Matty 150g Cube Dream Tank

[Lilmatty5dimes]

Well, the opportunity has come again to upgrade with a deal i really couldnt pass up on. It's a 150g Cube from marineland. It's has starphire on all sides even the back. The equipment that came with it is
2 ecoray 112d led lights
dual aqua medic dosing pump
apex unit with 8 and 4 energy bar
sca 302 skimmer
i'm sure there's some more that i'm forgetting but i'll inform when i see it. right now the room is a huge mess. lol i'll list the fish as soon as they go into the tank and see what survives the move. thanks and heres some pics as of right now.
Tank and stand

coral and rock under old t-5 lights

rocks and the fish

huge meat coral

alien eye chalice

nice size pavona

thanks for looking and hope y'all enjoy.

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

need to run to the store and grab a ball value and a union to get the plumbing done today and tomorrow grab a couple bags of sand and start filling her up with water.

 

[On388]

What are the dimensions on the tank?

 

[Bluesaltwater87]

Dude sweet i am soooo following this trend

 

[johnstonstms3]

Nice cant wait to see it up and running.

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

Thanks y'all. I'm so excited. The demension are 36x36x27.

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

I finally got everything hooked up to make it run and went to fill it all the way up and saw that i freaking flip flop the drain and the return line under the stand. :mad2::embarassed: i guess do it off of 4 hours of sleep to get up at 4 to go to work and then getting off at 3 and finally getting to the tank after the kids go to bed around 9 was a horrible idea. :mad2: so needless to say i just took the piping behind the overflow going into the bulkhead and flipped them. put the canopy on. Sweet it worked(not) the next day FPL came and had to shut the power off at the power lines. the sump didnt overflow and the pump i guess was to quick for the drain or i forgot to add my topoff water so i put a couple of gallons in and the tank started to overfllow and then the sump overflow. what the heck was i thinking. :mad2: had about 3 gallon of water everywhere. found out water was splashing up into my led fixture which now the blue leds dont come on for the one side. but cleaned it all up and left POed at the tank. finally yesterday i fixed the plumbing got it back to where it should be and finally added the sand from cultured reef down in fort pierce. he has a great lil shop in his front yard. picked up a couple nice frags for $10 and got 80lbs of dry sand for only $45. so far everything but an acro are doing fine. i think i placed it to close to my pavona and they went to war. thanks for looking and pics are to come this week.

 

[Zack]

love the dimensions, i dont like the actual "cubes" as much. i think they look better when they are not actually as tall as they are wide. yours being a perfect example!! did you get your leds to start working after the water splashing misfortune?

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

thanks zack. i actually love the dimension. i'm trying to aquascape the rocks so it'll look like its getting deeper as you go back. not sure if its looking like that. but for the leds not yet. i placed a fan on top of them where they got wet to hopefully dry it out some but so far no luck. lucky i know a few ppl who are genius when it comes to leds so i'm hoping they can look at it and see what is wrong. or it'll be fine til i have money for an upgrade.

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

few pics nothing to great yet.
tank with no sand.

frags i picked up

 

[Bluesaltwater87]

looking good bud

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

thanks its coming together slowly. lol

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

well, here it is have a few more pieces of equipment to hook up and get the kalk ro water hooked up. get the skimmer working and start the WC and sit back and start enjoying the beauty. heres a fts see anything wrong with the left side.

 

[gfox]

well, here it is have a few more pieces of equipment to hook up and get the kalk ro water hooked up. get the skimmer working and start the WC and sit back and start enjoying the beauty. heres a fts see anything wrong with the left side.

All of your corals on the left side look brown!Lights on that side look like they are 10k.

 

[jedidad]

Looking great. I am actually in the process of setting up a custom 36x36x26 as a corner tank. Unfortunately I haven't had time to do much with it. I I can figure out how to I'm gonna subscribe to this thread to follow along. You might try putting the light in some rice to dry it out.

 

[skinz78]

Looking good, keep the updates coming!

 

[Bluesaltwater87]

I know that is feels slow but it is better to take your time.

 

[revhtree]

A new tank is so exciting huh! Looking good.

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

thanks every1. bluewater your absolutely correct. patient is key and didnt want to rush this one. but it's almost all hooked up just need the skimmer hooked up and the aqua medic doser hooked up. i'm going to start dosing vodka and brightwell reefcode b
gfox your right the blue leds got screwed up when they got wet. havent had time to fixed them. hopefully it's not going to cost to much.
jedidad do you have a thread going?

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

now for some pics.
blue spotted watchman

favia and the arm of starfish

devils hand leather

red blood shrimo and frogspawn

small blasto

nice acan colonies

zoas frag

krytonite candy cane

red monti

coral beauty

duncan

banded coral shrimp i think they are mated/paired