Cub21rak jbj28 bought, break down and clean build

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Cub21rak

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So today I went and bought Bobby's tank. Very excited! It's a messy project but I'm looking forward to it. This will end up being set up in my daughters room. Here's some pics
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Two light fixtures
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This one he modded with moon lights. Defenately cool
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A little bit of everything with it
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The tank has 2 returns and he said I can plug each pump into this and it will alternate which return is on and which is off. That's neat!
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Plenty to get me going. Red sea phosphate test, IO ph test, custom led wand, phosban 550, skimmer for the tank
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Box for the lamp
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Frag rack, yay! I needed one!
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Here's some of the corals and what not that come outa that bad boy, bobby can you help me id this and if you can maybe others know what it is?
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ID?
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ID?
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ID? Some small mushrooms. Can't see at all but maybe he knows?
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ID?
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ID?
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This one is hard to see but it still had color, bobby you remember this one?
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Anyone know what this red leaf thingy is?
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There's a mixture of zoas buried in there somewhere. I'll post pics once they open up
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And here's my fts (full tank shot)
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Thanks bobby! Great meeting you and your family
 
This was last night started cleaning
Pre-cleaning
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And my wife is a trooper!
Half way
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And full with pumps running, got bout half gallon of viniger in there
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And today
Been a long day of cleaning this and fixing rkl but here's some new looks

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Looking pretty clean to me! :)
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Nice cleanup ryan... Im thinking you should do a zoa and paly tank. Looks great after all that algae is scraped away!
 
m.miller1547 said:
Nice cleanup ryan... Im thinking you should do a zoa and paly tank. Looks great after all that algae is scraped away!
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Thanks Matt! Alota hard work cleaning that has made that a whole new looking tank. Now if only I can get this to look remotely close to yours I'd be happy
 
Thoughts on this tank
I'm thinking about getting black sand for this tank. The lunar lights really work good in this along with some modded lighting. Maybe the black sand would help make some of the corals that have bright colors really pop? What's you opinion? Good idea, bad idea, or no opinion?
 
Man good job on the cleaning.. tank looks like its brand new.. Black sand would be awesome. To me i've seen lfs have black sand in there tanks and it looks pretty darn good to me.. it def made the corals pop out more..

just a question.. are you gonna be keeping the stock light or are u gonna change to a different type?
 
jeppun21 said:
Man good job on the cleaning.. tank looks like its brand new.. Black sand would be awesome. To me i've seen lfs have black sand in there tanks and it looks pretty darn good to me.. it def made the corals pop out more..

just a question.. are you gonna be keeping the stock light or are u gonna change to a different type?
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I think in the first post it shows pics of the hoods that can with. One is a pc hood and the other is a mh hood. It currently has one 150w de mh bulb on it which is a Phoenix 14000k with like 10 months of life still left.
It also has a couple of lunar led mods on it too
 
Got black sand for it. Been thinking how ima set it up. Maybe mushrooms, yumas, rhicordia, and zoas. Just an idea. That's all for now :)
 
So got the tank running and the tank temp keeps rising. Started at 82ish no up to 87. It has a hood that has a 150w mh in it. So I know that causes heat but will it be so much heat it won't ever come down? Anyone else have this setup? How do you keep temp down?
 
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