Hidden Reef- Infinia 165.4

[HiddenGentleman]

Hello, I started this tank around the beginning of August. I previously had a JBJ Nano Cube around 10 years ago that crashed due to an extended power outage following a hurricane.

 

[HiddenGentleman]

Equipment List:

Tank/Sump: Waterbox Infinia 165.4 (filled 7/29/22)


Lid: Top Lids Custom Mesh Lid


Return Pump: Ecotech Vectra M2


Powerheads: 4x Ecotech VorTech MP40QD, 1 extra wet side



Battery Backup: VorTech Battery Backup


Lights: 2x Radion XR15 G6 Blue


Protein Skimmer: Aeraqua Duo AD600 Protein Skimmer - Maxspect


Controller: Hydros X4, 2x Hydros XP8, Hydros XS, Hydros X2


ATO: Hydros ATO kit


Leak Senors: Hydros Leak Sensor, Hydros Rope Leak Sensor, Hydros Skimmer Sensor


Automatic Feeder: Avast Plank


Alkalinity Monitoring: Alkatronic, Hanna Checker DKH


Phosphate Monitoring: Hanna Checker Phosphate Ultra Low Range


Calcium Monitoring: Red Sea Calcium Pro Test Kit


Magnesium Monitoring: Aquaforest Magnesium Test Kit


Nitrate Monitoring: NYOS Nitrate Reefer Test Kit


Carbon Reactor: BRS Deluxe Reactor With Extra Substrate Cartridge


Carbon: Rox 0.8 Carbon


Algae Scrubber: IceCap AGS-200 PRO


UV Sterilizer: IceCap 90 watt


Dosing Pumps: Hydros Dosing Pump


Heater: Helio with 2x 500 watt heating element


Refractometer: Milwaukee MA887


PAR Meter: MQ-510 Full Spectrum Underwater LED PAR Meter - Apogee


Mixing Station Pump: Syncra Silent 2.0


Pump from RO/DI to salt: Syncra Silent 5.0


RO/DI: Waterbox 4 stage 100 GPD

 

[HiddenGentleman]

Fish


Clownfish Pair (Black Storm)

-8/5/22 (Aquatic Creations)


Midas Blenny

-10/21/22 (Dr. Reef)


One Spot Fox face rabbit fish

-8/27/22 (Aquatic Creations)


Banggai Cardinalfish

-9/28/22 (Dr. Reef)


Tomini Tang

-10/21/22 (Dr. Reef)


Royal Gramma

-9/9/22 (Dr. Reef)



Mandarin Dragonet (wild caught)

-11/25/22 (Tideline Aquatics)


Captive Bred Yellow Tang

-12/2/22 (Dr. Reef)


Purple Tang

-12/2/22 (Dr. Reef)


Diamond Goby

-12/2/22 (Dr. Reef)



Invertebrates


Blood Red Fire Shrimp

-8/13/22 (Aquatic Creations)


Tiger Pistol Shrimp

-10/21/22 (Dr. Reef)


Fighting Conch

-10/21/22 (Dr. Reef)


Coral


Yellow Hammer (2 heads)

-9/10/22 (Aquatic Creations)


Peach Hammer (2 heads)

-9/10/22 (Aquatic Creations)


Pink Ricordea Yuma

-9/10/22 (Aquatic Creations)


Splatter Hammer (2 Heads)

-9/23/22 (World Wide Corals)


Frozen Fire Ricordea Yuma

-9/23/22 (World Wide Corals)


Baby's Breath Favia

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Insane Marbled Favia

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Flame Boi Favia

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Neon Green Ricordea Florida

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Orange Ricordea Florida

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Hyper Watermelon Chalice

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Space Invader Chalice

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Nacho Cheese Chalice

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Purple Tip Green Frogspawn (1 Head)

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Ultra Leptoseris

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


24K Leptosiris

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Pink and Green Blastomussa Merletti

-9/23/22 (Tidal Gardens)


Purple Tip Green Hammer (5 Heads)

-9/24/22 (Aquatic Creations)


Holy Grail Hammer (2 Heads)

-10/6/22 (Pieces of the Ocean)


Nice Pink Frogspawn (1 head)

-10/6/22 (Pieces of the Ocean)


Cool Blue Frogspawn (1 Head)

-10/6/22 (Pieces of the Ocean)


"Freebie" Blue Hammer (2 Heads)

-10/6/22 (Pieces of the Ocean)


WWC Rainbow Branching Hammer (3 Heads)

-10/7/22 (World Wide Corals)


Wild Holy Grail Torch (1 Splitting Head)

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Blue Tipped Gold Torch (2 Heads)

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Golden Tipped Torch (1 Head)

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Lavender Tipped Torch (2 Heads)

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Glowing Blue Tipped Torch (2 Heads)

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


WWC King Julian Bounce Mushroom

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Uranium Bounce Mushroom

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Citrus Explosion Ricordea Mushroom

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Winters Bite Yuma Mushroom

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Tropical Blast Ricordea Mushroom

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Ice Chamo Favia

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


WWC Toxic Waste Leptoseris

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Bleeding Apple Scolymia

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Deep Chill Warpaint Scolymia

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Peach Tipped Branching Frogspawn (1 Head)

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Do the Dew Branching Frogspawn (1 Head)

-10/14/22 (World Wide Corals)


Boinkerz Aussie Lord (2.5 heads)

-10/28/22 (World Wide Corals)


Purple Ring Ricordia Mushroom

-10/28/22 (World Wide Corals)


XXL Space Dust Pectinia

-10/28/22 (World Wide Corals)


Ultra Acan

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


Raja Rampage Chalice

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


Rainbow Monti

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


Aquaman Monti

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


TSA Mango Tango Monti

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


WWC Sunfire Monti Cap- Premium

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


TSA Starry Night Monti Cap

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


Tyree Toxic Green Aequituberculata Monti Cap

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


Rainbow Hammer (1 Head)

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


TSA Blowtorch (2 Heads)

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


Aussie Gold Torch (2 Heads)

-11/24/22 (Top Shelf Aquatics)


NY Knicks Indo Gold Torch (3 Heads)

-12/2/22 (Corals Anonymous)


Inferno Hellfire Indo Gold Torch (2 Heads)

-12/2/22 (Corals Anonymous)


Dragon Soul Indo Gold Torch (2 Heads)

-12/2/22 (Corals Anonymous)



Clean-up Crew


-8/13/22 (Aquatic Creations) 10 red leg hermint crabs


-10/21/22 (Dr. Reef) 10 trochus snails, 10 nassarius snails


-11/7/22 (Aquaman's Coral Cave) 5 Turbo Snails, 20 Astrea Snails


-11/12/22 (Aquaman's Coral Cave) 10 Turbo Snails, 10 blue legged hermit crabs

 

[HiddenGentleman]

Rockscape I made in the garage.

 

[HiddenGentleman]

More pics from the last few months

 

[blaxsun]

You're definitely off to a great start with your organization!

 

[HiddenGentleman]

Currently dosing All for Reef at 45ml/day. Maintaining alkalinity at 8.5 dkh.

I was previously dosing phos and nitrate after a dino outbreak. This combined with UV sterilizer and adding turbo snails resolved the dinos as well as green hair algae I was dealing with at the time. Phos and nitrates are maintaining without dosing at this point so I've stopped those doses.

I feed reef jerky mixed with various size TDO pellets 4 times per day by auto feeder. I feed one sheet of nori, 60 ml live phytoplankton (Ocean Magik), and frozen food (Rods food or PE mysis) once per day. I spot feed the corals with a mix of reef chili and reef roids oncer per week. I add a jar of 5280 pods every 2 weeks.

There is ich in the system and I see it develop in new fish for the first week or so then it goes away and I generally haven't seen it develop again once the fish is used to the tank.

 

[HiddenGentleman]

My phosphate had been high around 0.17-0.2 so I added a small spyglass reactor to run GFO. It brought the phosphate down to 0.06 over the course of a week. I have it set now to turn on for 2 hours 3 times a day to avoid bottoming out.

I picked up a Trachyphyllia at my LFS which I added a week ago and seems to be doing well.
For some reason one of my scolys seems unhappy so I relocated it to see if maybe it was getting too much flow in it's previous location. My other scoly which is right next to it is doing great.

I chiseled some left over LifeRock into rubble and made some mounds behind my main aquascape as a place for pods to populate and reproduce.

 

[HiddenGentleman]

The purple tang took a while to start eating well but now it attacks the nori immediately when I put it in the tank.

My diamond blenny disappeared. It seemed to be doing well. I'm not sure what happened. I suspect it may have jumped out when I forgot to put the feed door back on and maybe my dog or cat got it.

One of my scolys is receding. The other right next to it looks great.

The yellow tang has at least tripled in size since I got him a month ago.

 

[ScottD]

Hello, I started this tank around the beginning of August. I previously had a JBJ Nano Cube around 10 years ago that crashed due to an extended power outage following a hurricane.

Good afternoon,
Could you tell me what the dimensions of your control area is. I’m working on my build and trying to figure out how much room I should make for a control area.
Thanks,
Scott

 

[HiddenGentleman]

Good afternoon,
Could you tell me what the dimensions of your control area is. I’m working on my build and trying to figure out how much room I should make for a control area.
Thanks,
Scott

Hey, sorry I meant to answer you sooner. It is 31" height by 13.5" wide by 4" deep.

 

[HiddenGentleman]

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I like the clams you have!!!

 

[HiddenGentleman]

I like the clams you have!!!

Thanks, got them from Clam Mania's live sale last week.

 

[ScottD]

Hey, sorry I meant to answer you sooner. It is 31" height by 13.5" wide by 4" deep.

No worries, I’m still in the process of figuring things out before I put my stand together. Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
Love your new clams.

 

[HiddenGentleman]

Added a 48" AI Blade Coral Grow to help with the front of the tank which was shaded by the aquascape. Now hitting around 100-150 par on the sand bed with the light at 40%.

 

[ScottD]

Added a 48" AI Blade Coral Grow to help with the front of the tank which was shaded by the aquascape. Now hitting around 100-150 par on the sand bed with the light at 40%.

The blades look nice on your tank. How do you like them?

 

[HiddenGentleman]

The blades look nice on your tank. How do you like them?

I just put it on earlier today, but I'm very pleased with the look it provides. It puts out some serious par. If I put it to 50% my sand bed is about 200.

 

[Kactai]

Hello, I started this tank around the beginning of August. I previously had a JBJ Nano Cube around 10 years ago that crashed due to an extended power outage following a hurricane.

Nice control board! I just got an Infinitia 275.6 and I went with Hydros too! We have a lot of the same equipment (Echotech wave pumps). Got any advice for setting up the board? Can you screw right into it? Could you cut extra holes to run cables? I have a top off drum in the basement so I don’t need the extra little tank. I am planning to mount a little shelf on the back side of the board and make a hidden compartment in there to elevate and hide the power bricks. Think that could work?