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50ish gallon shallow reef build
Just picked up my new aquarium from concepts today . Very happy with the finished tank . Going to be replacing my current tank 36x20x20 with my new dimensions 36x24x14 , never used the top half of my tank so figured to make a shallow reef. Starfire side front panels , black bottom back wall so nice to have the black wall no plumbing in sight .Only have a few fish so decided to go rimless and building the stand lower so it can be viewed top down as that is my favorite view .
Going to build a stand out of wood and use magnets to skin the outside . So my next step is going to be stand and plumbing. Going to be plumbing it into my current system and avoid a cycle and if Im happy with the dimensions Im going to build a twin and take my current tank offline. My current tank has been running going on 8 years so I figured time to replace it instead of waiting for it to split a seem or something. Debating adding black sand , have been running bare bottom since the start Have a couple pics of the tank will update as I get stuff going with better pics . Stock list : 2 onyx picasso clowns 1 firefish 1 target madrin 1 dragonface pipefish 1 harlequin shrimp 2 anemone glass shrimp 2 halloween hermit crabs 1 bumble bee shrimp (lives in my urchin) 1 pistol shrimp a ton of corals , rock flowers, mini max nems Planning on getting a male dragonface for the female I have , I have no luck finding males I only ever see females. A pair of blue strip pipefish , a female harliquin shrimp for the male I have. Want to get some ultra rfa , and that will most likely be it for livestock . I like to keep it light for livestock . Equiptment : Skimmer vertex omega 150 Pump Mag drive 18 (love mag pumps) Lighting Kessil 360w on one tank tek light 6 bulb hot5 on the other when I get the other tank . No power heads do not like having them with pipefish and small shrimp
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Also since Im going to be building the exact replica of this tank and they will both be running on the same sump/skimmer . I figured it would be a cool idea to run the tanks on different lighting just to see what types of differences I get from the same corals . Will be splitting my zoas and fragging certain corals and keeping them in the 2 different tanks . One tank will be running a kessil a360w maybe 2 , and the other tank will be running with a 6 bulb tek light hot5 . I will mount lights at the same height and take pics once a week to see differences in growth/color .
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I just hunted down your 36x20x20" tank journal...you never did show pics with it up and running! I hope this thread gets more pics.
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so it never got pic updates. However I will update this thread with some pics of that tank and the new tank . I had sea horses originally for a couple years in that tank then turned it into my reef . This new build I will take pics of the whole shabang stand build, plumbing set up , aquascaping , and of course the livestock as it gets moved over .
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Still not enough pics.
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yes I will update this weekend I actually have corals in it already
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