Chris' Cadlights 45g Shallow

[cnseekatz]

Hey R2R, I've been running a 45g shallow Cadlights tank at home since the end of July in 2015.

I had the tank set up and humming on all cylinders at my office, when the controller for my MP 10 came off its mount and fell into the sump. I came in that next morning to a total system crash. I lost everything except a couple of (bad-butt) fish and some of the bigger zoanthid colonies.

Since then, I set up the tank at home, replaced & upgraded some equipment, and slowly refilled the tank.

Tank: 45g CAD Lights Shallow - 36"x24"x12" - Starfire on the front and sides
Sump: 30g - 3 Chambers w/ about 50% dedicated as a Refugium
Lighting: Ecotech Radion XR30W Pro - Tank mounted with RMS
Flow: Vortech MP 10 - On Reef Crest Mode
Heat: Eheim 200w
Skimmer: Vertex Omega 130

 

[cnseekatz]

Livestock

Zoanthids & Palys
I've got a lot of Z's & P's in my tank. They are some of the only things that survived my tank crash, and I have a soft spot for them (as you can see)!
- Utter Chaos - Fire & Ice - Goblin's Fire - Red Hornets - Blue Hornets - BBEB - Rastas - Candy Apple Reds - Rainbow Incinerators - Bloodshots - Hallucinations - Fruit Loops - Eagle Eyes - Radioactive Dragon Eyes - Pink Hallucinations - Space Monsters - ETC.

Softies & LPS
Rainbow BTA - Green Torch - Purple Torch - Branching Hammer -Various types of Acans - Orange Crush Acan Echinata - Orange Fungia - Blue Maxi Minis - Various mushrooms & ricordias - Acid Rain BTA

Clam
1 x Blue Tahitian Maxima

SPS
Sunset Mille - 2 Random Pink Milles - Green Slimer - Myagi Tort - Oregon Tort - Orange Setosa - Tyree Pink Lemonade - RR Yellow Jacket - Purple Stylo - Pink/Green Poci - Blue/Green Tenius - ORA Pearlberry - Season's Greetings Monti Cap - Idaho Grape Monti Cap

Fish
2 x Black Ocellaris Clowns (about 2.5 years old)
1 x Potter's Leopard Wrasse (M. Goeffroyri)
1 x Blue Star Leopard Wraase (M. Bipartitus)
1 x Azure Damsel

Inverts
Random assortment of snails, hermits, conches
2 x Emerald Crab
1 x Sand Sifting Star
2 x Lettuce Nudibranch
3 x Peppermint Shrimp

Refugium
Shallow sandbed with small pieces of liverock
Pulsing Xenia
Chaetomorpha Macro
Dragon's Breath Macro (Halymenia)
Lots and lots of pods, brittle stars, bristle worms, and stomatella snails

 

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[srb51]

Awesome tank! Waiting to set up my new Red Sea reefer!

 

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[renato120]

Awesome! What camera do you use to make videos?

 

[cnseekatz]

Awesome! What camera do you use to make videos?

I just used my cell phone. Samsung Galaxy 6S.

 

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[revhtree]

Great reef!

 

[cnseekatz]

Great reef!

Thanks!!

 

[cnseekatz]

New addition! She's resting comfortably in her little isolation box. Not terribly interested in frozen mysis, but picking pods out of the chaeto I stuck in there.

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[revhtree]

Beautiful fish!

 

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[Chrisfish]

Welcome, beautiful tank and your pictures are awesome. Hope to see more.

 

[srb51]

What type of wrasse?? Amazing

 

[revhtree]

Nice!