25 Gallon Waterbox AIO Peninsula

[R1chardTugnutz]

Hello everyone!

Thanks for taking the time to check out my 25 Gallon Waterbox AIO Peninsula

The tank was started in November 2024 when my partner convinced me to jump back in to the hobby after a 10+ year hiatus. Please reach out to me if you have any questions! I'll be updating this thread as much as I can as well.

Tank Information
• Dimensions (LxWxH): 600 x 400 x 400mm (23.6" x 15.7" x 15.7")
• Display Volume: 90L / 23.7gal
• Glass Thickness: 6mm

Filter Information
• Filter sock changed out once a week
• Activated carbon changed out every 3 - 4 weeks

Lighting Information
• Aquailumination AI Prime 16 HD Reef

Flow Information
• Aquillumination Nero 3

Feeding Information
• 1.2 mm Sustainable Aquatics Hatchery Diet pellets - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• 1.5 ml Brightwell Aquatics PhytoGreen-S and .5 ml Seachem Reef Zoo Plankton fed every Monday andThursday.
• Frozen mysis and brine shrimp every Thursday.

Maintenece Schedule
• Weekly 2.5 gallon water change
• Daily glass cleaning

Livestock (Fish and Inverts)
• 2x Occilaris Clownfish
• 1 Blue Neon Goby
• 4 Astrea Snails
• 1 Emerald crab
• 5 Blue leg hermit crabs
• 1 Porcelan crab
• 1 Pompom Crab
• 1 Derasa clam
• 1 Skunk cleaner shrimp

Coral (Edit with up to date coral soon)
• 5x Acropora
• 5x Zoanthids
• 1 Torch
• 1 Frogspawn
• 1 Hammer
• 2 Mushroom
• 2 Montipora digitata
• 1 Plate Coral
• 2x Acans

6 month difference below

 

[Shanel]

Nice job, tank looks great

 

[dart]

Looks amazing. Did you start with live rock ? How are the acros doing under prime 16HD?

 

[Raptor72]

Welcome back. I'm also running a WB 25 along with a WB 330.7 and love the tanks. Following along

 

[R1chardTugnutz]

Looks amazing. Did you start with live rock ? How are the acros doing under prime 16HD?

Sorry for my late response. I seeded the tank with live sand and one piece of rock form an existing tank. The rest is man made stuff. Truth be told I'm really happy with it. The light is wonderful. As long as the SPS are at least half way up the growth is fantastic. The pictures are 6 months apart. Same Acro.

 

[Tahoe61]

Very very nice. Great growth on that Acropora.

 

[R1chardTugnutz]

Welcome back. I'm also running a WB 25 along with a WB 330.7 and love the tanks. Following along

Thanks for the warm welcome. I clicked on your link in your profile but I think it's sending me to the 330.7. Do you have a link to your 25? I would love to see what you did!

 

[Raptor72]

I haven't made a thread for that tank just yet. I'm still putting the Hydros controller together and getting some GHA under control, it's in the works though.

 

[Sinkers]

Do you have issues with the Wavemaker pulling debris away from your overflow having it positioned there? I tried it on that side and could see it sucking stuff away from the overflow preventing it from filtering out.

 

[Raptor72]

bump

 

[R1chardTugnutz]

Do you have issues with the Wavemaker pulling debris away from your overflow having it positioned there? I tried it on that side and could see it sucking stuff away from the overflow preventing it from filtering out.

I haven't noticed any of the filtration acting strange with the Wavemaker positioning. I have added a little more power to the Wavemaker since the SPS have grown so much.

 

[R1chardTugnutz]

bump

Sorry for the late reposne! Been dealing with some really nasty hair algea but other than that things are progressing well! For some reason I can't seem to keep snails and crabs alive for more than a couple days but some have survivied. The tank will be a year old in 4 days!

 

[R1chardTugnutz]

Hey everyone! I hope your new year has gone well so far. I wanted to post a little update. Started to do some auto dosing. While I was dialing that in I had a massive hair algea outbreak that caused some stress to some corals. I'll admit I lost some and almost lost a few but they seem to be recovering. The torch is a good example of this. My SPS coral are doing well aside from the montipora because I fought off a ton of nudibranchs. Dips helped. I've finally dialed in the dosing for PH and Alk, the green hair is getting way more manegable and the tank is starting to look stable. 1 year 2 months in.

Here's a fullt tank shot and some growth differences on an acro frag. Cheers!

 

[Tahoe61]

Looks fantastic.

Can you refresh my memory on dosing products, method of dosing and amount?

Is that a Vivid Confetti?

 

[JoJosReef]

Hello everyone!

Thanks for taking the time to check out my 25 Gallon Waterbox AIO Peninsula

The tank was started in November 2024 when my partner convinced me to jump back in to the hobby after a 10+ year hiatus. Please reach out to me if you have any questions! I'll be updating this thread as much as I can as well.

Tank Information
• Dimensions (LxWxH): 600 x 400 x 400mm (23.6" x 15.7" x 15.7")
• Display Volume: 90L / 23.7gal
• Glass Thickness: 6mm

Filter Information
• Filter sock changed out once a week
• Activated carbon changed out every 3 - 4 weeks

Lighting Information
• Aquailumination AI Prime 16 HD Reef

Flow Information
• Aquillumination Nero 3

Feeding Information
• 1.2 mm Sustainable Aquatics Hatchery Diet pellets - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• 1.5 ml Brightwell Aquatics PhytoGreen-S and .5 ml Seachem Reef Zoo Plankton fed every Monday andThursday.
• Frozen mysis and brine shrimp every Thursday.

Maintenece Schedule
• Weekly 2.5 gallon water change
• Daily glass cleaning

Livestock (Fish and Inverts)
• 2x Occilaris Clownfish
• 1 Blue Neon Goby
• 4 Astrea Snails
• 1 Emerald crab
• 5 Blue leg hermit crabs
• 1 Porcelan crab
• 1 Pompom Crab
• 1 Derasa clam
• 1 Skunk cleaner shrimp

Coral (Edit with up to date coral soon)
• 5x Acropora
• 5x Zoanthids
• 1 Torch
• 1 Frogspawn
• 1 Hammer
• 2 Mushroom
• 2 Montipora digitata
• 1 Plate Coral
• 2x Acans

6 month difference below

Love the cycloseris plate! Nice build. I'm in the WB25gP club as well.

 

[R1chardTugnutz]

Looks fantastic.

Can you refresh my memory on dosing products, method of dosing and amount?

Is that a Vivid Confetti?

Hey! Sure thing, I'm using Eight.Four and Ions. I'm dosing 6 ML per day of the Eight.Four at 1.5 ML each dose for a total of 4 doses. On the Ions I'm doing 3 ML per day at 1 ML per does 3 times a day... If that makes sense. i'm currently using the Aquavitro Sentia dosers. They work well so far. The only Issue I'm having is the Eight.Four tends to solidify on the line. Because of this the Alk has been hard to sablize.

The acro is a Vivid Confetti!

Hope this helps!

 

[TheNative192]

gorgeous tank! Following along.

 

[R1chardTugnutz]

Love the cycloseris plate! Nice build. I'm in the WB25gP club as well.

Just checked yours out. Love it. I want to do an LPS, softie and macro tank soon. I think I'll eventually upgrade this current set up to something bigger in that spot and then use this current tank somewhere else in the house.

 

[R1chardTugnutz]

Just wanted to let everyne know about the recent test I did. I'm still struggling with the dang Alk but I'll get there eventually.

SG: 1.026
Alk: 6.5
PH: 7.9
Phos: 0
Calcium: 474
Mag: 1389
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 0
Nitirite: 0

 

[R1chardTugnutz]

Wanted to give a little FTSF love and give everyone an update. The tank is doing ok. I keep strugging with PH issues and the nudibranch issue finally killed my montipora. I'll wait a couple of years before I try another one to make sure they die off in the tank as I don't have enough room for a wrasse.

My torch is making a stellar comeback and some other stuff that got shocked seems to be doing okay.

Good news is that the dang hair alge is almost gone. All fish are accounted for and I succssfully switched out the melted lense and fan on the AI Prime so it saved me a ton of money.


Hope you all have a wonderfull weekend!