Reef in a Cube

[zipp86]

hi all, just want to share some pictures of my new tank, will try to explain as much as I can throughout my postings. Firstly, a FTS followed by other shots of the tank itself. You can see this time round I decided to go bare bottom.

[zipp86]

pic of the hood and sump, hood is made by Razali from DELightings and the sump custom designed by me made by a nearby LFS, as you can see in my sump I have my AquaC skimmer, my new refugium, my Tunze Osmolater top up device (best rated top up of all time) and assorted pumps

And also for my wavemaker I have a vortech pump with wavemaker on Reef Crest Mode!! powerful!! You can see in one of the pictures my Vortech controller with the Tunze top up controller and also my teco chiller with the bucket filled with RO/DI water

[zipp86]

pics of some SPS.. actually dunno if they can survive since tank is only a week old, however, rocks are all old rocks courtesy of bro dorado and bro vincere

pics of some ledges in the rockscape, can you spot the hidden pvc frame??

pics of some yellow polyps

[zipp86]

some additional notes, sand in the refugium is 3 1/2 inch, enough for a DSB hopefully, sand is Caribsea live aragonite sand!! for my lighting using 250W SE MH with 2X24W T5.. Thats about all i can think of, feel free to post questions, queries, comments and constructive criticisms:) Thanks for reading and may the reef be with you!

[MbmC]

Interesting sump. Can share more detailed pics, or a schematic of the sump? If I'm looking at it correctly, you've got the usual three compartment at the back, with the refugium taking up the front and 4th compartment. Nice. How does the water flow?

[zipp86]

hi here is a rough schematic of the sump you must click to expand and click picture again to zoom to see clearly

[MbmC]

Nice idea. Hope you won't mind if I decide to copy it for my next sump I just like the idea of a refugium...

[zipp86]

haha of course, every tank should have one, it feeds your corals and lower your nirates and phosphates, what more can you ask for? hahaha