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Old 06-30-2010, 01:28 AM
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Talking 33 gallon cobbled together!

So much for getting out of the hobby for a while.... 6 months after I shut my 110 down I'm really starting to miss it so I think I'm going to stick a toe back into the water!

My 110 is still available if anyone is looking to buy it, I'd set it up but being on a well for our water I found keeping the water quality optimal is damn near impossible. Plus, we're trying to sell our house and moving a 33 is a HECK of a lot easier then moving everything out of the 110!

Here's my existing equipment list, all of it just gathering dust in my basement right now...

Standard 33 gallon tank and stand
Profilux PlusII Controller
Flow & Filtration
Aquaclear 110 and 500
Koralia 3&4 (sneaking suspicion that the 4 is toast)
Tunze 6045, 6055
Tunze Nano Wavebox

Lighting
4x39 watt Tek T5 fixture
OR
175 15k on an electronic ballast with a reef optik 2 reflector
Plus whatever fixture I decide on will get the profilux LED moonlight stick added!

Of course I've got a few heaters kicking around
Some sand and rock (all "air cured")

Plus anything I want to pirate off of the 110 setup including sump and a vertex in 180 skimmer. I played around with the idea of drilling the 33 and adding a 55 gallon sump with the vertex skimmer but... I figure I'll spend $300+ building a new stand, buying the drill bit, paying for plumbing parts etc. So right now I'm thinking I'd rather spend the money on livestock.

My goals and criteria for this tank are:
  • cheap and simple (I know that both of these are relative but as a student again, I don't have a lot of money to blow on hardware)
    Diverse
    Did I say Cheap already?

I don't have any solid plans for livestock right now and am open to suggestions. Possibly some attractive macro-algae with LPS and Zoanthids, no ideas on fish right now but I really like gobies and shrimp.
Unless I drill the tank, this one will be skimmerless with nutrient export happening via macro algae and water changes so keep that in mind when suggesting different things.

I'll try to do a better job of keeping this build up to date then I did with my last one
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