Cold Water Reef in 90?!

[Tamberav]

Can it be done in 90 days? No idea! We'll see I guess! I got some live sand and rock right out of Stu's tank from Coldwater Marine Aquatics and plan to order some Brightwell CWM bacteria to see if we can get this cycled fast enough to add livestock.

I did get some hitchhiker anemone's on the live rock but also had an equipment failure day one (doh), so livestock is living in my fridge currently

Tank: Micro-Reefs 7.2g 1/2 inch acrylic temperate AIO
Light: Full spec par38
Flow: Mp10
Chiller: CSXC-1 Aquarium/Hydroponic Chiller

Livestock will be from Coldwater Marine Aquatics so FMV will be a breeze.

Pictures to come.

 

[got2envy]

Yay Tamb! Very cool can't wait

 

[revhtree]

Following!

 

[Tamberav]

Warning! Cell phone pics and dirty glass! My 1st acrylic tank so I need to go out and buy some stuff to clean it with.

The cycle started earlier this week.

 

[Tamberav]

FMV of what came on my live rock. Since these aren't sold online, I did my best to ID them and gave them the FMV of their tropical cousins using live-plants website as a source.

Botryocladia sp. $24 (large clump so I doubled price)
Ulva sp. $8
Gracilaria sp. $8
Prionitis sp. ???

Moonglow anenome 1: $20
Moonglow anenome 2: $20

 

[Squishie89]

Definitely following, I love coldwater tanks.

 

[AleksandrDubois]

Should be a fun one!

 

[Tamberav]

Not too much to update right now. Waiting on some equipment to arrive and the tank has been cycling this past week.

 

[HmoneyReefOkc]

Following, I've never done a cold water tank and anxious to see what you do with it.

 

[Tamberav]

Time for a photo update Thinking it may be ready for a larger CUC next week.

 

[MRRBW]

any updates?

 

[Daniel@R2R]

any updates?

+1! @Tamberav, we'd love to see an update!

 

[reefwiser]

Hasn't logged on since October 17th 2014

 

[MRRBW]

Hasn't logged on since October 17th 2014

I saw that, was thinking maybe the message would send him an email and hopefully he would log back on. fingers crossed!

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

What you need is some native stone for that tank, yea I know where to get it legal.

 

[40g Nano]

I don’t know if he will respond 5 Years Later

 

[Tamberav]

Haha I am still here and this tank is still up and running! I don't live anywhere near the coast to collect rock though.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Haha I am still here and this tank is still up and running! I don't live anywhere near the coast to collect rock though.

Maybe time fo an update? Pics please!

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

I don’t know if he will respond 5 Years Later

Too funny, we got him to come out and play.

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

Haha I am still here and this tank is still up and running! I don't live anywhere near the coast to collect rock though.

Corona Del Mar beach in So. Cal has the rock high and dry, you can just pick it up.