40g custom acrylic cube

[cbort]

Hi, My name is Curtis. This is my custom acrylic 40g cube. I am new to the boards, but been in the hobby for about 5 years.
Tank:
24x24x15T Custom Acrylic Cube built by ASD of KC, MO.
Oddysea 250W HQI with 2x65 actinics. Running a 20k bulb
10g sump w/a QuietOne 6000 Return pump.
Skimmerless w/ 5g water changes weekly.
Custom SeaLife Chiller

Inhabitants:
paif of Yellow stripe Maroon Clowns
2 firefish
1 blue/yellow damsel
1 Coral banded shrimp
Mixed reef with LPS, zoas, palys, rics, clams, some SPS, 3 GBTAs

 

[mevstheworld]

VERY NICE setup. I always like seeing other skimmerless tanks.

 

[revhtree]

Sweet cube!!

 

[ahayes13]

nice cube, love the tank! everything looks great

 

[kev2me]

I like the cube setups, very nice.

What's on those post it notes? I see names of zoas.

 

[oceanparadise1]

WOW! Awsome looking tank!

 

[cbort]

Thanks guys! Sorry about the post it notes, a guy was wanting a frag of each type of zoanthid that i had at the time, so i was trying to get a list together for him. At the time it was only about 25 morphs i shouldn't have had that hard of time, but now i have close to 50 morphs! I think i need more stickies!

 

[cbort]

new pics updated...

newer pics...

 

[cbort]

 

[cbort]

ok... picture time again! I had a heck of a time getting out the clowns and all my rock work caved in, so i re-aquascaped. I picked up tons of new zoa frags over the last few weeks so my tank is also scattered with frags awaiting their new home in my new frag tank. Also, came across a deal i couldn't pass up on purple tangs, i got 3....they will be moved to my upcoming frag tank that is currently in the works. As of right now they are cleaning up my display tank. They fought the first day that they were in the tank, but now they get along and swim with each other. You can still tell which one is the alpha tang, but currently there has been no picking on one another. Please don't bash me about the tangs, as i know of their requirements and they will have a nice home very soon! Thanks for looking!

 

[cbort]

cut up a nice long piece of egg crate and cleaned up the frags on my sand bed. Looks better in person...

This is 4 pics from the far left side to the right side.

And some random pics....

 

[cbort]

Getting ready to move!! I am getting excited! My new place has a living room dining room connected with a 3-4' dividing wall on either side, and my wife has given me the ok to have a cube on each side of the wall. That means both tanks will share a chiller, Sump , Refugium , heater, and misc filtration! I am pretty stoked about this because that is what has been stopping me from setting up a second display tank. I hate dealing with heat issues, doing water changes on multiple tanks, topping off multiple tanks etc etc etc.... So this will be pretty cool, 1 waterchange, 1 system to top off, my chiller heater combo does the trick on temp, and 1 system to to dose. SWEET!




Got a quick question. I love the amount of flow i get with each of my pumps one uses a QuietOne 6000 and the other uses a CA5000. Here are my thoughts on plumbing these tanks:
- the place i am moving to i will be renting. So no holes drilled in walls.
- Tanks will be sitting back to back on the edge of a wall dividing two rooms.
- I want to use both pumps to as full potential as possible. I will be using ball valves on each.
- I was thinking about putting the Sump in one stand and my Refugium in the other tanks stand.
- Drains will actually drain into each others stands.

My idea is to wrap the drains around the wall into the other's stand, then the water will flow straight up into the tank, and then again drain back to the other stand. I am not able to keep a Sump and Refugium into each stand, so i will keep 1 of each in each others stands. My only concern is having 1 pump not able to keep up with the other pump or drain keeping up with the other drain. So i figured as long as i have large enough drains that can handle both pumps, then i will balance the pumps out (which is ok because the CA5000 will kick the QuietOne 6000's ****! and needs to be dialed down a bit anyway) until they are evenly draining and returning water into each tank.

What am i leaving out, is there an easier way?

 

[cbort]

Last couple pics before my move. Livestock will be split up between my two cubes next week....

 

[lvsuckerfish]

now that is a full tank nice. good job with it

 

[Suppressivefire]

tank looks great!

 

[cloakerpoked]

lookin forward to seeing new pics after the move. Don't know if I've seen a tank that needed upgraded as badly as yours does

 

[cloakerpoked]

Getting ready to move!! I am getting excited! My new place has a living room dining room connected with a 3-4' dividing wall on either side, and my wife has given me the ok to have a cube on each side of the wall. That means both tanks will share a chiller, Sump , Refugium , heater, and misc filtration! I am pretty stoked about this because that is what has been stopping me from setting up a second display tank. I hate dealing with heat issues, doing water changes on multiple tanks, topping off multiple tanks etc etc etc.... So this will be pretty cool, 1 waterchange, 1 system to top off, my chiller heater combo does the trick on temp, and 1 system to to dose. SWEET!




Got a quick question. I love the amount of flow i get with each of my pumps one uses a QuietOne 6000 and the other uses a CA5000. Here are my thoughts on plumbing these tanks:
- the place i am moving to i will be renting. So no holes drilled in walls.
- Tanks will be sitting back to back on the edge of a wall dividing two rooms.
- I want to use both pumps to as full potential as possible. I will be using ball valves on each.
- I was thinking about putting the Sump in one stand and my Refugium in the other tanks stand.
- Drains will actually drain into each others stands.

My idea is to wrap the drains around the wall into the other's stand, then the water will flow straight up into the tank, and then again drain back to the other stand. I am not able to keep a Sump and Refugium into each stand, so i will keep 1 of each in each others stands. My only concern is having 1 pump not able to keep up with the other pump or drain keeping up with the other drain. So i figured as long as i have large enough drains that can handle both pumps, then i will balance the pumps out (which is ok because the CA5000 will kick the QuietOne 6000's ****! and needs to be dialed down a bit anyway) until they are evenly draining and returning water into each tank.

What am i leaving out, is there an easier way?

Not sure if what you're thinking will work. Even if one pump is 1 gph faster than the other, the increased water pressure in the rising sump/fuge won't speed up its respective pump. You could drill a bulkhead in both sumps and connect them so they essentially function as the same tank. Since you'll already have some exposed plumbing between them from what I understand, this won't be a problem for you. It would be safer to do things that way anyway IMO.

 

[Tswifty]

3 Purple Tangs... That's awesome!

 

[cbort]

lookin forward to seeing new pics after the move. Don't know if I've seen a tank that needed upgraded as badly as yours does

Ya mine is very full! I have about 50 different zoa frags that need to grow into colonies, so one of my cubes will be dedicated to just zoas.

 

[cbort]

Not sure if what you're thinking will work. Even if one pump is 1 gph faster than the other, the increased water pressure in the rising sump/fuge won't speed up its respective pump. You could drill a bulkhead in both sumps and connect them so they essentially function as the same tank. Since you'll already have some exposed plumbing between them from what I understand, this won't be a problem for you. It would be safer to do things that way anyway IMO.

Ya i have thought everything through, and i will just put a refugium and a sump (connected) in one stand. Put both pumps in that stand also, and route both drains to that one stand. Should workout better this way.