progress over a year

[rhcpnut1]

it is greatly appreciated to hear the kind words from you guys and it was a fighter and now it's a beautiful neon green and in one the photos i had also received a nice size hystrix colony and it was nearly dead too till i had fragged it and mounted it all to a rock and some discs

 

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i have since modified the stand a few days ago to be able to hold my 75 instead of a 40 breeder, but ill get into that later. The first few photos were of a 10 I had setup a year ago exactly as i was back from basic and moved into my first home with my wife and need to revive my love for the hobby so i had a few pieces of rock from an earlier setup that had not gone over so well and was full of phosphates. so i pretty much had a gha forest.

 

[rhcpnut1]

the 10 evolved into a 29 for the past 10 months and ive been refining and perfecting what works for me biweekly to monthly wc at about 50%. I have an aqua c remora fed by a mj 1200 cleaned out every few days as i skimmer a bit wetter. i also run a cheap 10 gallon hob for carbon which i use alot of too. i had a tlf reactor setup but i havent had the money to invest in new media for some time. I also run a koralia nano 425, a mj 900 and 1200 on the more powerful of the 2 versions. about 3 inches of sand and i couldnt guess how much rock my cuc is a 40 gallon package from Reefcleaners and i also have a crazy amount of asterina and micro brittles who regularly breed in the tank. I for a while had a problem amphipods eating my zoas but that had subsided once they at all the eyelashes off the one colony. I have a few different kinds of hermit crabs too. sorry for being a wind bag.

 

[rhcpnut1]

As for coral I currently have as follows.
green slimer
purple stylo
pink birdsnest
gold turbinaria
blue acro
green digi
red monti
couple zoa colonys
couple fuzzy mushrooms that regularly split off
the pulsing scourge
galaxea
couple of frogspawn varieties
duncan
rock flower anenome
cabbage leather
forgetting the kind of urchin lol

 

[rhcpnut1]

lol i wish it woulda been something neat no one has seen but alas its not:bigsmile:

 

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Questions comment or concerns lol. but anyways as for future plans i just modified my stand to accept the 75 instead of the 40 and ill just use it as a sump lol my wifes going to love me alot. Ill also need to support the trailers joist so i building a foundation underneath the trailer and using pavers as a base then cinder blocks then 4x4 pressed up with a jack to make sure there wedge between the joists and cinders

 

[skinz78]

It all looks great, keep the updates coming!

 

[rhcpnut1]

will do skinz but itll be a few more pay checks till i get some more things shipped to me equipment wise but plans are an external hybrid overflow beananimal style drain split to an algae turf scrubber and the rest of the sump. plan was to get a bubble magus off of fish street as that seems to be cheapest i can find a skimmer. i have a mag 9.5 pump on the way and still trying to think of the rest of the equipment. in tank flow probably going to be a wp 40 and ill be custom building an evil cluster light designed by evil66 and jedimasterben not sure if theyre here but im also on nanoreef and thats where i saw it

 

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Should be just about to finish everything up tommorow i have my 40 breeder sump finished im putting one more coat of paint on and putting the doors on. im dremmling some trim plastic some my bulkhead nuts fits better and finishing my plumbing so i pretty much have a full day ahead of me plus i gotta go run for water and more salt

 

[rhcpnut1]

Here's an update

 

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Another one I'm so close I just gotta finish up my plumbing tomorrow mix up the salt and drill a return line hole in the stand plywood and I can't remember what else

 

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Plumbing is done just gotta do a small water test

 

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Some pics of the plumbing from last night

 

[Zero Nitrates]

Nice tank! Cool stand!