James WB Infinia frag 125.4

[jimmypencil]

Finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from my IM 50 lagoon AIO to the WaterBox Infinia frag 125.4. I loved the IM tank and had it for 3-4 years, but I wanted some more display space and obviously - A SUMP!

HUGE shoutout to @skey44! He answered so many of my questions while I was planning this build. His build thread is also an excellent resource for anyone planning to get this tank or a similar WB tank.

For the new tank I decided to transfer all livestock and rock. I decided to go with all new sand. I didn’t reuse any equipment except the XR30.

It honestly was an absolute nightmare setting up the new tank for MANY reasons. I’ll continue to post and talk about those issues in hopes of helping others avoid those issues lol.

Equipment list:

Lighting - 3x XR30 G6 (2 blue 1 pro)

Filtration -
RedSea ReefMatt 500
Ultra Reef 160 skimmer
Avast ozone reactor

Flow -
4x mp40s at reef crest 35%
Vectra M2 return pump at 40%
Neptune 1” flow sensor

Other -
AquaUV Classic 25W
Apex A3 pro
2x energy bar
Versa dosing pump for kalkwasser
Tunze osmolator 3 ATO

1” schedule 80 PVC from BRS for plumbing on return side (this was a nightmare)

 

[jimmypencil]

I had an order placed with @Battlecorals for a couple months prior to setting up this tank and I was able to get them shipped and add them a couple days after getting the livestock transferred! Adam sent me some beautiful chunky frags! Highly reccomend!

 

[frydaddy]

How well do the four tangs do in it? I’ll be moving a 4” bristle tooth into mine and was debating if I could do another tang.

 

[jimmypencil]

How well do the four tangs do in it? I’ll be moving a 4” bristle tooth into mine and was debating if I could do another tang.

There have been no issues so far but it’s not long enough to know for sure. The tomini and blue hippo did well together for 2 years in my 50 and they are still very small. This week I got the powder blue and then a few days later I got a large purple tang and a small yellow tang. Everyone is getting along so far. The tomini did fight with the yellow for a couple hours when I first added the yellow but they are fine now.

 

[cricket3901]

Love your aqua scape a coral I wish I had that tank

 

[skey44]

Thanks for the shout out! Wow tank looks amazing. Love the clean electrical box and plenty of light. Quite the new list of frags. I’m always itching for that next acro!

 

[jimmypencil]

One lesson learned. If you decide to use the Neptune flow sensor - YOU MUST use thread sealant. I used Oatey. It was leaking like crazy. It’s also pretty loud. It does it’s job though I guess!

 

[jimmypencil]

After a few hours of adjustments, I got the doors on

 

[jimmypencil]

I got a lid from Toplids but I decided I want to use the long rms track instead of the two rms arms on the back so I will be listing this lid for sale. It does look amazing!!

 

[jimmypencil]

Nitrate has been trending way down. I dosed like 100mls of neonitro last night and it still is it zero today…maybe it’s because of the roller Matt? I also will verify results with Hannah checker after work.

 

[jimmypencil]

So I’m up to 7 liters a day of kalkwasser to maintain alkalinity around 7.6… I think I’m going to need to start supplementing with 2 part soon but I’m not sure what the evaporation rate of the tank is. I’ll need to figure that out to see what my max kalkwasser dose can be before adding 2 part. It has been a pain filling up and mixing my 5gallon bucket of kalk every 2-3 days haha I want to get a ~15g reservoir/dosing container at some point in the future.

Also sent out the first moonshiners ms ICP last week - excited to get those results back! I started the moonshiners method on my last tank a few weeks before I decided to upgrade so I don’t have much experience with this method yet. For the new tank I have only been dosing those daily elements (manganese, cobalt, iron, etc) in the same amounts I was on the 50 gallon tank. I’ll wait on the ICP and see what this tank needs.

Also I saw the LFS had some used versa dosing pumps for sale and I decided to grab them. They came with this super cool 3d-printed mount that has power switches.

 

[jimmypencil]

Pretty sure i have Dino’s but not 100%. Brown algae started in sand a few weeks ago so this whole time i was confident it was diatoms. Little bit stringy with bubbles but not causing any issues. Yesterday it was more prevalent on the rocks and it was stringy with bubbles. I have a microscope on the way.

I lowered flow rate of my return pump to uv last night from 700gph to 400gph. Today there is significantly less Dino’s/diatoms so I’m still not sure what it is. Corals still look good tho and snails aren’t dying so I’m not in panic mode yet lol.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Pretty sure i have Dino’s but not 100%. Brown algae started in sand a few weeks ago so this whole time i was confident it was diatoms. Little bit stringy with bubbles but not causing any issues. Yesterday it was more prevalent on the rocks and it was stringy with bubbles. I have a microscope on the way.

I lowered flow rate of my return pump to uv last night from 700gph to 400gph. Today there is significantly less Dino’s/diatoms so I’m still not sure what it is. Corals still look good tho and snails aren’t dying so I’m not in panic mode yet lol.

Your corals still look great! Hopefully you can tackle the dinos (assuming that is what they are) before they spread!

 

[jimmypencil]

I did a 3 day blackout. I stopped dosing mall and 2 part during the blackout. I also raised phosphate .1ppm with neophos. 3 day blackout ended 4 days ago.

I don’t want to speak too soon but there have been ZERO Dino’s since I turned the lights back on. Corals look much happier. Not sure if I’m out of the woods yet but in my previous experience - Dino’s came right back the day I turned lights back on.

I think going overkill on pods and phyto may have done the trick? Paired with UV, manual removal and dosing extra iron everyday.

Just seems too good to be true to only have had to deal with Dino’s for a week this time…..

 

[Aheinz]

I got a lid from Toplids but I decided I want to use the long rms track instead of the two rms arms on the back so I will be listing this lid for sale. It does look amazing!!

Looks great, I also picked up a toplids lid for my 85.3 and am very happy with it, Hoping to get back into posting again soon as I add more to my tank again.

 

[skey44]

I need one of these lids, but man I’ve changed light configurations 4 times. That’s an expensive decision to change anything! They do look great though. My aluminum framed lid is in need of some love as I’ve cut and changed it so many times now!
Any updates on your tank?

 

[jimmypencil]

Been a long time since updating and a ton of stuff has changed.

Recent Changes:
- For the past year or so i have only been feeding pellets (3x daily). Recently (based on piratesreef practices) i started daily feeding of mysis and spirulina, oysterfeast, pns probio, picoplankton, reef roids a couple times a week, and some other additives listed on his site like flatworm stop and aminos. I have seen noticeable improvments in PE and color since doing this. I believe i was starving my tank for the last year. I am keeping Nitrate (10-20) and Phosphate (.1-.2) much higher now too. I think the combo of my nutrents being relatively low (Nitrate 5, Phosphate <.05) and literally only ever feeding pellets was pretty dumb and it was starving the tank.

-Removed all large leather corals to make room for more acros

-2 days ago i removed 25w aqua uv and replaced with Pentair 50w

-Added 2 ai blade grows

-Got awesome new frags from Piratesreef and PTR

- There are some microbubbles on my rocks that are driving me insane, undermicroscope it looks like its diatoms. This has led me to dosing a ton of bacteria like TM nitribiotic, pns probio, mb7, etc.

 

[skey44]

Been a long time since updating and a ton of stuff has changed.

Recent Changes:
- For the past year or so i have only been feeding pellets (3x daily). Recently (based on piratesreef practices) i started daily feeding of mysis and spirulina, oysterfeast, pns probio, picoplankton, reef roids a couple times a week, and some other additives listed on his site like flatworm stop and aminos. I have seen noticeable improvments in PE and color since doing this. I believe i was starving my tank for the last year. I am keeping Nitrate (10-20) and Phosphate (.1-.2) much higher now too. I think the combo of my nutrents being relatively low (Nitrate 5, Phosphate <.05) and literally only ever feeding pellets was pretty dumb and it was starving the tank.

-Removed all large leather corals to make room for more acros

-2 days ago i removed 25w aqua uv and replaced with Pentair 50w

-Added 2 ai blade grows

-Got awesome new frags from Piratesreef and PTR

- There are some microbubbles on my rocks that are driving me insane, undermicroscope it looks like its diatoms. This has led me to dosing a ton of bacteria like TM nitribiotic, pns probio, mb7, etc.

Looks so good! Colors are popping

 

[jimmypencil]

Looks so good! Colors are popping

Thanks, yours looking amazing also! Gotta meet up for a frag swap at some point, I keep forgetting there’s another guy with my tank in SC lol!