Polyp Addict's 45g Cadlights Shallow Build

knukles55 · Jan 11, 2016

i love the fact that you built those guys a home love the idea thats a nice touch

Polyp Addict · Jan 14, 2016

Thanks everyone! I hate coming home to a fish jerky, with the tank being so shallow I decided to get an acrylic top made. Couldn't be happier, now I can add fish without worrying about them carpet surfing while I'm at work.

Polyp Addict · Jan 14, 2016

ReefingWhiteford said:
I can't wait to see this tank fully grown! When are you going to start adding sps corals and fish?

Hopefully within next month I should be adding corals slowly. I do have 2 chalices, 2 disc of zoas and RBTA in the tank at the moment

revhtree · Jan 15, 2016

Nice!

Salty1962 · Jan 15, 2016

Very nice! I have the CadLights 70G Artisan II and I'm really enjoying it.

Polyp Addict · Jan 17, 2016

I've decided to free my 2 bta's from the specimen container. I placed one in the tank and I've been reading that how to keep nem's from moving around. I really don't have any corals in the tank right now so if it does decided to move hopefully it'll stick to that place. What I read was, place some rock around where you hope the nem will stay, then put a net over the nem for a few days to "force" it to stay there. Wish me luck! I placed the other nem in my fuge to add more color down there. Only have chaeto growing there for now. Any one else have ideas how to keep nems from moving around?

Lonely reefer's · Jan 17, 2016

IMO
You needed rocks that similar to this so the anemone will attached it foot deep down & It won't move.Away from high flow area

Polyp Addict · Jan 31, 2016

Haven't posted much, nothing going on just going through the cycling process. I did purchase some beautiful macro algae, hoping to get good growth in my fuge.

My chaeto was the first macro added a few weeks back, was only a golf ball size when purchased, now it's up to a softball!

knukles55 · Jan 31, 2016

Wow that's a clean sump

glweek · Jan 31, 2016

Tagging along. Loooove the dimensions of that tank!

Polyp Addict · Feb 22, 2016

It's been a while since I've updated. I just recently switch from the kessils to an ATI Sunpower fixture. Very happy with it, I felt like I've always gotten better results with T5's. I know my corals are happy. Lots of coralline algae growing now on my macro rock, I'll be adding SPS fairly shortly.