Cad lights 18 gallon rimless build

ou12004 · Jun 2, 2012

More rock? I though Minimalist was all the rage. OK so i pulled some rock from my 29 gallon tank and put the kids to work, this is what they came up with.

REEFKEEPER10 · Jun 2, 2012

That is a future hobbyist there. Lol

ou12004 · Jun 2, 2012

Sorry the pics are so blue, hopefully they will be better in daylight.

BarbH · Jun 2, 2012

A couple of reefers in the making

From what I can see it looks good I am thinking a nice balance of rock and open space.

ou12004 · Jun 3, 2012

Yea my 1 year went strait for the super glue, I wonder where she learned that?

Here is the tank with no blue lights on

ou12004 · Jun 3, 2012

The tank came with ceramic beads , does anyone use those in reef tanks or should I toss them?

Also do you add filter media while the tank is cycling? Sponge or Purigen or filter sock?

bobssecrtsn · Jun 3, 2012

i had this tank for acouple months. did not like the back chambers one bit so went with a overflow and sump. the sides leak water in and it does not go through the filteration at all

ou12004 · Jun 6, 2012

Bobssecrtsn, Thanks for the heads up, but I think they may have changed the design because I do not see any water coming in from the sides. I do think that I may need a more powerful pump to push more water through the cambers.

ou12004 · Jun 7, 2012

Here is the completed aquascape.
We went the CaribSea for the substrate, we were able to use about 75% of it after we took out most of the shells and live rock.

BarbH · Jun 7, 2012

Looks good, looking forward to seeing how it looks once you are able to start getting corals in it.

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SmokeyCFH · Jun 7, 2012

Great looking tank! I love those Cadlight aquariums! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun doing the rock!

ou12004 · Jun 9, 2012

Starting to get some diatoms and some red slime showing up. No idea how they dump in fish with no cycle on those TV shows.

ou12004 · Jun 12, 2012

Smokey and Barb, thanks. This tank has made the process pretty simple and my little helpers keep it interesting.

My daughter picked her first 3 corals that will go into this tank.

ou12004 · Jun 12, 2012

Here is a pic of the LEDs

ou12004 · Jun 15, 2012

Maybe I should have used more live rock and recycled water?

I don't think the Zoas my daughter picked out are going into tank anytime soon.

BarbH · Jun 28, 2012

Any updates on how things are going with the nano?

ou12004 · Jul 13, 2012

We haved added a tail spot Blenny who has not eaten in 3 weeks but is as fat as could be. We have tried to feed it flake food, pellets, brine, mysis, cylopeeze. I have stopped trying because it was just getting the tank dirty. Also we added a leather from the other tank that seems to be doing good.

Mike&Terry · Jul 14, 2012

ou12004 said:
We haved added a tail spot Blenny who has not eaten in 3 weeks but is as fat as could be. We have tried to feed it flake food, pellets, brine, mysis, cylopeeze. I have stopped trying because it was just getting the tank dirty. Also we added a leather from the other tank that seems to be doing good.

For the blenny, you may want to try a frozen marine algae preparation such as Hikari Mega Marine Algae. You can also soak a piece of nori in selcon and rubberband it to a rock for the blenny to graze on.
-M&T

revsgirl · Jul 14, 2012

Love the scoly!!

ou12004 · Jul 15, 2012

Thanks my daughter says it looks like a skull. We added 2 ORA kudu seahorses and a really nice Gorgonian. I have coral frenzy and roti feast do I need to feed the Gorgonian anything else?