tnyr5
Tony
Tank is a 32 x 30 x 22 rimless cube built by...me
. I just recently re-populated the tank after a bad mishap, so I'm a bit low on fish at the moment ( more on that later). as it is today :
-roughly 80 gal tank with a false back wall for an overflow ( think bio cube, but with a drain!)
-20 gallon sump
-20 gallon refugium containing a large maxi-mini carpet population (for propagating purposes) and a pile of fast-growing Chaetomorpha
-blueline hd 40 return pump
-mrc calcium reactor
-bubble magus NAC6C skimmer
-about 1/2 cup of carbon run through a phosban reactor
-bi weekly 25 gallon water changes
-lit by a pair of custom LED arrays
As you can see, I prefer a minimalist aquascape. I pested my lfs to order in a whole new batch of rock just so I could pick through it lol. The Idea was always to have several shelves arranged in tiers with a small bommie off to the side. I tried to arrange the rocks following the principles of the golden section as much as possible.
As I mentioned earlier this tank went through a mishap. About half a year ago, I returned home from a frag swap to find my sps dominated tank to be a milky white. On closer inspection it turned out that the blueline pump had randomly stopped working on an unseasonably cold night. Apparently the circuit breaker "fooled" the 1 month old pump into thinking it had overheated and it shut off. All the heaters were in the sump. I turned the pump back on and it's run flawlessly ever since. Here's a couple pics before the incident
