apex003's JBJ 30RL grow out

[apex003]

Thought I'd start a thread to track the grow out in my JBJ 30g rimless. I've always wanted to keep an SPS dominated reef, so this is my attempt...

As of today (8/25/15) the system is about 3 months old and I've basically filled it to the brim with frags. I don't have a lot of pics of the build, so I thought I'd take it from today and hopefully track the system as it continues to mature.

Some specs:
30g JBJ rimless tank
Neptune Apex controller
150W Sunpod running a 14k Phoenix
Kessil A150 deep ocean for blue supplement
MP10QD with battery backup
Oceanic 1/10hp chiller
Litermeter III doing ATO and 2-part
Remora HOB skimmer
Innovative Marine mid-size reactor running GFO and GAC
150W Ebo Jäger heater

Livestock:
Mis-barred Swissguard basket
Midas blenny
Black and white clown fish
Scarlet hermits
Trocus grazers
25# of real reef live rock
20# Caribsea live sand

SPS:
RR wolverine
RR the vihn
JF fox flame
PC superman table
Banana lokani
Oregon tort
Cali tort
ORA red planet
ATL purple simplex
Strawberry shortcake
Red dragon
Pacman
Hawkins echinata
Shade of fall nasuta
Pink lemonade
Red mille
Pink pocillopora
AC red table
Purple monster (coming soon)
Icefire echinata (coming soon)
Pearlberry (coming soon)
RR orange passion (coming soon)
Blue matrix (coming soon)

LPS:
Bicolor hammer
Radioactive caulastrea
Dendrophyllia
Red fungia plate

Softie:
Jawbreaker mushroom

 

[apex003]

And some pictures, of course...

 

[apex003]

 

[apex003]

 

[apex003]

Wow! I totally forgot I started this thread... Clearly I'm not great at keeping a build thread updated. Here's what I'm dealing with now...

 

[Maddlesrain]

HOT DAYYYUMM! Look’n good!

 

[apex003]

And an updated coral list. It's kinda neat to see that I still have some of the pieces from when I originally posted... And pretty amazing how much a coral hoarder can cram into 30 gallons.

SPS:
JF Homewrecker
TGC Inner core
RR Lady in Pink
RR wolverine
RR the vihn
RR pink cadillac
JF fox flame
Walt disney
JF Beach Bum
Alter ego monti
JF Frankenberry monti
$500 Efflo
JF Superman stylo
Looney tunes stylo
Tyree monti stellata
Reefnub pink panther
Wild irish rose
Wishin2boutside Raspberry Cheesecake
Pikachu
PC superman table
Oregon tort
Cali tort
Northern lights loripes
Hawkins echinata
Shade of fall nasuta
Pink lemonade
Red mille
Rainbow mille
Green gemmefera
Blue spathulata
Purple monster
Icefire echinata
Pearlberry
Blue matrix
ORA blue polyp acro
HTA green tenuis
HTA hawaiian breeze tenuis

LPS:
Warpaint bowerbanki
Bleeding apple scoly
Orange indo scoly
RR Ironman blasto
WWC solar flare blasto
Red/green blasto
Green blasto
Purple/orange blasto
Black cherry blasto
Black sun coral

Softie:
Jawbreaker mushroom
OG bounce
SC pink passions
Speckled krak zoas
Spiderman zoas
RR Diablo zoas
RR Poinsettia zoas

 

[apex003]

HOT DAYYYUMM! Look’n good!

Thank you!

 

[Chrisfish]

Absolutely beautiful!!

 

[apex003]

Absolutely beautiful!!

Thank you Chrisfish!

 

[apex003]

Some macros:

 

[apt220]

Beautiful tank! You still running the halide and kessil combo from 2015?

 

[apt220]

dp

 

[apex003]

Beautiful tank! You still running the halide and kessil combo from 2015?

Thank you apt! I’m not... I’ve been running an ATI hybrid T5/LED fixture. The bulbs are 2 B+ and 2 actinic.

 

[apex003]

My bounce has gotten quite large!

 

[cboltsd01]

Wow! I totally forgot I started this thread... Clearly I'm not great at keeping a build thread updated. Here's what I'm dealing with now...

You have any fish in there [emoji102]

 

[apex003]

You have any fish in there [emoji102]

I do but it hides a lot (and I don’t want to get flamed... )

 

[apex003]

JF Homewrecker top down

 

[MartyF]

Very nice! What parameters do you run?

 

[apex003]

Very nice! What parameters do you run?

Thanks MartyF! Current params are:

SG: 1.026
Ca: 420
Alk: 9.9
Mg: 1410
P: 0.18
N: 0 (but I do dose stump remover and the tank seems to consume about 2ppm of N per day)