bonomos 38 gallon upgrade

[bonomo53]

Day one October 4th 2010 - After having my biocube 14 less then a year i decided to upgrade so i went as big as possible so that i can still keep it in my room.

FTS 2/17/2011

Original Equipment

• 38 gallon tank 36 1/4 x 12 5/8 x 19 3/4
• Petco stand
• Deep Blue Professional Solar Xtreme 4x39w t5ho
• Koralia 2
• Koralia 3

Upgraded Equipment

• Vortech Mp10es
• CPR medium hob refugium
• Ehiem canister for carbon and puringen
• Eshopps psk-75 hob skimmer
• ATI 1 Aquablue special 2 blue plus and 1 super actinic

Current live stock

Fish

• Black Saddelback Clown
• Longnose Hawkfish
• Scooter Blenny - had this guy from my old tank for over a year loves frozen food.
• Royal Gramma
• Dispar Anthias
• Copperband butterfly

Invertebrates

• Blue Leg Hermits
• Various Snails
• RBTA
• Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

Coral

• Zoas/Palys
• Blasto
• Candycane
• toadstool
• Frogspawn
• Hammer
• Blue tip Acro
• Green Acro
• Duncan
• Various Acans
• GSP
• Hydnopora
• Torch
• Green tip orange birdsnest
  

 

[bonomo53]

10/22/10 The cycle started coming to and end with lots of algae

10/30/10 All levels were normal so i started slowly transferring stuff over from my biocube
Here a picture of the biocube

11/16/10 Mostly everything was slowly transferred over with almost no loses
Here a FTS still with the stock lights

A couple more pics

 

[bonomo53]

12/20/10 Got some coral pics idn they came out so dark though?
Orange Crush Acans

Captain America

Frogspawn

Zoas

Duncan this guy grows like crazyy

Acans

Hammer

Had this blasto since 1/25/10 and hasn't shown any growth till last month when i noticed around 5 baby heads growing off the side

Blue Tip Acro

Torch

green ployp orange bidsnest

trying to train this sun coral but still having trouble feeding it if anybody can help let me no thanks

 

[bonomo53]

2/1/11

copperband butterfly

 

[m and m]

Do you have a top on that bad boy, I know hawkfish are carpet surfers. On another note looks good keep up the good work.

 

[bonomo53]

thanks...i made a mesh top for it but i dont really keep it on since theres opening on the back from the hob skimmer and fuge i have had him since november with no top most of the time

 

[m and m]

Oh, I remember seeing a picture a few weeks back of one that went carpet surfing and they didnt notice and when he found it it was crispy. Give it a little time for it to grow out and it will look great!

 

[swannyson7]

Have you had any problems with the CBB nipping at your polyps? I've always wanted one, but the fear of nipping at polyps/clams and passive eating has always steered me away from getting one.

 

[akabryanhall]

That is gonna look sweet once everything grow in, it looks awesome so far!

 

[bonomo53]

thanks yeah i cant wait till everything grows in

 

[bonomo53]

yeah i have wanted one for the longest time i was just recently able to find one that was eating well..ive only had him for 5 days he hasn't touched any of my corals just ate all my feather dusters i got him eating frozen now so hopfully he dosent get hungry and start picking at the coral .. as for the clams i dont have any right now but i did try feeding him a clam on the half shell as some people suggested and he wouldn't eat that so idn if that means if wouldn't touch a live clam.

 

[skinz78]

The tank is looking great! You mentioned that you have a bigger tank as well?

 

[bonomo53]

The tank is looking great! You mentioned that you have a bigger tank as well?

Thankss.. yeah i do have a larger tank but its not really mine its my brothers fish only tank

 

[m and m]

Also isnt a 38G a little small for a copper band butterfly i though they where suppost to be in much larger tanks and they have a tendincy to pick at LPS. Having him in a smaller tank is asking for troubel.

 

[bonomo53]

Also isnt a 38G a little small for a copper band butterfly i though they where suppost to be in much larger tanks and they have a tendincy to pick at LPS. Having him in a smaller tank is asking for troubel.

live aquaria says 50 gallons for them but i think i can get away with it since my tank is the same length as a 50 just thinner and with my hob fuge skimmer and canister my total volume is closer to 48 gallons.

 

[reefhead]

hey nice tank..i have the same tank with dual 150w mh and 2t5...your coralline algea looks awesome, did you use any supplements for it? how long did it take to start showing?

 

[m and m]

live aquaria says 50 gallons for them but i think i can get away with it since my tank is the same length as a 50 just thinner and with my hob fuge skimmer and canister my total volume is closer to 48 gallons.

Its not about tottle water is about space for it to swim, im just saying by no means and i bothering you or nagging just they are pron to pick at LPS and in a smaller tank that is only pramoting that behaviour.

hey nice tank..i have the same tank with dual 150w mh and 2t5...your coralline algea looks awesome, did you use any supplements for it? how long did it take to start showing?

Stable CAL/ALK/MAG is all you need for coralline. It just takes new tank some time. Once it comes though buy razor blades in bulk lol.

 

[bonomo53]

hey nice tank..i have the same tank with dual 150w mh and 2t5...your coralline algea looks awesome, did you use any supplements for it? how long did it take to start showing?

Thanks .. its started popping up after a month or two i was dosing brightwell a and b for around a month but i stopped now as long as your ca and alk are good it shuld start popping up like crazy

 

[bonomo53]

pick up a nice monti and maxima clam yesterday

 

[Alattner]

your tank looks real good. that clam looks like its going to be pretty awesome