OG Fancy's 40 Breeder Mixed Reef

ogfancysauce

ogfancysauce

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Hello all! I've finally managed some time to get this build thread going. I've been out of the hobby for over 10 years mainly due to college and post-graduate endeavors. I have finally graduated this past year and had the reef bug bite me once again. Had a 90 gallon reef back in the early 2000's, but decided on a nice 40 breeder this time around to start...i'm sure I will be upgrading soon :). This tank is about 4-5 months old now. I must admit, I did rush it a bit with the livestock, but so far so good. I check my parameters 1-2x a week and have been doing ~20% water changes every 2 weeks or even sooner. I also recently got into freshwater planted tanks as well, and I'll add some pictures of that at the end. Let me know what you guys think!

- Dan aka "OG Fancysauce"


All the power goes through this GFCI adapter
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Back of stand
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Mounted two power strips on the left and right side of the stand. Having individual switches is awesome to have!
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Filling it up...
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Some livestock now. I used live sand and also had the dry rock from reefcleaners curing in a tub of heated saltwater with other live rock and filter media from a more mature tank. Cycled fairly quickly this way. Note the mesh covers over the powerheads..one of the nems decided to float around and got shredded :(
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Changed from T5's to the Ocean revive 2081-T that I picked up from Eddie79! great light
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I know..yellow tang in a small tank. I will upgrade :)
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Beautiful rainbow bubble tip that I got from Seven Seas. It already split!
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Most of my livestock is from Seven Seas. Also a good amount of coral from Reef geeks, sea schor, and sho-tank. Many of these pictures were taken through an orange lens to filter out the blue. I used my camera phone (LG G3) and stock photo editing software as well.

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Equipment/Sump:
- reef octopus 110nwb
- cheap rio return pump..not even sure the GPH, but i'm pretty sure its well underpowered. I do run 2 RW-4 Jebao pumps in the display with a koralia nano as well.
- Via Aqua heater set at 75 Deg. I think the integrated thermometer is off because my tank sits around 77.7 with two different digital thermometers when the heater is set at 75.
- Simple home-depot clip on light with a home depot 6300k LED flood light bulb. I may change this bulb as it is prone to growing a little cyano.
- If you look to the left of the skimmer, I have a small aquaclear 20 HOB filter running there! I had it lying around from a small nano tank and decided to use it as a GFO/Carbon media filter. It doesn't do a great job like a gfo/carbon reactor, but hey, it'll do for now. The sump also has a media tray right before the refugium where I use carbon and GFO in filter media bags.

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I use that yellow glove every time I need to reach into the tank. It really is good practice to do so. Keeps my arms dry, and the tank free of contaminants.
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5 gal ATO. I mix 1 tsp kalkwasser per gallon of ro/di and feed it via an aqualifter. Seems to be working.
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Mjl714 said:
Looking good, What were u doing with the mesh bags near the top?
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One of my bubble tip anemones got shredded in the powerhead when it was finding a nice spot to plant itself. I put mesh over the powerheads so the other nems didn't follow suit while they found a good spot.
 
Made a few HD video's of both reef and freshwater planted. Let me know what you guys think!

[video=youtube;JXghmz4TI3Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXghmz4TI3Q[/video]
[video=youtube;rdVpebastWs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVpebastWs[/video]
 
Nice update! Glad to hear that at only a year the tank is on autopilot too. Autopilot systems are so much less stress.
 
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