Jarrod's 22 Long Office Nano - SPS

[jwhall3]

Updated: 03/23/2020

Hi Everyone. I put water in this tank in September of 2018 and added the first corals (successfully) in March of 2019. After having this tank running successfully for about a year now I have decided I should get a build thread going. It will be my goal to update this thread often (equipment, parameters, & maintenance will be added soon). I have taken lots of pictures over this past year and will try to create additional posts in order from the beginning steps through to the current setup. There have been lots of changes in the past year and a half. Current Pictures, Equipment, Additives, Husbandry, etc can be found below in this initial post. I will also include links at the bottom of this initial post to topics featuring different stages of the build, other topics related to what and why I use certain things, and my thoughts and approach to reefing as I get them posted.


Full Tank Shot (See further below for close-up shots of fish & coral)

Tank Goals & Thoughts

Coming Soon (Next Couple of Days)


Water Parameters

• Alkalinity: 7.5 - 8.0 dkh
• Calcium: 400 - 440 ppm
• Magnesium: 1380 - 1440 ppm
• Phosphates: 0.03 – 0.08 ppm
• Nitrates: 10 – 20 ppm
• Potassium: 400 ppm
• PH: 8.2 – 8.6

Dosing, Additives, Food, & Misc.

• Fauna Marin Balling Light System
  • Calcium Mix
  • Carbonate Mix
  • Balling Trace 1 Metallic Color & Grow Effect
  • Balling Trace 2 Metallic Metabolic Color Effect
  • Balling Trace 3 Metallic Health Fluorescent Effect
  • Magnesium: Red Sea Foundation C (Because it’s convenient) (Manually dosed as needed)
• Fauna Marin Zeo-Light System
  • Zeo Light: Zeolite mixture for nutrient reduction
  • Coral Balance: Water treatment
  • Reef Vitality: Nutrient control and coral nutrition
  • Color Elements Blue/Purple Complex
  • Color Elements Green/Blue Complex
  • Color Elements Red/Purple Complex
• Coral Food
  • Benepets Benereef Reef Food
  • Reef Chili Coral Food (Anthias also love it)
  • Korallen-Zucht Pohl’s Coral Vitalizer
  • Korallen-Zucht Sponge Power Concentrate
  • Korallen-Zucht Amino Acid Concentrate
  • Korallen-Zucht Acroglow
• Fish Food
  • LRS Reef Frenzy
  • Reef Nutrition TDO Chroma Boost Small Granule
  • Hikari Seaweed Extreme
• Nutrient/Algae Control
  • Underwater Creations Inc. Vibrant For Reef Aquariums
  • Brightwell Phosphat-E (As needed)
• Misc.
  • Potassium: Brightwell Aquatics Potassion (As needed)
  • ATI Elements Supplements: Strontium, Vanadium, Manganese (As needed, determined by ATI ICP test kits)
  • Salt: Tropic Marin Pro-Reef
  • RODI: Bottled Distilled Water (Blizzard or Great Value brands only!)

Maintenance Routine & Husbandry
Coming Soon (Next Couple of Days)


Equipment for the Display

• Tank: Aquamaxx 22 L (35”x12”x12”)
• Stand: Traditions, Red Mahogony color (36”x12”x30”H)
• Lighting: (3) Kessil A360WE with homemade hanging bracket
• Lighting: Neptune Lunar Simulator LED String, 2-LED
• Flow: (2) Maxspect Gyre XF230 Pumps (Only using one propeller cage per pump)
• Flow: (2) Vivid Random Flow Generators on the returns, ½” Loc-Line
• Rock: Custom insert by West Mariculture (28”x8”x5”H)
• Sand: CaribSea Special Grade
• Overflow: Eshopps Eclipse S

Equipment for the Sump & Filtration

• Sump: Bashsea, custom designed by me to fit the stand (35”x10”x15”H)
• Filter Cup: Red Sea 4” Filter Media Cup
• Filter Media: Blue Ribbons Polyester Filter Floss
• Filter Media: Boyd’s Chemi-Pure Blue (5.5 oz)
• Skimmer: Eshopps S-120
• Skimmer Stand: Icecap Small Skimmer Stand (7”x6”)
• CO2 Scrubber: Bulk Reef Supply Universal CO2 Scrubber
• Reactor: Skimz ZAR-127 Automatic Zeolith Reactor
• Heater: (3) Cobalt Neo-Therm 75W Heaters
• Biological: Marine Pure 1.5” Spheres (1 gal box)
• Return: (2) Reef Octopus Varios 4 Pumps
• Dosing Line Holder: Printed Reefing Solutions 4 Line Holder (EuroBrace)
• Light: LED Light mounted for illumination during maintenance

Equipment for Control, Automation & Monitoring

• Controller: Neptune Systems Apex
• Neptune Systems Apex Modules & Sensors:
• FMK Flow Monitoring Kit (for monitoring drains & return lines)
• 1” Flow Sensor
• Lunar Simulation Module
• VDM Module (for controlling the return pumps & gyres)
• Break Out Box (Future projects such as emergency shutdown button, light settings toggle switch, & sump door switches for lights etc.)
• LDK (for monitoring leaks on the right & left sides of the tank)
• LD-2 Leak Probe (resting on top of skimmer lid to monitor for skimmer overflows)
• AFS (for feeding the fish while I’m away)
• (3) OS-1 Optical Sensors (for sump full, tank full, and ATO reservoir low alarms)
• Additional EB832 Energy Bar
• ATO: Neptune Systems ATK
• ATO Reservoir: Advanced Acrylics ATO111, custom sized (4”x12”x18”H)
• Doser: Neptune Systems DOS & DDR
• (2) Icecap Gyre Interface Modules
• (2) Icecap Battery Backups

Test Kits

• Alkalinity
  • Hanna Instruments HI772 (Primary)
  • Tropic Marin Basic KH Test Kit (Backup)
• Calcium
  • Red Sea Calcium Pro
• Magnesium
  • Red Sea Magnesium Pro
• Nitrate
  • Red Sea Nitrate Pro (Primary)
  • Nyos Nitrate (Backup)
• Phosphate
  • Hanna Instruments HI736 (Primary)
  • Red Sea Phosphate Pro (Backup)
• Potassium
  • Salifert Potassium Reef Test
• PH
  • Neptune Apex PH Probe (Primary)
  • Salifert PH (Backup Low-Range)
  • API High Range PH (Backup High Range)
• Salinity
  • Neptune Apex Salinity Probe (Primary, yes it works)
  • Hanna Instruments HI98319 Marine Salinity Tester (Primary)
  • Milwaukee MA887 Digital Seawater Refractometer (Backup)
  • Bulk Reef Supply Refractometer (Backup)
• Temp
  • Neptune Apex Temp Probe (Primary)
  • Hanna Instruments HI98509 Checktemp Digital Thermometer (Backup)
• Iodine
  • Salifert Iodine (Primary)
  • Red Sea Iodine Pro (Backup)
• ICP Mail Order Kits
  • ATI (Primary)
  • Triton (Backup)
  • Coral Vue ICP-Analysis (Backup)

Equipment for Maintenance

• Coming Soon (Next Couple of Days)

Fish

• Small Yellow Tang
• Naked Clown
• Black Cap Basslet
• Sunset Anthia
• (2) Blue Green Chromis
• African Cleaner Wrasse
• Hector Goby

Corals

• Coming Soon (Next Couple of Days)

Pictures

Left Side Shot - 3/3/2020

Middle Shot - 3/3/2020

Right Side Shot - 3/3/2020

Far Right/Frag Rack Shot - 3/3/2020

Top Down Left - 3/3/2020

Walt Disney - 3/3/2020

ORA Purple Stylophora - 3/3/2020

GARF Bonsai - 3/3/2020

Blue Tip Stag - 3/3/2020

Dragonfly - 3/3/2020

ATL Strawberry Fields - 3/3/2020

Tyree L.E. Pink Lemonade

Reef Raft Canada Pink Cadillac - 3/3/2020

Superman Tenuis - 3/3/2020

Cherry Corals Voodoo Majick - 3/3/2020

PC Rainbow - 3/3/2020

Old Blue Stag - 3/3/2020

Yellow Head Red Stag - 3/3/2020

Smitty's Guilded Stag, PC Rainbow, & RMF Red Devil Nasuta - 3/3/2020

WWC Heartbreaker - 3/3/2020

Purple Aculeus - 3/3/2020

Conveyor Belt of Fleshdunce - 3/3/2020

Rainbow Loom - 3/3/2020

Purple Tip Green Torch - 3/3/2020

Red Gonipora - 3/3/2020

Duncan - 3/3/2020

Vivid's Clown Car Acan - 3/3/2020

Schizopolis Sunset - 3/3/2020

Pink Zippers Palys, Blondies Zoas, & Midnight Suns Zoas - 3/3/2020

Excaliber - 3/3/2020

Pink Millipora - 3/3/2020

 

[pelphrey]

Looks amazing! Wild all that fit into a 20 gallon!

 

[jwhall3]

Looks amazing! Wild all that fit into a 20 gallon!

Thanks, i really appreciate it. I love your Youtube videos BTW. I'm a long time subscriber.

 

[doodledreads]

Very impressive!

Question, Do you clean your sand during water changes?

 

[Jeto2004]

Wow super nice looking.......

 

[jwhall3]

Very impressive!

Question, Do you clean your sand during water changes?

Yes, I do a 10% (3 gal) water change every week and siphon the sand each time to pull out as much detritus as possible.

 

[jwhall3]

Wow super nice looking.......

Thanks a bunch!

 

[Maxx]

Can you post details on your equipment and your husbandry?
I’m sure that maintaining a heavy acro load in that tank is far from easy.

 

[Zoajohn]

Goals. Also anxious to see equipment and other specs

 

[JoshO]

Absolutely incredible! Love the garf bonsai!

 

[Montiman]

Probably the best all Kessil SPS tank I've seen. Congratulations

 

[Tahoe61]

Gorgeous tank, you should be proud.
To maintain the elements your just doing water changes?

 

[jwhall3]

I have updated the original post with some equipment details. More will be coming in the next couple of days. Thanks for the likes and comments.

Water Parameters

• Alkalinity: 7.5 - 8.0 dkh
• Calcium: 400 - 440 ppm
• Magnesium: 1380 - 1440 ppm
• Phosphates: 0.03 – 0.08 ppm
• Nitrates: 10 – 20 ppm
• Potassium: 400 ppm
• PH: 8.2 – 8.6

Equipment for the Display

• Tank: Aquamaxx 22 L (35”x12”x12”)
• Stand: Traditions, Red Mahogony color (36”x12”x30”H)
• Lighting: (3) Kessil A360WE with homemade hanging bracket
• Lighting: Neptune Lunar Simulator LED String, 2-LED
• Flow: (2) Maxspect Gyre XF230 Pumps (Only using one propeller cage per pump)
• Flow: (2) Vivid Random Flow Generators on the returns, ½” Loc-Line
• Rock: Custom insert by West Mariculture (28”x8”x5”H)
• Sand: CaribSea Special Grade
• Overflow: Eshopps Eclipse S

Equipment for the Sump & Filtration

• Sump: Bashsea, custom designed by me to fit the stand (35”x10”x15”H)
• Filter Cup: Red Sea 4” Filter Media Cup
• Skimmer: Eshopps S-120
• Skimmer Stand: Icecap Small Skimmer Stand (7”x6”)
• CO2 Scrubber: Bulk Reef Supply Universal CO2 Scrubber
• Reactor: Skimz ZAR-127 Automatic Zeolith Reactor
• Heater: (3) Cobalt Neo-Therm 75W Heaters
• Biological: Marine Pure 1.5” Spheres (1 gal box)
• Return: (2) Reef Octopus Varios 4 Pumps
• Dosing Line Holder: Printed Reefing Solutions 4 Line Holder (EuroBrace)
• Light: LED Light mounted for illumination during maintenance

Equipment for Control, Automation & Monitoring

• Controller: Neptune Systems Apex
• Neptune Systems Apex Modules & Sensors:
• FMK Flow Monitoring Kit (for monitoring drains & return lines)
• 1” Flow Sensor
• Lunar Simulation Module
• VDM Module (for controlling the return pumps & gyres)
• Break Out Box (Future projects such as emergency shutdown button, light settings toggle switch, & sump door switches for lights etc.)
• LDK (for monitoring leaks on the right & left sides of the tank)
• LD-2 Leak Probe (resting on top of skimmer lid to monitor for skimmer overflows)
• AFS (for feeding the fish while I’m away)
• (3) OS-1 Optical Sensors (for sump full, tank full, and ATO reservoir low alarms)
• Additional EB832 Energy Bar
• ATO: Neptune Systems ATK
• ATO Reservoir: Advanced Acrylics ATO111, custom sized (4”x12”x18”H)
• Doser: Neptune Systems DOS & DDR
• (2) Icecap Gyre Interface Modules
• (2) Icecap Battery Backups

 

[jwhall3]

Can you post details on your equipment and your husbandry?
I’m sure that maintaining a heavy acro load in that tank is far from easy.

I have updated the list of equipment. I will do my best to provide an update on maintenance and husbandry in the next day or two. Attention to detail is starting to pay dividends in growth and color, but I'm learning more and more each day why they say a nano tank is more difficult. The swings & problems happen wide and fast. Thanks for the comment.

 

[jwhall3]

Goals. Also anxious to see equipment and other specs

Just posted an update. More to follow in the next couple of days.

 

[jwhall3]

Absolutely incredible! Love the garf bonsai!

Thanks for the kind words. The GARF Bonsai is one of my favorites and was in my very first tank. When I took that tank down I gave the colony to my brother and it now resides in his main living room tank. I now have a frag of the same colony. Here are a few pictures that show the progression of when I received the frag from him until currently. Recently it has suffered some damage from a nearby coral, however it is starting to heal back up.

 

[jwhall3]

Probably the best all Kessil SPS tank I've seen. Congratulations

Thanks. I am a big fan of the simplicity that Kessil brings to the table. I believe that you really can't screw up spectrum with their Kessil Logic. I ramp them from blue (0%) to whiteish (55%) throughout the day and back to blue. They are not the brightest fixture, but they don't need to be. I have three, so each one roughly covers 1 square foot in my tank. I have them ramp up to 50% intensity where they stay most of the day. At 50% intensity my par fluctuates from 240 being the low to 315 being the high, measured across 25 points in my tank on the tops of my corals, rocks, and sand.

 

[jwhall3]

Gorgeous tank, you should be proud.
To maintain the elements your just doing water changes?

Thanks! Nope, I do weekly water changes of 3 gallons (10%), but I also add a slew of elements, additives, and food. I'm a big believer in heavy in and heavy out. With this coral mass per gallon, weekly water changes would not keep up or keep stability. Details on this will be posted in the next couple of days.

 

[JoshO]

Thanks for the kind words. The GARF Bonsai is one of my favorites and was in my very first tank. When I took that tank down I gave the colony to my brother and it now resides in his main living room tank. I now have a frag of the same colony. Here are a few pictures that show the progression of when I received the frag from him until currently. Recently it has suffered some damage from a nearby coral, however it is starting to heal back up.

That is honestly stunning! What sort of par levels do you keep it under?

 

[nickkohrn]

What a beautiful system! The corals make it seem so much larger.