Unreal Reef - 80 Gal Rimless Mixed

[aquaterra]

Current FTS. 9/30/2017

A background:
Started with a biocube 29.

It wasn’t enough room.

Started automating and upgraded to a 40B

Apex, dosing and awc! Everything was looking great, maricultured colonies were growing and showing color like non other. Then I signed a new lease....

Had to move apartments and set up this tank:

Set up and moved when it was single digits outside and snowing. I loss some coral in the cold (literally running with sps encrusted rock outside in the snow to tank in the new set up. With a few ups and downs everything started looking good recently during the summer; I think the system is finally mature again.

I made some trades and then recently changed lights to the current lights of leds only to mixed t5 and led and have seen awesome growth.

Display: 80 gal deep blue edge tank 4’x2’x16”
Sump: 40B sump local custom with large refugium/frag storage and 1x radions gen 2

Reactors: Gfo, Ats, calupera reactor with carbon

Skimmer: aquamaxx co1 with collection chamber and co2 scrubber inlet

Controller: Apex 2016

lights: 8xt5s dimmable sunpower ati 20-55% ramp
Channel 1 xxB+xxAxx 1-10pm
Channel 2 B+C+xB+C+xC+B+ 2-9pm
ReefBrite tech blue X2: 25% On dimmable controller
Par at top of water is ~425, fixture is about 12” off the surface


Flow: 1x jebao RW 8 50% On random flow
6x mp10wes
Return jebao dc6000 80% (flow varies 65to80% to mock tides and feeding, controlled with apex)

Dosing:
Kaomer 5x
Ch1-Waste tank water to drain - every even hour xx:15
Ch-2Clean saltwater - every even hour xx:30
Total = 10 gal change over 7 days about 10% total water volume
Ch3-alk added every hour at xx:30 to coincide with clean Sw
Ch4 - cal added every xx:45 to coincide with ato
Ch 5 - my added at 1 am every day

Jebao doser 1
Ch1- fritz bacteria (formerly amino acids) 8pm
Ch2- flatworm stop (helps acros be healthy I guess) 12am
Ch 3- Red Sea energy a - 3x a night
Ch 4- Red Sea energy b - 3 x a night

Jebao doser 2
Ch1 - Red Sea colors a - 1x week
Ch2 - Red Sea colors b - 1x a day
Ch3 - Red Sea colors c - 1x week
Ch4 - Red Sea colors d - 1x week

Brs doser: vinegar (from Walmart) 830pm (peak pH for me)

Ato: spectra pure uplc (amazing unit had it forever) everyhour xx:45 0tds water with kalk added in

Feeding: Neptune AFS: pellets 3pm, frozen food blend every day by me

Maintenance: fill ato storage with ro, fill fresh Sw storage maybe once a week.

 

[zachxlutz]

Beautiful tank! I look forward to following along.

 

[danschargers21]

Looks awesome!

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

Subbed! Can’t wait to dig in to this thread! Yaaaassss

 

[aquaterra]

I had some questions about the awc and I like pictures so here is the tract it takes...

Starts in the sump dipping down to a safe level in case it fails and ends up siphoning.

Had to drill through walls to get the tubing to the washer room.

And here it goes into the drain. It used to drain into a bucket that I had to manually empty when it started getting full but that was too much labor

Here’s the doser that does awc. My lfs owner got it specially delivered from the other side of the world. Kaomer 5x WiFi. It didn’t make it to the us from some reason but I like it. I feel like this can be achieved by any 2 pumps. (At one point I had a dos do it)

 

[d_adler]

What ats do you use? How does it run with the macro algae reactor? Does one out compete the other?

 

[aquaterra]

What ats do you use? How does it run with the macro algae reactor? Does one out compete the other?

The ats is a homemade one by my lfs owner. The macro reactor probably does compete with the ats but I usually test out at 0 no3 and 0 po4. I feed heavy daily both fish and coral to maintain coral colors.