37g Bow Front

Murr7 · Apr 16, 2016

Well I have been lurking around the tank threads for the last 2 weeks after becoming a member and it makes me want to share my own tank story. I have had my current tank up and running for a little over a year now and it has been progressing nicely. Here's the skinny on the tank.

Equipment
Seaclear 37g bow front
DIY 40g breeder sump/refugium
SCA 301 skimmer
2 TLF 150 biopellet and phosban carbon in media bag
2 hydra 26 with director
2 hydor koralia 850? With hydor smart wave
Hydor ATO
RODI 40gpd

Fish
Mated Black clowns
6 line wrasse
Transparent cave goby

Inverts
Derasa clam
Purple tip Sebae
2 peppermint shrimp
1 cleaner
Snails
Blue orange pistol shrimp

Coral
Red and green monticap
Triple color acro
Bonsai acro
Blue green tenuis acro
Green digita
Bali slime
Ponape birdsnest
Blue tort
Superman Monti
Torch
Green toadstool
Zoas, palys, mushrooms

Murr7 · Apr 16, 2016

Sorry thought I attached pics haha here they are.

The last 2 pictures are from earlier this month, I had to make due with only one hydra because a heat sensor went bad in one and the fan wouldn't turn on.

Murr7 · Apr 16, 2016

Here's a fts from today after cleaning the glass.

themcnertney · Apr 28, 2016

Thanks for stopping by last night. Hope your coral acclimate well. Should be some nice additions to your already awesome tank.

Murr7 · Apr 28, 2016

Dan McNertney said:
Thanks for stopping by last night. Hope your coral acclimate well. Should be some nice additions to your already awesome tank.

Thanks for the generous pieces, the polyps were out last night on the echinata. I hope those pieces I gave you grow out into nice colonies.

vlangel · Apr 28, 2016

Nice tank and some beautiful flourishing coral. I never saw a bowfront that big that is rimless. It has a nice clean look. I like bowfronts because of the depth for scaping but the cleaning the front glass not so much, ha ha!

Murr7 · Apr 28, 2016

vlangel said:
Nice tank and some beautiful flourishing coral. I never saw a bowfront that big that is rimless. It has a nice clean look. I like bowfronts because of the depth for scaping but the cleaning the front glass not so much, ha ha!

Thank you very much for the compliments. It's actually not rimless, there is a acrylic top, I don't have a good picture to show it. Cleaning this one is tough because of the depth (30").

Murr7 · Jun 3, 2016

I finally have some time to give the year (plus a few months) in review from my tank. I will start from the stand I built, all the way to current state of affairs. I have pictures from my phone so they tend to be a little blued out, sorry in advance.

Stand was built from oak flooring and 3/4" plywood, for rock I started with dry rock, used a mixture of different small grain sands and a cup of sand from my previous tanks refugium.

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jsker · Jun 3, 2016

Looking forward to it

Murr7 · Jun 3, 2016

Over the last year I've aquired corals and had successful growth.

About 1"

October of last year

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Murr7 · Jun 3, 2016

These are the corals in the qt before going into the new tank 1 year ago.

The red monticap is in the same pic as the sps. The toadstool actually out grew my tank and I passed it along to a fellow reefer @Dan McNertney.

Murr7 · Jun 3, 2016

Over the last year I've been bit by the spa bug here's some of my pieces from when I bought them till now.

Green digi stick Aug last year

I moved it to a new spot and it took off, current pic.

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Murr7 · Jun 3, 2016

I will post more tomorrow to get better shots of current inhabitants.

Murr7 · Jun 5, 2016

Heres some more current shots of the tank.

Murr7 · Jun 5, 2016

That's all the good pictures I could take today.

themcnertney · Jun 22, 2016

How's things going?

Murr7 · Jun 22, 2016

Dan McNertney said:
How's things going?

Ehh it's going, been out of town working. Bought a couple of frags and picked up some red bugs so I tore out all acros and quarentined them. I got rid of the bugs and I got to reorganize the frags. I need to clean the glass when I get home and I'll snap sone photos. Your tank looks fantastic.

themcnertney · Jun 23, 2016

Murr7 said:
Ehh it's going, been out of town working. Bought a couple of frags and picked up some red bugs so I tore out all acros and quarentined them. I got rid of the bugs and I got to reorganize the frags. I need to clean the glass when I get home and I'll snap sone photos. Your tank looks fantastic.

Oh no. I have never had red bugs, hope I never do. How did you rid them? Look forward to seeing some photos.

Murr7 · Jun 24, 2016

I used a couple of strong Bayer dips and a week of quarentine. It did the trick but was stressful on the corals because of the multiple dips and a sterile quarentine.

The glass is dirty and I have some algae growing on 1 rock, power went out and the powerheads went to constant lowest setting. This is what it looked like today when I got home from being out of town.