29 Gallons of SPS

[29bonsaireef]

Partial FTS of my 29gal BioCube from this past summer. Pushing the limits on how much I can fit into this thing. Lots of new corals have been added since. I will update with new pics soon as I have time to trim back the seriatoporas, for they are blocking most corals from view now.

 

[Caseyoidae]

Wow, that's awesome!

 

[delv2323]

Awesome.....top down shot please!

 

[29bonsaireef]

Here are a few top down shots, last two are a little more recent

 

[29bonsaireef]

RR Kandari

 

[Xmoji]

You have basically proven to me I can fit WAY more in my 57 Gallon. Thank you.

 

[htownguy]

What kind of lighting are you using bonsaireef?

 

[htownguy]

What kind of lighting are you using bonsaireef?

 

[Zero Nitrates]

Beautiful reef!

 

[29bonsaireef]

You have basically proven to me I can fit WAY more in my 57 Gallon. Thank you.

This tank was sort of a project to see how much diversity can go into such little space. I have to say I'm surprised how well the corals move around each other and grow together with very minimal chemical warfare.

What kind of lighting are you using bonsaireef?

I use an ATI 6x24 power module with supplemental LEDs

Beautiful reef!

Thank you for the kind words

 

[jpa14]

Wow beautiful...

 

[29bonsaireef]

Took a bunch of pictures of my nano tank the other week. Here are a some random frags I've been growing for a few months, some are older than others. I will try to name the ones I know, but most are just brown/bleached frags I get from my LFS. Some photos are taken under T5 & LED others T5 only. I will try to keep updated on these frags as they progress.

Fox Flame

No Name

No Name

Bali SC

Purple Passion

No Name

No Name

Matt V Mirage

ASD Rainbow Milli

Pantera Rosa

WD

No Name Milli & Sarmentosa

CC Hayfever

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

How do you maintain your params? I imagine with all that sos keeping alk, ca, and mg stable would be hard.

 

[netdawg]

I'd love to hear the filtration you have lined up here, plus what flow total you have across how many heads?

 

[Mr.Rocc]

I'm with you guys!!! I want to hear the filtration

 

[revhtree]

Very beautiful!

 

[Ranjib]

This is awesome . Do you have a build thread ? I would love to know the details of dosing, food , wc etc.
This is one of the best sps heavy bicobe I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing

 

[29bonsaireef]

How do you maintain your params? I imagine with all that sos keeping alk, ca, and mg stable would be hard.

I'd love to hear the filtration you have lined up here, plus what flow total you have across how many heads?

I'm with you guys!!! I want to hear the filtration

It's a little tricky being such a small volume of water. You'd think I was crazy if I said I haven't tested my water in over a year. I dose Kalkwasser and Cal along with weekly 10 gal WC which is roughly 40-50%. I know the tank runs high in nutrients because algae grows everywhere I cant reach. Not GHA but bryopsis and other macro algae which I don't really mind as long as it doesn't get close to the corals I think it gives a more natural look. My guess is the macro algae helps with overall tank health.

It's a Biocube, I don't have a sump or any outside filtration attached. I run a NS-80 skimmer and have a little mangrove in the middle chamber with some of that blue filter sheet stuff. As for flow, I run an mp 10 at 100% pulsing flow, 2 3rd gen Hydor powerheads (2450gph) and return which isn't much.

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

It's a little tricky being such a small volume of water. You'd think I was crazy if I said I haven't tested my water in over a year. I dose Kalkwasser and Cal along with weekly 10 gal WC which is roughly 40-50%. I know the tank runs high in nutrients because algae grows everywhere I cant reach. Not GHA but bryopsis and other macro algae which I don't really mind as long as it doesn't get close to the corals I think it gives a more natural look. My guess is the macro algae helps with overall tank health.

It's a Biocube, I don't have a sump or any outside filtration attached. I run a NS-80 skimmer and have a little mangrove in the middle chamber with some of that blue filter sheet stuff. As for flow, I run an mp 10 at 100% pulsing flow, 2 3rd gen Hydor powerheads (2450gph) and return which isn't much.

You does kalk? Do you use an ato or a drip system?

 

[scotturban54]

Very very impressed with this bio cube, I keep telling my wife that I have been killing corals because my tank is too small making it too difficult...she must never see this.