Nooblenny Proper Reef

[Nooblenny]

Nooblenny Proper Reef Tank 

Equipments:
Tank: Red Sea Reefer 250
Lighting: ATI Sunpower T5 + Euroquatics E5 LED
Return Pump: Reef Octopus Varios 4
Skimmer: Reef Octopus Classic 152-S
Reactor: Reef Octopus Bioreact-90
Wavemaker: 2x Coralbox QP-5
Doser: Jebao DP-4
Chiller: Hailea HS-28A
System: Aquaforest

 

Previously I experimented with temporary setups using my existing freshwater tank & canister filter.

After a few months of learning, I’m now ready to start my first proper reef tank.

 

Initially planned to have my tank custom-made by Aquarium Artist, but my inquiry was ignored, lol. 

So I picked up Red Sea Reefer instead, which turned out to be a fantastic & well-made tank.

 

[Nooblenny]

 What's in the tank

This setup is now 2 months old, so far no water changes yet. Only replacing tiny amount of water when adding livestocks.

Water Parameters:

SG: 1.025
TP: 26 - 27°c
Ph: 8.0
No3: 25
Po4.: 0.1
Ca: 430
Kh: 7.6
Mg: 1460

 

At the moment trying SPS frags first, when water parameter is really stabled may replaced with colonies.

Lighting is ATI T5 with 2 Euroquatics E5 LED bulbs for coral color pops. While water flows is produced by 2 Coralbox QP-5 wavemakers.

 

Some livestocks in the tank.

 

[Nooblenny]

A closer look at the sump. 

One of the fun part of this new setup is organising the sump area. I like my cabinet to be neat and easy for maintenance. So keeping it really simple.

The very first thing I did was to ditch the tiny 2 gallon top-up reservoir and put a dosing container in its place.

I'm using an existing 8 gallon freshwater tank as reservoir, served by Tunze Nano 3152. You can see the reservoir next to the cabinet, the water can last about 1 month.

 

The power socket on the left is to power the tri-octo (Reef Octopus) inside the sump, namely: Octo skimmer, Octo reactor & Octo pump.

 Underneath the skimmer & reactor, there are a Marinepure plate and half brick.

According to most reefers, Marinepure works best for denitrification in very low flow, low oxygen and dark area. So I made the acrylic risers and slot the Marinepure inside them.

Hopefully they work and don't turn into nitrate factories instead, lol.

 

On the right side you can see Tunze ATO and dosing container with self-mixed AF Component 123.

Being fed by return pump, the Hailea HS-28A chiller needs about 1 hour to cool from 27c to 26c. Then interval is about 4 hours before it kicks in again.
Slightly underpowered but the next bigger model is too big for the cabinet, so this will do.

Underneath the dosing container there are 2 slide out filter socks.
1st filter sock (AF Carbon & AF Zeo Mix). 2nd filter sock (AF Life Bio Fil & Seachem Purigen).

 

The remaining space after chiller on the right is for medicines/stuff and test kits.

[SubzeroLT]

Very neat set up. Look forward to more updates !

[Kumar 1981]

Nice set up!


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[soggycookies]

Impressive set up. Cheers!


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[Ashtrax]

May I know what the price for aqua pump and your ato setup.


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[Nooblenny]

13 hours ago, SubzeroLT said:

Very neat set up. Look forward to more updates !

 

12 hours ago, Kumar 1981 said:

Nice set up!


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11 hours ago, soggycookies said:

Impressive set up. Cheers!


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Thanks bros for the feedback! 

[Nooblenny]

10 hours ago, Ashtrax said:

May I know what the price for aqua pump and your ato setup.


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The QP-5 is from fish street, about $100. The Tunze Nano ATO is from local shop, i just use an empty small tank as the reservoir

[Ashtrax]

18 hours ago, Nooblenny said:

The QP-5 is from fish street, about $100. The Tunze Nano ATO is from local shop, i just use an empty small tank as the reservoir

Where is fish street location? May i know what the model for your OCTO skimmer and price?

Also where did you get your cute dosing container nice!.

Thanks in advance.

[Ashtrax]

Oh Ya! 

1. What is your doing regime like, how many ml are you dosing per day?

2. I believe you are using AF salt aye?

3. What the model of the OCTO reactor? 

[Nooblenny]

1 hour ago, Ashtrax said:

Where is fish street location? May i know what the model for your OCTO skimmer and price?

Also where did you get your cute dosing container nice!.

Thanks in advance.

 

1 hour ago, Ashtrax said:

Oh Ya! 

1. What is your doing regime like, how many ml are you dosing per day?

2. I believe you are using AF salt aye?

3. What the model of the OCTO reactor? 

U can check all the equipment models on my 1st thread. 

Dosing wise depends on your corals consumption. Mine is currently 10ml per day.

Fish street is HK online aquarium store. The dosing container is also from there. U can check the price there

[Ashtrax]

Ok cheers bro


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[Ashtrax]

May i know what are you currently dosing?

On 2/18/2018 at 12:23 AM, Nooblenny said:

 

U can check all the equipment models on my 1st thread. 

Dosing wise depends on your corals consumption. Mine is currently 10ml per day.

Fish street is HK online aquarium store. The dosing container is also from there. U can check the price there

May i know what you dose for 10ml per day? Was it more economical to run a calcium reactor?

[Nooblenny]

17 hours ago, Ashtrax said:

May i know what are you currently dosing?

May i know what you dose for 10ml per day? Was it more economical to run a calcium reactor?

AF Component 123, 10ml of each solutions.

Ca reactor is more economical in the long run for bigger tank & they produce superb growth too. But i have no interest in it because for me the less equipments the better, lol. U see my sump cabinet is so small, i would rather not squeeze a Ca reactor & a co2 tank inside.

To keep the cost down i mix my own. Aquaforest posted recipe & video on how to make your own Component 123.

[Ashtrax]

16 hours ago, Nooblenny said:

AF Component 123, 10ml of each solutions.

Ca reactor is more economical in the long run for bigger tank & they produce superb growth too. But i have no interest in it because for me the less equipments the better, lol. U see my sump cabinet is so small, i would rather not squeeze a Ca reactor & a co2 tank inside.

To keep the cost down i mix my own. Aquaforest posted recipe & video on how to make your own Component 123.

Thanks for the reply. I was also considering if I should get a CR. But i have a very limited space just like you. Guess i would sway myself to go into dosing. I checked the price out for premix component AF123 5 litres, that would be $150 for all 3.

How much did you pay for your powder form?

[Nooblenny]

2 hours ago, Ashtrax said:

Thanks for the reply. I was also considering if I should get a CR. But i have a very limited space just like you. Guess i would sway myself to go into dosing. I checked the price out for premix component AF123 5 litres, that would be $150 for all 3.

How much did you pay for your powder form?

Here are all the ingredients you need, total $112.

And here is the recipe/formula

To make 1 litre of each solutions, you only need 50g Ca, 80g Kh, 10g Mg, 25g Mineral Salt & 5ml of each Component Strong.

1000g Ca powder enough for 20L
1200g Kh powder => 15L
750g Mg powder => 75L
800g Reef Mineral Salt powder => 32L
75ml Component Strong (the box says 50ml, but inside is 75ml) => 15L

So for every 15L solutions, you only need to replenish Kh powder ($18) & Component Strong ($40) => $58
Then when your Ca powder ran out, you just need to spend another $18. Something like that.

Now compared to buying pre-mixed 5L Component 123 ($150), for every 15L you would have spent $450.

See how much cost saving that is?

Not sure how true is this, but people said DIY solution is also 2x stronger than pre-mixed one.

[Ashtrax]

Cool thank you for the detail write up, I wonder if dosing mineral salts will the pumps be able to last?

Gonna finish my Two parts and give it a try


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[Nooblenny]

7 hours ago, Ashtrax said:

Cool thank you for the detail write up, I wonder if dosing mineral salts will the pumps be able to last?

Gonna finish my Two parts and give it a try


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Not sure about that, but you can always exclude or reduce it when doing the solution.

For me I reduce the Mg from solution 3 because some batch of AF salt tend to have very high Mg (1500-1600).

[Nooblenny]

Anyway if you already happy with your previous 2 parts why change?

[Ashtrax]

 

Didn’t know AF have 2 part too.

But they didn’t place the instruction.

 

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[Ashtrax]

Quite easy ya


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[Nooblenny]

2 hours ago, Ashtrax said:

 

Didn’t know AF have 2 part too.

But they didn’t place the instruction.

 

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Its the same.

Balling method = 2 parts + trace elements + Mg & Mineral salt (fix ionic imbalance)

[Nooblenny]

Balling method is not new or unique to Aquaforest. Almost every major brands have balling method, Nyos, Red Sea, ATl, Tropic Marine, etc. You just simply pick the one you like.

[Ashtrax]

But AF balling method there are 3 solution

2 part I thought is just 2 solution?



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