Velcro
2500 Club Member
Well I finally am happy enough with my growth and color to make a tank thread. I have been in the hobby about 3 years and this is my third tank. I started out with all of the easy beginner corals like zoas and LPS. I really like to challenge myself in hobbies so I dove into SPS probably almost 2 years ago. What a learning curve it has been, not to mention I was cursed with dinoflagellates in my previous tank as well as this one up until a couple months ago.
This is my 93 gallon rimless cube. It is SPS dominant but I’m starting to add some select zoanthids and LPS that can handle the flow. It’s definitely getting to the point where it will be very crowded both from a fish and coral standpoint as this stuff grows. The hippo still has a good year or two before he’ll be too big from what I understand about their growth rate at which time I will rehome him or better yet move up to a larger tank.
As previously mentioned, I’ve been dealing with dinos in this tank on and off since I transferred some coral from my previous tank to this one. They certainly seem to travel in the SPS themselves because I used no rock or plugs from the previous tank and these went through several blackouts in a separate holding tank. As a last ditch effort, I decided to try an oversized UV with very slow flow and voila, 48 hours the ostreopsis were gone and continue to be for going on a couple months. Others have shared my success after I posted about it so I think it’s a great way to go for certain species Dinos. I currently have no plan to remove the UV and may upgrade to a legit unit with a wiper in the future. Added benefit of this is crystal clear water and I’m sure it can’t hurt with fish parasites.
(Please excuse my rig for my UV. Still trying to find time to plumb behind tank)
Equipment:
Marineland 93 gallon rimless cube (30x30x24)
Octoaquatics acrylic screen top
Ecotech MP40QD (x2)
Tunze 6045 Turbelle nanostream (x1)
Reefbreeder photon V2 24” (x2)
Trigger ruby cube sump
Lifereef VS2-24, 22 1/2" tall with Jebao DCT 6000 pump
DIY CO2 scrubber
Avast k1 kalk stirrer (fed by Avast peristalic pump)
Eheim 1262 return
Jebao 55watt pond UV sterilizer
Apex Gold
Parameters:
SG: 1.026
pH: 8.0-8.2
Alk: 7.6 dHK
Ca: 420ppm
Mg: 1600ppm (high in current salt batch)
K: 400ppm
NO3: 12ppm
PO4: 0.03ppm
Fish:
Hippo tang
Kole tang
Wyoming white clown
Blue star leopard
Ornate leopard
Melanarus wrasse
Midas blenny
Coral (that I can think of):
JF fox flame
SC orange passion
RR the vinh
PC rainbow
PC sunset
PC superman
Brad’s del fuego
BC Fleshdunce milli
BC battlestag
ATL shades of fall
BC twilight dragon
Myagi tort
Tyree lime in the sky
Red planet
BC bleeding tree albro
JF jack o lantern lepto
CC Goldfinger Torch
Sunny D palythoa
Red people eater palythoa
I’ll continue to update this thread with pictures but here are some to get things going:
This is my 93 gallon rimless cube. It is SPS dominant but I’m starting to add some select zoanthids and LPS that can handle the flow. It’s definitely getting to the point where it will be very crowded both from a fish and coral standpoint as this stuff grows. The hippo still has a good year or two before he’ll be too big from what I understand about their growth rate at which time I will rehome him or better yet move up to a larger tank.
As previously mentioned, I’ve been dealing with dinos in this tank on and off since I transferred some coral from my previous tank to this one. They certainly seem to travel in the SPS themselves because I used no rock or plugs from the previous tank and these went through several blackouts in a separate holding tank. As a last ditch effort, I decided to try an oversized UV with very slow flow and voila, 48 hours the ostreopsis were gone and continue to be for going on a couple months. Others have shared my success after I posted about it so I think it’s a great way to go for certain species Dinos. I currently have no plan to remove the UV and may upgrade to a legit unit with a wiper in the future. Added benefit of this is crystal clear water and I’m sure it can’t hurt with fish parasites.
(Please excuse my rig for my UV. Still trying to find time to plumb behind tank)
Equipment:
Marineland 93 gallon rimless cube (30x30x24)
Octoaquatics acrylic screen top
Ecotech MP40QD (x2)
Tunze 6045 Turbelle nanostream (x1)
Reefbreeder photon V2 24” (x2)
Trigger ruby cube sump
Lifereef VS2-24, 22 1/2" tall with Jebao DCT 6000 pump
DIY CO2 scrubber
Avast k1 kalk stirrer (fed by Avast peristalic pump)
Eheim 1262 return
Jebao 55watt pond UV sterilizer
Apex Gold
Parameters:
SG: 1.026
pH: 8.0-8.2
Alk: 7.6 dHK
Ca: 420ppm
Mg: 1600ppm (high in current salt batch)
K: 400ppm
NO3: 12ppm
PO4: 0.03ppm
Fish:
Hippo tang
Kole tang
Wyoming white clown
Blue star leopard
Ornate leopard
Melanarus wrasse
Midas blenny
Coral (that I can think of):
JF fox flame
SC orange passion
RR the vinh
PC rainbow
PC sunset
PC superman
Brad’s del fuego
BC Fleshdunce milli
BC battlestag
ATL shades of fall
BC twilight dragon
Myagi tort
Tyree lime in the sky
Red planet
BC bleeding tree albro
JF jack o lantern lepto
CC Goldfinger Torch
Sunny D palythoa
Red people eater palythoa
I’ll continue to update this thread with pictures but here are some to get things going:
