blaten's 50g Simple Reef

sleeri · Feb 14, 2013

Wow, great looking corals! Nice work on your tank.

bknapp · Feb 14, 2013

Sweet tank man!

blaten · Feb 16, 2013

Mr. D said:
Beautiful tank. I enjoy the fact your reef has no special equipment of doing regiments. Just wcs and the mag/alk additives.

Do you have a sump with an ATO? I may have missed that.

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Thanks you all for your kind words. I will try to have a comprehensive update soon.

To answer your question Mr. D there is no sump attached to the tank. Although I have now added an AquaC Remora skimmer with a Maxijet 1200 to help with nutrients. It is a bit loud so I try to only run it while I am out but it works very well.

As a preview, here is a picture of the zoa garden grown in a bit more.

zoareef · Feb 16, 2013

blaten said:
Thanks you all for your kind words. I will try to have a comprehensive update soon.

To answer your question Mr. D there is no sump attached to the tank. Although I have now added an AquaC Remora skimmer with a Maxijet 1200 to help with nutrients. It is a bit loud so I try to only run it while I am out but it works very well.

As a preview, here is a picture of the zoa garden grown in a bit more.

Looks great and really healthy look forward to the update

mike007 · Feb 16, 2013

As they say less is more. Nice tank.

blaten · Feb 16, 2013

Thanks guys! I'm glad you like it.

NY_Sea · Feb 16, 2013

This tank is amazing. So no carbon, no GFO, no skimmer, no nothin and your tank looks like this. Man, you are my new inspiration. I must be doing something wrong. Lol

blaten · Feb 17, 2013

Haha, thanks. I did have to add a HOB skimmer unfortunately. I wasn't able to get the color on my SPS that I wanted without one. The water just wasn't clean enough without a filter.

PristineWaters said:
This tank is amazing. So no carbon, no GFO, no skimmer, no nothin and your tank looks like this. Man, you are my new inspiration. I must be doing something wrong. Lol

blaten · Feb 17, 2013

Video

I decided to put together a quick video as none of the pictures I got were anything special. It is filmed with my phone so please excuse the quality. I would like to get a nice video camera soon. Sony makes a high quality camera that is in the $400-$500 range that might be worth checking out.

Anyways, the tank should look a lot better soon as I will be taking out a couple of the frag racks and adding a few more fish from my 225, which is almost done being taken down. Next time there should be a lot more motion.

Please watch in HD

[video=youtube;qqH_YHWruSg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqH_YHWruSg[/video]

zoareef · Feb 18, 2013

Tank looks awesome and healthy is that utter/ultimate chaos on the tile in the middle.

blaten · Feb 18, 2013

Thanks Tony! That is my Utter Chaos colony, which I am hoping to try and frag again soon. I have a semi-long waitlist for them and it's almost time to share.

zoareef · Feb 18, 2013

Cool it's good to share lol

When you have some spare let me know ill be interested

blaten · Feb 24, 2013

Just an updated FTS.

SeahorseKeeper · Feb 24, 2013

Looking good!!!

Bubbles_B · Feb 28, 2013

Seen this beauty last week. And I must say that, "It is simply amazing how simple this tank is setup!" Great work and even better, super awesomely healthy frags.