farsight32
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I have found most people have a thread for their tanks, so here is mine.
I have a 29g biocube HQI that I bought used for $20. It looked pretty poor when I bought it, the light was broken off and the clear hood was not included.
I decided to do a little DIY, so I built my own stand and sump. The stand has a frame made out of 2x4s, with plywood on the outside, and glass tile on the top. I finished it and painted it black. I bought some clear acrylic and made a new clear hood for the top. I drilled the tank to make the overflow to go into the sump. My sump is two ten gallon leader aquariums. I drilled a hole in one of them. Water flows from my MD into the first ten gallon, over a baffle, and through the bulkhead in the 2nd chamber into my second tank. The first chamber of my sumo has my heater, skimmer (homemade of course), and a filter sock. The second chamber has 2 inches of sand, a few liverocks, and a ball of cheato roughly the size of a basketball. I have an incandescent bulb over the cheato, and a clip-on LED on the side. The light seems to be working, I have had to pull out 1/3 to 1/2 of it every week. The second tank has my return pump (a syncra 1.5) and serves as my "oh crap chamber".
I have a Korilla 420 power head in my display. I have about 50 pounds of liverock, and 40 pounds of live sand. My lights for my display are mounted to a small piece of acrylic that sits on top of my clear hood. The lights are LED stunter strips, two blues and one 50/50 blue white.
As far as livestock goes, I have:
1 Yellow watchman Goby
1 Firefish Goby
1 Talbots Damsel
1 Peppermint shrimp
6 blue leg hermit crabs
2 trochus snails
3 nessarius (no idea how to spell it) snails
various hitchhikers
For coral I have:
1 small colony of Yukon gold Zos my brother was gonna throw away
1 small piece of comet storm chyphastrea (I believe that is what it is called)
I will keep posting as I go. If anyone has ay questions feel free to ask. If anyone has any pointers or advice, I would welcome it.
I have a 29g biocube HQI that I bought used for $20. It looked pretty poor when I bought it, the light was broken off and the clear hood was not included.
I decided to do a little DIY, so I built my own stand and sump. The stand has a frame made out of 2x4s, with plywood on the outside, and glass tile on the top. I finished it and painted it black. I bought some clear acrylic and made a new clear hood for the top. I drilled the tank to make the overflow to go into the sump. My sump is two ten gallon leader aquariums. I drilled a hole in one of them. Water flows from my MD into the first ten gallon, over a baffle, and through the bulkhead in the 2nd chamber into my second tank. The first chamber of my sumo has my heater, skimmer (homemade of course), and a filter sock. The second chamber has 2 inches of sand, a few liverocks, and a ball of cheato roughly the size of a basketball. I have an incandescent bulb over the cheato, and a clip-on LED on the side. The light seems to be working, I have had to pull out 1/3 to 1/2 of it every week. The second tank has my return pump (a syncra 1.5) and serves as my "oh crap chamber".
I have a Korilla 420 power head in my display. I have about 50 pounds of liverock, and 40 pounds of live sand. My lights for my display are mounted to a small piece of acrylic that sits on top of my clear hood. The lights are LED stunter strips, two blues and one 50/50 blue white.
As far as livestock goes, I have:
1 Yellow watchman Goby
1 Firefish Goby
1 Talbots Damsel
1 Peppermint shrimp
6 blue leg hermit crabs
2 trochus snails
3 nessarius (no idea how to spell it) snails
various hitchhikers
For coral I have:
1 small colony of Yukon gold Zos my brother was gonna throw away
1 small piece of comet storm chyphastrea (I believe that is what it is called)
I will keep posting as I go. If anyone has ay questions feel free to ask. If anyone has any pointers or advice, I would welcome it.
