Torch Garden

[RSNJReef]

So got some new frag mounts in and moved everything around:

No Filter:

Yellow Filter:

Orange Filter:

Both Orange and Yellow Filter:

Almost complete I think.

 

[Doctorgori]

looks good, any details?

 

[RSNJReef]

Well, it’s a 90 gallon bare bottom Aqueon corner with a 20 gallon sump (fleece roller, skimmer, carbon in a phosban reactor, and return) + 10 gallon biological media tank (2 8x8x4 bricks of marine pure). Also running 2 mp40s at top center on the sides, 2 mp10s at the lower front on the sides, and two jebao sdw 9s in the bottom back to remove any detritus from behind that center rock. That setup keeps the detritus off the floor except for under the rocks.

I’ve also set up the tank so I can do a 5 gallon water change in about 15 mun from start to finish, so I do a 5 gallon water change every day first thing when I get home from work.

Fish load is relatively light right now, purple tang, bristle tooth tang, three sunshine chromis, two Talbot damsels, one blue assessor, and 2 mollies.

That’s all I can think of for now, pretty tired, lol.

 

[CasperOe]

That's a good looking tank you got going on there, its quite care to see one of these curved corner tanks as a reef tank.

Was it bought with a sump or did you drill it yourself?

 

[RSNJReef]

The tank itself came reef ready (already drilled with an overflow), and also came with the stand. For the sump area, it’s a 20 gallon long at the front with a standard 10 gallon behind it but elevated (on a small diy stand to raise it up slightly above the 20 gallon so I can access it as well as it also now having a return line back to the fleece roller area.

In the first pic you can see the 20 gallon in front, which has the fleece roller (I removed the automatic roller because I typically get baby snails in there and it jams the roller, so I manually roll it once a day or every other day and clean out any snails if I feel any resistance when pulling), the protein skimmer (an rsk-300 with an upgraded sicce dc protein skimmer pump), and then the return chamber:

It’s difficult to see behind the 20 gallon but the 10 gallon has only the marine pure blocks in there, and, my return pump has a split line where 50% of the water goes to the tank and 50% of the water goes to the 10 gallon, and as the water passes through the 10 gallon it then dumps back into the inlet area of the 20 gallon. In the pic below you can see the return from the 10 gallon dumping back into the 20 gallon:

 

[kevgib67]

Very unique setup. Stunning to the eyes and appears to be designed for very low maintenance. Well done.

 

[RSNJReef]

Thanks Casper and Kev. It’s a labor of love I admit to get it here, but now most of the work is just cleaning the skimmer and water changes. Not really much else. Believe or not with the tank pics above I haven’t even cleaned the glass in 2 months, lol (this seemed to start after I started feeding benepellet, the pellet form of benereef, that stuff is amazing).

 

[SamsReef]

Looks pretty nice Rishi. Your torches really extends loooong

 

[RSNJReef]

Thanks Sam!!!!

Yeah, ever since I started doing the intermittent high, indirect flow thing, they all changed so dramatically (for good and bad though, they’ll sting the heck out of anything they can reach that’s not a torch).