My humble reef !!! Coming soon

[LuckySingh]

My humble reef !!!! Coming soon

Today I am very excited I am suppose to receive some goodies in mail. I am sure they r already at the house !! Can't wait to go home and open the boxes and hide some of the invoices because if my wife's sees em I am going to a dead man !!!

Anyways below is some of the details of my build. It will be few weeks from now till I actually get to start putting em all in use as now I am still ordering stuff slow by slow and my move out is not until on 23rd of this month !!!!! Till than I hve all the time to gather all the equipment I need .

Tank
Custom build by planet aquarium
30x24x18 all low iron clear glass
With external over flow ( already have it)
Thanks to Louis @ elegant reef for ordering this for me


Stand is getting build by one our sponsor MR COB CORALS ( will hve This weekend )

Sump is also custom done by ROB

Return
Sicce 2 ( got it today )

Power heads
2x tunze 6095 ( already ordered )
Controlled by 7096

Skimmer still debating
bubble king or maybe vertex alpha 170 sitting in my garage was trying to sell it but found out missing a part and now need to locate it before I sell or I might use it )

Ghl four channel doser ( got it today)

Big boy controller GHL ultimate pack with all the jings and Bell ph temp conductivity redox with touch screen controll panel ( on its way )

Lights
ATI hybrid powermodule 8 bulb unit .
( on it way )

Some chemicals
Test kits
Already ordered

I also need thoughts on going bare bottom. However I did place an order on eBay and had a marine safe starboard cut for my tank as to go bare bottom and now having second thoughts about shallow sand bed .

Pretty much that's all I can think of now
Also it will be a minimum aquascaping in this tank . may be two islands style pukani rock with flat base no more than 5 lbs each.

I 'll post some pics of stuff as I receive em
Thanks
Can't wait to get this thing wet

[reefreak]

Can't wait! Haha looking forward to this.

[aquasport24]

Its going to be an awesome setup, can't wait bro.

[LuckySingh]

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Stuff cans in yesterday
Top off
Doser
Test kits
And chemicals

[Bill S]

I also considered bare bottom or starboard. Went with a thin sand covering instead - and i think I like it.

[LuckySingh]

I also considered bare bottom or starboard. Went with a thin sand covering instead - and i think I like it.

I am confuse what to do . I been thinking back and forth and might do both.
Starboard is cut for the size 24x20 which leaves around 3" of space on all sides . I might use a layer of 1/2" sand all the starboard . I am not keeping any wrasses or starfish . Few crabs as clean up crews that's it. System will be Sps only glued to the rocks . Not really planning to keep anything on the bottom

[Scuba Sam]

Sounds cool


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[LuckySingh]

Some stuff showed up

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Ati lights 24" 8 bulbs

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Ghl controller

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/22/tytuqe3u.jpgtunze pumps with controller

[350gt]

OH MAN!

Pics of that fixture!

[Bill S]

One of the reasons I decided NOT to go with starboard is that I didn't want "stuff" trapped under it.

[jroescher]

So, are you putting rock down on the glass? That makes me nervous. I'm considering putting just enough starboard down to keep the rock from direct contact with the bottom.


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[LuckySingh]

OH MAN!

Pics of that fixture!

I will take some more pics in a bit


So, are you putting rock down on the glass? That makes me nervous. I'm considering putting just enough starboard down to keep the rock from direct contact with the bottom.


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I am only going to put 2 flat pieces of rock and they 'll be on starboard . No pulling up rocks on top each other or any thing .

[LuckySingh]

OH MAN!

Pics of that fixture!

Alright bro here's some more pic

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[LuckySingh]

I took the light out of the box and had no clue this thing is freaking heavy u mean heavy close to 40lbs .
I wonder the light rack I got build for this light with the stand is gone be able to hold this beats.

[mkengr45]

Glad to see another GHL Profilux user on here....perhaps we can learn some stuff together.

[LuckySingh]

Yea for sure appreciate help with this !!! Lol

[LuckySingh]

Any ways I had stand everything and plumbing was suppose to be work on today . Apparently wife came up some idea where having a stand cum table top and kinda like a big one furniture piece so we can fit that right where stair curves making me getting re do everything from scratch .

[aquasport24]

Happy wife is happy home. Happy home is happy reef...lol

[LuckySingh]

I decided to hve a zeovit driven system
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Avast marine skimate locker
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[LuckySingh]

Stand will take some time to be finish . As my wife decided to go completely different. Route

Some teasing pictures of custom tank all staffire http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/05/03/daza3uby.jpg
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[Dean]

Beautiful tank. How many gallons is that?

- Dean

[LuckySingh]

Bling Bling stand is here !!
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[Zack]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Big_Pun]

I was eye balling that stand at Elegant the other day. looks good lucky

[LuckySingh]

Thanks guys !!!!!

Louis was very nice and took care of all plumbing and hanging light fixture . Every thing is ruining now and mixing salt . Just need to program the light
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[LuckySingh]

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Tank start cycle

[LuckySingh]

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Install tunzes yesterday .
Tank is still cycling maybe another week

[LuckySingh]

Tank Cycled already and got some frags today .

[LuckySingh]

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I suspended light fixture about 12" from the water and it's running on 50% power right now .

My bulb combination is as follows
B+
B+
C+
P+
LEDs
C+
B+
A+ soon replacing with c+
B+

[RayAllen]

Love it Lucky. Super modern and sleek design.

[LuckySingh]

Thanks bro


Tank is been doin great and seriously running algae free . I haven't even clean my glass once . There some algae here an there but dying off that's just about it .

These are frags what I have so far



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pc rainbow
orange tip
Bird of paradise
Albro tip
X-mas acro
goldeneye
Purple flamingo
Blood red milli
Tubs mystic
June ruby stag
Confused rev monti
PC sunset
Blueberry fields
Ice forest
RMf rasp lemonade
Shades of fall
Red planet
Bloody mary monti.
season greetings

[LuckySingh]

Slow on update. I am dealing with some cyano bacteria problem I am sure because of NEw tank syndrome . All the frags been coloring up nicely how ever couple bleached .
Also added a mandarin goby . Haven't had a chance to glue em rocks .
Maltese pics from my iPhone

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[LuckySingh]

Custom ATO reservoir built by Tiuan . Awesome quality and right what I wanted. Fits right behind my tank 15" x3"x 20" holds roughly about 4 gln . Using with tunze osmolater . Two holes in the back for electric wiring and return and front lid with hinge to refill fresh water

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[OrionN]

I am glad that you did not stay away for too long. Go the the frag swab, You will be able to get a lot of nice corals.

[Justin]

I was just about to suggest that. I'm looking forward to the Swamp myself. Need to restock my 100 gallon. I'm bummed that I heard Jason Fox will not be there. I was really looking forward to getting a replacement Terra Del Fuego and possibly a Jack O' Lantern from him.

[Dean]

I was just about to suggest that. I'm looking forward to the Swamp myself. Need to restock my 100 gallon. I'm bummed that I heard Jason Fox will not be there. I was really looking forward to getting a replacement Terra Del Fuego and possibly a Jack O' Lantern from him.
He told me he will make our next one with some advance notice. So next spring? Sorry. Lol

[LuckySingh]

I have accomplished 0 algae free tank now . Cut down the feeding here's the recent iPhone shot
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Frags have started to encrust also and some turn into mini colony's .

Still haven't glue them to the rock yet

[Justin]

Lucky, what are the species you have in the pics? Looks like some nice sps


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