Decide why not and start a build thread on my 40 breeder reef! Plus today school is super boring! lol shhh don’t tell my dad.
** this is a long one**
Any way so let’s get started with the tank stand and sump and go down the list.
So the tank is a 40 gallon breeder 36”x18”x18” it’s actually around 47 gallon. Lol
I won this tank at the 2018 framers frag swap, I missed my homecoming dance for that event well worth it!! If you where there then you should remember that it was drilled, by Cody, and he made me a custom 24” ghost overflow! (It’s amazing!) I also painted the back of the tank black.
The Stand is custom built by my dad and my self. It’s made by 2x4s, and has a nice trim on it it too. The outside is paint black and the inside white. (I’ll take pics when I get home) we used about 12 feet of wood. Lol
The sump is a trigger system emerald 26” I believe, I bought it brand new from fish land, Andy gave me a hella of a good deal. I actually do like it, but I may upgrade, later on if I upgrade the system over all.
Now the equipment
Let start at the top
-My tank is lit by a 36” aquaticlife t5 hybrid with all ATI bulbs, 2 blue plus, 1 coral plus , and 1 atinic, as well as a black hydra 26hd, ( I Just got a brand new one of the production line! Thank you AI! I’ll explain later) Ill run a schedule that mimics t5s And Haildes ( I’m setting up the new light today)
- in the tank I’m running 2 RPM reefbreeder pumps, for my flow. Let me tell u this are the best wave makers I’ve ever own! I like it better than my old gyre 230. I’m working on a review on it for my YouTube channel, will post a link on here when I upload it.
Before I go in the sump, I run a super simple set up for now.
- I run a simplicity 120 skimmer dc, best skimmer I have ever owned so far. I plan to do some avast marine upgrades.
- in the Fuge I run a grow light from HD, planning to get a better light from amazon. It works good and cheap but just isn’t working for me.
- in the Fuge I have some live rock and marine pure gems, I plan to add more bio media.
- I also run a cobalt neo heater i think it’s 100 Watts I may ad Another 75 watts, the temp swings too much. And also a temp controller
- return pump I run a Jebao dc 6000, I run it at 30%
- I run a smart micro ato I bought it from WWC when I went there last thanksgiving break.
- to keep my water Parms up I use a Jebao dp4 doser and run all brightwell. I have to dose cal 10 ml, alk 10 ml and 12 ml a day.
Now live stock.
So at the time of typing this up, I had a massive die off, and lost every single fish except a single Chromis... so I’m doing a reboot with fish. My corals well my sps aren’t doing that great cause I have a very low nutrients. I also plan to do a lps dominate tank as well. The sps I got from Steve, and I thought maybe it will be okay. The only sps that are thriving are 2 out of the 3 monti species i own.
Here’s what i have in the tank that are worth mentioning
- large green carpet nem
- Indo trachy with yellow strips
- 2 small acan colonies one green and blue the other is a red orange
- Favia frag
- war coral frag
- and a Ora Squamose clam.
- oh and 1 Chromis
Here’s what I plan to to add
Fish wise
I want to do a Chromis Harem, about 6-8 of them, also I plan to add a lid so I can have a snowflake eel, along with my lammack angel that I have in “qt”.
To add more color ill do some fat fairy wrasse lol
I’m going to take a break from tangs, no more for me.
Corals wise-
More zoas, acans, i plan to have a giant Euphyllia garden, mainly torches.
And of courses some nice big meat corals.
Currant battles -
Cyano. I have a plan which I’ll type later, my hands are pretty tiered.
Ill post pics later tonight.
Happy reefing
Lucas.
** this is a long one**
Any way so let’s get started with the tank stand and sump and go down the list.
So the tank is a 40 gallon breeder 36”x18”x18” it’s actually around 47 gallon. Lol
I won this tank at the 2018 framers frag swap, I missed my homecoming dance for that event well worth it!! If you where there then you should remember that it was drilled, by Cody, and he made me a custom 24” ghost overflow! (It’s amazing!) I also painted the back of the tank black.
The Stand is custom built by my dad and my self. It’s made by 2x4s, and has a nice trim on it it too. The outside is paint black and the inside white. (I’ll take pics when I get home) we used about 12 feet of wood. Lol
The sump is a trigger system emerald 26” I believe, I bought it brand new from fish land, Andy gave me a hella of a good deal. I actually do like it, but I may upgrade, later on if I upgrade the system over all.
Now the equipment
Let start at the top
-My tank is lit by a 36” aquaticlife t5 hybrid with all ATI bulbs, 2 blue plus, 1 coral plus , and 1 atinic, as well as a black hydra 26hd, ( I Just got a brand new one of the production line! Thank you AI! I’ll explain later) Ill run a schedule that mimics t5s And Haildes ( I’m setting up the new light today)
- in the tank I’m running 2 RPM reefbreeder pumps, for my flow. Let me tell u this are the best wave makers I’ve ever own! I like it better than my old gyre 230. I’m working on a review on it for my YouTube channel, will post a link on here when I upload it.
Before I go in the sump, I run a super simple set up for now.
- I run a simplicity 120 skimmer dc, best skimmer I have ever owned so far. I plan to do some avast marine upgrades.
- in the Fuge I run a grow light from HD, planning to get a better light from amazon. It works good and cheap but just isn’t working for me.
- in the Fuge I have some live rock and marine pure gems, I plan to add more bio media.
- I also run a cobalt neo heater i think it’s 100 Watts I may ad Another 75 watts, the temp swings too much. And also a temp controller
- return pump I run a Jebao dc 6000, I run it at 30%
- I run a smart micro ato I bought it from WWC when I went there last thanksgiving break.
- to keep my water Parms up I use a Jebao dp4 doser and run all brightwell. I have to dose cal 10 ml, alk 10 ml and 12 ml a day.
Now live stock.
So at the time of typing this up, I had a massive die off, and lost every single fish except a single Chromis... so I’m doing a reboot with fish. My corals well my sps aren’t doing that great cause I have a very low nutrients. I also plan to do a lps dominate tank as well. The sps I got from Steve, and I thought maybe it will be okay. The only sps that are thriving are 2 out of the 3 monti species i own.
Here’s what i have in the tank that are worth mentioning
- large green carpet nem
- Indo trachy with yellow strips
- 2 small acan colonies one green and blue the other is a red orange
- Favia frag
- war coral frag
- and a Ora Squamose clam.
- oh and 1 Chromis
Here’s what I plan to to add
Fish wise
I want to do a Chromis Harem, about 6-8 of them, also I plan to add a lid so I can have a snowflake eel, along with my lammack angel that I have in “qt”.
To add more color ill do some fat fairy wrasse lol
I’m going to take a break from tangs, no more for me.
Corals wise-
More zoas, acans, i plan to have a giant Euphyllia garden, mainly torches.
And of courses some nice big meat corals.
Currant battles -
Cyano. I have a plan which I’ll type later, my hands are pretty tiered.
Ill post pics later tonight.
Happy reefing
Lucas.