Edit, 4/30/24 - One year old:
This tank was started as a reboot in May 2023. Previous tank was 1yr old, and experienced a nasty dino/bacterial crash a couple months after a tank upgrade earlier this year (https://bareefers.org/forum/threads...ed-dino-lyngbya-tank-crash.33717/#post-482310). It was a mixture of some kind of amphidinium dino and lyngbya bacteria that pretty much wiped everything out despite my best efforts.
I used live rock from TBS this time, and it's like an entirely new hobby vs starting with dry rock. Things have been going well now for 3 months so I decided to start another journal! Fish all survived the crash, along with a handful of corals. I've added mostly cheap, basic corals from Kenny, AC, and a couple local reefers.
The stand is 80/20 from framing tech. Pretty good price and they were great to work with. The thing is incredibly robust:
The tank is 72" x 30" x 24" from Advanced Acrylics, with a pretty hefty eurobrace:
I really liked the look of the ceiling mounted kessils at Neptune, so I tried to emulate something similar. I mounted 3x a500x pretty high above the tank using locline:
They're at the height where the 35deg reflectors land the edge of the beam right at the tanks edge, really minimizing light spill. It also means you don't get glare in your eyes when viewing the tank, even while sitting!
I used a 60" bashsea sump:
In retrospect, I should have saved a bunch of money and just used a 40 breeder or something. The sump is unnecessarily large for the simple approach I'm using this time around, and I wish I had a little more space under the tank but it's not too bad.
This tank was started as a reboot in May 2023. Previous tank was 1yr old, and experienced a nasty dino/bacterial crash a couple months after a tank upgrade earlier this year (https://bareefers.org/forum/threads...ed-dino-lyngbya-tank-crash.33717/#post-482310). It was a mixture of some kind of amphidinium dino and lyngbya bacteria that pretty much wiped everything out despite my best efforts.
I used live rock from TBS this time, and it's like an entirely new hobby vs starting with dry rock. Things have been going well now for 3 months so I decided to start another journal! Fish all survived the crash, along with a handful of corals. I've added mostly cheap, basic corals from Kenny, AC, and a couple local reefers.
The stand is 80/20 from framing tech. Pretty good price and they were great to work with. The thing is incredibly robust:
The tank is 72" x 30" x 24" from Advanced Acrylics, with a pretty hefty eurobrace:
I really liked the look of the ceiling mounted kessils at Neptune, so I tried to emulate something similar. I mounted 3x a500x pretty high above the tank using locline:
They're at the height where the 35deg reflectors land the edge of the beam right at the tanks edge, really minimizing light spill. It also means you don't get glare in your eyes when viewing the tank, even while sitting!
I used a 60" bashsea sump:
In retrospect, I should have saved a bunch of money and just used a 40 breeder or something. The sump is unnecessarily large for the simple approach I'm using this time around, and I wish I had a little more space under the tank but it's not too bad.
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