30 Gallon shallow tank

[FishyFishy!]

Finally got my 30 Gallon shallow tank set up and running.

Tank is a fairly scratched up 24 X 24 X 12 with back silicone, black painted background, and black acrylic overflow cover (center overflow). 2 X 1" bulkheads for herbie drain.

20 Gallon sump with 1 baffle set (3 pieces)

Sunlight Supply 8 Bulb 24" fixture
1 KZ Fiji Purple
1 WP Coral Wave
2 KZ actinic
4 KZ new gen coral light

Tunze 9002 Skimmer
Jager 300 W heater
Oddysea 700GPH return pump (noooo way its even close to 500 GPH..lol)
3/4" SCWD water director
Koralia # 2

35 Lbs live rock (Jakarta and fiji)
30 Lbs live sand Agramax Select

1 True Perc Clown
1 1" Blue Tang
1 Yellow Longnose Butterfly
1 Yellow Clown Goby
1 Tailspot Blenny
3 Bicolor Chromis
4 Blue Legged Hermits
1 Small blue linkea starfish
1 Fire shrimp
1 Gold coral banded shrimp
2 Emerald crabs
5 Crown snails
5 Margarita snails

3 Yuma Ricordias
20 Head neon green Trumpet coral
Blue Maxima Clam
Squamosa clam
Purple birdsnest frag
30 polyp Green Palys
Neon GSP frag
Various Mushrooms
Lots more clams and Rics coming!

I hid the K2 inside a cave in the middle of the center overflow.

Sorry for all the crappy cell phone pics!
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[mws]

Love you rock work, Mike.
Tank is looking good.

[Leah]

Love this tank..very nice :biggrin:

[FishyFishy!]

Thanks!! I just have to get a bunch of clams and a whole bunch of florida rics to complete the tank. Maybe a couple pieces of SPS if I can find some smaller colonies.

MWS - good to see your tank looking so good!!

[FishyFishy!]

Saw one of the Emerald Crabs out and about which you don't see very often

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[FishyFishy!]

Got some new additions from oceans -

- Smallest blue tang EVER! He is less than 1" gonna grow him until he's big enough to play with the big guys
- Yellow longnose butterfly (also very small)
- Tailspot Blenny
- Yellow clown goby
- 3 bicolor blackmouth chromis

They are all doing amazing! loving the tank so far, and everyone is getting along.

[spawn]

nice setup looks good.

[phi delt reefer]

awesome bro... just awesome!

are you just using your return as flow?

spray that fixture and the return lines black - nice and stealth. Put a Type-R logo on the light to up your PAR :D

[FishyFishy!]

Fixture and return lines are going black this weekend actually! Type-R badge should add the equivilent of 4-6 extra bulbs... so I'll be ballin in no time!!

I have the return, and a Koralia # 2 hidden inside the rock cave in the middle for flow.

[Skimmerking]

tank looks great well done

[Jewel]

Very nice congrats

[bignose]

Nice tank, I've always liked the look of shallow tanks. Excellent work!

[FishyFishy!]

I lost my dang camera cable for the Rebel so I can't upload all these beautiful photo's I took!!!! Imma have to go get another one today :)

[FishyFishy!]

So I have an update. I'm still battling with Byropsis that is starting to turn around after dosing Kent Mag, and adding a Lettuce sea slug.

I also picked up some new frags from xtreme that are looking awesome.

Purple Birdsnest
Blue Acro
Green branching acro
Red monti
Purple Rimmed monti
Green Polyp monti
Purple Polyp monti

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And I'm really hopefull that this new guy will take care of some Byropsis.
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Some older Corals that are doing well.

Green Button Polyps
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Yuma
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Squamosa Clam
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Crocea Clam
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[Delphinus]

I thought you sold this tank? Or was it for sale but not anymore? Or was that a different tank. :lol:

Where did you find the lettuce nudibranch? I could use some help battling bryopsis as well ..

[FishyFishy!]

Lol! Yeah it is still for sale. I have another 24X24X24 starfire cube that will be replacing this one if it sells.

Big Als should still have a few lettuce nudibranch's left.