ReefWeeds: Multiple Tanks, one thread

ReefWeeds · Feb 19, 2016

Hi all,
I figured I'd start a tank thread here. I'm new/not very active on this forum, but have found some great information here.

Start date: 11/4/2015

Equipment:

Tank: SCA 66 PNP

Lighting: ATI Nanobox Retro - 4 Nanobox Arrays and currently running the following T5 bulbs: 1 Geismann 6500K, 1 Fiji Purple, 1 Blue+ and one Coral+, Fuge light TBD but something cheap

Fuge Light: Coral Compulsion Par30 grow bulb
Circulation: MP40
SCA 302 Skimmer
Sicce Syncra 2.0
2 IM Desktop Minimax reactors
Finnex 500w analog heater

Livestock:
Current:
Two DaVinci Clowns - Vit and Mona from my biocube
Two hybrid gobies, Foby (Fat Goby) and Skoby (skinny goby) from my biocube
Midas Blenny - Bert
Two Bangaii cardinals
3 green chromis
Three anemone porcelain crabs
1 scarlet hermit
Two skunk cleaner shrimp
2 fighting conchs - Sparky and Spanky
1 Hawaiian feather duster
Various snails - banded trochus, astrea, nerite, virgin nerite, dwarf cerith, dwarf plan axis
Rock flower anemones and RFA babies

Coral:
Various softies - Yellow Fiji leather, toadstool leathers, spaghetti leathers, clove polyps, cespitularia, polyps, etc.
Various LPS: cynarina, blastos, acans, favia, leptastrea, etc.
Some SPS: monti caps, spongodes, encrusters like cyphastrea, etc.
Gorgonians and sponges

Some photos:

Fiji Leather:

Rock flower anemones and porcelain crabs:

Rock Flower anemones:

Bert the Blenny

Season's Greetings Monti:

The clowns in their toadstool:

Cabbage leather:

kschweer · Feb 20, 2016

Welcome! Awesome anemones!

Chrisfish · Feb 20, 2016

Welcome, beautiful tank!

ReefWeeds · Feb 26, 2016

Thank you both!!!

steelheader.262 · Feb 26, 2016

Welcome, looks great!!!

ReefWeeds · Feb 26, 2016

Thank you

i'm still getting the hang of R2R

Jimbo662 · Feb 26, 2016

How many rock flowers do you have? I've just started collecting them.

ReefWeeds · Feb 26, 2016

Jimbo662 said:
How many rock flowers do you have? I've just started collecting them.

Probably too many

I have around 36 in the tank plus 5 babies that I can see. I absolutely love them!

Jimbo662 · Feb 26, 2016

WOW...I've been soooo tempted to get some of the high end ones but figured I needed to make sure the 9 that I have thrive in my tank first.

ReefWeeds · Feb 26, 2016

I actually have only bought one that cost over $40! It was a pink and green one from VIP Reef. They have some awesome deals - regularly have $20 nems in stock now that look awesome and bright. I highly recommend those guys. The quality is awesome.

I may or may not have an RFA addiction

Jimbo662 · Feb 26, 2016

I'll check them out. I got home and found one about 4" up on the glass!

ReefWeeds · Feb 26, 2016

a bunch of mine have moved to some of the tonga branches in my tank. They crack me up. Although I do notice the LPS in my tank will pack a sting on the poor RFAs.

ReefWeeds · May 4, 2016

I haven't posted updates in a bit! The tank is now 6 months old

I attempted to do a video for the 6 month mark:

And here are some more recent photos!

pickupman66 · May 5, 2016

Rachel, Great looking SCA66. Glad to see another making great use of one. They have a great dimension. your tank loooks fantastic. Keep up the good work. Tell us more about your sump and other equipment. I see that you are also running the SCA-302 skimmer. they are quite good. I have not had any issued with mine at all.

ReefWeeds · May 6, 2016

pickupman66 said:
Rachel, Great looking SCA66. Glad to see another making great use of one. They have a great dimension. your tank loooks fantastic. Keep up the good work. Tell us more about your sump and other equipment. I see that you are also running the SCA-302 skimmer. they are quite good. I have not had any issued with mine at all.

thank you!! Yeah, I really do like the dimensions! I'm running two minimax desktop reactors - one with carbon and one with Two Little Fishies bioplastics in the skimmer chamber. I feed heavy so the bioplastics help with nitrate control and the carbon helps (or hopefully) with the leather toxins since I have quite a few leathers in the tank. My fuge at the moment is overflowing! I have a coral compulsion par bulb over the fuge. I need to trim some algae i'm thinking

Photo taken during the last water change

I have some stereonepthia and NPS gorgs in there as well, so I'm feeding a cube of frozen cyclops in the AM before lights start to ramp, some filer feeder stuff 1 or 2 times during the day (reef roids, phyto, etc.) and then a cube of frozen at night. So definitely heavy feeding. I've been able to keep nitrates between 5-8 and phosphates typically sit around .03, although they crept up last week a bit.

cotoner · Jun 8, 2016

Hi! Great looking tank. Can you share your lighting, intensity and ramp schedule? I also have an ATI hybrid and am curious as to your led and t5 program. Thanks!!

revhtree · Jun 8, 2016

Looks great!

ReefWeeds · Jun 9, 2016

cotoner said:
Hi! Great looking tank. Can you share your lighting, intensity and ramp schedule? I also have an ATI hybrid and am curious as to your led and t5 program. Thanks!!

Thank you! Sure thing! So here's what I'm running:

ATI 24x6, two middle bulbs removed for LED pucks. 4 bulbs remaining are one B+, one coral +, one Fiji purple and one Geissman 6500K. The T5s go on at noon and off at 4. The LEDs start ramping up at 10 AM and start ramping down at 8 PM. The blues are at 80% intensity on the LEDs during peak photo period (12PM - 4 PM I believe) and whites/greens/violet are at about 60%. In the evening hours, I run the blues at 65% intensity and the other channels at about 15% moonlight is kept at 3% or lower.

Hopefully that helps!!