German 12 gal reef

justjosh012 · Aug 28, 2013

after moving from colorado to germany and parting ways with my 9 gal reef, i decided i needed another one.
equipment:
12 gallon tank
8 gallon sump
2x eheim actinic and daylight LED lights
aqua medic return pump from sump (not sure about gph)
eheim circulation pump
75w heater
wierd little skimmer i found in a LFS

i plan on an LPS dominant setup with a clam or two, and am not even thinking about fish yet.
anyway here are some pics

eliramos · Aug 28, 2013

love the scape!!!!

nater · Aug 28, 2013

looks awesome! nice and clean. i was just in germany end of last month. what part did you move too?

justjosh012 · Aug 28, 2013

nater said:
looks awesome! nice and clean. i was just in germany end of last month. what part did you move too?

a tiny village in Thuringen (east Germany) named Seeba

justjosh012 · Aug 28, 2013

eliramos said:
love the scape!!!!

thanks!

justjosh012 · Aug 31, 2013

I recently discovered the tank was labeled wrong at the store.. its closer to 15 gallons instead of 12. with the extra 3 gallons i plan on making it a tang only tank.

justjosh012 · Sep 27, 2013

Next week i will be ordering 4 to 6 tryssogobius colini. These are super cool and quite hard to find in the states. If anyone has first hand experience with them i would like to hear about it. Thanks!

cpt · Sep 27, 2013

right on didn't take you long at all, is any of that stock from Germany area

justjosh012 said:
after moving from colorado to germany and parting ways with my 9 gal reef, i decided i needed another one.
equipment:
12 gallon tank
8 gallon sump
2x eheim actinic and daylight LED lights
aqua medic return pump from sump (not sure about gph)
eheim circulation pump
75w heater
wierd little skimmer i found in a LFS

i plan on an LPS dominant setup with a clam or two, and am not even thinking about fish yet.
anyway here are some pics

justjosh012 · Sep 27, 2013

Bought everything new here... tank is made in poland i think, sloppy silicone job but as long as it holds the glass together i cant complain too much.

cpt · Oct 29, 2013

hey when you gonna put something in it? its been a few weeks

revhtree · Oct 29, 2013

I'm digging it!

shovelrider · Oct 29, 2013

Very clean looking! Any more pics?

justjosh012 · Nov 6, 2013

I will post more pics as soon as i get the last of my fish in. I picked up a tank of the same size and drilled it, but caused another mini cycle when i moved things over, costing me most of my CUC. the only things in it as of now are a purple and yellow cup coral, some zoas, green trachyphillia and branching hammers, along with my lone surviving cleaner shrimp and a yellow canary wrasse. Ive got a citroen goby, neon goby ,tanaka possum wrasse and the only trysogobius colini i could get my hands on in the mail though! really stoked about the mini dartfish.

cpt · Nov 7, 2013

Most excellent I approve, I have wanted a possum wrasse for the longest time, oh well one day maybe, cant wait do it up

justjosh012 · Nov 7, 2013

They wont order you one at MT?

cpt · Nov 7, 2013

im sure they will, im just cheap. I think I am going to try and get the bicolor dottyback out of there and then I will play with a few other options

ShippD · Nov 7, 2013

Love it nice and clean

justjosh012 · Nov 8, 2013

well... my first online fish purchase in germany was a bit of a disappointment. No colini, no neon goby, possum wrasse is not tanaka but the other one, which doesnt bother me in the slightest, and an un-explicable true perc clown. Im not sure if my citroen goby will make it, he was in pretty rough shape in the bag, fins all tattered and very heavy breathing