Starting a new thread specific to my 50G cube. I decided to start a new thread since my original tank thread came to a tragic end. in short, a tank I had been keeping since 2013, I lost multiple thousands of dollars in coral and fish. The only thing I could think that would have been worse is if I broke the tank in the process of moving the SOB by myself. :mad:
Even with 90% of my tanks inhabitants dead, some how I had a few corals that were trying to hang on. I couldn't bring it upon myself to just let everything die, so I started a quick cycle of a small 10G AIO tank of just water/heater/light/powerheads to see if I could save anything. By time I got the little tank started, my big tank was in a full blown ammonia cycle, this obviously didnt help out the situation. I lost a few more corals as I waited for the little 10G to clear up.
about a week later, the little tanks perimeters balanced out and I decided to get as much as I could in the tank. I fragged a few corals to try and fit everything in a little tighter. Soon, there wasn't much space (or water) left in the 10g but I was hoping for the best.
A couple more days pasted by and things were starting to stabilize in the little tank, but it wasnt practical to keep them in the 10 because it had no filtration and with such a small amount of water volume I had to stay on top of it to keep the salinity in check.
By this time my big tank had pasted the recycle but since I just moved to a rental for a year, I didnt want to get that all set back up just to have another disaster happen when I move in 10-12 months.
So I started a search for a smaller tank to see what I could find and ended up finding a 50G rimless. It was a little larger than I originally planned to find but It was available and close to my location.
This is the picture posted on line. Fortunately the tank was in better condition than this picture indicated.
Misc Parts
I did a quick refresh of the stand and got to work on getting it set up. Here are a few pictures before adding water.
Please ignore the cord mess
Under the stand
Starting to fill the tank with the cycled water from my 100G
The first occupant
And somehow I misplaced a bunch of photos of the "in-between" process, but here is it all set up.
I do need to get a better light but as a quick build its all I had, so we will see how it works.
Much of my equipment is what I had on hand or pulled from my 100G tank.
The equipment for this build is as follows:
APEX Classic dual pH/Temp probes, I/O breakout box (controls under cabinet light), DOS,
Chinese LED w/UV
Quantum 120 skimmer
Tunze Auto-topoff w/10g reserve
MP40qd x2 and battery backup
Jebao 12000DC
That is if for now, thanks for all the encouragement from those you PMed me, here and locally.
Even with 90% of my tanks inhabitants dead, some how I had a few corals that were trying to hang on. I couldn't bring it upon myself to just let everything die, so I started a quick cycle of a small 10G AIO tank of just water/heater/light/powerheads to see if I could save anything. By time I got the little tank started, my big tank was in a full blown ammonia cycle, this obviously didnt help out the situation. I lost a few more corals as I waited for the little 10G to clear up.
about a week later, the little tanks perimeters balanced out and I decided to get as much as I could in the tank. I fragged a few corals to try and fit everything in a little tighter. Soon, there wasn't much space (or water) left in the 10g but I was hoping for the best.
A couple more days pasted by and things were starting to stabilize in the little tank, but it wasnt practical to keep them in the 10 because it had no filtration and with such a small amount of water volume I had to stay on top of it to keep the salinity in check.
By this time my big tank had pasted the recycle but since I just moved to a rental for a year, I didnt want to get that all set back up just to have another disaster happen when I move in 10-12 months.
So I started a search for a smaller tank to see what I could find and ended up finding a 50G rimless. It was a little larger than I originally planned to find but It was available and close to my location.
This is the picture posted on line. Fortunately the tank was in better condition than this picture indicated.
Misc Parts
I did a quick refresh of the stand and got to work on getting it set up. Here are a few pictures before adding water.
Please ignore the cord mess
Under the stand
Starting to fill the tank with the cycled water from my 100G
The first occupant
And somehow I misplaced a bunch of photos of the "in-between" process, but here is it all set up.
I do need to get a better light but as a quick build its all I had, so we will see how it works.
Much of my equipment is what I had on hand or pulled from my 100G tank.
The equipment for this build is as follows:
APEX Classic dual pH/Temp probes, I/O breakout box (controls under cabinet light), DOS,
Chinese LED w/UV
Quantum 120 skimmer
Tunze Auto-topoff w/10g reserve
MP40qd x2 and battery backup
Jebao 12000DC
That is if for now, thanks for all the encouragement from those you PMed me, here and locally.
