PolypPal's Ultra-Custom 68g Acrylic AIO

[polyppal]

Very groovy scape. How expensive is that rock? I hear it is pretty light/porus - is that true?

Yeah it’s expensive (like 14-15$lb) but surprisingly light. I ordered some of the pukani-clone rock for my Zoa tank (18lb) and got so many huge pieces I am going to put that rockwork in this tank and some of the Tonga in my nano

I’ll have an update about working with it soon but very impressed with all the tropic eden rock

 

[polyppal]

Got my hands on some Tropic Eden Morroca shelf rock that I like even more than the Tonga. Made a large sculpture from about 18lbs of it with dowels and E-Marco 400. Because all of the shelfs are forward, it was very unbalanced and I had to incorporate a cement base/pylon to make it stable.



Gonna let it dry a few days and soak in some RO water before I put it in the tank, but I think the fish will love the additional shade that's missing with the Tonga

 

[polyppal]

Put the new Rockwork in the tank today after an overnight cure/soak in some RODI. The fish already seem much happier with all the additional shade and hiding spots.

 

[RBarth]

Looks GREAT man!

 

[polyppal]

This guy seems content to live on top of the powerhead, after taking him off about 10x ive capitulated and let him stay


Spotbreast exploring his new Rockwork

 

[polyppal]

Looks GREAT man!

Thank you!

 

[TheWB]

This guy seems content to live on top of the powerhead, after taking him off about 10x ive capitulated and let him stay


Spotbreast exploring his new Rockwork

Very nice, love the new scape and that Angel. I’m hoping to get a mated pair when I upgrade. Coulda bought a female last week but my tank is just too small. It was hard to not come home with that fish though.

 

[polyppal]

Very nice, love the new scape and that Angel. I’m hoping to get a mated pair when I upgrade. Coulda bought a female last week but my tank is just too small. It was hard to not come home with that fish though.

I wish I’d had got a mated pair from the start, now I’m trying to find a female haha

love the fish and his personality though, very dog-like, follows me around the tank hoping for food…

 

[TheWB]

I wish I’d had got a mated pair from the start, now I’m trying to find a female haha

love the fish and his personality though, very dog-like, follows me around the tank hoping for food…

We’ll, I know where you can find a nice female for the low low price of only $114 plus another $70 for shipping. Quite the deal lol. Actually I think that’s a pretty good price for that fish if the shipping wasn’t so much. I wish my fish followed me when I come into the room. Mine are all pretty skittish when you approach the tank. You’d think they’d be over that by now, I’ve had some of them for 2 1/2 years.

 

[Gobyboy]

Where did you get your tank from?
Also did the stand come with or did you build it?

 

[polyppal]

Where did you get your tank from?
Also did the stand come with or did you build it?

The tank is a custom build I had done by Advanced Acrylics. They have some nano tanks that are similar, I just had John do one with my larger dimensions and a larger rear chamber

advancedacrylics.com

I built the stand with 3030 T-Slot from zyltech.com

 

[polyppal]

Added some frags to the tank this weekend, everything stable and happy!

 

[polyppal]

Got a massive order from @A Reef Creation yesterday and am very impressed with the company. Frags were packaged extremely well! Everything went into the frag tank overnight, and I mounted up some things this morning. The various zoas went into my smaller zoa garden tank.

 

[polyppal]

Some phone shots of mounted frags. Think im done spending $$$ for now, time for a few months of sitting back and watching the grow out!

 

[polyppal]

I felt the left side of the structure felt a little unfinished, so I got one more small shelf of rock and affixed it to the left side. It was a nightmare, the Emarco failed and cracked after getting it back in the tank, so I fused it together with globs of super glue and it seems to be holding stable...

Not much light reaches under the rock, ill probably end up putting something like a NPS Sun Coral back there eventually

 

[polyppal]

Added some more colonies to the tank, a XL frogspawn, XL Toxic Hammer, Blasto colony, and a few frags I picked up today at Reefstock (4 gonis and a gold hammer)

 

[polyppal]

Favia rock, I might have room for one more frag on the rock if they play nicely

 

[polyppal]

Had to move the Raja to the sandbed when I walked by the tank after lights out and saw its 6-8" sweepers! An emerald crab has made its home under its folds, pretty cool.

 

[polyppal]

after the 3d time finding a clownfish on the floor, I figured it was time to get a proper lid made. Now that it has a lid, a wrasse prob isn’t far off.

 

[polyppal]

Some major updates to the tank... Had to move it to another location, so while I was at it, I did a major retrofit on the tank to fix some issues with filtration (and buff out a big scratch I put in the interior with a rock)



I was using loose polyfil in the first chamber at the start, which worked horribly. So I built an acrylic chamber that will hold a filter sock (reef diapers). Also put some holes in the same piece to accommodate my primary and backup heaters.



The holes in the back of the tank are for the 1/2" murlok lines of my reactors to feed through. After testing bio pellets over the last several months, I am a big fan now! Instead of 3 separate reactors under the tank, I rebuilt them into a 3-stage reactor that runs 1)Biopellets 2)Gfo 3)Carbon. So far so good...

The setup is working great thus far, and has also drastically reduced noise!