Well my little 1 gallon reef at work was not enough. I decided since the 1g lived and all was doing well, why not build a 10g AIO out of an old tank I had at the house. Especially since I have already built a few AIOs out of 20 long tanks for my kids. I also wanted some fish this time, as the 1g only had a pom pom crab in it with the corals.
Long story short. Found a ton of old stuff I had, managed to find enough acrylic from a DIY sump I did a while back, a few hours of time, and then a week for the silicone to cure.
Specs:
1. Basic 10 gallon tank
2. Eheim Jager 50w heater
3. Sicce Silent 0.5 Pump (at about 1/2 flow)
4. SunSun Small Powerhead (do not think its needed with the Sicce pump up all the way, it may go)
5. DIY ATO based on 2 float switches, 12v DC pump and a 3-12v power supply tied to the switches and pump. Very simple setup with redundancy.
6. Media Trays. The trays are simple egg crate pieces that sit on some acrylic scrap glued to the inside of the overflow channel.
7. Mini Fuge in bottom section of the media baskets. This consists of 4 red leds and 2 blue leds encased in a small acrylic box that is sealed. The leds run to a power supply and pull a massive 6 watts. This design works well on my other AIOs, but I expect the cheato to not grow as fast as this tank will have alight bio load. We shall see on that.
8.Small fluval skimmer if needed. It will fit in the middle chamber with the heater, just barely, but it fits.
9. Kessil A80 on a timer. Set at 50% color and 85% intensity. Gonna have to par meter it, lol, just to see.
Corals:
2 small Kenya trees
1 small GSP rock
1 Hollywood Stunner frag
1 small rock covered in blue/purple mushrooms (discosoma sp.)
2 polyps of Utter Chaos Zoas
numerous Eagle Eye Zoa Frags
Numerous polyps of Pink Panther Palys on a piece of rock rubble
3 polyps of Miami Hurricane Zoas
Fish:
1 Fire Goby
1 Citron Clown Goby
Inverts:
1x Gold Coral Banded Shrimp
2x Small Margarita Snails
2x Nerite Snails
Tons of sponges
Numerous Pods, since rock and cheato was from an established tank
Few bristle worms and a peanut worm, as well.
Now enough of the words. Here is the setup and some pics of it. The corals have started to open after the move (this morning) which is nice to see.
Sorry for the crappy pic on this one, the little guy is perched out under some zoas lol.
Long story short. Found a ton of old stuff I had, managed to find enough acrylic from a DIY sump I did a while back, a few hours of time, and then a week for the silicone to cure.
Specs:
1. Basic 10 gallon tank
2. Eheim Jager 50w heater
3. Sicce Silent 0.5 Pump (at about 1/2 flow)
4. SunSun Small Powerhead (do not think its needed with the Sicce pump up all the way, it may go)
5. DIY ATO based on 2 float switches, 12v DC pump and a 3-12v power supply tied to the switches and pump. Very simple setup with redundancy.
6. Media Trays. The trays are simple egg crate pieces that sit on some acrylic scrap glued to the inside of the overflow channel.
7. Mini Fuge in bottom section of the media baskets. This consists of 4 red leds and 2 blue leds encased in a small acrylic box that is sealed. The leds run to a power supply and pull a massive 6 watts. This design works well on my other AIOs, but I expect the cheato to not grow as fast as this tank will have alight bio load. We shall see on that.
8.Small fluval skimmer if needed. It will fit in the middle chamber with the heater, just barely, but it fits.
9. Kessil A80 on a timer. Set at 50% color and 85% intensity. Gonna have to par meter it, lol, just to see.
Corals:
2 small Kenya trees
1 small GSP rock
1 Hollywood Stunner frag
1 small rock covered in blue/purple mushrooms (discosoma sp.)
2 polyps of Utter Chaos Zoas
numerous Eagle Eye Zoa Frags
Numerous polyps of Pink Panther Palys on a piece of rock rubble
3 polyps of Miami Hurricane Zoas
Fish:
1 Fire Goby
1 Citron Clown Goby
Inverts:
1x Gold Coral Banded Shrimp
2x Small Margarita Snails
2x Nerite Snails
Tons of sponges
Numerous Pods, since rock and cheato was from an established tank
Few bristle worms and a peanut worm, as well.
Now enough of the words. Here is the setup and some pics of it. The corals have started to open after the move (this morning) which is nice to see.
Sorry for the crappy pic on this one, the little guy is perched out under some zoas lol.