Matt_95’s Waterbox Peninsula 25 build

[Matt_95]

This is my first post here, although I have been reading the forum for a number of years. I have just set up a new Waterbox Peninsula 25. Previously I had a custom made 250l shallow reef. I experienced started a company a year ago and it has recently started taking off. Unfortunately my tank was neglected while I was extremely busy and I had a lot of die off. I recently moved as well and decided to downsize to a nano to make things easier maintenance wise.


Specs:
Tank- Waterbox Peninsula 25
Lighting- XR-15
Water movement- stock pump, Glamorca GP03 gyre
Filtration- currently just the stock standard filter sock. I am looking at putting a small skimmer into the second filter compartment
Hardscape- Marco rock and Stone Fix
Stand- BROR trolley from IKEA

Livestock:

Fish- Royal Gramma, pair of Picasso clowns (currently housed in a Fluval EVO while this tank matures
Coral- Magic Mushroom morphs, Candy Crush morphs, bounce Rhodactus, Scolies, bowerbanki, zoas, gold rainbowchalice, fungia, Litophyton
Inverts- maxima clam, mini maxi nems, Forest fire BTA

Toby inspecting the scape before I fill it up.

The main 2 viewing angles

I began adding some coral from my old tank and a couple of new pieces. I will let the tank mature for a few weeks before I begin moving the fish in.

This scoly/bowerbanki combo has been at the LFS for over 12 months now. I went in last weekend and it had been reduced to clear after being stung. I finally bit the bullet and bought it.

I found this chalice in with a bunch of regular gold chalices. This one has 5 distinct colours; red, orange, purple, green, and gold.

 

[ChaosAquaculture]

I love the bird and the tank! My quaker parrot is alwasy inspecting the tanks - kali

 

[revhtree]

Love the bird and the aquascape as well!

 

[Matt_95]

Love the bird and the aquascape as well!

I love the bird and the tank! My quaker parrot is alwasy inspecting the tanks - kali

Thank you both, I’m quite proud of the Aquascape. I’ve always used epoxy in the past to build my scapes. I was never able to build exactly what I wanted because it always seemed to fall apart at some point when building overhangs or arches. I was very impressed with the Stone Fix.

@ChaosAquaculture do you have a photo of Kali? I had a quaker named Calvin for 6 years. Unfortunately I lost him in the bushfires last year.

 

[Matt_95]

I picked up 2 new fungia yesterday. Sorry for the poor quality photos, I lost my clip on lens that I used to use to take tank photos.

I have been feeding the scoly every second day as well and it is starting to show a decent feeding response. I’m using Vitalis LPS pellets for all of the coral.

 

[Matt_95]

I’ve just bought a couple of scolies for this tank. I have noticed that prices are already starting to increase. If I don’t get in soon they will be too expensive and after October potentially impossible for me to afford.

 

[Matt_95]

So the Glamorca was driving my partner and I nuts. It was unbelievably loud, we could hear it from outside the house. I’ve just replaced it with a Nero 3. I am in love with it, not only is it super silent, it looks great in the tank. The Glamorca took up so much space in the tank, and was nowhere near as easy to program.

I took a quick video to demonstrate just how loud the Glamorca is.

And here is the Nero 3 in the tank. It is not noticeable at all.

 

[Matt_95]

I found this bright yellowish E. paraancora today while picking up some RO water from the LFS. I had to buy it.

 

[Matt_95]

I’ve moved pretty much all of the frags over from my old system as well as my royal gramma. I ended up fragging my gorgonian as the branches were too long and always rubbing on the rockwork and glass. I’ve attached some of the frags onto my rockwork to grow out.
I had some bryopsis on some of my frags, so I have been dosing fluconazole and it is now completely gone.
I have also put a Red Sea screen top to prevent the fish from jumping out.

My stock list so far is:
-Magic Mushroom morph
- Deadpool morph
-green with yellow edge morph
-Orange morph
-Candy Crush morph
-Orange Lithophyllon
-Green Lithophyllon
-Alpha and Omega zoas
-Scrambled Eggs
-Rasta
-Red Hornets
-Blue Hornets
-Pinwheels
-Flaming Suns
-Mandarin Orange zoas
-Alien Anti-venom
-Utter Chaos
-Frankie’s Flue
- Red Cynaria
-Hammer
-Green digi
-bowerbanki
-warpaint scoly
-gold chalice
-mini maxi anemone
-Gorgonian

-Royal gramma

 

[Matt_95]

I’ve just noticed that I have coralline algae beginning to grow all over my rock work. This is the fastest I’ve ever had it show up. The tank isn’t quite 3 weeks old yet. It is showing up as tiny spots scattered over the rocks. Hopefully it grows in quickly. I hate looking at white rocks.

 

[rishma]

I just ordered my WB25. Really like your rock work.

 

[Matt_95]

Thank you! What are your plans with yours?

 

[rishma]

Thank you! What are your plans with yours?

I am thinking SPS and LPS. I still have a lot of details to sort out. Reusing some equipment from my Reefer 170, had to downsize with a move. I am planning to buy some live rock from the vendors that aquaculture it. I am in the early stages and probably won’t have it wet for a while, plus lots of honeydoos in the new house that will take priority ….maybe I’ll actually do a build thread for the first time.

 

[Matt_95]

It has been a few weeks since I last updated this thread. We have been in lockdown for the past month. It has left me with a lot of time to browse and buy new coral I will attach some photos of the new additions.
I’ve also got some photos of my clowns. I’ve had this pair for about 2.5 years now. I picked out the male, and my partner chose the female. He doesn’t like clowns with high amounts of white, whereas I do.

 

[rishma]

Corals look happy!