The Hold Over, Hobbs’ 30g long

Hooberminch · Sep 1, 2019

The Hold Over, My 30 gallon long build

I have a 8 gallon aquarium and wanted something a little bit bigger for greater diversity. I thought this 30gallon would be the perfect hold over until I graduate / move / buy a house. Eyeing up new tanks all the time though!

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SPECIFICATIONS

Equipment

30 gallon long glass aquarium: homemade sump built in
AI prime HD
Homasy 400GPH submersible pump
Hydro Koralia nano 425GPH
Fluval 300W Heater
Chaeto reactor: Aquatop media reactor + TopLED light plant grow rope lighting
Senzeal crystal glass pot x4
Salifert master testing kit

Livestock

Fish
1. Canary Blenny
2. Carpenter’s Flasher Wrasse
3. Ocellaris Clownfish- Snowflake
4. Ocellaris Clownfish- Black Snowflake
Invertebrates
1. Anemones
  1. Rainbow bubble tip anemone x3
  2. Black widow bubble tip anemone x1
  3. Acid wash bubble tip anemone x1
  4. Rock flower anemone x4
3. Shrimp
  1. Fire Shrimp
5. Snails
  1. Florida fighting conch x1
  2. Astrea star snails x3
  3. Astrea snails x5
  4. Margarita turbo snails x2
  5. Nassarius snail x3
7. Crabs
  1. Emerald crab x1
  2. Porcelain crab x2
  3. Assorted hermit crabs x 4
Coral
1. Soft Coral
  1. Crown of thorns leather coral
  2. Neon green
  3. Firework clove polyps
  4. Interstellar mushroom
  5. Superman mushrooms
  6. Jawbreaker mushroom
  7. Orange ricordea
  8. Blue ricordea
  9. Yellow ricordea
  10. Blade gorgonian
  11. Fire and ice zooanthids
  12. Dragon eye zooanthids
  13. Cherry bomb zooanthids
  14. Krakatoa zooanthids
  15. LA lakers zooanthids
  16. Orange bam bam zooanthids
  17. Sunny D zooanthids
  18. Cyan zooanthids
3. LPS
  1. Purple torch
  2. Orange-tip green center torch
  3. Short tentacle torch
  4. Blue tip hammer
  5. Bicolor hammer
  6. Orange and green blastomusso
  7. Purple and green blastomusso
  8. Dark blastomusso
  9. Bright rainbow acan
  10. Dark rainbow acan
  11. Mint acan
  12. Blue kryptonite acan
  13. Neon orange - green lobo
  14. Blue and pink maze brain
  15. Green maze brain
  16. Long stem Duncan
  17. Purple tip elegance
  18. Radioactive goniopora
  19. Flame goniopora
  20. Tricolor goniopora
  21. Pink and blue alveopora
  22. Rainbow pectinea
  23. Space Invader pectinea
  24. Miami Hurricane Chalice
  25. Pink ******* Chalice
  26. Mummy eye Chalice
4. SPS
  1. Green bonsai acropora
  2. X acropora
  3. X acropora
  4. X acropora
  5. X acropora
  6. Candy apple monti
  7. Red monti
  8. Purple monti
  9. Forest fire montipora digita
  10. Purple digita
  11. Orange monti serosa
  12. Birds of paradise birds nest
  13. Bright green cantremembernameof
5. NPS
  1. Lace coral
6. Plants / macroalgae
  1. Chaeto

Future plans
Livestock: maxima clam, mandarin dragonette
Equipment: RO / DI filter

Hooberminch · Sep 1, 2019

Maintenance and daily upkeeping

Maintenance is fairly minimal on this aquarium. I clean the glass every 2 weeks with a razor blade and use a mag float sporadically inbetween. I use filter floss to catch detritus, which I change ever 3-4 days (sometimes up to 2 weeks). I change 15% of the water every 2 weeks. I top water off as needed

Feeding occurs once in the later afternoon with flakes and again at night with either brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, or flake. Corals get spot fed 1-2x per week with reef roads. Phytoplankton is added at night time feedings 2x per week

Hooberminch · Sep 1, 2019

Chaeto Reactor:

Older picture of my chaeto reactor. It currently is full of chaeto and remove about half every 2 months. Tons of microfauna within it.

As you can tell, I do not run a protein skimmer, this serves as my main nutrient export. Protein skimmers in my opinion are not needed in nano aquariums as long as you have something to pick up organic nutrients. In a nano, protein skimmer alter salinity too rapidly.

Hooberminch · Sep 1, 2019

Acan garden:

Goniopora garden:

Space Invader:

Most of my pictures are outdated because i have had a very busy schedule / been out of the state so stay tuned for new pictures in a week!

Auquanut · Sep 1, 2019

Welcome to the family! Beautiful tank. Looks like you know what you're doing. I kind of agree with you about skimmers on nanos. Lots of different opinions though.