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
I am getting ready to put some bulkheads in place of my DIY overflows.
It not that the overflows don’t work, they have worked fine for over 3 years. Its just that I need to reposition the that then main tank and need the extra bit of room and the the “SALT CREEP” is start to really bother me.
I ordered 2 “Standard Threaded Bulkhead Fitting – 1-1/2in” from Marine Depot and I ordered a 60mm Diamond hole saw from e-bay.
One of the bulkheads is going from the refugium to the main tank and the other is going from the main tank to the smup.
Is recommended that you have 10 to 15 times your tank size as flow rate. For example if you have a hundred gallon tank, you would need 1000 gallon flow rate. You can accomplish this with powerheads, external pumps and a host of other doodads.
If you’re handy with DIY projects give this one Maxi-Stream Mod a try.
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