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1/4” glass, agreed it’s only 14” tall There’s really no calculator out there for anything other than a rectangular plywood tank so I played around and found that 1/4” glass was recommended until you went over several hundred gallons. That being said they were using a top brace and no corner seam. Bottom line I had 1/4” glass so decided to give it a shot, my original plan was to have the “ picture frame brace around the glass, but I decided to try it without 1st. Tank is drained now but held up no problem for 48hrs. Once bulkheads are installed I’ll fill it up again for a few days to be sure. I used liquid rubber with geo textile fabric to waterproof the tank Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not having a top brace made me very nervous, especially as there was little to no other plywood tanks similar online that I could reference so I had to just use my best judgment and pray it held water. After 48hrs of holding water I’m going to drill the return and overflows today and re apply 1 more coat for good measure. I will be placing a 3/4” return in the back corner with Dual loc line sprayers and 1” overflows on each end. This was originally going to be a frag tank under my stairs but I’m leaning towards turning it into a shallow reef somewhere in the house if I can find space Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So I finally decided to try building a plywood tank, I wasn’t looking to go big enough to justify the cost so I decided to try and build something different to make it worth my while. My wife suggested that I build an L shape shallow reef so here it is [emoji1695] Tank is approx 75 gallons 48 x 16 x 14 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good luck man

Just set my 40 gal cube back up after taking a break for a year, I lost everything in the move down here (probably $2K) so I needed a break. looking for anyone that may be down here that wants to do Coral swaps or has some LR, pods to help get my tank up and running again. LFS are scarce and over priced here and making this hobby more frustrating than it needs to be lol. if anyone is down in this area and has stuff to sell/trade or donate please PM me. Thanks

Hi Jumping in with far less reef keeping experience than others but I can honestly say GHA was one of the easiest problems to fix in my system, I bought a bunch of blue hermits, upped my water changes and it took care of itself, you could also try carbon dosing. I have all kinds of undesirable stuff in my Fuge but my DT is clean as a whistle, I only keep LPS and softies in my tank but I don't even run a skimmer anymore, I have a large fuge and a GFO/Carbon reactor with 15% WC weekly and everything is good. not saying get rid of your skimmer, but your going to have all kinds of random problems in a new system and Hair algae is really one of the easier ones to fix.

I think its a student from Emerick Elementary.

I usually use Reefs2Go they have a lot of good deals on inverts, blue hermits especially, I see 100 hermits for $20 there pretty often, I usually buy Pods from them every 60-90 days which is usually free shipping. havent tried anywhere else, if it's just a couple of crabs or snails I just pick them up from the LFS.

I still use one.

I guess I'm going off topic a little, to answer your original question, I think LED's really make your Coral pop and I love the fact that you can adjust them to get the color you want. As far as feeding, you are correct regular water changes will do the job, but spot feeding and adding supplements will definitely increase your growth rate, I dose daily and spot feed once or twice a week. Good luck, tank looks healthy so far so whatever you're doing seems to be working for you.

do you dose or feed your Coral? how old is your tank? the 1st 6 months I set mine up nothing seemed to grow (probably because I kept messing with everything). I say if you have it try it out, if you dont like it you can always switch back

I like LED lighting for a number of reasons, I wouldnt worry about Coral choices being a factor, my Elegance, Fungia, Scoly and Duncan all did great under T5, I switched to LED to about 18 months ago, I love the color and everything is doing great but I will say that things grew a little faster under my T5's. B.L.U.F. LED's are great but there is a ton of amazing Coral that will thrive under T5.

I had the HOB one before it worked pretty well, only reason I replaced it was because I upgraded my tank, it was more than good enough for my 40B

perfect, thanks I was looking to pick up a 40B so I can finish breaking down my 90

I used flex tubing for my tank for almost 2 years, I eventually hard plumbed it so I could add a manifold, I prefer the hard plumbing but had no issues with flex tube for almost 2 years