50 Gallon Build Cont- Inhabitants Added

[SaltyDuggz]

After a couple long months I am finally ready to fill up! Was waiting on some rock and found a guy on craigslist selling real reef rock for $1/lb. He had to shut one of his tanks down. Great looking rock by the was. Grabbed some epoxy (Very happy with the results and hold of the epoxy) from Petsmart and started breaking up pieces and configuring them in many different ways. Also, my buddy was upgrading his lighting, so I was able to grab his Black box LED. Very happy with it so far.Plumbing issues have been taken care of, so this weekend is the fill up.

Really want to start with the Tanka Pygmy Wrasse. Anyone have one in their tanks?


Rock layout


Three pieces epoxied together

Side view


New Light with Mounting Arm

Messing with the color output

 

[Cory]

Love the aquascape! Nice start!

 

[PlayerUnknown]

Great start, what skimmer is that?

 

[SaltyDuggz]

Great start, what skimmer is that?

The Reef Octopus 110SSS

 

[SaltyDuggz]

Finally got ATO setup along with my Reef Keeper Elite. A buddy had an extra Chinese black box led. I really love it!

 

[fightingfish]

Looks great! What are you using for pump/powerheads?

 

[edc_aquarium]

What sand are you using ?

 

[SaltyDuggz]

Looks great! What are you using for pump/powerheads?

I am using the Jebao pp-8. It's their newer model. Great movement. My return pump is an Eheim 1260. Whisper quiet and quite powerful.

 

[SaltyDuggz]

What sand are you using ?

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/aragonite-special-grade-dry-sand-40lbs-caribsea.html
Here's the link to bulk reef supply. Really happy with the aragonite. Perfect grain size

 

[SaltyDuggz]

Tank has been up since Start of February, 2018. Things are going well. Had a couple of diatom (brown algae) outbreaks but nothing major. Have added:
-Hammer Torch
-Frogspawn
-Paint Splatter (or Metallic Green/Red) Wellsophyllia - Apparently this name was removed from the taxonomy and this type of brain is under the genus Trachyphyllia Brain Coral.
- Three small Zoa frags
- 2 Assorted Damsels
- Halloween Crab

View attachment 20180314_223526.jpg

View attachment 20180314_223526.jpg

View attachment 20180315_185312.jpg