Aquaone MiniReef Blog

[LeadHead83]

This is my first marine tank after converting from freshwater. I will be looking forward to keeping a blog on this build and seeing what the community think and would like comments and feedback from the community on things I can do to improve my mini reef over the next few years.

Tank:	Equipment:	Corals:	Live Stock:
Manufacture: Aquaone Model: MiniReef 90 Volume In Litres: 90 Dimensions: 45Wx45Dx45H cm Glass Thickness: 8mm	Filtration: Sump TMC Reef 200 Skimmer TMC Nano Reactor Lighting: MariGlo 15W LED Return Pump: Ehime Heaters: 2x 150w Wave Maker: TMC Reef Mini	GSP Green Star Polyp Duncan Acan's Montipora Capricornis Red Blue Summit Montipora Kenya Tree Bam Bam Orange Zoanthids	Clownfish Strawberry Basslet Emerald Crab Astarea Snail

 

[LeadHead83]

This was before i purchased the tank

Major issue with Aiptasia and Algae i know most of you would probably just walk away from tank like this but i like the challenge.

 

[LeadHead83]

This was my first rock scape and just through the rock in after moving the tank to my house and left it for few days to settle before looking at a better scape. i scrubbed most of the rocks off before placing them in the tank which removed most of the aiptasia and algae.

 

[LeadHead83]

After leaving the tank to settle for 24 hours i started a treatment of Aiptasia X on any of the ones that i missed while scrubbing the rocks after few days started to get on top of them now just have a few left that will be treating again in few days

 

[LeadHead83]

visited the LFS and picked up some epoxy and built a better rock scape with plenty of gaps and shelfs which to place corals to grow fixed some of the frags to rock work and GSP to the back wall as like that carpeting effect you can get across the back of the tank.

I have also had a good clean-up of the coralline algae growing on back of the tank and wave make and on the glass turned wave maker and sump return off for 30 mins and let algae settle in tank on the rocks and have notice new coralline algae growth on the rocks in last few days.

 

[LeadHead83]

Just ordered a new Light fixture for the tank check back tomorrow to see what i will be upgrading too.

 

[LeadHead83]

I've treated the tank to nice upgrade and got an AI Prime 16 HD in white to match the tank it looks nice so much better then the Aqua one Mariglo

I'm using the lighting profile from AI Website that David Saxby has shared and wow is all i can say its running amazingly really seeing difference in the corals already.

I'm well impressed with the new light. I'm already seeing massive difference in my mushrooms and Zoa's and its only been less then 24hrs seeing better polyp extension from my GSP and Duncan is loving it he looks so much happier now.

The Montiporia that had just purchased that had started to bleaching out i think a bit from light stress of the old Mariglo has turned right around over night and looking much better bleaching has almost gone already

 

[LeadHead83]

Just little update

well as expected while I got the new light dialled in we had little bit of algae out break so we wrapped the tank up for 48 hours and had a black out. Algae is has now subside enough I’ve reduced the intensity and photo period to 8 hours.

New live stock
2 Scarlet hermits
1 Peppermint shrimp
3 Nassarius Snails
1 Yellow Wrasse

Bit of a boost to clean up crew and Peppermint shrimp to finish off the small Aiptasia that are hard to treat with Aiptasia X.

 

[LeadHead83]

Algae problem is under control now tanks looking loads better

Add some new Corals

1x Pulsing Xenia
1x German Blue Montipora digitata
1x Platygyra Maze
2x frags of GSP
1x Small colony of Radio Active Dragon Eye Zoanthoid
1x frag of unknown Zoanthoid

 

[Andynz2000]

any updates

 

[LeadHead83]

any updates

Ive not been on Reef to Reef for a few years I have had few other tanks since this one i still have the tank but its shut down soon to be used for frag tank before i shut it down it did look like this

Most of live stock went on to live in a lager tank before being sold to move house i kept a few bits

Im now two years into a new 500ltr tank which ill get added at some point was bit of mess when i got it but after a little bit of work