D's homemade AIO 40 gallon
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After the initial transferHere is my Facebook marketplace place 40 gallon with a home made PVC AIO baffle. Siliconed in with GE silicone 1. I transferred everything from my 29 gallon nano to this one.
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Currently, after fragging the Pandora for my LFS, and gluing some to the PVC baffle.
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So that is the 165w and I have it at like 40%blue only 6hrs on a smart power strip. So you can see in the last photos. I had it at 60%blue and 10%white for a day and all my zoas including the Pandora looked crispy. Down side there is no slow ramp up or down. So far, I think it's way to strong for my 40 gallon. It does come with an adjustable pulley and cables.
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Full power blue and white and the only light on.....
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Not bad! I mean, visually anyway. Looks like a decent full-spectrum thing with both.
The chinese stuff just keeps getting better.
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So, water parameters are good, I think I finally have this light high enough to not cook my zoas. Just did my last mid-week water change before I go back to my normal schedule. Everything looking better. Just hating i didn't wash the Carib-sea Dry Aragonite sand more. I really don't think it's possible to get that stuff 100%clean. I rinsed the carbon sponge (in the old salt water) I have at my overflow catching loose detritus, and still clouded the aquarium......
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It'll all go away and it will look nice overnight. And no, it takes a long time to get that stuff clean.
I would recommend you go to floridapets.com and order a small quantity of their live sand. It's not much and believe me when I say it's worth it.
Unless that rock in your tank is live...then you should be golden. I highly recommend some live sand or live rock though. It's very important. I feel that I screwed up by buying dead rock and sand. Took me two years for the tank to become alive. @floridapets saved me from having to chuck all the rock and sand to start over. I put their mud in my refugium and an equal amount of their sand in my tank....a year later, it's a zoo in there.
I spend a good hour or two a day snooping around my tank, removing dead chromis (lol) and just mostly observing my corals. And that's aside from general maint. I would just sit back and watch how things do after 3 weeks or so. take pics now and then compare.
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30 of the 40lbs of sand was live from my 29gallon , and same with the rock. Also, 1 of the 2 liters of the seachem matrix was from the previous tank as well. I believe in providing as much bio filtration as possible. I love using the Aragonite sand because of the size, but it seems no matter how much I wash it, I always get clouds.
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I should also note that it was going for two years before the transfer.
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Sweet!
When I started mine I used all fake rock and placebo live sand in a bag.
I knew better...
I'm two years in now and finally happy though. It's like I can add new corals without all the ones I added before being dead.
It's the only reason I mentioned that. It's really important to put as much of the ocean in your tank as possible, deal with the pests until they are goners and move forward.
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Well it abrades too as you're washing it around and that releases cloudiness too, so in theory, if you're aggressively washing it, it can keep getting cloudy to a degree.
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I appreciate the input, my previous tank was a Fowler until I started adding zoas and palythoas about 3 months ago. Then I had this aquarium and stand fall in my lap for $50. $400 in accessories later and I get my current setup. The pumps I got were a little strong though, so I only have 1 going full time and the other on a schedule for a wave pump. I am also using a smart surge protector to schedule everything, and finally got a true auto top off system. I truly plan to make this a huge zoa and palythoa garden. I am excited to get it going, but I admit I do sometimes rush things. So, I am not plan on adding much any time soon. My current stock is two clowns, a lawnmower blenny, and a Bangai Cardinal. Clean up crew is one astra snail, one spiny astra snail, a boat load of little clear or white sponges, and a boat load of these little tiny snails that are beast at cleaning but don't really grow. Corals I have 3 bam bam plugs, I misc purple zoa with orange skirt, 1 sidewinder zoa, 1 green paly, 1 Capt jerk, 2 rasta plugs, a massive Pandora colony that I fragged and glued some on my PVC baffle, and a dragon favia (red and green). I want to add more fish, but haven't decided on what.
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https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-budget-build-40-gallon-home-made-aio.1125550/ Figured I could link this here as equipment/build list.
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