Aquatop 24gal Display

[Evan28395950]

Hey everyone, I finally am managing to start my build thread. Currently this tank is coming up on being 6 months old. I started out with everything stock (came with tank, some mechanical filtration, pump, skimmer, and sponge). The tank is pretty good quality, no leaks so far! The skimmer was a different story, it barely ever produced any skim. So I upgraded to the Coral Life biocube skimmer, and it works like a charm. The media was O.K., but now I run a phosnet, chemi-pure elite, and purigen. Kept the pump, and added around a 500gph sicce powerhead. I have mainly live rock, and one piece of non. Corals: Two flowerpots, hammer coral, frammer coral (Hammer + Frogspawn), rose anemone, palm tree coral (forgot official name), and a colony of trumpet corals. Fish: Valentini Puffer, two clowns, bicolor blenny. My light is a Hydra 26 HD. Thanks for reading! (I’ll add tank picture tomorrow).

 

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Photo

 

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Here’s some photos. Also pro tip: don’t place tanks on marble tables, once salt water gets on there erosion in the table occurs. I am learning that the hard way

 

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Photos

 

[NY_Caveman]

Looking great! You can probably grow anything with that light.

 

[Evan28395950]

Looking great! You can probably grow anything with that light.

Thanks! Only thing I regret doing was placing the tank on a marble table. Whenever saltwater gets on it, it starts to crack in small pieces

 

[Evan28395950]

Thanks! Only thing I regret doing was placing the tank on a marble table. Whenever saltwater gets on it, it starts to crack in small pieces

Oh nevermind looks I already said that my build thread

 

[Evan28395950]

Picture of tank in mostly blue. Plan are to move the trumpet to more shade, and move frogspawn because it’s gotten so big that it covers the hammer. Bonus: picture of wwc og bounce mushroom

 

[Evan28395950]

Forgot to mention, wwc bounce came from @rock_lobster Legit and friendly seller

 

[rock_lobster]

Forgot to mention, wwc bounce came from @rock_lobster Legit and friendly seller

Thanks for the feedback and don’t worry that cup will purple-up soon enough lol. Actually makes a really good shroom holder lol.

 

[Evan28395950]

Quick Update:
So I’ve determined that I’ll probably never be able to keep trumpets and Favias while I have my pufferfish, lol. All other corals are thriving. Added some snails yesterday to help with green hair algae, and will be doing a wc on Friday. Photo with uv filter

 

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Also planning to remove aiptasia tomorrow

 

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Update photo on the bounce mushroom, it’s looking healthy. This photo was taken right after I disturbed it by replacing the top of container it’s in, so bubbles are not as big as they usually are. I noticed a bunch of tiny clear bubbles in the back of mushroom (not visible in picture, I’ll try to upload one soon). Hopefully it continues to grow fast!

 

[rock_lobster]

Ya couple turbo snails should knock out that hair algae and maybe a lawnmower blend. Looks good don’t stress too much about algae it’s a natural part of the reef.

 

[Evan28395950]

Ya couple turbo snails should knock out that hair algae and maybe a lawnmower blend. Looks good don’t stress too much about algae it’s a natural part of the reef.

Yeah I got some of those when I went to the lfs. But they always go to back wall of the aquarium and group up, lol.

 

[Evan28395950]

Photos from tonight

 

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Quick update: Everything is going pretty good, still battling gha but I’m having success with manual removal and snails. Corals are doing amazing, everything is growing. I’ll probably do a wc next weekend.

 

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Update: anemone moved off small rock and attached onto live rock. Green hair algae is taking over, but finally my snails are actually eating it . One aiptasia came back, will kill it in The next few days

 

[Evan28395950]

Update: anemone moved off small rock and attached onto live rock. Green hair algae is taking over, but finally my snails are actually eating it . One aiptasia came back, will kill it in The next few days

 

[Evan28395950]

Quick update: My snails finally have moved to the rock! They’ve been doing a pretty good job. Here’s a picture for comparsion to the ones above