10g Rimless AIO LED SPS Reef

[Dasani]

I am downgrading my 20 high as soon as I get rid of my LPS and softies.
For this reef, I want it to be 98% SPS dominated.

Today, I went and got the tank, ripped the top rim off and tested it for leaks. It's all good.

The plan is to get some black acrylic and build my own AIO section. I plan for it to be 8.5" long x 4.5" wide. I will be getting the acrylic for it sometime this week hopefully.

The idea...

For the lights, I am going to build and LED fixture. I am going to use 8 XP-E royal blues and 4 XP-G neutral whites. All of the LED's will be ran on 1000mA Buckpucks with 5k pots. A guy is sending me 2 power supplies for them for free. Should be here this week.
I plan to do 4 rotating clusters instead of putting the LED's in a line. This has been proven to blend the colors better.
Example (I will not have optics)

My wire diagram...

As for other equipment...
Skimmer (will be added down the road)- Aquatic Life 115 mini skimmer
Phosban reactor (going to run a bag of phosban until I get this)
Quiet One 1200 return pump
Koralia 425 and 240
Jager 50w heater
ESV B-Ionic 2 part dosing kit

And this is my wishlist...

Fish-
Yellow watchman goby

Inverts-
3x Sexy shrimp
Pom pom crab
multiple snails
Maxi mini nem
2x Ultra Maxima clams

Corals-
ORA Tricolor Valida
ORA Blue mille
ORA Red Planet
ORA Verde
Ponape Birdsnest
ORA Birds of Paradise
ORA Plum Crazy
ORA Blue Voodoo stag
ORA Joe the coral
Pink Lemonade acro
Ice Fire Echinata
Strawberry Shortcake acro
Candle Light acro
ORA Pearlberry
Cali tort
ORA Ice tort
Vivid's Rainbow Delight acro
GARF Purple Bonsai
ORA Bellina acro
ORA Miami Orchid acro
ORA German blue polyps digi
ORA Purple digi
Purple monti cap
Green Monti cap
Sunset monti
Rainbow monti

Maybe I can save up enough for all that in a couple years haha. and fit it in the tank :bigsmile:

 

[nolen502]

Definitely gonna be an awesome tank when its finished!

 

[BigFeesh]

Thats alot for that small of a tank!! i would probably cut that lisst in half haha
Very cool build. im folllowing

 

[H@rry]

That will be one full 10 gallon tank! :waaaht:

What are you planning to do if half of them live and start to grow? As an example, I have a BOP that is just a little over 2 years old. It started as a 1 inch frag. It's bigger than a softball now and I regularly cut frags off it.

I would seriously reconsider your stocking list.

Good luck.

 

[Dasani]

Haha yes I know that is a lot. I plan to buy them all as 1/2-2" frags so they will be cheaper and I will have room. I will frag them when needed. Hopefully after a year or 2 I will have some cash to set up a frag tank. But if I need to, I can put frags into my dad's 75g.

I'm sure I could do without a lot of those, but those are my tops that I would really like to have.

 

[BigFeesh]

Frag tank?? with a 10 gallon ? Haha. Even with enough acros for my 75 gallon this will still be an awesome tank

 

[Dasani]

Frag tank?? with a 10 gallon ? Haha. Even with enough acros for my 75 gallon this will still be an awesome tank

Haha only if I need it.
I'm wanting to make it look amazing. It probably won't look that great in the beginning, but once everything starts to grow out, it will look good

 

[Dasani]

I added some more SPS to the list haha

1 that I really like is the ORA Bellina acro

That will be one of the 1st ones I get if possible...

 

[Dasani]

I was looking through a FAS magazine and I found this...
Aquarium Filters & Water Quality: Current SubCurrent Internal Wet/Dry Filter

I think I will get that instead of building a box my self.

 

[Dave3112]

The Bellina is an awesome coral! You have to get just the right placement to keep those colors. Otherwise its just a purple acro......

 

[Dasani]

Where is the right placement? I pm'd you about the halides.

I ordered my LED stuff today. I got...

8 XP-E royal blue led's with 80* optics
4 XP-G neutral white led's with 80* optics
10ft blue wire
10ft white wire
multi meter
thermal adhesive
14" x 4" heatsink
2 1000mA buckpucks

My power supplies are also on the way. Should get this thing started next week

 

[Dave3112]

Mine is WAY up in the tank and gets pounded by an MP40

 

[Dasani]

Mine is WAY up in the tank and gets pounded by an MP40

Ok, I'll keep it up top and run a lot of flow on it.
I plan to have a lot of flow in the tank.

 

[Dasani]

I would like to model my tank after this...

I just spent the last 30 minutes or so drawing out an LED diagram. The measurements should all be correct. I don't think the LED's are to size, but the area they take up is correct.

I am still working on wiring. I am trying to get it where I will have all the LED's turned correctly so I will have clean wiring.

What do you think?

 

[H@rry]

Looking at the last picture, your may want to make sure you don't wire your toes in the LED circuits.

 

[BigFeesh]

I would like to model my tank after this...

I just spent the last 30 minutes or so drawing out an LED diagram. The measurements should all be correct. I don't think the LED's are to size, but the area they take up is correct.

I am still working on wiring. I am trying to get it where I will have all the LED's turned correctly so I will have clean wiring.

What do you think?

What size is that tank??


i can see youre shooting for the stars on this one 1smile1

 

[Dasani]

:xd:

What size is that tank??


i can see youre shooting for the stars on this one 1smile1

It's a 47g. 30 x 20 x 18.
So I think I could scape something like that since the 10g is 20 x 10.

 

[Dave3112]

A 10 gallon is going to be hard to keep the parameters in line. I'm not saying it can't be done by any means. I have seen some killer 10 gallon set ups before, but for me it would be too much work to be able to enjoy it. LOL. I guess that's why I keep BIG tanks now days......They are a lot of work too but the parameters stay in check a lot better. I hope it works out good for ya. I can't wait to see some progress shots.....

 

[BigFeesh]

A 10 gallon is going to be hard to keep the parameters in line. I'm not saying it can't be done by any means. I have seen some killer 10 gallon set ups before, but for me it would be too much work to be able to enjoy it. LOL. I guess that's why I keep BIG tanks now days......They are a lot of work too but the parameters stay in check a lot better. I hope it works out good for ya. I can't wait to see some progress shots.....

Sadly he is right that's why I'm upgrading to a 75 before I'm going to college.

 

[Dasani]

Nanos are not too complicated from my point of view. I'm on my 3rd. I learned from my mistakes on my 1st and now I am a pro at them haha.
I have learned that you have to keep up with your water changes and you should be fine.
I do 4g water changes every week on my 20H and that gets annoying. With this 10g, I plan to do 1g water changes every 3 days. Shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. And since it is an SPS tank, I plan on dosing with alk and cal as needed.

Thanks for the concern. I would go bigger if I could. Just can't afford it haha.