Renato's 60g cube

nitro · Sep 15, 2015

Renato,
I love the tank and your pictures, what camera do you use?
Thanks, Nitro

TreyC2010 · Sep 15, 2015

Thanks for taking care of my tank Renato. I'll come pick it up this weekend

. Awesome tank. I'm about to start a 60 cube so I'll be using this as a blueprint. I do have a question. Can you explain the water flow from the tank to the refugium and sump. I'm not sure how it goes. If it's not too much to ask could you tell me the pumps you use too.

renato120 · Sep 15, 2015

Brent LaPietra said:
How is your Refugium set up? I am thinking about running a Refugium on the side of my tank too, the 60 cube does not have enough room for a sump with a Refugium below. Problem is I want to be able to get a lot of pods growing but from everything I see I will have to go from my tank to Refugium to sump back to tank. And the skimmer will kill most of the pods

TreyC2010 said:
Thanks for taking care of my tank Renato. I'll come pick it up this weekend . Awesome tank. I'm about to start a 60 cube so I'll be using this as a blueprint. I do have a question. Can you explain the water flow from the tank to the refugium and sump. I'm not sure how it goes. If it's not too much to ask could you tell me the pumps you use too.

Very simple. A maxijet 1200 for the return pump, that stays in my sump under the tank located next to my skimmer. The maxijet is connected with a hose that goes to my fuge with a nozzle at the end. I didnt want it to do it with plumbing for the return. So the water from the fuge falls right back in to the sump next to my DT return pump that is MAG 9. All the pods that falls goes right to the DT. I use a foam to minimize micro bubbles going to the DT. The system works perfectly. Once a week when I do my WG I remove the foam to clean it.

renato120 · Sep 15, 2015

nitro said:
Renato,
I love the tank and your pictures, what camera do you use?
Thanks, Nitro

Thank you! I use a Nikon D40. Sometimes my Iphone 6

aviationreef · Sep 15, 2015

Do you use a filter for you iphone 6?

And let me make sure i get your water path for the tank, It goes DT falls to sump pumps to refugium Falls back into the Sump pumped back into the DT?

ReeferJohn408 · Sep 15, 2015

Very nice setup. Congrats.!

mochaclownlover · Sep 15, 2015

Your tank is awesome! What kind of RBTA is that?

renato120 · Sep 15, 2015

Brent LaPietra said:
Do you use a filter for you iphone 6?

And let me make sure i get your water path for the tank, It goes DT falls to sump pumps to refugium Falls back into the Sump pumped back into the DT?

Thats correct! I use an app called snapseed for the I phone. Excelent app... I tune the pictures as close as I can to what it looks like. Sometimes I can even tell the difference.

renato120 · Sep 15, 2015

mochaclownlover said:
Your tank is awesome! What kind of RBTA is that?

Thank you! Im pretty sure its a Rbta.

ReeferJohn408 said:
Very nice setup. Congrats.!

Thank you.

aviationreef · Sep 15, 2015

Thats an interesting idea. That will probably be the best way for me to do it as well. Like i said my Refugium is pathetic under my tank. Also The idea of trying some different type of algae. Do you do a reverse cycle, light on fug when lights off on tank? This would be a bit of a problem because i have it in my bedroom

TreyC2010 · Sep 15, 2015

renato120 said:
Very simple. A maxijet 1200 for the return pump, that stays in my sump under the tank located next to my skimmer. The maxijet is connected with a hose that goes to my fuge with a nozzle at the end. I didnt want it to do it with plumbing for the return. So the water from the fuge falls right back in to the sump next to my DT return pump that is MAG 9. All the pods that falls goes right to the DT. I use a foam to minimize micro bubbles going to the DT. The system works perfectly. Once a week when I do my WG I remove the foam to clean it.

Thank you for that. It looks like it's doing its job well. So just to be clear, there's no pump from the refugium?

renato120 · Sep 16, 2015

TreyC2010 said:
Thank you for that. It looks like it's doing its job well. So just to be clear, there's no pump from the refugium?

No.

renato120 · Sep 21, 2015

renato120 · Sep 21, 2015

I have been checking all starfish I see they have 5 legs... Mine has 6 legs lol
Can someone tell me why? Thanks

renato120 · Oct 6, 2015

Had to share this pic

CausticGuy · Oct 6, 2015

Beautiful pic!

renato120 · Oct 7, 2015

CausticGuy said:
Beautiful pic!

Thank you! That was a lucky picture lol

revhtree · Oct 7, 2015

Beautiful!

Hoopastank · Oct 8, 2015

renato120 said:
Today's pics
I hope you guys like! Any questions just ask.
As you see I do like some Acans
Not a good Picture of the FTS...

What are you using to take the pictures of the tank and the coral? I use my iPhone but they dont come out very well? Your pictures look really good!
Thanks!