Akma's Elos 70 Upgrade

akma · Mar 19, 2013

Few weeks ago I saw johnnyJ was selling his tank setup and after thinking it over I decided to upgrade so my fish would have more swimming room.
Thanks to my friend Ernie, he made this move easy for me by driving to pick up the tank and helping me setup.

Specs:
Tank: Elos 70 tank, stand, sump.
Lights: Ecotech Radion Gen 2
Return: Eheim 1250
Powerhead: I have 2 mp10wes on my tank right now. I have a 3rd one and i'm debating on ataching it or selling it. Will see depending on tank.
Skimmer: BM 8 skimmer
Dosing system: BM doser

I plan on going mostly sps with this build. I do have some hair algae i'm trying to fight at the moment and hopefully will be able to eradicate it in this tank soon. Will be pouring peroxide straight on the algae in hopes of killing it.

Livestock:
- Pair of ora picasso / c-quest onyx clownfish
- Pair of wyoming whites temporarily.
- Tailspot blenny
- Jewel Leopard Wrasse
- Pair of Cardinals
- Baby Chevron Tang
- Exquisite fairy wrasse
- Pair of cleaner shrimp
- My electric blue hermit i've had since my first tank setup in 2007. This guy refuses to die no matter how much he's been through.

Corals:
- Few acros I picked up from max reef's aussie shipment along with a few others that i've had since they were 1/2-1"
- Lost Everyone of my chalices a few months ago except for the second chalice I ever purchased due to what I believe is bacteria from a bad order.
- A little bit of lps here and there.

Here's a FTS I just took to start documenting.
3/19/2013

Electrobes · Mar 19, 2013

That tank looks amazing!

Looking forward to this... looking at the equipment list alone is enough to drool over!

kingator · Mar 19, 2013

nice akma

lps1212 · Mar 19, 2013

Tagging along on here also :wink:

revhtree · Mar 20, 2013

Looks great!

All Delight · Apr 23, 2013

Nice setup. Will be following

akma · Jun 7, 2013

Haven't updated in awhile:
About 2 months ago I bought a fish and without quarantining I had ick wipe out almost all my fish. Lost 12 fish and I have left just one onyx and a leoaprd wrasse left.
Had a huge spike in nutrients because some of my wrasses I coudlnt' find and their decomposing bodies left me with some crazy hair algae:
With waterchanges, biopellets, gfo and a brand new cleanup crew finally got things under control.

I sold my radion and went back to a 6bulb t5 unit and can't be happier:

akma · Jun 8, 2013

Dang. Can't erase the previous post: O wells:

New Update:

New Equipment:
- Sold my bubble magus for a 4 pump prolifux thanks to breaken.
- Upgraded to a neptune apex. Awesome controller
- Sold my radions and went back to T5s.
- Added biopellets and gfo to help bring algae under control.

Bout 2 months ago I got hit with ick which killed 12 of my fishes. Pretty lethal case and I couldn't get out my wrasses so my nitrates and ammonia rocketed.

Right now tank has stabilized and everything is starting to do much better. SPS are coloring up nicely and growing:

Here's a FTS:

Still a bit messy. In process of clearing stuff out on sandbed. Maybe throw them all into my elos mini.

Been buying lots of sps lately:
Picked up a few sweet pieces from dnov and I have another sick pack coming in about another week:

Want to add a few nice pieces of live rock in to mount sps.

Here's my sick JB I picked up from breakin.