Tim's 90 gallon cube tank

[Tmmste]

So I decided to share my tank here. I am from the Netherlands and in the hobby now for 3/4 years. I will add some pictures later.

Tank info (3rd tank)
- diamond cube tank
- maxspect razor 15k 180w
- around 440 liters
- sps primarely
- 75 x 75 x 75 cm
- herbie overflow pipe-in-pipe
- jecod dcp5000 return pump
- deltec sc1456 dc
- am multireactor m (diakat b & gac)
- single wp40 now (rw20 died, had 2x rw15 l too noisy, waiting for 2x qp-9)
- 3x floatswitch ato, topoff kalkwasser & vinegar mix
- blue treasure salt & grotech abcm every now and then
- refugium with cheato
- gooseneck e27 with 660nm/450nm 12w led growlight.
- 1x visiterm 200w heater, 1x jbl 150w heater
- temperature controller for the heaters

 

[jsker]

Thank you for sharing, I look forward to seeing the system.

 

[imustbenuts]

Pictures pictures pictures and a video or 2 as well.

 

[Tmmste]

Pictures pictures pictures and a video or 2 as well.

I have a video of my tank from half a year ago:

 

[Tmmste]

A few pictures:

 

[imustbenuts]

Looks nice! Pics of the sump? What are future plans for the system?

 

[Tmmste]

Looks nice! Pics of the sump? What are future plans for the system?

I will add those another day. My plan is to change the outflow soon, I ordered loc-line to vet this fixed, apart from that a back-up battery in case of emergency, change the mediareactor in the course of time. And probably continue with 2-part when I outgrow kalkwasser. Unfortunately I cannot find peristaltic pumps in the Netherlands like those from BRS. I know they are italian, but which brand I do not know. I tried jebao.. and also grotech dosingpumps. Unfortunately they corrode.

 

[Tmmste]

So, this is tbe sump. The blue thing on the left is the 30 liter kalkwaseer reservoir (12 teaspoons calciumhydroxide / 180ml vinegar / 30l rodi).
Behind it the skimmer, media reactor and return pump.

On the right side the herbie, and I trimmed the cheato back to 1/4 of what it was. I still have some racemosa on a rock that I sometimes give as food. And a bit of taxiflora that struggles to survive.

 

[imustbenuts]

Looking good!

 

[Tmmste]

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Looking good!

 

[Tmmste]

Yesterday I rescaped the tank (everything was held together by tiewraps). Now everything is cemented together with stonefix.

Before:

 

[imustbenuts]

I like it. How did the fish like you messing up their house?

 

[Tmmste]

I like it. How did the fish like you messing up their house?

They are all doing fine fortunately. So far I only lost 1 nice sps frag, all other corals are good. Waterquality has been affected a bit as the rocks have been out in the open for 4 hours. So there is some die off.
In 5 days:

No3 0.25 to 1
Po4 0.03 to 0.06

 

[Tmmste]

Time for a small update; tank is doing great. Running on ATS only for some time now and I am finetuning my 2-part to my tank demands. A few days ago I tested Sr / B / I / K for the first time. I neglected waterchanges for a year or so, I maybe did a 5% change a few times, that it about it. Testresults;
Sr 0
K 340
B 3
I 0.01

So I am correcting these values at the moment and still experimenting with Fe-EDDHA & Mn-EDTA. Tank is doing well, here feeding the fish some algea which I flushed from the scrubber... I do not like to clean stuff so I'll just losen it a bit and let waterflow do the rest.

 

[Tmmste]

Update

I switched from the maxspect razors to a kessil AP700. The algae scrubber has been working a bit less efficient due to a design error. Will be fixed soon. However, aiptasia and valonia are growing out of controll due to the high nutrients.