Marineland 93 Rimless Progress

Jimbo · Nov 26, 2015

Brian Kim said:
Looking amazing! Are you dosing 2 parts?

Thanks, not yet dosing 2 part. Water changes and some kalkwasser in the ATO are maintaining Alk and calcium so far. Plan on dosing B-ionic 2 part when necessary .

trinity1012 said:
GREAT THREAD! very clean looking tank! what kind of rock are you using?

It's the Walt Smith 2.1 man- made rock

bknapp said:
Thinking of adding a ReefBrite to mine as well. Great progres .

Go for it , they look awesome with the 2 T5 Actinics I run.

Jimbo · Dec 3, 2015

Other than SPS Euphylia have always been some of my favorite corals. Picked up a couple of nice Hammer's, the "Splatter" Hammer is really nice and they glow underneath the Reefbrites but I can't get a good pic. Here's one under the T5's

bknapp · Feb 28, 2016

How's is the tank coming along @Jimbo ??

Jimbo · Feb 28, 2016

Tank seems to be settling in nicely. Acro's are starting to color up and grow. Pretty happy with the progress. I'll try to post an updated picture later.

Jimbo · Feb 28, 2016

Here's an IPhone pic from today. I had some issues with the barebottom look at first but it's starting to grow on me. At one point I actually bought a couple of bags of Reefflakes and was going to add them to the tank but changed my mind.

It really is nice not having to worry about sand being blown around, getting all over coral,rocks etc. All the detritus accumulates in the same couple of spots and is very easy to syphon out and keep the tank basically detritus free. Never realized how quick that stuff can build up because you never see it with a sandbed. With the barebottom you see every little bit.

bknapp · Feb 28, 2016

Been loading up on the corals I see! Looks good. I'm considering going BB but not sure I could deal with the look.

SNAKEMANVET · Mar 12, 2016

Tank looks great,I really like the aqua scape.

Jimbo · Mar 23, 2016

Coralline seems to be really taking off all of a sudden , I think the bottom will look better when it's completely covered. Here's some pics from today

Jimbo · Mar 23, 2016

Forgot to add one of my newest fish. Longnose Hawk, very cool fish and well behaved , hope he stays that way...

bknapp · Mar 24, 2016

Looking good! Did you change your bulb selection? These pics look a little whiter than your previous ones.

Jimbo · Mar 25, 2016

I picked up some cheap gel filters off of EBay that help to cut out the blue. I'm running 5 Blue+, 2 Coral+ and a purple+ I'd like to try a couple of the E5 Blue Pop bulbs but these bulbs are all pretty new.

revhtree · Mar 25, 2016

Looks nice!

Jimbo · Mar 30, 2016

Finally got a decent pic. It's of my Scoly so I have to post it. Wish I knew what I did so I could do it again Lol. My Acro frags are looking good too but I'm terrible at taking pics. Here's the Scoly. Cool coral, first one I've ever bought.

Jimbo · Mar 30, 2016

Oh, added a new fish too. Lubbock's Wrasse

bknapp · Mar 30, 2016

Cool scoly awesome wrasse, reminds me of one I used to have.

dab.daniel_ · Mar 31, 2016

Awesome tank m8.
About how much did you spend on this system?

Jimbo · Mar 31, 2016

dab.daniel_ said:
Awesome tank m8.
About how much did you spend on this system?

Thanks! You know to be honest I'm not sure I want to know what the total is for everything.....the tank and the stand alone was 1K. You can take it from there because I don't want to