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Bella's Reef

So a little background on this build -

 

I have been out of the hobby now for roughly 5 years, I put together a system early last fall & then sold it off before setting up to make a play room/area for my daughter.

 

I started lurking again in January & decided on this setup that will fit our main living room/family area nicely.

 

 

 

Equipment

 

  • ADA / Landen 60P Low Iron Rimless Tank - 23.6" x 11.8" x 14.2"
  • Radion G2
  • Vortech MP10
  • Cad Lights PLS-50 Skimmer
  • Sicce 5.0 Return Pump
  • Technical Pro - Power Supply / Switcher
  • Neo-Therm 100 watt heater
  • 10 Gallon Sump
  • 20lbs of Reef Cleaner Rock
  • Custom Built Cabinet / Stand

 

 

Current Fish & Inverts

  • Picasso Clownfish
  • TailSpot Blenny
  • Yellow Coris Wrasse
  • Randalls Shrimp Goby
  • Pistol Shirmp - He is a monster
  • Green Grape BTA

 

Current Coral Stocking

  • War Coral
  • Purple Torch
  • Frogspawn
  • Sunset Monti
  • Superman Monti
  • Fungia / Plate
  • Meteor Shower Cyphastrea
  • Mummy Eye Chalice
  • Dragon Soul Favia
  • Assorted Ricordea & Mushrooms
  • Blackhole Brain

 

 

Plan to Add

  • Black Snowflake or Phantom Clownfish
  • Cleaner Shrimp
  • Pom Pom Crab

 

 

 

 

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Thanks Chris!

 

Here it is up & running.

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I am headed to local fish store for some live rock rubble & salt today.

 

A big thanks to vw4life for all the help with the setup & plumbing!

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Thanks! I was able to get to the store and add some live rock as well as a cycle kick starter product vw4life let me borrow. I was considering using Dr Tims One & Only - Live Bacteria to help speed things up also, but I may just see how this does.

 

I am planning on picking up some Chaeto to add to the sump during the cycle as well.

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So instead of emptying the tank of water and pre-mixing salt I just added salt to the tank, figured it wouldn't be an issue due to just starting the tank up. I am now running into possibly not enough flow to mix the salt in the tank and getting inaccurate salinity readings.

 

It was reading high last night 1.30 and then low 1.16 & all across the board. I panicked and added RO.

 

I tried to mix/stir the tank manually as well as scoop & dump water back into the tank for a bit last night. This morning I am getting around 1.16 pretty consistently, so I added a bit of salt. We will see where we are at when I return home.

 

Another issue it seems like the Sicce 3.0 even when the gate valve is full open is not putting out that much flow, I am a little concerned with that & wondering if I need a larger hole in my external durso pipe. Or if I just need to fiddle with it some more.

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I finally pulled the trigger on a powerhead... MP10 should be here Thursday ... Hopefully parameters are good to go by the weekend to order a cleanup crew from Reef Cleaners.

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I did some more mixing & salinity seems to be around 1.21, I am going to leave things be & add the powerhead to get things stirred up more then see where I am at. Temperature is right around 78 & rocks are showing signs of diatoms / browning & water is clearing up.

 

I am itching to test parameters so I can order a clean up crew but I just want to let it do its thing for a few more days.

 

I put what looks to be a really nice ORA Black Ice Snowflake on hold for $60 at a store that it is mislabeled as a Semi Picasso. It is very active, nice & plump seems to be a very healthy clownfish.



I have not been running the light over the tank at all, lightless cycle so far but I am going to program the Radion tonight & get it rocking by Thursday.

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I did not have much time to do major adjustment/setting up of things. I was adjusting the pump as I thought it was turned to full, turns out it was not.

 

The last baffle can not keep enough water in it for the pump when running the gate valve more open, so I have to run it more shut. I may try to adjust pump flow and the gate valve for a happy medium.

 

I think I am going to downsize pumps & may need to remove that last baffle I told myself not to put in, in the first place.

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I did not have much time to do major adjustment/setting up of things. I was adjusting the pump as I thought it was turned to full, turns out it was not.

 

The last baffle can not keep enough water in it for the pump when running the gate valve more open, so I have to run it more shut. I may try to adjust pump flow and the gate valve for a happy medium.

 

I think I am going to downsize pumps & may need to remove that last baffle I told myself not to put in, in the first place.

 

Yeah I was wondering if that was the case with the pump not being fully open like you thought, I have done similar more then once myself lol. IMO its better to have the extra power available and not need it, then to not have it and need it. I definitely wish I would have went with stronger return pumps more then once....

 

Last baffle should be fine as long as the sump can hold more water in the event of a shut off, just add more water to raise the level in the last baffle. The more the pump is pulling quicker the less water will be in that chamber, but you should be able to raise the water level without being much of an issue. ;)

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I had a good two hours last night for some needed adjustments on the tank.

 

I was able to setup the MP10 and adjust the return pump & gate valve as well as add water and salt. All is running smoothly & hope to test salinity tonight & see it closer to 1.25.

 

I will have the Radion programmed & running tonight and a new refugium light in place - the led light I purchased on here was just to small. Hopefully get the parameters tested this weekend.

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Picked up 12 blue leg hermits for $12 today & a local reefer gave me about 50 Asternina Stars for free & a tiny frag of GSP for $8.

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Headed to the LFS to pick up the clownfish tonight and hopefully a tailspot blenny if they have one in stock. I am also possibly stopping by a local reefers to pick up a few zoa frags.

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Beautiful fish! I'm curious to know what you did for a cover? I need one on my tank and am not sure how to go about it (I've got the same tank as you). Thanks!

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I had a guy from my local forums make a screen top with the window framing, turned out awesome. He used the smaller squared clear mesh to prevent jumpers. It cost me $30 shipped & I did not have to deal with building it so I thought it was a good deal.

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Beautiful fish! I'm curious to know what you did for a cover? I need one on my tank and am not sure how to go about it (I've got the same tank as you). Thanks!

 

 

I had a guy from my local forums make a screen top with the window framing, turned out awesome. He used the smaller squared clear mesh to prevent jumpers. It cost me $30 shipped & I did not have to deal with building it so I thought it was a good deal.

 

Tank is looking great!

 

I was thinking of making a DIY topic on this as I found a great, readily available, and cheap substitute for the clear PP mesh that seems you have to order.

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