It's a 1am TANK THREAD! :D *the Sequel* - 30G reef tank

[MarcoVan]

Introduction

Hey all,

My name is Marc and I am a "lurker" in SRC. In case nobody remembers, I used to own a 3 footer in my office and there was a tank thread () on it before everything went downhill because of a power outage. Fast forward 4 years from that eventful day, I have successfully moved my setup back home , went through countless of planning and do-it-yourself works, bad tank and sump designs and power outages before finally arriving at something decent by my standards.

Today, my display is a 24" x 16" x 12" tank made by Coral Reef Aquarium. Together with its sister, a 20" x 14.5" x 14" sump, also a CRA-made tank, they throw out ~30G of water volume whilst sitting atop a Aquarium-Artist made brown cabinet.

List of equipment used:

• Lighting: 6 x 24w ATI Sunpower
• Skimmer: Deltec SC 1350
• Return: H2Ocean 2000
• Calcium Reactor: H&S Type 110-F1000IA
• Wave-maker: Ecotech MP10wES
• Computer Monitoring: Neptune Apex (for monitoring of pH inside the CR - slowly expanding it to maximise its functions

For this setup, I am planning to continue with my mixed reef style - zoanthids and acans running in between the SPS. Hopefully this time around, I can also resist the temptation to overcrowd my tank

Guess that's all for now... I will slowly follow up with pictures of the inhabitants and discussions on filtration methods I am going to employ...

Thank you for checking in!

[patricklhc]

Macrovan a name very familiar with a lot of reefers who has been around for sometimes.. Love to see more of your tank as yours is always full of surprise (good and bad) your experience is a good learning curve for a lot of reefers even myself. Looking forward ️ thread added to fav ️

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[dinGdinG]

haloooo Marco~! care to share your lighting period and tubes arrangement for your sunpower?

Just got myself a sunpower too, but its the dimmable version. Still taking references to find a good lighting period for my light set

[tofubox]

PICS PICS PICS!!! Waited toooooooo long liaoooo!

[MarcoVan]

haloooo Marco~! care to share your lighting period and tubes arrangement for your sunpower?

Just got myself a sunpower too, but its the dimmable version. Still taking references to find a good lighting period for my light set

Thank you for dropping by dinGdinG.

My lighting schedule is from 4pm to 12 midnight for the 4 main tubes and 4pm to 12:30am for the other 2 tubes.

My light arrangement as follows:

Front

Blue+

Blue+

Coral+

AB Special - Planning to swop this out for a Purple+

Blue+

Blue+

You will achieve a 12k look with this bulb arrangement and types used...

[dinGdinG]

hey bro thanks for sharing

[ahchris]

Hello MarcoVan, looking forward to more photos!!! :-)

[ReDDeviLs]

hidden dragonnn!! A man with full of knowledge and experience.

let the photo do the talking please...

[Admiraltian]

Hi bro, finally see u start a new thread after so long. Subscribed to ur thread!!

[picoreef]

You using chiller?

[thomas_lim]

Finally!!!

[ezman]

cant wait to see the update of your tank's pics..............

[patricklhc]

Excuse me sir! Pic please lol

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[jxlex]

It's been so many days without and update or pic.... I think his tank is "in his mind", should consider deleting this post

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On a serious note, Some pics pls leh...