Shallow Reef..

[do_0b]

Spending my time down in OC made me want to get back into the hobby. That, and also seeing Shaun's (4x5) tank on nano-reef.com inspired me to go do a shallow reef myself. Been busy getting back and collecting pieces of equipments and finding a maker for my tank. Finally can say that I have almost everything I need thus finally making this thread. Tank will be drilled tomorrow and picked up, my friend that works at a carpentry shop is helping me make a stand and my sump will probably take a couple more weeks.

Nuff' said

Equipment

• Tank: 26.5 x 26.5 x 11.5 Starphire
• Lighting: Ecotech Radion
• Overflow: Elite Aquatics 2-Drain
• Sump: 22 x 22 x 16 Custom Acrylic
• Flow: Vortech Mp10WES QD
• Return Pump: Eheim compact 3000+
• Heaters: 200 watt Colbalt Neo-Therm
• Skimmer: Super Reef Octopus SRO-1000INT
• Controller: Neptune Apex jr. with Temp/salinity probes
• TopOff: Kore 5th
• Doser: Kore 5th
• Bio-Filtration: 22 lbs Marco dry rock
• Extras: Vertex RX-Z 1.5L

Here are some pics: :)

Overflow is nice, great job from @Elite-Aquatics

Started working on the stand...

Priming it

Top and base done.

Tank is done, painted and overflow installed :D

Another angle

Now just gotta get the sump and stand finished. Do all the plumbing and then I can get this baby wet. Hopefully I can get all of this done by mid March but we'll see.

 

[Jahalu]

Looks great so far! Tagging along.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Awesome! Following along!

 

[MikeA]

Looking good. How wide is the overflow and what's your plan for the drain?

 

[do_0b]

Looking good. How wide is the overflow and what's your plan for the drain?

Its 15" wide and I plan on doing the Herbie overflow method

 

[Elite-Aquatics]

Looks great! following your build!

 

[do_0b]

Not much of an update but was bored today so I thought I do a mock aquascape. Heres what I came up with, please provide me with any feedbacks would be most appreciated

Took me 30 min to get this done...

I feel like I need more rock...what do you guys think?

 

[dbrewsky]

go with the rock you have! This way you have multiple viewing paths, angles etc. when corals start to grow out

 

[MikeA]

How's this coming along?

 

[do_0b]

June 2016

Fish:



Clownfishs



1x Wyoming White

1x Flurry (maybe)?



Tangs

1x Yellow Tang (help with algae)



Frags:



Sps



1x Teal birdnest

1x Pink Monti

1x Green Monti

1x Red Planet

1x Red Dragon

1x Blueberry Wine

1x Poker Star Monti

1x Purple/green Stylo

1x Forest Fire Digita

1x Blue/Green Acro

Fast forward to now.....lol

Tank is about 6 months now.....finally stabilizing. :) Enjoy

 

[MikeA]

Looking good Andy.

 

[MbunaJohn]

Gorgeous tank. What height is the top of the tank off the floor? Where it hits on you is sufficient if you don't know the measurement...

 

[do_0b]

Gorgeous tank. What height is the top of the tank off the floor? Where it hits on you is sufficient if you don't know the measurement...

44" but if i can go back to change it i would probably raise it another 4-5"

Looking good Andy.

thanks Mike

 

[Iceman001]

Wow, very nice and clean scaping. Always love shallow tank.

 

[MermaidTail]

I love this!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Looking awesome!

 

[do_0b]

Wow, very nice and clean scaping. Always love shallow tank.

Thanks! Im quite happy with the scaping too. I'm usually not good with it.

I love this!

Thanks!

Looking awesome!

THanks!

 

[do_0b]

Torch Garden: Mandarin Swag, Rainbow Torch, Aussie Torch

Acro colony: Bought it only for $20

Sunset Milli: Kinda blurry but I love the PE on it

 

[azbigjohn]

Beautiful growth on that coral, and I love to torch garden.

Just curious if you have had any carpet surfing with the shallow reef?

 

[mushroomrob]

Awesome corals. Post more close ups!