An update to my 40Br Sumpless Reef Tank
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, 06-19-2013 at 08:07 PM (5335 Views)
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My Sumpless 40Br Mixed Reef Tank. Set up since August 2012 (Moved from SC), most corals have been with me for about a year prior to the move.
Tank: Aqueon 40BR
Stand and Canopy: The stand is a nice entrance piece of furniture and the "half-canopy" and fixture cover was made by me.
Controller: Apex Jr. (Without Display, I use my iPhone 5/Computers to monitor the tank) + Apex VDM for LED dimming.
pH Monitor: Milwaukee SMS112
Light: RapidLED parts giving me 20 X Royal Blue, 14 X Cool Whites, and 2 X Moonlights.
Sand: Reef on the Rocks Aragonite + Large Particle Aragonite (Mix is 4:1)
Rock: Reef on the Rocks
Water Movement: 1 X Vortech MP10 (Yellow mode at about 1/2 power) + AquaClear 110 and another Power Filter (Described below).
Filtration: - AquaClear 110 housing a feed pump to a Phosban Reactor with 1/2 cup of BRS granular GFO. - Drs.FosterSmith Bio System Power Filter & Oxy Surface Skimmer (Use it as a mechanical filter plus carbon filtration (1/2 cup per week), without the surface skimmer).
Fish Feeder: Used when on Vacation, hand feed when I am home.
ATO: BRS Doser (50ml/min) used in custom set up (7G tub that is hidden). (I use Kalkwasser)
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Changes:
- Took off one of the Vortech MP10's... don't feel like I need it and it was making the clam angry.
- Majorly pruned the tank.
- Removed Ricordia garden rock and added a Baby Blue Squamosa Clam.
- Added Blue Staghorn coral (Bottom left) and a mixed color Hammer (With the Frogspawn).
- Finger Leather has been removed to make space in the tank.
- Green finger leather removed.