50 Gallon SCA Tank

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Tank: SCA 50 Gallon Starfire Glass With Black Stand
Dimension 24x24x20

Wavemaker: Jebao PP-4 , Jebao PP-15 wavemaker

Return Pump: Jebao DCT Marine Controller Pump DCT 8000 - 12000
Lights: Hydra 52 HD, ( Aquatic Life Hybrid T5

Protein Skimmer: SCA-301 skimmer
ATO: JBJ Automatic Water Top Off
Dosing Pump: Jebao DP-4 Dosing ( 2 parts from B-Ionic )
Refugium Lights: Hipargeo Aquarium LED LIGHT
NEPTUNE APEX EL

Livestock


  • Starry Blenny
  • 1 Clownfish
  • Purple Tang
  • Yellow Tang
  • Potter's Angel
 
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Aqua Japan
Here’s a shot of the Wyoming white hosting the mushroom.
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Congrats!

So the second image is an existing tank?
 
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Sorry for the poor quality pics, lol some pics were a screenshot of my old video. SCA 50 Gallon Tank. Decide to transfer all my water and rocks to the new 50 SCA tank, all the livestock were in the bucket until, everything was plumbed and ready to go.

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couple month ago, I overdose on alkalinity, and the corals took a major hit! basically my alk was at 16!! everything mostly died beside the fishes

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What the tank used to look like before the crash happen lol.

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After month of high alkalinity , the tank is back to normal here a FTS, most of the coral melted away.
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Decided to plumb the aqua japan tank into my main dt, using the same sump. I ran a pvc connecting to hang in the back overflow. I believe it is a nano eshopps overflow. Using a vinyl tubing to connect to my return pump also added a ball valve to increase or decrease the return output.

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Cover the ugly pipe work, I added a nightstand.
Decided to plumb the old japan aqua into a frag tank, I ran some pvc pipe connecting to hang in the back overflow into my main tank, use vinyl tubing for the return.

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Here's the filtration sump, pretty messy stuff down there :)

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Some corals that I picked up from @vuqchu & @BSA Corals
  • Rmf Acid trip millie
  • Tck pikachu
  • Cb bubble gum digi
  • WD acro
  • WWC grafted cap
  • WWC sunfire cap
  • BSA shock tart acro

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Also upgraded the hydra 24hd to hydra 52hd!!

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Last week stop by @Mr V house’s to check out his amazing tank and his amazing collection of sps!! End up buying RR lady in pink and ASD red table! @Mr V is very generous with his cut! Look how chunky it is. If you guys happen to be around California in the oc area you should hit him up.

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Had to move the tank to a different room, went to target to buy plastic containers. First step drain the water out and net the fish.
1st container were for the livestock and 2nd container were for the live rock. Also I removed all the sand so now the tank is bare bottom!

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Today I went to coral farmers market swap in Buena Park and visited exotic frag booth, purchased JF Fox flame and paletta pink tip acro.

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Welcome back guys!!

Got a new equipment to play with!! I finally decide to buy the aquatic life t5 hybrid!! To take away the shadowing, man the t5 and led combo are insane!!!

Also bought the universal mount.

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