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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

I have done this before with my 90 gal with a 30 gal sump, I was sure I was going to lose everything overnight but only lost 1 Anthia that I caught and put in a QT( she jumped out) all other fish and Coral survived, I only had about 15Gal tops of RODI on hand but I think I mad upe another 10 gal of just straight tap water and did a 25gal WC that night, I have never dosed Vinegar, I use Vodka (about 5cc) I would wait for some better intel on Vinegar but I believe you can double the dose of Vinegar to vodka so 10 cc would be safe, I would do it slowly if you're not currently carbon dosing maybe 5cc of Vinegar might be good for tonight and maybe another 5cc in the morning. my tank looked like I did a WC with milk when I OD'd on Kalkwasser within 2 days everything was back to normal. This is just my experience, hopefully someone with a little more knowledge can give you better info.

I feel like a broken record, because I make the same recommendations all the time, I would go with a 40B lol, although biocube's are super easy, you really dont have to think about them I would say a 29 Biocube would be my 2nd option

+1 tried this already, it was just another tank for me to maintain, that noone in the house cared about or even noticed when something died lol yeah, my kids have never asked me for a midnight clownfish or a picasso.

Thanks for the insight, I remember reading this a couple of years ago when starting out, I have been doing the lighting cycle since day 1 just couldn't really remember why, I just knew I read somewhere that that was the best way to reduce PH swings, I have a 90gal with a 29gal sump and haven't ever really noticed that much of a PH swing, that being said after the 1st year I'm not really big on water tests ; ) things just seem to stay the same as long as I do regular a WC

I read somewhere that PH drops overnight when lights are out, that is why people run the Refugium light on an opposite schedule, not sure if i'm right or not, but this is what I have always done.

Thought I was going to see a picture of myself! still not bad looking either.

I have always just done Vodka dosing, I think I'm at about 3cc a day now. I went as high as 10cc a day when I was having a Nitrate issue and once it started coming down I lowered it until it increased again. not sure what a good starting point would be if you done have any issues to begin with. I would be happy to go into more detail if you're interested in my methods.

I'm sure it is, bracing would just allow you to use multiple pieces that's all I meant

Who knew crabs liked to tap dance!

I think I used pool filter sand because it's really white looking and mixed it with some live sand, I forget the brand but it was from petco, never had any issues other than wishing I hadnt used any at all.