Chris' Cadlights 45g Shallow

cnseekatz

Well-Known Member
View Badges
Joined
Dec 15, 2014
Messages
544
Reaction score
700
Location
Newport Beach, CA
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
Hey R2R, I've been running a 45g shallow Cadlights tank at home since the end of July in 2015.

I had the tank set up and humming on all cylinders at my office, when the controller for my MP 10 came off its mount and fell into the sump. I came in that next morning to a total system crash. I lost everything except a couple of (bad-butt) fish and some of the bigger zoanthid colonies.

Since then, I set up the tank at home, replaced & upgraded some equipment, and slowly refilled the tank.

Tank: 45g CAD Lights Shallow - 36"x24"x12" - Starfire on the front and sides
Sump: 30g - 3 Chambers w/ about 50% dedicated as a Refugium
Lighting: Ecotech Radion XR30W Pro - Tank mounted with RMS
Flow: Vortech MP 10 - On Reef Crest Mode
Heat: Eheim 200w
Skimmer: Vertex Omega 130

20151110_173508_zpsdeahadq4.jpg
 
Livestock

Zoanthids & Palys
I've got a lot of Z's & P's in my tank. They are some of the only things that survived my tank crash, and I have a soft spot for them (as you can see)!
- Utter Chaos - Fire & Ice - Goblin's Fire - Red Hornets - Blue Hornets - BBEB - Rastas - Candy Apple Reds - Rainbow Incinerators - Bloodshots - Hallucinations - Fruit Loops - Eagle Eyes - Radioactive Dragon Eyes - Pink Hallucinations - Space Monsters - ETC.

Softies & LPS
Rainbow BTA - Green Torch - Purple Torch - Branching Hammer -Various types of Acans - Orange Crush Acan Echinata - Orange Fungia - Blue Maxi Minis - Various mushrooms & ricordias - Acid Rain BTA

Clam
1 x Blue Tahitian Maxima

SPS
Sunset Mille - 2 Random Pink Milles - Green Slimer - Myagi Tort - Oregon Tort - Orange Setosa - Tyree Pink Lemonade - RR Yellow Jacket - Purple Stylo - Pink/Green Poci - Blue/Green Tenius - ORA Pearlberry - Season's Greetings Monti Cap - Idaho Grape Monti Cap

Fish
2 x Black Ocellaris Clowns (about 2.5 years old)
1 x Potter's Leopard Wrasse (M. Goeffroyri)
1 x Blue Star Leopard Wraase (M. Bipartitus)
1 x Azure Damsel

Inverts
Random assortment of snails, hermits, conches
2 x Emerald Crab
1 x Sand Sifting Star
2 x Lettuce Nudibranch
3 x Peppermint Shrimp

Refugium

Shallow sandbed with small pieces of liverock
Pulsing Xenia
Chaetomorpha Macro
Dragon's Breath Macro (Halymenia)
Lots and lots of pods, brittle stars, bristle worms, and stomatella snails
 
Last edited:
Awesome tank! Waiting to set up my new Red Sea reefer!(:
 
New addition! She's resting comfortably in her little isolation box. Not terribly interested in frozen mysis, but picking pods out of the chaeto I stuck in there.

20160111_172022_zpsuufyw73h.jpg
'
 
Beautiful fish!
 
Welcome, beautiful tank and your pictures are awesome. Hope to see more.
 

IF YOU HAD TO TAKE A REEFING EXAM, WOULD YOU PASS?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 32 45.7%
  • Not yet, but I have one that I want to buy in mind!

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • No.

    Votes: 26 37.1%
  • Other (please explain).

    Votes: 3 4.3%
Back
Top