Stephen's 30 Gallon Reef

[Stephen]

Since I've been around for a bit I decided it's time I shared my tanks with you guys and gals. Since I've finished purchasing everything I wanted for it I'll start with the 30 gallon reef tank that's in my office. Photos to follow as soon as I get a new video card for my desktop.

 

Display - 30 gallon long Perfecto aquarium (36" x 13" x 16")

 

Livestock

 

Fish/Inverts

- Occellaris Clown Pair

- 2 Red Firefish

- 1 6 Line Wrasse

- 1 Red Hi-Fin Goby

- 2 Peppermint Shrimp

- 1 Tiger Pistol Shrimp

- 5 Sexy Shrimp

- 1 Coral Banded Shrimp

- 10 Blue Legged Hermits

- 5 Scarlet Reef Hermits

- 20 Astrea Snails

- 1 Small purple Flower Anemone

 

Corals (all frags)

- ORA Pearlberry

- ORA Hawkins Blue Enchinata

- ORA Red Planet Acro

- ORA Validia Acro

- ORA Chips

- ORA Roscoe

- ORA Rose Milli

- ORA Yellow Milli

- Green with pink tipped frogspawn

- Green tipped frogspawn

- Candy cane coral

- Purple Sea Plume Gorgonian

- Blue Rics

- Orange Ric

- Gold Rics

- Teal Rics

- Green Ric

- Pink Rics

- Green Slimer

- Green Stylo

- Hot pink thick branched birds nest

- RPE's

- Various zoo's

- ORA Elkhorn Montipora

- Pink thin branched birdsnest

- Green Toadstool

- Green giant hairy mushrooms

- Highlighter Green Montipora cap

- Pink Montipora cap

- Yellow Montipora cap

- Xenia

- Orange Montipora digi

- Green Montipora dig

- Lavender Montipora digi

- Red Montipora digi

- Purple tipped Montipora digi

- Idaho Grape montipora cap

- Green Montipora cap

- Superman montipora

- Pokerstar montipora

- Sunset montipora

- Green Montipora confusa

- Copps Blue Milli

- Copps Yellow tipped pink prostrata

 

Liverock/Sand

30 pounds of CaribSea Seaflor Sand

60 Pounds of live rock (started with 40 pounds of dry base rock and 20 pounds of live rock from other tanks)

 

Equipment

- 36" Nova Extreme Pro Fixture (3x39 watt 10K T5 bulbs & 3x39 watt T5 actinic bulbs)

- 3 Maxi-Jet 1200 powerheads (2 with rotating flow deflectors)

- 1 Maxi-Jet 900 powerhead (being replaced by Koralia 1)

- 1 Fluval 205 Filter (foam and bio spheres)

- 1 Eshopps 300 gph over-flow

 

Sump - 20 gallon Perfecto Aquarium (24" x 12" x 16")

 

Livestock

- Cheato

- Serpent Star

- 5 Snails

- 1 Red Mithrax Crab that has a taste for coral.

- 1 Green Mithrax Crab

 

Equipment

- 1 Maxi-Jet 1800 utility pump (tank return)

- 1 Maxi-Jet 900 utility pump (feeds PhosBan Reactor and Skimmer)

- 1 Maxi-Jet 900 powerhead (water movement)

- 1 250 watt Stealth heater

- 1 Aquaclear 50 (sponge inside for filtration)

- 1 Reef Octopus DNW-150 Skimmer

- 1 PhosBan Reactor (for carbon)

 

Future Additions

- 10 gallon frag tank plumbed into system

 

Maintenance

12 gallons water change per week

Top offs are RO/DI water with Kalk

Edited October 15, 2008 by Stephen

[jason the filter freak]

Great organized list, now how about to pics! :D I admire you planning and ability to organize, great freaking traits for a reefer.

[L8 2 RISE]

someone has a big office

[reefmontalvo]

What do you do when the frags are no longer frags?

[Origami]

What do you do when the frags are no longer frags?

 

Get a bigger tank or another tank, I suppose.

[Stephen]

Get a bigger tank or another tank, I suppose.

 

Maybe... Eventually they'll end up in other tanks and I'll keeps my favorites in this tank. That's my plan... But I like the bigger tank idea.

[Sugar Magnolia]

Sounds amazing, now where are those pics?

[Stephen]

Finally got around to taking some pics. Have a little turf algae issue on the back glass (hoping my upgraded CUC will take care of that) but here they are anyway. Sorry they aren't that great. Camera isn't the greatest and for some reason it washes the colors on certain pics.

 

Just picked the clam up today on my first visit to Atlantis in Richmond. Nice shop BTW.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll add some more actinics only later on.

Edited November 26, 2008 by Stephen

[CHUBAKAH]

Can't wait to see what this is going to look like in about a year from now. That's in insane amount of corals for thirty gallons. It should look sick, however you're gonna have your hands full with fragging.

 

Good job!

 

Let me know when you have some frags ready.

[Stephen]

It should look sick, however you're gonna have your hands full with fragging.

 

Let me know when you have some frags ready.

 

Yeah I will. There's going to be a 20 gallon tank set up and plumbed into this solely for use as a frag tank. My idea is to eventually replace the 30 gallon with a 40 breeder or 50 gallon, use the 30 for a sump, and the 20 for a frag tank. That's a little ways off though.

[Stephen]

So my upgrade wasn't that far off. The 30 gallon is no more. I don't spend much time in my office this time of year so I moved the tank into my second living room where my home office is. I'll probably add a larger nano cube or RSM next year when business picks back up.

 

I upgraded to a 40 breeder and am using the 30 as a sump. I'll start a new thread and post some photos once my rock is delivered and I get it placed in the bare spots the tank has now.