M&T's Shallow Rimless Nano Reef

[revhtree Verified Admin]

I swear I am so jealous right now...LOL!

Our tank didn't pan out due to travel and other things. But wow we will live vicariously through you guys!

 

[Aquaph8]

I like the black sand, nice touch. I think it fits the design really well.

 

[Mike&Terry]

Wow that is amazing.. love the black sand!

What light fixture did you use?

Thank you! It is the 24" Ecoxotic Panorama fixture. We are planning to add two Panorama RGB modules to it, just didn't have enough time this weekend. Overall, we're happy with the fixture, not so much with the tank mounting bracket as it just doesn't seem robust enough.

I swear I am so jealous right now...LOL!

Our tank didn't pan out due to travel and other things. But wow we will live vicariously through you guys!

LOL! You know there is still time to play along... :wink:

I like the black sand, nice touch. I think it fits the design really well.

Thanks Brett!


We had hoped to be further along this weekend, but the storms and power outages slowed us down.

On Sunday, we swapped the (2) new Tunze 6095 nano stream pumps (WOW, they are beasts) with (2) of the 6055's that were in our 300g DT and placed one of the 6055's in the new 30g tank. It is running at a trickle of it's normal power as it is overkill for the little tank, LOL. Surprisingly, the system is much quieter than we expected with the durso drain and the SRO 1000sss skimmer under the stand.

We're hoping to get the ATO setup sometime this week.

 

[Mike&Terry]

That looks great!

Thanks Dave!

 

[BarbH]

Nice progress and like the look of the black sand :)

 

[bobf216]

Looking Good Guys! any particular plan for livestock?

 

[Mike&Terry]

Nice progress and like the look of the black sand :)

Thanks Barb!

Looking Good Guys! any particular plan for livestock?

Thanks Bob. We plan to add a couple of acan and blasto wellsi colonies along with several small frag colonies of zoas. For fish, we have a small, mated pair of banggai's that are waiting patiently in our refugium. Not sure yet, but we may add a small RBTA since we now have 4 of them in our prop-tank/refugium, LOL. If we decide to do that, we will probably order a nice little pair of designer clowns.

-M&T

 

[myzislow]

Looks great! Uusally not a fan of the black sand but I must agree that it looks great and goes very well with this setup!

 

[FaviaFreak]

looks great! awesome build!

 

[.Marshall]

Those 6095's are remarkably powerful! switched out my single 6095 for an mp40 and mp10 and the 6095 had so much more random flow throughout the entire tank (75g) it was rediculous!! Just didnt like it protruding on the inside of the tank :(

 

[Mike&Terry]

Looks great! Uusally not a fan of the black sand but I must agree that it looks great and goes very well with this setup!

Thank you! We're not normally into the black sand either, but it does seem to suit this tank.

looks great! awesome build!

Thank you!

Those 6095's are remarkably powerful! switched out my single 6095 for an mp40 and mp10 and the 6095 had so much more random flow throughout the entire tank (75g) it was rediculous!! Just didnt like it protruding on the inside of the tank :(

Yes, they are crazy powerful. :bigsmile:

 

[feh]

Nice build... really dig the rock and the black sand is a nice touch.

 

[Mike&Terry]

Nice build... really dig the rock and the black sand is a nice touch.

Thank you!

 

[Mike&Terry]

 

[bobf216]

Looks awesome!

 

[uall8up]

I just went through this entire thread, and I must say, STUNNING!!! Love the stand, tank, rock work, and the black sand. This is the kind of thread that is an inspiration to the newbies like myself. Thank you for all the updates of your progress.

 

[uall8up]

Take a look at Mike and Terry's Shallow Rimless Reef build over on Reef2Reef.com Got a shout out from Tunze on fb!!!

 

[Craig Borowski Verified Sponsor]

Great build! Very nice look you're achieving there...
I hope you don't mind but I linked to this thread over on our Facebook page.
Looking forward to seeing this grow in!

 

[Mike&Terry]

Great build! Very nice look you're achieving there...
I hope you don't mind but I linked to this thread over on our Facebook page.
Looking forward to seeing this grow in!

WOW! That's awesome... thanks so much!

 

[gorally]

Wow..great finish. Does your LED has any Magenta? That looks pretty red on the left.