I recently received 15 sps frags from a local hobbyist and very quickly ran out of room in my 40B. My sand bed is completely covered in frags and quite frankly, I'm tired of righting frags that are knocked over by my hermits and conch every day, so that was the perfect excuse to start a frag tank. I currently have a 40B, 20 long and nuvo 10 and after much debate on draining, drilling and plumbing my 20 long or getting an AIO, I settled on the Innovative Marine Lagoon 25. I think that will be plenty of room for my needs as of now, plus its just an awesome tank.
Plan: Set up the lagoon 25 as a bare bottom and cycle it. Once complete, I will tear down my 20 long and move over my supporting equipment to the lagoon 25. Current livestock in my 20 long are a few snails and hermits, a six line wrasse, 2x picasso clownfish, green clown goby. The snails and six line will go in the lagoon 25, the green clown goby will go into my nuvo 10, hermits will go to the 40. I am unsure what I want to do with my picasso clowns. Do I put them in the lagoon 25 at risk of running into nutrient problems, or do I rehome them? I cant put them in the 40B since I already have another pair in there.
New Equipment:
Lagoon 25 with APS stand
Innovative Marine Reef Rack 102
12x marinepure 2x2 cubes in rear chambers
2x Intank floss holders
20 Long equipment being moved:
Tunze 9001DC (will modify for rear center chamber)
2x Jebao SOW-4
2x AI Prime HD with gooseneck mounts (Gen 2 running BRS AB+)
xpaqua duetto sumpless (with sumpless portion removed)
Cobalt Neotherm 75w
Coralbox WF-01 dosing Tropic Marin All for Reef
Livestock:
Six line Wrasse
Trochus, Astrea, Cerith, Dwarf Cerith, Nerite snails
2x Picasso clowns? (help me decide, I'm leaning towards no)
I'm hoping the 12 marinepure cubes will be enough biofilter to keep the display clear of any rock. In a perfect world, the only things that would be in the display are the frags, rack and livestock so I can run high flow and keep detritus suspended for removal by the filtration but I feel that I may have to put a small rock from the 20 long in there for the six line. Thoughts on that?
Goal:
To grow frags and maintain low nutrients. Who knows, I might even be able to make enough money on the side to buy salt or to take the lady out to dinner from time to time to keep the peace
Plan: Set up the lagoon 25 as a bare bottom and cycle it. Once complete, I will tear down my 20 long and move over my supporting equipment to the lagoon 25. Current livestock in my 20 long are a few snails and hermits, a six line wrasse, 2x picasso clownfish, green clown goby. The snails and six line will go in the lagoon 25, the green clown goby will go into my nuvo 10, hermits will go to the 40. I am unsure what I want to do with my picasso clowns. Do I put them in the lagoon 25 at risk of running into nutrient problems, or do I rehome them? I cant put them in the 40B since I already have another pair in there.
New Equipment:
Lagoon 25 with APS stand
Innovative Marine Reef Rack 102
12x marinepure 2x2 cubes in rear chambers
2x Intank floss holders
20 Long equipment being moved:
Tunze 9001DC (will modify for rear center chamber)
2x Jebao SOW-4
2x AI Prime HD with gooseneck mounts (Gen 2 running BRS AB+)
xpaqua duetto sumpless (with sumpless portion removed)
Cobalt Neotherm 75w
Coralbox WF-01 dosing Tropic Marin All for Reef
Livestock:
Six line Wrasse
Trochus, Astrea, Cerith, Dwarf Cerith, Nerite snails
2x Picasso clowns? (help me decide, I'm leaning towards no)
I'm hoping the 12 marinepure cubes will be enough biofilter to keep the display clear of any rock. In a perfect world, the only things that would be in the display are the frags, rack and livestock so I can run high flow and keep detritus suspended for removal by the filtration but I feel that I may have to put a small rock from the 20 long in there for the six line. Thoughts on that?
Goal:
To grow frags and maintain low nutrients. Who knows, I might even be able to make enough money on the side to buy salt or to take the lady out to dinner from time to time to keep the peace