75G Jinzuan Tank Build

[JAS927]

Tonight we purchased this Jinzuan 75G tank. It’ll be pick up and delivered by a cross country shipping company on Feb 17/18 and should arrive to us shortly thereafter!

I know there are some who dislike any shaped tanks due to the distortion they cause at certain viewing angles. I feel this aquarium just fits the bill for being more a furniture piece in our space instead of a typical glass box.

The 60G reef build in the octagon aquarium has been coming along very nicely but there were a lot of downfalls. First, the size: I don’t want to go too big and 75 was the max for this reef. Just the extra 15G will be nice. Second is the shape. With just 12’ viewing panels, it’s hard to enjoy looking at the reef. There is a LOT of problems with refraction and you can’t actually see most of what’s in it due to the location is needs to stay in order to be child-proofed.

Here’ a pic of the new aquarium as it sits now.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Following along!

 

[JAS927]

The aquarium is currently en route and should arrive within the hour!

 

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It’s only 75G but the obligatory “tank arrival” pictures as it’s unloaded lol …from a security camera as an afterthought

 

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It’s taken 8 hours moving everything over to the new tank. Everyone is accounted for and doing well. I just tossed all of the frags in the front to deal with later when the water clears up a bit…and I needed to head out shortly after getting everything moved.

 

[JAS927]

Everything settled in to the new tank and is thriving! The OG Duncan has 3 new heads emerging at once on the one visible side at the front of the tank, and everyone else has been growing too! The few fishy inhabitants are loving the extra swim room!

 

[kevgib67]

The corals look happy, following.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

tank is looking great

 

[steveschuerger]

Looking good so far. Any updates?

 

[JAS927]

Everything seems to be growing and thriving! I’ve been battling cyano for about a month - it’s been a lot of constant dusting off corals and removing what I can. I had a hair algae bloom for a bit but that’s seemingly gone now after lots of meticulous pulling it out with tweezers for a month straight!
Here’s a few pics of what’s going on!

Current (yea it needs a cleaning and water change/top up but life hasn’t given me the time to do that this week!) Lots of frags, but all are growing very well!
I’m disliking the lack of space for a sump under this tank. The under side is split in the centre with a solid divider. So under one side I have electrical cords and a large canister filter with UV and the other side is carbon and phos reactors. Due to this, I’ve had to increase the number of hoses and equipment that stays in the tank. I don’t have a solution for this just yet. The pump to the reactors on the right could be made neater. I haven’t had time lately to work on anything so I keep the hose up at the top to get some surface movement and incase of a power outage I don’t want to siphon the whole tank out - I discovered the reactors leak slowly. I replaced o-rings, tightened them appropriately, etc and there’s still water escaping ever so slowly that creeps up the threads. The skimmer and UV on the left don’t bother me as much.

Duncan, since it was one of the first corals added to this tank when it was contained in the octagon aquarium (see old tank thread)
It has 8 new heads that it’s growing all at once right now!

Very chubby mandarin we’ve had for a few months now

Stomatella friend spotted under the Kenya tree one day!

The little urchin who carries around full on frag plugs lol

Mr Steven Tyler the arrow crab that has devoured 1 large scarlet hermit, 1 green clown goby, and 1 pompom crab. I now feed him every second day with a chunk of shrimp scallop when I feed Dean (snowflake eel.) It’s seemed to have stopped his destructive rampages.

Torch that was added….it currently splitting, as are both the hammers.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Here is the Toadstool leather coral waiting in my 20 gallon for you tomorrow. Polyps are popping out nicely, it was fragged from my larger one in my DT

 

[JAS927]

Here is the Toadstool leather coral waiting in my 20 gallon for you tomorrow. Polyps are popping out nicely, it was fragged from my larger one in my DT

Very excited to pick it up!!