The Upgrade Didnt Take Long!

[jameshughes1989]

Time to start my new journal. Some of you may of known that I recently set up a 60 litre nano reef. Well this was only running for a little while but already I have upgraded. There was a number of reasons for this,

- one being I loved my short reefing experience and already wanted to go bigger.
- The bigger the tank, the more variety and amount of fish inverts I can keep.
- I already had a lot of equipment for the upgrade as I always got bigger than needed at the start.
- Last and not least, I found a dude online giving away 10kgs of live rock for free.

It took me 2 whole days (16 hours) to shut down, clean and move the FW setup. I did not have fun with that, and had a very bad back after running round with buckets of water.

Some specs for the tank:

Tank: Aquaone Aquience cube 550 (55cmx55x55)- 160litres
Lighting: Eco-Lamp Kr-91
Filtration: 18kg of live rock
Sand: TMC Marine Sand
Flow: 1x Korlaia 1 & 2x Koralia nano.
Skimmer: Deltec mce300.
Heater: Rena 300w Smart Heater.

The skimmer is from the nano but as I mentioned as I went bigger it worked out okay as it should be able to cope on this size tank too. The lighting is the daddy of my kit. It really is great. Im loving the timer settings and the way the lights come on, the colour is really great too! I'd recommend to anyone and I hope to keep a few sps higher up the tank as it is meant to be the equivelant to a 150 metal halide.

The stock tansfered over form the nano are:

Fish & CUC

- 2 Common Clowns
- 1 Cleaner Shrimp
- 4 Blue legged hermits
- 1 Emerald crab
- 2 Turbo snails
- 1 Nass snail

Corals

- Green plating monti
- 3 different types of zoas
- 2 green Shrooms
- 2 sps frags

I plan to add another cleaner shrimp, aswel as some more CUC. I would also like a shrimp/goby pair, a dwarf angel and maybe a six-line wrasse. Would I have room for all of them? I also hope to fill the tank with a mix of soft/lps/sps corals.

Pics will follow. Pics and critism welcome.


James

 

[seffieuk]

Woo hoo............didnt think it would take you long to upgrade

Cough, cough.....photos?


Seffie x

 

[jameshughes1989]

Hey, sorry I have been really busy. I havent updated the thread or anything. I will do though! Loads has happened! I got a few new corals and a new fish. Ill try and put up some pics later, im off to work now!

The bug hit fast and hard!!

 

[simonas]

ha ha excellent and decent sized tank as well

I did the same after a few weeks changed from 65 to 100 litres,

 

[jameshughes1989]

Well this hasnt really been a journal, havent had the time. Finally, here is an update so some pics.

Well there it is. Things have moved so quickly but so well. Im really happy with how the tank is coming out. It has changed just slightly sinced but not much. I have also added a sump to it, via an external overflow box.

Will update again soon when I get a chance. I just thought I should get some pics up to show you all how its going.


Cheers, James

 

[ozzie2011]

Looks stunning mate. I love these cubes.

Kudos to you

 

[simonas]

I;m so jealous!!

the eleganse is amazing!! I loved mine it just didn;t work out

 

[jameshughes1989]

Cheers guys. I have had a little shuffle around since due to some corals getting a little too friendly with some others. What happened with your elegans coral mate?

 

[seffieuk]

Really like the aquascape - looks stunning

Seffie x

 

[simonas]

Cheers guys. I have had a little shuffle around since due to some corals getting a little too friendly with some others. What happened with your elegans coral mate?

after loking outstanding for a while I came back from holiday and it was withdrawn never to be seen again till one day it was being eaten.

Read a fair bit about it on Eric Bornemans site about a disease a lot of them get in captivity which mirrored the symptons of mine

IMO the best looking coral though beautiful and yours looks fab

 

[woody88]

Simply stunning mate!

 

[Harry1996]

AMAZING!!!!

 

[jameshughes1989]

Well this tank has been shut down so here is one of the last FTS shots I had. I learnt a lot from this tank, some from good happenings, some from bad but now is the time to move on with my new build. Here is the shot.

James