My FijiCube 142 INT reef tank

NitroJoe · Jun 6, 2023

This tank was started Mother’s Day 2023. My specs are as follows:

FijiCube 142 internal spill with stand.
Orpheus Atlantik iCon LED Light Fixture x2.
Fiji-30 advanced sump with Fiji fleece roller.
XP Aqua Duetto2 Dual-Sensor Complete Aquarium ATO System - with 9.5 liter reservoir with RO/DI water.
Innovative Marine 700 Watt Helio PTC Smart Heater - 78F.
Bubble King Double Cone 180 Protein Skimmer - Royal Exclusiv
BRS Universal CO2 scrubber.
Sicce Syncra SDC 6.0 WiFi Controllable Pump (530-1450 GPH) - steady at 60%.
Maxspect 2x Gyre XF330 Pumps with Controller (2350 GPH) - running inversely tandem at 40%.
Refugium Tunza Eco Chic Waterproof Refugium LED Light 8831.00.

The aquascape was a blast and took about two weeks. I am very happy with the results.
Tank is cycled and has an oscillaris clown, Falco hawkfish, cherub angelfish, scarlet shrimp, cleaner shrimp and scarlet hermit crabs. Added a Kenya Tree coral last week. Planning SPS up high and various other things lower down. Still a work in progress!

Peace River · Jun 6, 2023

Congratulations on the new adventure! Nice choice of equipment!!!

Gumbies R Us · Jun 7, 2023

NitroJoe said:
This tank was started Mother’s Day 2023. My specs are as follows:

FijiCube 142 internal spill with stand.
Orpheus Atlantik iCon LED Light Fixture x2.
Fiji-30 advanced sump with Fiji fleece roller.
XP Aqua Duetto2 Dual-Sensor Complete Aquarium ATO System - with 9.5 liter reservoir with RO/DI water.
Innovative Marine 700 Watt Helio PTC Smart Heater - 78F.
Bubble King Double Cone 180 Protein Skimmer - Royal Exclusiv
BRS Universal CO2 scrubber.
Sicce Syncra SDC 6.0 WiFi Controllable Pump (530-1450 GPH) - steady at 60%.
Maxspect 2x Gyre XF330 Pumps with Controller (2350 GPH) - running inversely tandem at 40%.
Refugium Tunza Eco Chic Waterproof Refugium LED Light 8831.00.

The aquascape was a blast and took about two weeks. I am very happy with the results.
Tank is cycled and has an oscillaris clown, Falco hawkfish, cherub angelfish, scarlet shrimp, cleaner shrimp and scarlet hermit crabs. Added a Kenya Tree coral last week. Planning SPS up high and various other things lower down. Still a work in progress!

Great looking tank!!! Looks organized too!

ClownSchool · Jun 7, 2023

NitroJoe said:
This tank was started Mother’s Day 2023. My specs are as follows:

FijiCube 142 internal spill with stand.
Orpheus Atlantik iCon LED Light Fixture x2.
Fiji-30 advanced sump with Fiji fleece roller.
XP Aqua Duetto2 Dual-Sensor Complete Aquarium ATO System - with 9.5 liter reservoir with RO/DI water.
Innovative Marine 700 Watt Helio PTC Smart Heater - 78F.
Bubble King Double Cone 180 Protein Skimmer - Royal Exclusiv
BRS Universal CO2 scrubber.
Sicce Syncra SDC 6.0 WiFi Controllable Pump (530-1450 GPH) - steady at 60%.
Maxspect 2x Gyre XF330 Pumps with Controller (2350 GPH) - running inversely tandem at 40%.
Refugium Tunza Eco Chic Waterproof Refugium LED Light 8831.00.

The aquascape was a blast and took about two weeks. I am very happy with the results.
Tank is cycled and has an oscillaris clown, Falco hawkfish, cherub angelfish, scarlet shrimp, cleaner shrimp and scarlet hermit crabs. Added a Kenya Tree coral last week. Planning SPS up high and various other things lower down. Still a work in progress!

Nice control board work!

NitroJoe · Jun 7, 2023

Gumbies R Us said:
Great looking tank!!! Looks organized too!

Thank you!

NitroJoe · Jun 7, 2023

ClownSchool said:
Nice control board work!

Thank you!

NitroJoe · Sep 18, 2023

Update. Moving slowly forward the hardware is with one change. I am running a Kalkwasser drip with a Kamoer FX-STP2 pump and I removed the AR-20 Fijicube fleece roller and replaced it with a basket and old fashioned bonded filter pads doubled up.

Kalkwasser helps me keep my pH around 8.4 and the corals seem to like it. It also reduces how fast the ATO gets drained. The CO2 scrubber is a simple device and the media dries out every day so I have to add a tablespoon of water daily - nobody mentioned that (although in hindsight it seems pretty obvious that the water would dry up).

The fleece roller is no good. There is a critical design flaw. So anyone wanting the Fijicube AR-20 fleece roller, be warned…. The motor crank is a treaded bolt that UNSCREWS as it advances the dirty fleece out of the water. This eventually pushes the roller pin against the opposite side of the device which jams it. I tried all but super gluing it. Further, in my tank (which is Fijicube), the roller is too tall to take out to service (which after about 1/4 of the roll jammed daily) unless the entire sump is disconnected and removed from the stand. What a pain. The filter pads are easy, cheap and I think better than socks (cost and keeps some of the debris out of the water column).

Livestock: I am now enjoying the following friends: DesJardin tang, Foxface rabbitfish, four Oscillaris (regular, snowstorm, naked and black), yellow wrasse, Cherub Angelfish, Starry blenny, Goldhead sleeper goby, Purple-nosed dottyback, blood shrimp, cleaner shrimp and an assortment of scarlet, regular and Halloween hermit crabs.

For corals I have a variety of mixed types and they are all healthy! SPS: purple Stylophora, Hydnophora, Pocillopora, Seriatopora. Two variety of Acans, a little Zoanthid garden starting, Kenya Tree, Duncan, GSPs, pulsing Xenia, fireworks cloves, blue and red mushrooms.

No coralline yet but I am getting some great pod growth in my refugium with the chaetomorpha algae which is doubling in size each week.

Typical chemistries run: salinity 34 ppt, pH 8.3-8.4, Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0-0.2, Nitrate 1-2, Alk 9-10, Calcium 460-490, Mag 1440-1500, Phos 0.04-0.06

NitroJoe · Sep 18, 2023

A few fun sample pics

NitroJoe · Nov 13, 2023

Added a nice sized refugium from an ATO send by mistake. It has btw 7-8 gallons. I set up a Sicce SDC 3.0 pump with the refugium elevated on a stand so return would be returned passively through a vent bulkhead drilled in the side. Red piping in the pics go out from the sump TO the refugium while the blue pipe is the return. I had to play with the pipes to reduce noise and get the circulation I wanted in the refugium. In the refugium I added a small power head to assist a gentle current and there is a trip sensor which will kill the pump in the event the drain clogs. I also added blackout film to the side of the refugium so bleed-through lighting no longer promotes algae growth in other chambers of the sump.
See pics.