Tangerine's 35gal Cube! Version 2.0

tangerine3486

Active Member
Hey RS!
So I have a separate thread for this exact aquarium, but following a move from a rather coral restrictive but beautiful Hawaii, I have re-established in MD. As for benefits over the last setup, this time around I have re-built the sump for better flow, I will have access to Cheato, and I have added an MP10. All livestock/rock/sand completely new, except for a blenny and a few zoas I was able to get back. This will be my third time establishing a SW tank, so hopefully it is the best one yet.

Goal is to be heavy LPS and softies. Not a crazy amount of room for how it is scaped right now.

Equipment:
Deep Blue professional 35gal Cube
20gal DIY sump
CAD lights PLS-100 Skimmer
Kessil A360WE with Kessil controller
Vortec MP-10
IM desktop reactor with bio pellets (soon)

So same as before,
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As you can see below, that rock almost did not fit! Creates a huge shelf, with about 5" clearance below (before the sand was added)
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A few more rocks

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New light, plus sand. Rocks in the front left, i'm not sure about those guys. I already have so much rock shelf space not sure what those are doing there. Might have too many rocks but I was hoping to get more than 2 ish levels. I'm also going to shift the MP10 to the back.


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tangerine3486

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Shrimp added, shrimp out. Ammonia spike and down to 0 with Nitrites. Nitrates around 20 or so. Water change tomorrow, followed by adding some livestock over the next week.

Any suggestions on the rock?

Thanks for looking!
 

Oxylebius

Well-Known Member
It might take some time to get the rock organized in a way you like. Most people fuss with their rock for a good 6 months to a year before they are finally happy with it. Others continue to fiddle with the rock for the life of the tank. All based on preference.

What kind of tank are you thinking of having? What kinds of critters?
 

tangerine3486

Active Member
Going to attack the rocks today. Fingers crossed.

LPS and Softies. some fun clumps of zoas and mushrooms, and then 3 or so colonies of micro. lord, a torch or walling hammer, a chalice and some goniopora. I may look into one or two pieces of SPS, but not to start. My experience with lps is low and sps is essentially 0. As for the critters, I'll be getting into my first clownfish/anemone pair, so i'm excited for that. Then a few other fish, like a diamond goby, blenny, everything (up to 2 or so fish) is undecided.
 

Oxylebius

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Sounds like a nice little tank. Fish for nano tanks would do really well in there. Well, if you are in the DC metro area and want a few sps frags PM me.
 

tangerine3486

Active Member
Will do. I will make my way to SPS once I get back into it.



Picked up Blenny and the zoas from my buddy. I had them shipped from Hawaii. I hand collected these 4 zoas from the tidepools. More pics to come.


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These are my green pillow zoas. Don't see many of these around!
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tangerine3486

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Got a few more zoas. I think I will be at my zoa max and want them all to grow out.

Finally stopped the leak in my drain plumbing, and completed my sump. Unfortunately the skimmer is putting out a ton of micro bubbles, out all of the sides of the skimmer. :(

Real issue in the tank is blenny is terrorizing diamond goby, and the purple firefish is hiding in the back corner under a rock. I see him eat and move around a little but thats about it. Not sure if there is a way to make fish friends with eachother, but blenny might have to move tanks if he cannot get along, since i dont think I'll be able to catch diamond goby. Anyone have luck on just waiting it out and they will become friends or should I separate them?

few pics :
top down. Lots of rock space.
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Lone bullet hole clown. His partner jumped out :(
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tangerine3486

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Hey RS. A few updates with some problems and pics. Set up the skimmer and it is skimming. Have to re break it in I guess, spitting out micro bubbles. Got some more stuff. Got a new clownfish to replace the guy who jumped out, got a clown goby (to close out my fish additions). Found myself at Pacific east aquaculture with an end of the year sale and some gift cards and got a nice load of stuff. Only think i want some Micro Lords to round out the tank, and a torch and anemone.

Sweet gold walling hammer

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Chalice
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frogspawn still on the frag rack , thinking of where to put him.
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Hawaiian Palys
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2 problems : Zoas melting dying. But only some of them.
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Specifically one set of my Hawaiian zoas (4 different frags in 2 tanks), and new cat eyes (3 frags in 2 tanks, only have 1/2 of a frag left. 8 other zoa frags are doing great, with new polyps to count on the other frags. LPS seem to be doing well also. The zoa frags have different placements in the same tank as well. :/

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Problem number 2, clam issues. Clam arrived into the tank on Sat. (4 days ago). He is pretty open, and he responds to light very well. His colors are fantastic. I'm not quite sure if his intake is considered "gaping", and if his mantle needs to extend more. I did a water change last night, just in case. The only parameters I tested today is salinity, which is 1.027, and nitrates are between 10-20. I did not notice any issue on his foot.

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Any input on clam or zoas (has been happening slowly for 2 weeks) would be appreciated. Multiple forum searches have returned a wide variety of searches. I will spot feed the clam asap, and i did a 10% water change last night.
 
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tangerine3486

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Clam has sustained significant damage as seen by the two large holes in the base of the mantle behind the inlet siphon. Not sure who or what the culprit is...maybe a nasty worm, parasite, or bacteria? not many searches show or talk of this looking clam damage. Clam is still responsive to light.
 

cah73

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Looks great! Great job on the stand. I am a fellow CUBE lover! Did you snap any pics of your sump/equipment setup below? Sorry if I missed them!
 

tangerine3486

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Looks great! Great job on the stand. I am a fellow CUBE lover! Did you snap any pics of your sump/equipment setup below? Sorry if I missed them!

Sure do! I have a 20 gal as my sump. First chamber is filter sock, then passes up through a crappy 3 level basket i poorly made with chemipure elite, and soon purigen, and chaeto. Center was a refugium, but I just went with the skimmer this time. Baffles and then the return chamber.

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Should there be any of this brown stuff on the chaeto?
 

Oxylebius

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Clam has sustained significant damage as seen by the two large holes in the base of the mantle behind the inlet siphon. Not sure who or what the culprit is...maybe a nasty worm, parasite, or bacteria? not many searches show or talk of this looking clam damage. Clam is still responsive to light.

I just responded to your other post on this,
Holes in clam mantle
 
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