New 310g Mixed Reef Tank Man Cave Build

[CincyReefer07]

*Fish addition UPDATE!*

Added all of the new tangs (hippo, orangeshoulder, white-tail kole) from QT and my copperband from my 75gal 2 weekends ago to the 310 gallon. The hippo and orangeshoulder went in without any issue at all, they were largely ignored and had peaceful entry into the tank. The copperband wasn’t exactly bullied at all either when added but the move to the new tank stressed him and he stayed hidden in a corner by a powerhead for a few days and didn’t eat. He’s since now back to his old ways roaming the tank peacefully and eating well again. The only issue I had was with my white-tail kole. He got scarred up pretty good with fighting between him and the yellow tangs and the gem tang. Didn’t help the first few nights he kept trying to make his night time home the same home the gem has had claimed for months. He got scarred up pretty good the first several nights. Wasn’t much fighting in the day time, it was happening as the lights dimmed or lights out. But after a week he’s now found his own home to call his in the tank and everyone is now back to peacefully, day & night swimming throughout the tank.
Over the last week his scarring has been slowly healing and getting his natural coloring coming back in. Probably within a couple months his scarring will be mostly gone and back to his beautiful self again.
Think as far as new fish additions I’m mostly done now. At most I may add a rhomboid wrasse and mandarin goby to the tank in the future, but that would absolutely be it for the stocking of fish in the 310. Last thing I want to do is overcrowd the tank
Also found it funny that my Bella Goby I added 2 months ago never wanted to come out of his burrow ever, but once the new tangs and copperband were added, he’s been coming out much more frequently.

 

[CincyReefer07]

Well I caved early on impulse and bought the Hydros x10 controller to add to my Hydros controller setup. Was originally planning on waiting a couple months as I had some other things around the house and for the tank I have been wanting to also buy. But temptation got the better of me this past week lol.
Just waiting on my LFS to hopefully get the iV and salinity kit in this week with their dry goods shipment and the plan will be to hook it up this upcoming weekend for automated Alkalinity testing and salinity monitoring.

 

[CincyReefer07]

Hope everyone has had a great Thanksgiving and got some good deals on this Black Friday! Wasn’t going to this year as I’ve spent too much already the last couple months haha… but caved and did at least pick up a pc rainbow acro and a favia frag today while at my LFS picking up some fish food I was getting low on since they had some killer deals going on.

Pic tonight of the tank for a tank update:

Been struggling getting the x10 and iV to read correctly after double checking things against calibrated Hanna testers as well as salifert test kits. Not exactly a Hydros issue as it’s more a me finding the time to troubleshoot and work the issues out even though I have an “idea” of what the issues are.

 

[Bruttall]

Beauty of a tank, love the mancave, but you're brave keeping a pool table that close to your tank, I played amateur pool tourneys years ago locally and have seen so many Que balls launch off the table on a hard break, seen them break beer glasses and pitchers, a mirror behind a bar once. I had a 4x8 Olhausen in my basement, I took it down when I converted my tank to salt and turned my game room into my living/entertainment room. I went a bit different route though and put a wall in front of my tank so it is just the front glass you see on mine.

 

[CincyReefer07]

Beauty of a tank, love the mancave, but you're brave keeping a pool table that close to your tank, I played amateur pool tourneys years ago locally and have seen so many Que balls launch off the table on a hard break, seen them break beer glasses and pitchers, a mirror behind a bar once. I had a 4x8 Olhausen in my basement, I took it down when I converted my tank to salt and turned my game room into my living/entertainment room. I went a bit different route though and put a wall in front of my tank so it is just the front glass you see on mine.

Thanks… it’s not really something I’m worried about. It’s not that close to the table. And you break shooting the opposite direction.

 

[tritonpower]

Well I caved early on impulse and bought the Hydros x10 controller to add to my Hydros controller setup. Was originally planning on waiting a couple months as I had some other things around the house and for the tank I have been wanting to also buy. But temptation got the better of me this past week lol.
Just waiting on my LFS to hopefully get the iV and salinity kit in this week with their dry goods shipment and the plan will be to hook it up this upcoming weekend for automated Alkalinity testing and salinity monitoring.

Did you ever use this to start the alkalinity testing? How is it going?

 

[Raptor72]

Following along. Great thread.

 

[CincyReefer07]

Little update pic for everyone who has followed along with my 310g build! I know it’s been awhile!

I’ve been a bit absent from posting on here for quite some time this year. Work and other hobbies have really taken my time away from being as active on the forums and social media this year. This year has been mostly full of just maintaining typical maintenance of the tank but I’m hopefully going to be getting much more into it again here soon with adding more corals, and possibly a few new fish, now that I’m not quite as busy with work as I had been the last 4-5 months.
This year the only new additions have been a goniopora that I bought from my LFS about 6 weeks ago, and a beautiful Fiji exquisite Wrasse who was so beautiful and active after he got settled in, but after 6-7 weeks of having him, one night I got careless and left my diy acrylic trim covers that enclose the small gap in the back portion of my tank where my diy screen lids come into contact with my cords hanging over the back edge of the tank, and the next morning I discovered he had found that gap and jumped out overnight
My nutrients are crazy high(bad habit of feeding too much) but they also have been for about a year now, and I’ve been getting growth from all kinds of corals including acros still so it hasn’t bothered me too much, but I do need to get them down, as i believe it’s also created a cyano issue in the tank, mostly on the sandbed that I have been weekly doing my best to pull out of the tank or stir up to go down into the filter socks.