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36x36x24 CUBE | Pink Spider
Hi all, I'm new in here !
I'd like to present you my current set-up ; it's a 135 gallons with a 50 gallons sump in the basement. To make it short, it's been around ten years now that my boyfriend and I are blowing money on that awesome hobby. We started it up with a small 25g reef tank to quickly turn it over to a 77g one. A year passed and once again we started to think this was too small and we wanted a bigger set-up. We transfered everything in a 90g. Thereafter we still weren't happy yet. We needed something new... we always had a crush on butterfly fishes and angel fishes, since most of them aren't reef safe we changed our reef tank into a fish only one. So we bought a small 60g for our corals and things and we transformed our 90g into a FO. Months later we found out this was lots of work taking care of two salt water aquariums considering we weren't at home during the week and we had to take care of our two dogs while at home. So, we bought ourselves a house last year and started to build up our dream tank : a 180g reef tank in the dining room with a 90g sump in the basement. Now we were happy.... throughout a year at least. The house experienced some humidy problems with that much water and the electricity bill was a bit expensive for us considering we had three 175watt MH, a large water pump in the basement that's riding up water 13' high and a deshumidifier running 24/24 7/7. So we had to think this over........ again. I then suggest my boyfriend to sell everything out... but of course he disagreed on this. So we reached a compromise on decreasing in size everything. That's where we currently are in the story, since 3 years now we own a 135g cube tank of 36x36x24 with a 50g sump. Since we wanted it to be our LAST reef tank, we equiped it with the best hardware. Here are some pics of our evolution during those past years, enjoy ! Our first reef aquarium 10 years ago (25g) Our second reef aquarium (77g).... observe the fixtures ! A Giesemann MH at the left and a PC Coralife one at the right... lol 90g reef tank (and FO time later) 60g reef tank 180g reef tank and then, our current 135g cube. |
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36x36x24 CUBE
Here are some pics of the project build up 3 years ago.
My boyfriend and I made the stand ourselves Tank was ordered from Aquarium Obsessed (AO), I think they closed last year. That picture gives an idea of its size. ^_^ The stand is still not finished, but the switch has been done Stand is done now What it looks the first year : The second year : What it looks today : |
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Now let's talk about more serious matter.
EQUIPMENT Lighting : Giesemann Spectra 24'' 250w MH + 4x T5-HO 24w Skimmer : Deltec TC1655 Controller : Profilux plus II Powerheads : 2x Tunze 6055 + 1x Tunze 6045 Others : Media reactor Phosban150 | Avast Kalwaser Stirrer | Emperor Aquatic 40w UV filter LIVE STOCK | Fishes 1x Achilles Tang 1x Pyramid Butterflyfish 1x Declivis Butterflyfish 2x Oscellaris Clownfish 2x Scissortail Gogies 1x Hellfrichi firefish 1x Red Head Goby 1x Engineer Goby 2x Yellow Clown Gobies 1x Swissguard Basslet 1x Lubbocki Fairy Wrasse 1x Adornatus Fairy Wrasse 1x Flame Fairy Wrasse LIVE STOCK | Inverts 1x Serpent Starfish 2x Sandsifting Starfishes 2x Cleaner Shrimp 1x Bullseye Pistol Shrimp 1x Emerald Crab 3x Mini Carpet Anemones 1x Purple Long Tentacles Anemone LIVE STOCK | Corals Purple Monticap Green Monticap Pink Bird's Nest Puple Millepora Pavona Frogspawn Hammer Green & Purple Blastomusa Favia Candycanes Trumpet Green Duncan Rhodactis Discosoma |
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Finally, here are some pics.
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Wow that's a nice tank I too hope to upgrade my little cube to a larger one one day
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That looks fantastic! Great choice of fish too! Is that Declivis well behaved? Any nipping?
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He ate all my zoas, killed 2 mini carpet anemones out of 5 and likes to nip at SPS like pocilopora and acropora. But besides those things, he really is a nice and very interesting fish to observe. He's very lucky to be my favorite fish in the tank.... |
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Very nice, but now the very serious question.
Who's the dead guy in the 77 gal, a former boyfriend maybe?
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I bought it 10 years ago and it's in my reef tanks ever since. |
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I meant to ask, what kind of camera did you use for the pics?
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