Our SaltWater Tank

Has your sea anemone ever looked like this:

Only to look like this an hour later

this is a normal everyday thing.

After the fiasco the other day.
I went down and got a new piece of glass price $14.00.

I’d drilled the hole for the bulkhead before I put the glass in the tank.
It took all of about 6 1/2 minutes to drill the hole.
With the drill bit I got it was simple to do.
Just take your time and remember you’re not drilling
your grinding a hole.

Was all of this worth it.
Very much so, the higher flow rate and I don’t have to worry about
DIY overflows failing and that has happened not very often but it has happened.
It’s just this sweet deal.

The only thing I have to say about drill holes make sure that the glasses not tampered!

OK I got my 60mm Diamond hole saw from eBay.
Unplugged everything, took the canopy off.
Drain the half the water out.
Marked for the bulkhead.
I am set to drill!

Well it looks like that glass was TEMPERED.
What a mess!
I found out after the fact that there is a way to tell if the glass is tempered or not by using a pair of polarized sun glasses. You can get em cheap at like walmart or whatever, Anyways when you look at tempered glass through them on an angle you will be able to see a diamond pattern. If the glass is not tempered you will see no pattern.

4 ft long / 2 ft wide / 1 ft deep
About 50 US Gallons

It is made of plywood and fiberglass very simple and cheap!
You can read about how I made the tank HERE
The big white bucket in the background is a
“Deep Sand Bed (DSB) in a bucket”
and is used for nitrate control. I use the remote sandbed as the tank is bare bottom and I need some way to control the nitrate. So far it is working like a charm.
Right now there is some T5 lights, I also use 95W PC but for the most part I use good old sunshine! While this is not the best spot for sun it beats running MH!
This tank has more then paid for itself, from the coral I have sold on e-bay and on the side.

For water movement I am using a “BLOWER and AIR LIFTS” while this is a bit of over kill for a tank this small. The blower is cheaper to run then a bunch of powerheads!

I can’t stress enough how important is to have a cleanup crew.
It is a natural form of export, is something that every tank regardless of size should have. Some form of a cleanup crew.

Sunday we ordered a cleanup crew online from Reeftopia and received it Tuesday morning.
What we ordered was the “The Total Reef Care Special #3“.
There is a total of 189 critters for $139.
100 Turbo Snail [astrae]
18 Nerite Tesselatta
48 Nassarius Snails
24 Cerith Snails {the good kind}
4 Emerald Crabs
4 Peppermint Shrimp.
Considering that there was free shipping,
that comes out to $100 bucks for 189 critters!
That is the best value for the money that you’re a find!
You can even get close to that price going to a LFS.

This is the second time we ordered from Reeftopia
and both times they went off without a hitch received exactly what we ordered and delivered right on time.

So if you’re looking for cleanup crew take a look at Reeftopia