My Big Beautiful Budget Breeder Build

[Retro Reefer]

Beauty! That fixture setup is sweet

Thanks! My goal with this build was to have the best possible equipment for the least amount of money and I think I nailed it with this lighting combo.

 

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Now I need to fill this thing up with fish, working on my wish list and stocking order while I do some additional upgrades to the tank.. need to make a lid to keep in the jumpers and set up quarantine tank.

Begging for food this morning

 

[Janci]

Great job.
That acan garden will fill up in no time!
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[Katrina71]

Stunning acans! I'm working on a lightning project as well...yours turned out great!

 

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Great job.
That acan garden will fill up in no time!
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Thank you Janci and thanks for the kind words over on Najer’s thread

 

[Retro Reefer]

Stunning acans! I'm working on a lightning project as well...yours turned out great!

Thanks so much! I just need to figure out how I will eventually place them, would like to keep them on sand and mount them on a single artificial frag rack rock something like the one from BRS in the picture so I can move them around as they grow out

 

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Installed two royal blue low power LED accent lights for late evening and early morning viewing..

 

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Not much to look at in the 40 so how about a top down of my nano that I took today at feeding time.. don’t mind the dirty sand bed

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Now I need to fill this thing up with fish, working on my wish list and stocking order while I do some additional upgrades to the tank.. need to make a lid to keep in the jumpers and set up quarantine tank.

Begging for food this morning

 

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I figure I might be just a bit late but I really like what you are doing! Nice acans

 

[Retro Reefer]

I figure I might be just a bit late but I really like what you are doing! Nice acans

Your not late I’m just getting started thanks for stopping by!

 

[Katrina71]

Installed two royal blue low power LED accent lights for late evening and early morning viewing..

Do you mind if I ask what lights you used?

 

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Do you mind if I ask what lights you used?

Get them at Walmart cheap, not very bright but great for nano tanks. I run 4 of them on my Biocube as supplements to my nano-box but on the 40 they are just accent lighting.. great little light, good spectrum for that 450nm “pop” and very reliable I have been using them for several years.

 

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Manually plugging in the t5’s got old quick so I picked up a couple grounded water resistant timers, my coral box LED has a built in controller and my accent LED’s are on a timer that I already had so this will complete my lighting automation.

 

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Tidied up my canopy wiring and installed timers.. had 5 separate power cables to manage but a bunch of zip ties, a few wire mounts and I’m happy enough. I may install the aquatic life end plates to cover wires at some point but not to pressed..

 

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My clown is.. Happy as a clam!

 

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Some pictures from today.. 10 weeks wet, 8 weeks cycled.

 

[najer]

Looking very nice.

 

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Have a few shrooms floating around the tank so I made a box to contain them until they attach to rubble..

 

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New Chromis checking out their reflection