Rick's rimless 33 gal

[Rick]

Figured i might as well start my reef thread finally.
-The aquarium is a GLA 33 gallon rimless with a 17 gallon GLA rimless aquarium as a sump/fuge.
-water movement provided by a vortech mp20 and a sicce syncra 1.5 for return
-lighting provided by led spotights 4x par 38 and 1x par 30, two nanocustoms 20k 60 degree, one custom 4x1 b/w nanocustoms ,1 Grassy ledio 4bx3w and a 3watt blue par 30
-Calcium alk and mag controlled via Profilux SA 3 pump doser
-RKL
-Hydor slim skim for nutrient export (only runs at night micro bubbles are terrible)
here are some pics more info up later

 

[JGoslee]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

Nice looking tank you have there! How do you like the par38 spot lights?

 

[Rick]

Thanks, I Love them I'm getting great growth and coloration

 

[Rick]

Nitrates/trites 0ppm
Cal 480-500
Dkh 8-9
Mag 1400+
ph 8.3
Inhabitants
Mainly acros and various montiporas a lot of Ora, tyree and other LE pieces
15+ head dendro colony that likes to snatch up chromis lol
Some star polyps and blue sympodium from the tanks infancy
I'll try and get some good not cell phone pics soon

 

[btkrausen]

Hey, nice looking tank. Loving that big turquoise stag that you have in there. Are you getting good growth with the monti cap? The orange and red seem to grow the fastest.

 

[Rick]

Thanks, super fast montipora growth I just had to move it there it was the size of a half dollar when I got it a couple months ago it's palm sized now, and started getting too close to my tricolor and ATL bansai. I also have rainbow, leng sy, tyree undata, tyree pink polyp,Idaho grape,and candy apple cap which are all growing nicely as well.

 

[btkrausen]

So you are doing liquid calicum, like a 2 part? What Magnesium are you using? How much do you find you need to dose on a daily basis.?

 

[Rick]

2 part bright well and brightwell mag 15ml per day

 

[BlazinNano]

Awesome tank man. How are you liking the LEDs?

 

[Rick]

The LEDs are awesome I get great growth color and my tank stays at 71 degrees

 

[subdrive]

beauty!

 

[Viva'sReef]

Any pics of the lighting setup??

 

[Rick]

I'll post some pics of the lighting setup you can kind of tell how it is in the second picture I think the key with led is a full color spectrum warm white cool white cool blue and royal blue.

 

[Rick]

I'm stoked I'm supposed to be getting some Dustins deep water and 500$ efflo this week coming up!

 

[thewackyreefer]

The LEDs are awesome I get great growth color and my tank stays at 71 degrees

Have you noticed any negatives to keeping the tank at such a low temperature?

 

[Rick]

None what so ever the corals seem to love it and I used to keep it at 68-69 with no problems but adding more lights and moving into winter found it more stable/safe to stay between 71-72 with no real fluctuation.

 

[btkrausen]

Thats interesting, as most people think that 71 is detrimental on their tanks at the temp. My tank has dropped to 71 plenty of times this year and I haven't lost a thing because of it, but I would never think to run it that low like that.

 

[Rick]

I think the halide era caused the need for tanks to be in the 78-81 range and that's just my kind of unfactual bs opinion but the results speak for themselves and my corals color up beter now than in previous warmer tanks driven by halides so I'm a firm believer in the 71-73 range, no chiller required :)

 

[Rick]

Also I started it at 68-69 as a nps tank (when it was in the 17 gal)

 

[skinz78]

Great looking tank! I find it very interesting that you keep the temp so low, but if it aint broke don't fix it!