gillundr
Community Member
I have sort of been a lurker here on R2R, and haven't posted a ton, I thought I would put up a few pics of my tank and make it official. Last November my 120 started leaking and I had to unload 90% of my livestock quickly. I considered just getting out of the hobby for a little while since life was busy and it seemed like a good exit point anyways, but a few friends badgered me into staying in.
A local club member was upgrading at the time so had his 32 gallon Solana up for sale. He ran it with a sump and all that but in the interest of keeping this as a simple sort of cross over I kept the sump out of the equation. I plan on going with a deep dimension take in the near future but we are going to be doing a remodel on the house so I figured I would work the tank into the remodel so am just using the solana, along with another little 12 gallon nano in my daughter's room to keep my hands wet and let me play a bit.
The tank is pretty simple. I have an MP40, and an MP10 for flow along with my return pump. I'm using an Aqua C Remora HOB skimmer. I have a Current Outer Orbit Fixture that powers 1x150 watt 14k Phoenix, and 4x24 watt T5s which I run a some actinics in. I use Chem Pure Elite which I change every 6 to 8 weeks or so. I run filter floss in the first chamber to hep reduce the waterfall sound plus it helps polish the water. I also run a carbon pad after the skimmer (Deep Blue). I change the floss every few days depending on how it looks and feeding. The carbon pad I change when I'm in the mood lol. Not often I enough I suppose.
I dose ESV B-Ionic. that's it. I WC weekly to every couple of weeks depending on life. I like to do it weekly but sometimes it doesn't happen. I have slacked lately, but the corals I think have enjoyed the extra nutrients and have been growing pretty fast. I wouldn't suggest to slack, I'm just blabbing. I changed bulbs a little while ago and ended up really bleaching all my corals pretty significantly. I thought my old bulbs were still pretty new so I didn't set the timers back and things got white lol. Things are coming back though some better than others.
Plans for the tank still include a controller, dosing pumps for my 2 part since I'm doing that manually, and an ATO. That's about it. I figure those things will go on a bigger tank when I upgrade anyways so it won't be a waste of money. This is really just to get me through a little while. I have had to take a few corals out lately because of growth. I tried to just keep frags of my favorite stuff in my 120. Some of the corals I had to let go all together and didn't keep frags, but friends have pieces of those I can get back someday I suppose.
Enough with the talk. Time to try to post a few pics.
I'm not a photographer. I used a simple digital camera and set the white balance to auto. I don't have LEDs so these were taken under my normal lights.
Tubs Pink Jade
My killer Favia. This used to be bigger till I cut it up and spread it out a bit. I almost lost it as well when out of town once but found enough tissue to mount to a disc and get it growing again. It is doing really well. I haven't seen another one look this nice anywhere. It is close to a Prism Favia, but it's not. I got it from a shop a long time ago and at the time it was a gamble because it looked like nothing but had potential. It is awesome and waiting for a cool name I guess in my opinion.
My Red Setosa
Battle Corals Shades of Fall
Battle Corals Green Gremlin Turaki
ATL Cherry Blossom. Still coming back from a bleaching incident.
Mias Pot of Gold
Strawberry Shortcake acro, Appleberry, Setosa
Ultimates Red WM
Ultimate Fruit Loops
A couple FTS
Things are still a little bleached but stuff is coming back pretty nicely and things are growing well.
A local club member was upgrading at the time so had his 32 gallon Solana up for sale. He ran it with a sump and all that but in the interest of keeping this as a simple sort of cross over I kept the sump out of the equation. I plan on going with a deep dimension take in the near future but we are going to be doing a remodel on the house so I figured I would work the tank into the remodel so am just using the solana, along with another little 12 gallon nano in my daughter's room to keep my hands wet and let me play a bit.
The tank is pretty simple. I have an MP40, and an MP10 for flow along with my return pump. I'm using an Aqua C Remora HOB skimmer. I have a Current Outer Orbit Fixture that powers 1x150 watt 14k Phoenix, and 4x24 watt T5s which I run a some actinics in. I use Chem Pure Elite which I change every 6 to 8 weeks or so. I run filter floss in the first chamber to hep reduce the waterfall sound plus it helps polish the water. I also run a carbon pad after the skimmer (Deep Blue). I change the floss every few days depending on how it looks and feeding. The carbon pad I change when I'm in the mood lol. Not often I enough I suppose.
I dose ESV B-Ionic. that's it. I WC weekly to every couple of weeks depending on life. I like to do it weekly but sometimes it doesn't happen. I have slacked lately, but the corals I think have enjoyed the extra nutrients and have been growing pretty fast. I wouldn't suggest to slack, I'm just blabbing. I changed bulbs a little while ago and ended up really bleaching all my corals pretty significantly. I thought my old bulbs were still pretty new so I didn't set the timers back and things got white lol. Things are coming back though some better than others.
Plans for the tank still include a controller, dosing pumps for my 2 part since I'm doing that manually, and an ATO. That's about it. I figure those things will go on a bigger tank when I upgrade anyways so it won't be a waste of money. This is really just to get me through a little while. I have had to take a few corals out lately because of growth. I tried to just keep frags of my favorite stuff in my 120. Some of the corals I had to let go all together and didn't keep frags, but friends have pieces of those I can get back someday I suppose.
Enough with the talk. Time to try to post a few pics.
I'm not a photographer. I used a simple digital camera and set the white balance to auto. I don't have LEDs so these were taken under my normal lights.
Tubs Pink Jade
My killer Favia. This used to be bigger till I cut it up and spread it out a bit. I almost lost it as well when out of town once but found enough tissue to mount to a disc and get it growing again. It is doing really well. I haven't seen another one look this nice anywhere. It is close to a Prism Favia, but it's not. I got it from a shop a long time ago and at the time it was a gamble because it looked like nothing but had potential. It is awesome and waiting for a cool name I guess in my opinion.
My Red Setosa
Battle Corals Shades of Fall
Battle Corals Green Gremlin Turaki
ATL Cherry Blossom. Still coming back from a bleaching incident.
Mias Pot of Gold
Strawberry Shortcake acro, Appleberry, Setosa
Ultimates Red WM
Ultimate Fruit Loops
A couple FTS
Things are still a little bleached but stuff is coming back pretty nicely and things are growing well.
