New Baby Reef Build

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 5, 2019

I ordered a seneye reef monitor on Friday that should be in on Monday so I can dial in my lights. Definitely looking forward to trying that out. I’ll have to see if I can make a video of it and post it

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 7, 2019

Oh boy!! Got a few new toys, lol

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 9, 2019

Well the par is definitely there on the reef breeders led fixture, lol. I tweaked the power levels a little to get the par where it needs to be so I can make this a little nano sps dominant tank. The downside to having a pretty shallow tank is that there isn’t much difference in par from the top of the rock work down to the sand bed. I’m a little nervous about cooking lower light corals that I want to start with until my tank matures and I can load it up with sps but I suppose I could always turn the lights down a bit until that time comes

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 10, 2019

My orange storm clowns showed up today. I am super pumped to finally have something in the tank other than snails, lol

KYLECT · Oct 10, 2019

When your ready for corals let me know, lol!

Kyle

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 10, 2019

KYLECT said:
When your ready for corals let me know, lol!

Kyle

Lol will do

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 13, 2019

So this is very maddening! Not sure what happened last night but during the night one of my clowns disappeared. I wish I could fit a screen top on my tank but between the hob filters and the legs on my light fitting on top of my tank I can’t have a screen cover and access the tank without being a massive pain

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 17, 2019

So I’m assuming this is from using dry rock and I’m hoping this crap disappears on its own and doesn’t get any worse. Dinos are the worst!!!!!

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 30, 2019

Ok so I don’t think I had dinos, I believe it was just a diatom bloom which disappeared within 2 days thankfully. And I picked up some nice stuff at fragtoberfest. I picked up 3 zoa frags (utter chaos, fruit loops, and a no namer), a hammer frag, a frag of dendros, an acan frag, a gorgeous rainbow bta, and a tester sps frag which is still looking great after about 5 days. Fingers crossed that I can keep up my good luck

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 30, 2019

Made a video of my tank. Let me know what you think

kgstei · Oct 31, 2019

Sucks about the clown. Maybe a screen top what the heck cutouts at the rear corners for equiptment so that it slides in from the front of the tank. Nice rockwork. Thanks for sharing.

Bubbabobobbrain · Oct 31, 2019

kgstei said:
Sucks about the clown. Maybe a screen top what the heck cutouts at the rear corners for equiptment so that it slides in from the front of the tank. Nice rockwork. Thanks for sharing.

If I end up hanging the light I will make a 2 piece screen top with 1 piece being for the hob filters with cutouts for the intank stuff and a second piece that can be easily removed. Right now with the light bracket sitting on the tank I can’t really make an easily removable top for it because the light brackets cradle the whole top of the tank. Kind of a pain in the butt but for now it is what it is I guess right, lol

chevy4w · Oct 31, 2019

Looking good...nice rock work. I'm glad you don't have to deal with dinos. On my first set up several years ago I had them and it was a challenge to get rid of them. I did but almost threw in the towel over that crap!! So far with my new set up all is dino-free!
Sorry to hear about your clown going awol. I recently put a yellow eye tang in the tank and it was doing well for 2 weeks. Then one morning I don't see it with the rest of the fish. Upon lifting some rock work I found it wedged between the sandbed and a rock. I literally had to pull it out from under the rock, it was really wedged!?? Strange things do happen in reef tanks!
Looks like you had fun at Fragtoberfest!! So did I brother!

Bubbabobobbrain · Nov 1, 2019

chevy4w said:
Looking good...nice rock work. I'm glad you don't have to deal with dinos. On my first set up several years ago I had them and it was a challenge to get rid of them. I did but almost threw in the towel over that crap!! So far with my new set up all is dino-free!
Sorry to hear about your clown going awol. I recently put a yellow eye tang in the tank and it was doing well for 2 weeks. Then one morning I don't see it with the rest of the fish. Upon lifting some rock work I found it wedged between the sandbed and a rock. I literally had to pull it out from under the rock, it was really wedged!?? Strange things do happen in reef tanks!
Looks like you had fun at Fragtoberfest!! So did I brother!

Yup I definitely had fun while I was there. I didn’t get to stay very long because I had afternoon plans but I’m happy with what I picked up while I was there. And yes , dinos are a nightmare for sure. I tore my last tank down because of them. I think the difference this time around for me was seeding the tank with lots of pods. I read that starting a tank with dry rock will need seeding of pods because they’re actually the thing that fights off the crap in the beginning of the cycle and so far it has been pretty good since adding pods this time

Bubbabobobbrain · Nov 17, 2019

Shot a little time lapse video after feeding with reef roids. Video quality isn’t great. Apparently my iPhone makes time lapse videos in 480 but it still came out pretty cool I think