Labridaedicted
Wrassetastic
Hey everyone!
After moving I've been forced to downsize the tank from the old 90 to a nice shiny new 29 gallon *wonk wonk wonk*. I'm adjusting to life as a nano reefer again and thought I'd post a little build thread.
It's a standard 29 gallon tall. I drilled the upper back with 2x 1.5" bulkheads and added a black acrylic overflow box. The return is a 3/4" flexible return.
In the past, I have used black spray paint for the back, I decided to try something different this time and went with plastidip. I'm thinking it will hold up better long term, but I suppose we will see.
Sump I made from a 10 gallon and had 3 chambers.
Then I saw this picture with the rinky dink skimmer and decided I was going to shove the Octo 250 from the 90 in there instead. I pulled all the baffles and made it a single chamber and am running a waaaaaaay bigger skimmer than necessary. In the last picture I was running my diy led light (which was on its last legs after a few years on a 15 gallon).
I installed a float switch for an ato which is powered by an a qualifier from a 7 gallon tub... I mean reservoir (keeping it classy). Also running gfo in there. Pump is a dc variable speed pump as is the wavemaker. The brain is an old reef keeper lite.
Dosing is via a 4 channel dosing pump and I'm dosing diy 2 part. Small hourly dosing for cal/alk and weekly few drops of mag. I'll get pics of that later.
Lighting is now upgraded as of 2 days ago. I got a rapidled Corona system that runs from the fishbit software (which I might upgrade from the RKL to a fishbit system soon). So far, I'm really diggin it, but I'll wait for longterm results before a true review. That's what's running in these pics...
Stocking is just starting again. So nothing too crazy yet and actually no fish yet (although a wrasse is soon to come, I assure you...).
I'm sure I'll think of more to ad later, but this seemed like a decent first post.
Looking forward to updating this as I get back into the full swing of it and spend ALL of my money on coral again
Thanks for reading!
After moving I've been forced to downsize the tank from the old 90 to a nice shiny new 29 gallon *wonk wonk wonk*. I'm adjusting to life as a nano reefer again and thought I'd post a little build thread.
It's a standard 29 gallon tall. I drilled the upper back with 2x 1.5" bulkheads and added a black acrylic overflow box. The return is a 3/4" flexible return.
In the past, I have used black spray paint for the back, I decided to try something different this time and went with plastidip. I'm thinking it will hold up better long term, but I suppose we will see.
Sump I made from a 10 gallon and had 3 chambers.
Then I saw this picture with the rinky dink skimmer and decided I was going to shove the Octo 250 from the 90 in there instead. I pulled all the baffles and made it a single chamber and am running a waaaaaaay bigger skimmer than necessary. In the last picture I was running my diy led light (which was on its last legs after a few years on a 15 gallon).
I installed a float switch for an ato which is powered by an a qualifier from a 7 gallon tub... I mean reservoir (keeping it classy). Also running gfo in there. Pump is a dc variable speed pump as is the wavemaker. The brain is an old reef keeper lite.
Dosing is via a 4 channel dosing pump and I'm dosing diy 2 part. Small hourly dosing for cal/alk and weekly few drops of mag. I'll get pics of that later.
Lighting is now upgraded as of 2 days ago. I got a rapidled Corona system that runs from the fishbit software (which I might upgrade from the RKL to a fishbit system soon). So far, I'm really diggin it, but I'll wait for longterm results before a true review. That's what's running in these pics...
Stocking is just starting again. So nothing too crazy yet and actually no fish yet (although a wrasse is soon to come, I assure you...).
I'm sure I'll think of more to ad later, but this seemed like a decent first post.
Looking forward to updating this as I get back into the full swing of it and spend ALL of my money on coral again
Thanks for reading!
