We receive a variety of questions asking about the tanks at our office, so we decided to give you a quick tour of one of the many tanks that we keep at the office.
The first is a lesson how quickly you can recover a tank that’s been neglected by dialing in the lighting for SPS growth and stabilizing your water parameters.
Tank Profile: 60 gallon SPS cube tank
Dimensions: 2’ x 2’ x 2’
Lighting: 1x Kessil AP9X
Pump: Sicce 4.0 Return Pump
Powerheads: 1x TUNZE 6055, 1x Sicce Xstream SDC
Control: Neptune Apex EL, Trident Monitoring
Dosing: BRS 2 part via Neptune DOS
ATO: Tunze Osmolator 3155
Auto Water Change: 1 gallon per day, Neptune DOS run approximately 10’ vertical, 100’ horizontal, through the ceiling to our fish room.
Nutrient Export: Refugium with Kessil H160 - 6pm - 6am at 100% Intensity
Skimmer: None
Parameters
Salinity: 1.026
Alk: 7.5
CA: 400
MG: 1450
Phosphates: <0.10
Lighting Schedule:
0800: 1% Int 0% Color 0% Violet
0900: 20% Int 5% Color 20% Violet
1100: 40% Int 5% Color 22% Violet
1300: 50% Int 5% Color 23% Violet
1500: 60% Int 5% Color 23% Violet
1700: 40% Int 5% Color 26% Violet
1800: 20% Int 0% Color 0% Violet
1900: 0% Int 0% Color 0% Violet
The Story:
This tank is a roughly 6 year old 60 Gallon Cube tank - but if we’re being honest, the first 4 or 5 years the tank was a bit neglected. It served mostly as a test tank for various accessories and other products in their early prototyping phase - so there was very little stability in the tank. No water changes, no dosing, minimal testing. We had a small chalice, a colony of rasta zoas, and a pair of clowns that hung on, but other than that, the tank was mostly just for testing.
In November of 2019, we started to work on the tanks around the office to bring them up to our standards. We decided this 60 gallon tank would become an SPS dominant system.
We started by adding in an ATO, APEX system, Trident, and an AWC system to stabilize the tanks.
Beginning in about January of 2020, we started to add our first SPS frags. A birds nest and a pocillopora colony were the starting points. We would start to add a few chalice frags and a montipora colony as well.
Frags have been slowly added over the course of the last year and have grown in extremely well. The pocillopora colony was moved out to make more room for higher end SPS as the tank has stabilized and grown in.
There’s still plenty of room for more growth, but so far we’re happy with the results after about a year of stabilizing and 6 months of growth! This will be one we’ll be sure to share more updates on as it grows in.
The first is a lesson how quickly you can recover a tank that’s been neglected by dialing in the lighting for SPS growth and stabilizing your water parameters.
Tank Profile: 60 gallon SPS cube tank
Dimensions: 2’ x 2’ x 2’
Lighting: 1x Kessil AP9X
Pump: Sicce 4.0 Return Pump
Powerheads: 1x TUNZE 6055, 1x Sicce Xstream SDC
Control: Neptune Apex EL, Trident Monitoring
Dosing: BRS 2 part via Neptune DOS
ATO: Tunze Osmolator 3155
Auto Water Change: 1 gallon per day, Neptune DOS run approximately 10’ vertical, 100’ horizontal, through the ceiling to our fish room.
Nutrient Export: Refugium with Kessil H160 - 6pm - 6am at 100% Intensity
Skimmer: None
Parameters
Salinity: 1.026
Alk: 7.5
CA: 400
MG: 1450
Phosphates: <0.10
Lighting Schedule:
0800: 1% Int 0% Color 0% Violet
0900: 20% Int 5% Color 20% Violet
1100: 40% Int 5% Color 22% Violet
1300: 50% Int 5% Color 23% Violet
1500: 60% Int 5% Color 23% Violet
1700: 40% Int 5% Color 26% Violet
1800: 20% Int 0% Color 0% Violet
1900: 0% Int 0% Color 0% Violet
The Story:
This tank is a roughly 6 year old 60 Gallon Cube tank - but if we’re being honest, the first 4 or 5 years the tank was a bit neglected. It served mostly as a test tank for various accessories and other products in their early prototyping phase - so there was very little stability in the tank. No water changes, no dosing, minimal testing. We had a small chalice, a colony of rasta zoas, and a pair of clowns that hung on, but other than that, the tank was mostly just for testing.
In November of 2019, we started to work on the tanks around the office to bring them up to our standards. We decided this 60 gallon tank would become an SPS dominant system.
We started by adding in an ATO, APEX system, Trident, and an AWC system to stabilize the tanks.
Beginning in about January of 2020, we started to add our first SPS frags. A birds nest and a pocillopora colony were the starting points. We would start to add a few chalice frags and a montipora colony as well.
Frags have been slowly added over the course of the last year and have grown in extremely well. The pocillopora colony was moved out to make more room for higher end SPS as the tank has stabilized and grown in.
There’s still plenty of room for more growth, but so far we’re happy with the results after about a year of stabilizing and 6 months of growth! This will be one we’ll be sure to share more updates on as it grows in.
