40 gallon breeder

I am retired from computers and always wanted a salt water fish take. I live on lake and very good water and have 7 stage Reverse Osmosis system and only thing I purchased is a 40 Gallon Breeder tank. I planned to learn as much as I can do that my tank will be sucessful. I wondering if there...

Hello fellow reefers! I’ve been in and out of the hobby for about a decade but I still have a lot to learn, fell in love with salt water keeping when I was 15 and a family friend had a 55 gallon tank. The hobby has come such a long way since then! I currently have a 40 gallon breeder I’ve had up...

Hey all! Finally after years of saving and planning I was able to put my first reef tank together just the way I wanted. Water went in last week, and I just finished up my first 10% water change this morning. So far in the first week I've had trouble with an undersized heater due to how cold my...

For those of you that have the Drop in AIO kit. What did you do to stop your macro algae from going throught your baffles and didn’t impeded your water flow?

Hi, I’d like to pass my stock list through here for my 40 gallon breeder. I’d like to have some oscellaris clowns, a blenny, a six line wrasse and a pair of Banggai cardinals. Would that be a volatile mix or would they be ok together? Would a 40 gallon breeder be too small for the group? Thanks!

I searched without luck. I am updating my tank lighting from two 30 watt Amazon lights to a SBOX 32" Basic - 3 Channel that will be run on separate timers. My question is where is a good starting point for my settings? I have mostly soft corals with a couple of exceptions. Also I do not have a...

4/1/2024 — Current FTS: ORIGINAL FIRST POST (11/6/2021) below… *consolidated slightly Not really a "build" -- more of a recent "tank transfer" with a couple of minor DIYs. *3 weeks since tank transfer 40 gallon breeder: -- tank transferred from 37 gallon TALL tank (FOWLR + non-coral...

Hello Everyone, This is my first attempt at saltwater but not aquariums. I set this tank up a week ago using sanitized dried live rock, wet live rock from the LFS, some small chunks from an established tank to seed the live rock, and 40 pounds of live sand. I have a homemade 20 gallon sump with...

Hey guys, I’m currently in the process of planning a 40 gallon reef tank and need ideas for stocking. I definitely plan on keeping 2 clownfish and a cleaner shrimp. Other than that, I’m not sure what else I would want to put in the tank. What will make a good clean up crew? Also what other fish...

I have a Classic 150INT 6” reef octopus skimmer lying around for when I had enough money to properly set up my 120gal nicely. I have a 40 breeder lying around which I was thinking about setting up. I was gonna have a 29gal that I would set up as a sump. I was wondering if this skimmer would be...

Update: Once I added a HOB refugium to my sumpless 40B, it was game over. The tank started leaking within a week because the extra weight pulled the tank too far out of level. As such, I upgraded to a Red Sea Reefer 250. If you'd like to start there, click here. If you'd like to read through my...

I started a build thread for a 300 gallon peninsula in Oct of 2019 aaaaaaand...still no saltwater in the house. After going back and forth on this idea, my wife and I finalized the plan to put a 40 breeder in the 5th baby’s nursery. Yah, five children. It gets better...the oldest is just barely...

So we currently have a 32g biocube. The wife has gotten into corals that go on the sand bed. Such as Acanthos, Cynarias, ELegance, Lobo, Wellsos, and Trachys. To give us more sand bed i was thinking of going to a 40B with the AIO drop in as my wife dosen’t want to do a sump till we move. Has...

Getting started on this journey. I have been learning whatever I can retain over the past few months. Now I'm ready as ever to take my chance at my first reef tank. I've dreamed of a saltwater aquarium since I was just a little guy so here it goes. My plan is to build a minimal maintenance 40...

Getting started on this journey. I have been learning whatever I can retain over the past few months. Now I'm ready as ever to take my chance at my first reef tank. I've dreamed of a saltwater aquarium since I was just a little guy so here it goes. My plan is to build a minimal maintenance 40...

Hi guys, I recently setup my first saltwater tank and its about 6 months old, Its a 40 gallon breeder with 60lbs live rock, (i know its alot but its scaped well), 60 lbs live sand a tidal 55 hob filter, a NICREW 10,000k LED light and a powerhead, no sump, no skimmer. The tank is a mixed reef...

Chronicling the hopeful maintaining and not declining of my 40 breeder, now that i've got a newborn baby as well as a two year old. As of right now, tank is doing okay, although SPS is not really doing well. Alkalinity is 6.7 and salinity is 1.026. Did a 15% water change just a few days ago...

I have been working on what originally was a 40 gallon breeder sump conversion for the last 2 months or so, and I am looking for constructive feedback. In the works is an entire sump build customizable in design and color (I have Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow, Red, and Purple) This current one for...

Hey it's me again, After posting my last aquascape here for my first tank attempt and taking in all of your wonderful advice and my own thoughts, I decided I really hated the rocks I had in my tank, so I switched them out and made this. Any opinions and advice appreciated, just some forewords...

It's a 40 gallon breeder and i'm just looking for opinions on how I did with my aquascape. Your Thoughts?

Hey everyone, just recently purchased a Coral pack from WWC. I have three thathad no issues acclimating and opening up as soon as a I put them in the tank. Another which is a zoa arrived looking a little weird and has only changed slightly.. (I think). The last coral I have an issue with is a...

UPDATED: June 16, 2020 Build Start: March 21, 2020 Tank Wet: April 17, 2020 BUILD TIME: 2 months, 4 weeks WET TIME: 1 month, 4 weeks TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Beginning: 2: START OF IT ALL 3: Week 1 4: Week 2 5: Overflow Plumbing 13: Return Plumbing 15: Leak Check #1 17: Planning a mobile...

Hi Everyone, I’ve been hesitant to post but I finally figured that it could be helpful. I originally was going to build a 20g long but after doing a lot of research I decided to start with a 40 breeder. I have slowly been buying all my equipment and I still have a few things left that I want to...

Well maybe not so big... :D My goal is to set up the best reef possible for the least amount of money and effort, I want something that will be easy to maintain and that checks all my boxes while staying within my budget, I’ll be sourcing the cheapest possible equipment while simultaneously not...

Still a work in progress. Have almost everything I need to put it together now. Pukani rock cure is almost finished. Still knocking around some ideas I have on how I'm going to set up my 20 gal. long DIY sump/refugium. I'll post more pics as I progress.