pharmaceutical grade materials in the salt. For filtration, I plan to run filter floss, carbon, and ZeoVit in the media basket. The hope is that I can talk my fiancee into setting up the tank at the end of our couch, so you can appreciate the full peninsula effect. Fingers crossed. I ordered everything from @BulkReefSupply this weekend and got notification that the gear will arrive Thursday, so pictures and more updates to come. I also need to build a stand for the tank, so it'll be a few weeks before we see water, but that's okay. Good planning leads to good results! Tank is Born, 18 March 2020: Full Tank Shot, 31 March 2020

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I recently got a Biocube 29 secondhand from a man that frequents my LFS. It has the Aquatic Life nano skimmer in the intake chamber, and I was wondering what I should do with the big chamber before I go ahead and fill it. I wanted to have a mixed reef system, primarily with softies, but I would like to grow monti caps on the upper levels as well. Would it be more effective to run a couple of bags of zeolite, and GAC (probably with the other Zeovit products), or to simply run a fuge light and chaeto. I certainly know more about the chaeto than the Zeolite, but I am by no means an expert. I just want to have the most effecient way possible, preferable without tacking on too much to the biocube shell.

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Hello ! I was introduced to that hobby by my good friend Shaun. At this moment I run a small Pico 20g but I really love Shaun's shallow build. So inspired by his system I've started to build my own 30x30x12. We're thinking to move this year and it would be super hard to move a large tank, so it's going to be a very very very slow updated thread before we move. Then I'll follow with all the updates when finally I would be able to run what I've started. Shaun thanks again! Stand: DIY. Light: ATI 24" SunPower + Kessil 160we Tuna Blue. Tank: Crystal Dynamic Aquarium 30x30x12 Sump: 20g with OceanboxDesigns Reef-Reactive Sump Kit Skimmer: Vertex Omega 130 Reactor: Vertex RX-Z 1.5 ZEOlite Controller: Apex Doser: Kore 5th Main Pump: x2 MP10WES Vortech ATO: Kore 5th Return pump: Syncra Silent 2.0 Overflow: Synergy Reef Overflow 16" Heater: x2 Cobalt Neo-Therm 150W Kessil 160we on max blue settings and x2 ATI Actinic Bulbs ON. (First and last two hours of the day): Kessil 160we on max blue settings and ALL T5 Bulbs ON. (MIddle 10 hours of the light cycle): [Video Soon] Lighting Schedule 16 hours a day: 2 Hours only Kessil on max blue settings. 2 Hours Kessil + x2 ATI True Actinics. 8 Hours All ON. 2 Hours Kessil + x2 ATI True Actinics. 2 Hours only Kessil on max blue settings. at 12" over the water level. Colors of that combination with no Kessil only T5: Setup ( Zeovit System ) : Zeovit dosing schedule: Dosing on Sun. is after the water change. List of the dosing products: 1. Coral Snow. 2. Zeo Start. 3. Pohl's Xtra Special. 4. ZeoBac. 5. Sponge Power 6. Coral Vitalizer. 7. PIF Concentrate. 8. Coral Booster. 9. Amino Acid Concentrate. 10. B-Balance. 11. Vibrant. Zeostart is dosed directly into the reactor when the reactor is OFF for 30 mins. 0.5 liters ZeoVit with a flow of ~ 50 US gallons per hour through the reactor and 100gr. of activated carbon passively flown. Index: Stand Build. Sump Added. Tank Ordered. Tank Delivered. Plumbing Done. First day. Corals Added - 001. Vertex Omega 130. New SPS frags. Tank views October 2016. New Fishes Added. 1 Month Update. New SPS Frags. 2 Months Update. Feeding Video. Mini Frag Rack Vertex Omega 130 Skimmate. How to mount a Kessil to the ATI Sunpower. Lighting Schedule. Algae Explosion. My Dinostory. Dino update. 4 Months Update. pH Chart. 5 Months Update. Dino Free ! Growth Rate Pictures. Current tank views: Last Update March. 2017