Jonathan's BC29 with 250W HQI =)

[JsL30629]

Back in 2003, I started a 29gallon and had it up and running for 2 years while I was going to college. During my senior year, I couldn't keep up with my engineering courses and caring for the reef, so I sold my tank in 2005.

Fast forward 3 years and I now have a Bio Cube 29 gallon topless with a 250w pendant to grow the coral I missed the most...SPS. ;D

Equipment:
Biocube 29
IceCap 250W Ballast
Reef Optix III Pendant
Phoenix 14k Bulb
Octopus BH-300F
2x Koralia K1
Koralia Nano
Rio HF6 Return

Fish:
2 Ocellaris Clowns

Inverts:
Scarlet hermits
Misc Snails
RBTA

Softies/Zoos:
Purple Tipped Hairy Green Indonesian Mushroom
Pink Zoos
Eagle Eye Zoos

LPS:
Green and Red Acan Lord
Purple Tipped Neon Green Frogspawn
Bright Neon Green Frogspawn

SPS:
ORA Nathan's Green Polyp Mille
Blue Tort
C-Quarium Unknown
Becker Tort
Surf n' Turf
Scripps Hot Pink Mille
Purple Polyp Birdsnest
Ponape Birdsnest
Idaho Grape
Bali Green Slimer
And more unknown sps

FTS 1/11/08

Blue Tenuis

Jade Humilis(?)

surf n' turf

becker tort(?)

purple polyp austera

 

[yardartist]

I like the open top for the great top down photos, and constant view. Did you use a photo box or just shoot from above the water? Richard

 

[JsL30629]

[quote author=yardartist link=topic=5874.msg73933#msg73933 date=1231741076]
I like the open top for the great top down photos, and constant view. Did you use a photo box or just shoot from above the water? Richard
[/quote]

I just turned off the pumps, set my camera (Canon SD850) to macro and took the pics. I want to make a photo box, but never got around to doing it.

 

[tuberider]

Your corals look good.


The purple polyp Acro looks like an austera to me.

 

[JsL30629]

[quote author=tuberider link=topic=5874.msg73975#msg73975 date=1231781700]
Your corals look good.


The purple polyp Acro looks like an austera to me.
[/quote]

Thanks. I hate not knowing the names of things.

 

[nanocube-guy]

Very Nice tank man.

 

[JsL30629]

Some more pics

Pink Stylo

Highlighter Cloves

Aussie Acan

Pink Lemonade and Slimer in back

 

[zambavi]

Love to see coral pics... They are looking good

 

[Roc]

Hey Jonathan, everything is looking really good

 

[70Cuda]

wow very nice tank grats

 

[JsL30629]

Thank you all for your kind words.

Just swapped out my old 14k Phoenix bulb for a Helios 20k bulb. I never realized how blue the Phoenix bulb is until I compare it with the Helios 20k. I think the Phoenix can be labeled as 18k and I'll believe it. The Phoenix is brighter, but the Helios wins in the aesthetics department. I'll see how this bulb burns in.

For those that are interested, I've read that the Helios bulb burns too blue with the old style Ice Cap ballast. I have an old style Ice Cap ballast and it burns perfectly. I've seen other 20k bulbs that are just a deep blue, but the Helios is crisp blue and white.

My tank with the Helios bulb:

Dam snails knock over stuff when they stir the sand :-

 

[reefermadness]

i love your zoomed in views. i also hate not knowing the names, so i always try to find out. tank looks sweet. once you get the taste of the reef you always have it.

 

[JsL30629]

A recent FTS with bad white balance (don't know what happened)

Some macro shots that turned out nicely

 

[Elite]

Very nice tank man...

 

[Lyn]

Very nice! I really like the pink stylo.

 

[JsL30629]

My tank 2.0

I setup my sump and put my octopus extreme 160 in there.

Widen the stock overflow in the tank even more. There is ~500gph flowing through there

Durso standpipe installed in the HOB overflow. Still a little loud for my taste

Need to clean up the hose a little bit, but it's all working now. That's a JBJ Nano Cube 12 as the sump =)

Here is a macro of the skimmer body while breaking in.