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Kevin's 60 Gallon Cade Cube

ksliech

ksliech

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I set up this tank in August of 2024 after a roughly 20 year reef keeping hiatus! Throughout high school and college I worked at Aqua Dreams in Massachusetts, and had a 120G running a pair of 400W metal halides and VHO actinics (now those were the DAYS!). Today I'm running a 60 gallon cube mixed reef, with a focus on SPS. My original build thread is here, but bringing it over to BAR!

Tank & Equipment
  • Tank, stand, ATO, and sump: Cade S2 600, 24" cube
  • Skimmer: Red Sea DC 300 on Printed Reef skimmer stand
  • Roller mat: Red Sea ReefMat 250
  • Lighting: 2x Kessil A360XE Tuna Blue + 2 x 23" AI Blade Coral Grow
  • Return: Sicce Synchra SDC 6.0 running at 100%
  • Heaters: Innovative Marine Helio 400W (2 x 200W elements)
  • Wave pumps: 2 x Maxspect Gyre XF330's
  • Controller & Monitoring: Neptune Apex Pro, Trident ACM in Printed Reef mini housing to reduce noise, and a Trident NP
  • Dosing via 2 DOS-QD Dual Dosing Pumps
    • Avast K1 kalk stirrer
    • All for Reef, since kalk can't keep up with demand
    • NeoPhos
    • NeoNitro
  • Refugium: Chaetomorpha in the sump, lit at night with Tunze EcoChic
  • Auto Feeder: Avast Plank, runs once a day with TDO ChromaBoost extra small pellets
Livestock
  • Mystery wrasse (my favorite dude)
  • Mocha storm and black storm clown pair
  • Green chromis (3x)
  • Lots of acropora, including a Bali green slimer that I had in my original tank over 20 years ago!
  • Lots of zoas and mushrooms
  • Goniopora
  • Pulsing xenia
  • 3 maxima clams
  • Derasa clam

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Looks great! Once I get my tank stable again I’m getting interested in having a Maximus clam! Are you using a crushed coral sand bed?
 
Bigfish said:
Looks great! Once I get my tank stable again I’m getting interested in having a Maximus clam! Are you using a crushed coral sand bed?
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I'm using a combo of Fiji Pink and TBS live sand. I go heavy on the TBS live sand in the areas where the flow is high so it stays put
 
Kensington Reefer said:
@ksliech
Welcome to our place in space, and thank you for becoming a $upporting member.
20 year old slimer, my compliments
I do love my mystery wrasse, too
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Thanks Erin! When I broke my tank down 20 years ago, I gave my slimer, among other things, to a buddy of mine. He kept it going ever since, and last year I was able to get a frag of it back! It's like my long lost child.
 
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