A Cape Town Peninsula by Brendan

[Brendan]

Hi everybody.

I think it is time to start a thread and see what you guys have to offer in advice and general banter! My tank is 2 months old, it was a tank transfer so no, it is not white rock galore. The tank is a 100 gallon (400L) total water volume Peninsula reef. Den Braven Siliconed, 10mm thick glass, external overflow box. 10mm thick braces included. My current sump holds roughly 60L and the sump I have drying is 120L. I am South African and we work in liters. The tank is 1.3mL x 0.5mW x 0.5m H. C2C overflow on the side panel. 2 overflow pipes. 1 with a Durso and the second emergency overflow.

Equipment :
Flow consists of 2 x Jebao RW-8's and a tunze nanostream 6015.
Lighting is T5. Odyssea Qua. ATI bulbs all round. Blue Plus, Actinic, Coral Plus and Purple Plus.
Skimmer is a Reeftek TS2. Just replaced the OTP2000 pump.
Return Pump is a small boyu pump but my Sicce Syncra is on its way.
New Tunze 220.015 care magnet (yeah baby!!)
A Waterboy Premium RO\DI unit.
Jager 200w and a 150w heater.

Stock...
around 13 mostly local hermits.
1 boss emerald crab.
1 pompom crab. (new addition)
a handful of snails. (Turbo, Turban and Nassarius)
1 sand sifting starfish.
A few local starfish that have been reproducing.
2 cleaner shrimp that spawn every 2 weeks.
Montipora nudibranchs...Yes...

Fish.
1 diamond watchman goby that eats flakes and mysis.
1 black shoulder tang.

Corals.
12 SPS pieces.
Quite a few zoanthids.
A couple of Euphyllias
Some LPS, Blasto, brains...
I am sure you would rather see pictures...

 

[Brendan]

This is the tank. I put down a rubber mat to stop water from spilling on the floor whilst doing the routine tests and such. It has been a life saver as I am renting. This is not my own house unfortunately.

The Fish

 

[Brendan]

December the 2nd FTS

Some of the favorites

My boy, Knibbler the emerald crab on my blue mille

My cleaner seconds after releasing babies.

 

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[Brendan]

Phew...this 5 picture limit is a drag...But there we go. I look forwards to any question/comments you people have. AWE!

 

[kevantheman35]

Glad you got a build thread going you tank looks great! I really like the 3 island aquascape

 

[Brendan]

Thank you kevantheman35
It really is not everybody's cup of tea but it is what I like. Very happy with the way it turned out, equally stoked about the amount of cave and tunnel systems for my fish.

 

[Brendan]

My tank has just hit the 100g mark. Added my big sump and taken all life rock and substrate into account, the total capacity just exceeds 100g. Pretty stoked.

 

[SantaMonicaHelp]

Great looking tank! :bigsmile:

 

[Brendan]

Great looking tank! :bigsmile:

Thank you. It is still a baby tank but the growth rate of my corals is very pleasing.

 

[Brendan]

Happy new years people. I am away on holiday so I have not seen my tank in over a week, but I have been able to buy myself Midas Blenny and won a brand new Reef Octopus XP 3000SSS internal skimmer.

 

[SantaMonicaHelp]

Well, when you get back please take a pic with all your fish and coral. I wanna see how they doing now

-Y

 

[Brendan]

Well, when you get back please take a pic with all your fish and coral. I wanna see how they doing now

-Y

With pleasure [emoji106]

 

[Brendan]

A quick FTS after I returned home, got my Refugium light sorted and did a bit of aqua scaping. After visiting my mother and father for the holidays, I helped them set up there tank. There aqua scape inspired me a bit.

 

[kevensquint]

I like it, I regret adding more rock than you to my 75 pen. Looks good lots of swimming space.

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Your tank is looking good!!