WB Infinitia 275 Build Thread - I'm Back Baby

[Kactai]

Nice set up man! I am thinking on getting the same rank from WB. How do you like the sump?
Do you use ATO sump ?

See above

 

[brian222]

The sump is nice but I may consider some
changes in the future. I’m not sure if I’ll use filter socks the entire time. Otherwise it’s excellent. I don’t actually use the auto top off tank. I use it as a coral quarantine tank in another room. I have ATO and auto wanted changes set up through the wall in the basement.

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Nice setup! I removed the socks section from my WB Peninsula 6025 sump and I have been using Clarisea SK5000, definitely amazing as no more filter socks clean forever

 

[Kactai]

Nice setup! I removed the socks section from my WB Peninsula 6025 sump and I have been using Clarisea SK5000, definitely amazing as no more filter socks clean forever

That’s amazing…. Was it a lot of work? Did you just have to cut out the sock holder?

 

[brian222]

That’s amazing…. Was it a lot of work? Did you just have to cut out the sock holder?

I have spent more time than I expected to completely remove both buffers, WB definitely did a great job on the construction of their sump, there is not much space between glass panels so I tried a few different methods to remove all silicon, razor blades worked very well for me but you have to do it slowly if you decide to go with the roller mat path.

I ended up spending the entire weekend removing socks and creating custom plumbing for my roller mat, I would say it is totally worth it as my goal is to build a heavy input-heavy output system, so it is not realistic to swap filter socks every 2 days or so (also I HATE cleaning filter socks)

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[Kactai]

I love it when a plan comes together.

seeding the rock with PODs and bottle bacteria in totes over the last month J’s totally paid off. 4 days with rocks and sand in the tank and pods are all over the glass.

My first batch of fish come in Tuesday. They will be in copper for 15 days with 2 doses of metro about a week apart all done at the LFS by my top notch fish guy Chris Lesvesque @strictly scales. Then they come home for 2 weeks observation.

Time to get the coral QT up and running I guess.

 

[Kactai]

Ohhhhh yeah! Part of the invert clean-up crew is in QT.




Qt is a seeded 30 gal tank with HOB filter and cured rock. Lots of pods.

2 turbo snails - not my first choice
5 Netrite snails
3 blue leg hermit crabs
2 fire shrimp

 

[Petcrazyson]

Nice tank! If I were you I’d add many more snails

 

[Kactai]

Nice tank! If I were you I’d add many more snails

Oh yeah! This is probably only 1/5 of my total clean up crew. I’ll probably end up at 30-40 snails, 8-10 hermit crabs, an urchin, a few conchs and a sea cucumber. Probably Al other cleaner shrimp or two as well.

It’s just a start to prep for my first small batch of Qt’ed fish.

 

[Kactai]

Alright so it’s been almost a month. No fish yet.

My guy got shipments a few weeks apart and rather than run two batches through QT he decided to wait and do them all together. That means next weekend in 15 days of treatment.

Here is my stocking list:

In QT - to be added to display in 2-3 groups

Red head fairy wrasse
Fire fish
Damsels - azure & springeri
Clowns - midnight storm
Red spot blenny
Yellow watchman goby
Two spot goby - eating frozen in Qt
Powder blue (to be added later)
Scopas
Fox face

FOR LATER
Scooter blennie
Mandarin - TBD
Fairy wrasse - TBD
Halicores wrasse - TBD
Purple tang or mimic tang
Masked Swallowtail Angel

INVERTS - for later
Pistol shrimp to pair
Porcelain crab - blue
Nassarius snails
Conch
Sea cucumber

Any suggestions are appreciated

oh I did a huge coral rescue! See next post!

 

[Kactai]

Coral Rescue!!!!

A mutual friend purchased a fully stocked 120g reef tank with the intention of turning it into a fish only. He went and picked everything up and put the corals in totes and buckets.

This is where I came in. My friend called and said one of his buddies was in the middle of a tank move and could use some help. So I zip over there and lend a hand getting the tank filled back up. Then he asked If I wanted all of the coral. I was overwhelmed and blown away. I’m talking a basketball size colony of acro, some frogspawn, a huge wall hammer and so on and so forth.

I cut what I could off the rock and took it home. It was such an amazing score.



I offered a bit of money and paid $250 for everything.

It’s been in the fallow tank and QT for like 35 days now.

Fish come in 7 days and go into QT for 15 days.

Colonies in the display went in with no rock or frag plugs so I’m fairly confident that with a 55 day fallow period at over 80 degrees it will be a successful quarantine.

 

[Petcrazyson]

Coral Rescue!!!!

A mutual friend purchased a fully stocked 120g reef tank with the intention of turning it into a fish only. He went and picked everything up and put the corals in totes and buckets.

This is where I came in. My friend called and said one of his buddies was in the middle of a tank move and could use some help. So I zip over there and lend a hand getting the tank filled back up. Then he asked If I wanted all of the coral. I was overwhelmed and blown away. I’m talking a basketball size colony of acro, some frogspawn, a huge wall hammer and so on and so forth.

I cut what I could off the rock and took it home. It was such an amazing score.

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I offered a bit of money and paid $250 for everything.

It’s been in the fallow tank and QT for like 35 days now.

Fish come in 7 days and go into QT for 15 days.

Colonies in the display went in with no rock or frag plugs so I’m fairly confident that with a 55 day fallow period at over 80 degrees it will be a successful quarantine.

Lucky haha

 

[Petcrazyson]

Alright so it’s been almost a month. No fish yet.

My guy got shipments a few weeks apart and rather than run two batches through QT he decided to wait and do them all together. That means next weekend in 15 days of treatment.

Here is my stocking list:

In QT - to be added to display in 2-3 groups

Red head fairy wrasse
Fire fish
Damsels - azure & springeri
Clowns - midnight storm
Red spot blenny
Yellow watchman goby
Two spot goby - eating frozen in Qt
Powder blue (to be added later)
Scopas
Fox face

FOR LATER
Scooter blennie
Mandarin - TBD
Fairy wrasse - TBD
Halicores wrasse - TBD
Purple tang or mimic tang
Masked Swallowtail Angel

INVERTS - for later
Pistol shrimp to pair
Porcelain crab - blue
Nassarius snails
Conch
Sea cucumber

Any suggestions are appreciated

oh I did a huge coral rescue! See next post!

Just me but I would do the Purple instead of the Scopas and then you don’t have to pick between the purple or a mimic. What mimic do you have in mind?

 

[Kactai]

I was just thinking the classic lemon peel. Who knows though. Availability is always tricky here in the great Canadian north.