My new 50 gallon cube
 

Just thought I'd post a couple of pictures of my three month old 50 gallon cube before I have to move it again. Sorry about the picture quality, I had to borrow a camera and didn't have time to mess around with it. This tank has all of the corals from my previous 110 gallon cube, though some have been significantly trimmed back.

Looking in from the right side.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...f_pics_002.jpg

Looking in from the left side.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...f_pics_001.jpg

Top, where most of the SPS is found.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...f_pics_004.jpg

Bottom where most of the LPS and softies are found.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...f_pics_005.jpg

It looks great!! How how you have to move it again?

Wow - you've got some great colour going on in there!

Very nice, Danny! Are you moving again??

Sweet looking tank! :mrgreen:

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Thanks everyone. For the past three months I've been staying with family in BC. Now that our Calgary home has sold, and our purchase out here is finalized, I'm moving again. Not really looking forward to the move, but at least I'll have my family back.

Once I'm established in the new place I'll start thinking about adding on to this system. Maybe even propagating for the locals since the pickn's are slim out here.:lol:

Wow, sure will be good to have the family back...and the freedom to do aquarium stuffs without the worry of inconveniencing your hosts! Regardless, awesome tank....and the Castlegar locals should be excited about your future supply of frags :D

Hey - we'll call you Snappy Junior! Or maybe a Coral Master franchise? :biggrin:

Nice family to let you set your tank up while staying with them.

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**bites tounge**:silly:

My wife's family is great. They gave me my own room, where the tank is as well. They've taken a bit of interest in the hobby, as well as some of their friends. There's a keen interest in general about this hobby out here, I guess because it would still be considered new in this area. Whatever business I involve myself in should do well. Or should I say, could do well depending on the ecomony.

tank is looking good!!
when are you moving? in case there is an accidental frag :)

Danny glad to hear that you sold your home, and had a great move

good luck with your new 50 cube its a sexy tank man.

agreed:biggrin: tank looks very nice

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I haven't been around much to keep this thread updated. In recent weeks I've had a bit more time to get re-aquainted with the hobby.

The tank is doing well for the most part since I moved into the new house, but I'm still battling GHA. I'm hoping that a new Phosban reactor and nitrate sponge will supply me with better ammo though. I should be getting it Monday from J&L. Along with a battle group of reef janitors. I have to get the water clean and clear before setting up my prototype frag tank. It won't be much for now, just a small 12 gallon rubbermaid bin that I'll modify for frags. It's shallow too so I won't need all that much light. I'll post pics as I go along with it.

For now, here's an updated pic of my tank from today.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...m/IMGP3128.JPG

looking good Danny!!
i'm going to have to come over and have a closer look at some potential frags!!

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New "budget" frag tank is up and running. It's a 10 gallon Sterlight bin but offers a ton of surface area due to it's low hight. The main tank drains directly into it, which then drains into the sump. My light is only a single 10k 65 watt PC for now, but an upgrade may be in the future. This is just a prototype really, just to see how I can manage my first frag tank. So far I only have LPS, softies and a few easy SPS. If they do well I'll start adding some of the other corals from the main tank to see how they do.


http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...m/IMGP3134.JPG

if you can find some cheap t5's go with that as those are great at growing frags.

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It seems that my new frag tank/ refugium is having positive effects on my tank. I've also added a couple of fish finally. Another lawnmower blennie, and a flame angel that only eats algae have aided me in my fight against GHA. Here's a few pics of some corals that are finally starting to look good again.

Not sure what this one is called, but man, what polyp extention.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...m/IMGP3276.JPG

Blue tip stag.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...m/IMGP3266.JPG

My candy cane ball.:biggrin:
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...m/IMGP3259.JPG

I'm not sure what this one is either but it has never had much color.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...m/IMGP3268.JPG

My Incredible Hulk digitata experiment.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...m/IMGP3277.JPG

Tank looks great! I love all those Digis.

Good to hear from you Danny, things are looking really good. I'm also battling GHA among other pests so good see you are getting somewhere.

your tank is looking good!!

Beautiful corals :thumb:

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Thanks everyone. It's taken lots of carbon, phosphate spong and nitrate spong, as well as the proper cleaners to get anywhere with the GHA. Speaking of which, Rob do you have anymore of that phosphate stuff?

Hey Danny,
Are you using that phos sponge stuff from Petopia? if so...have you had any luck with it?
I'm using phosgaurde right now....and everytime I put it in my toad stools pout for a week or so.

Chris

Looking good Danny.
Kevin

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Chris -

I'm using the stuff that Rob gave me a while ago. I can't remember where he got it, but it wasn't from a fish store. You have to be carefull of what you use for phosphate spong because some can really affect your corals. Look at the base ingredients of that phosgaurd, hopefully it's not a heavy metal like aluminum or something.

Kevin -

Long time no speak! Do you still have my old 110 gallon cube?

Ya been a while good to see things are positive for you.
You will have to start a new build thread.
Kevin

i have some left, i could spare some. but we should look to order more. it's this stuff from bulk reef supply:
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/Carbon..._87/index.html

maybe we need to do a small group buy??

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Just thought I'd add a couple of recent pics.

Since the last set of pics were posted I've had some technical failures that almost cost me some fatalities. I was working out of town a lot in April when that all happened. Now the tank seems to be recovered and doing well.

I've added a couple of fish which my corals seem to appreciate. I now have 1 Flames angel, 1 green spotted manderin, 1 YWG and one yellow tang. I've also added a 2 stage GFO reactor, that I also run NO3 media in. Between that reactor and the yellow tang, all of me GHA is finally gone!:wink:

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...m/IMGP3465.JPG

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...m/IMGP3467.JPG

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I almost forgot to mention that I have replaced my 1 year old 14K aqua-connect with a 20K XM. I think the reduction in PAR will also benifit the some of my SPS, which seemed to almost burn under the other bulb.

That is a fantastic looking tank man.....

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Looks better when I actully clean the glass eh?

Tank looks great danny... one of the few BB tanks that I really like... I tried BB in my own 30G cube, but as of today it's got sand... It didn't look right to me.. :lol:

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Gee thanks, I never really paid much attention to the bare bottom on this tank. I had no choice to go bare because I had no sand when I moved out to BC, and then never bothered to put any in. Theres not a lot of exposed tank bottom anyway which is the way I like it.

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Please see my new tank build. Well, actually its the same tank but I'm building a new home for it in my house.
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=55041