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Starting a tread on my new rimless 2 ft cube reef tank journey. Tank arriving soon. Going mainly for LPS, mushrooms and zoanthids. Schematic drawings for display tank, cabinet, and sump are as attached:

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Items and equipment to be used for the tank are as follows:

Substrate: Caribsea Ocean Direct Pacific Black Live Sand

Live-rocks: Fiji Live-rocks

Filtration:

Mechanical filtration: Filter sock

Biological filtration: DSB + Cheato

Chemical filtration: TLF PhosBan Reactor (PO4)

Skimmer: Deltec MCE300 External Hang-on Protein Skimmer

Lighting:

Display tank - Maxspect G2 110W LED with Cree upgrade

Refugium - Lumenaqua Mini LED, 9W (2x White, 2x Blue)

Water Movement: Ecotech Marine VorTech MP10

Chiller: JBJ Arctica 1/10

Return Pump: Eheim 1262

Monitoring: American Marine PINPOINT pH Monitor

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Good start! Looks like lots of thought and research have been put into this project. I'm looking forward to your lighting pics as I'm also tempted to upgrade the Maxspect G2 to Cree LEDs. Do share the LED configuration (placement & white / blue ratio).

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james72 Newbie

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Picture picture picture :)

Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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Picture picture picture :)

Tank not ready. Patiently waiting.

do you happen to be the guy i saw at CR factory today?

Lol, i think your tank was right beside mine...

Yup ... that should be me. Yours the 2.5ft shallow tank? Nice!

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Will be camping here to see your tank updates!!

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Tank not ready. Patiently waiting.

Yup ... that should be me. Yours the 2.5ft shallow tank? Nice!

Your tank shld be deliver already? mine already at home.. You shld be have tell the differences when your crystal glass was beside mine, but why do 4 instead of 3 crystal sides?

btw mine height is 14inch

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Tank arrived today! :yahoo:

Distilled water came early morning. Tank arrived around 3.30 pm:

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Tank set up:

Angle #1

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Ohhh! Forgot to wipe the cabinet. Too anxious to take pictures. :blush:

Angle #2

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Angle #3

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Inside the Cabinet:

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Please pardon for the messy cables. :blush:

Anti-slam hinges

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Chiller Box:

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Need to fetch CO home for vetting now. :big_boss:

Tasking tonight will be to clean tank and top it up with water. To run for 24hrs to test piping for any leakage. :cheers:

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Your tank shld be deliver already? mine already at home.. You shld be have tell the differences when your crystal glass was beside mine, but why do 4 instead of 3 crystal sides?

btw mine height is 14inch

His tank is 4 sides view meh... :yeah: !

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Goethe

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Hi, can pm me the brand & price of your display tank & cabinet pls? Thinking of doing something similar minus sump & chiller. Will hv zoas & fish only. Plus nano skimmer eg aquac & bio filter & led.

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Wow nice. Super like!!

Can see the well-thought planning. Hanging the lights must be a real challenge ya?

Ceiling is too high. Dare not even attempt to propose the idea to my CO. :chair:

Will be using either the rails provided with the lighting fixture or the clamps (understand they came with the G1) bought recently.

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Aquascaping Live Rocks

Mission accomplished .... :yahoo: .... Backbreaking assignment.

Angle #1

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Angle #2

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Angle #3

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Angle #4

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Angle #5

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Nice rockscape, good job.

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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I like your angle #1 scape!

Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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You are really a merticulous person...from blue print , planning to execution, all swee swee one, now i understand why...lol

Do send my regards to your CO, would like to thank her in person for letting my bro here upgrade to new tank :lol:

Treat others the way you wanna be treated...

 

 

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nice scaping and rocks :D so which angle is the front?

Thanx! As with Bro james72 fav, Angle #1 scape is my front.

You are really a merticulous person...from blue print , planning to execution, all swee swee one, now i understand why...lol

Do send my regards to your CO, would like to thank her in person for letting my bro here upgrade to new tank :lol:

Thanx bro! Finally CO agreed to the tank after months of proposals and persuasion. Started off with a 5ft, then down to 3ft, to finally settled with a 2ft. Still new to reefing, so please throw in advice if I'm not doing things right along the way. Will bring my boy to visit you again once my new tank is up and ready for stocking. My CO will definitely be there too .... LOL

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Been busy for past 1 week. Thrown in a market prawn on Thursday to kick off cycling process.

Still getting <0.25 reading from my Salifert NH4 test kit.

Salinity @1.015. Target to increase it to 1.025.

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How time flies. Been nearing 3 years since I last updated my simple set up. Just simply can't get a decent photo with my DSLR. Nevertheless, here is one taken yesterday with my iPad to start things rolling.

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