Tank Journal Archive

[Jonny Glover]

Introduction:Hi guys, been reeding for a while now about 3 years. I work at Kingston aquarium and run their tanks on Saturdays. My main objective is to creat a sps dominated tank. I would like to add some rare morphs and zoas too :)

Reefing Since:2009

System Objectives: sps dominated tank/little bit of lps

Type of reef:amazing reef haha

Display System: 2ft tank in build fuge

Initial Fill Date: January 20th

Display Tank Dimensions:

Display Lighting: 60 watt custom led fitting

Stand:

Hood or Rimless: rimless

Sump Design:fuge and heater compartment

Filtration:

Support systems:

NSW or ASW: ASW

Display Water circulation: 1300 litre wavemaker will get a mp10es

Return Pump:400litre pump

Skimmer:na

Evaporation Top Up:

Chemical additions: red sea dosin system

Calcium Addition:

Alkilinity Addition:

Magnesium Addition:

Prodibiotics Addition:

Coral Food Addition:
Here's a pic of the led fitting will put a pic of the tank up

 

[daveH]

Sounds like you're going to do a nice setup.
I have a custom 60cm tank with DIY LED sytem also. I'll be interested to see how you do yours.
Keep the pics coming.

 

[Jonny Glover]

Sounds like you're going to do a nice setup.
I have a custom 60cm tank with DIY LED sytem also. I'll be interested to see how you do yours.
Keep the pics coming.

Thanks mate, yeah ill have a look at yours :)

 

[Priscacara]

Looking forward to seeing it progress!

 

[MTG]

johnny i have plenty of gear to sell you ;)

 

[Jonny Glover]

johnny i have plenty of gear to sell you ;)

Send us a message Matt with what you got ;) I'm looking for a wavemaker and maybe a dosing pump

 

[chimaera]

Interested to see how this goes with no skimmer and no sump!

 

[MTG]

i would never go skimmerless personaly but will be interesting to see what happens! you definitely will need some form of surface skimming to keep the oily film away

 

[Jonny Glover]

Yeah it's a pretty small tank and ill be doing 20 litre changes every week. See how she goes might chuck something in. Here's some pics of the tank.

 

[daveH]

If you ever decide to get a skimmer try the AquaMedic TurboFloto Blue 500. They're a brilliant, super quiet, super effective skimmer for that size (and bit bigger) tank. They fit in a 100mm wide space which looks about what you have.

 

[Jonny Glover]

Thanks mate! I've got my rock cycling in a seperate quarantine tank. Just gona put acrylic rods and putty it a bit. Very minis cal aqua scape if I can help it. Want to let as much grow out as possible.

 

[MTG]

tunze 9002 will fit in that gap with the intank skimmer cup :D

 

[Jonny Glover]

Got my Calcium, alkalinity, magnesium, phosphate, ph and nitrate kits of a rtaw reefer. Ill probably wont buy ammonia and nitrite and test them at work. I plan on cycling the tank for 2 months at least. I tested the Natural sea water outside my house, in a fairly good area. AT sg 1.026 Calcium was 440 ppm and alkalinity 10 magnesium 1280. Pretty good levels. The levels are diffrent at a lower salinity because the specific gravity of our natural sea water is about 1.022 i have to raise it to 1.026 by evaporation