My 240 Cube

goat585 · Dec 13, 2009

This weekend I got my frag tank setup. I eventually want to go larger but am not sure if I am going to have the room. I hope to convert this frag tank to a clownfish anemone tank if I can find enough room to add another tank.

The tank is a Oceanic 30 breeder 36"x18"x12". It is being lit by 4 36" t-5's. The light is an Icecap retrofit but I am using advance ballasts. The bulbs are currently not being over driven but I wired it so I can use a 660 ballast if I need more light.

Here are a couple of more pictures.

goat585 · Dec 20, 2009

A quick update.

I just moved over a few more corals and moved the rock work around a little. This weekend I picked up 2 tunze 6100's with magnet mounts, 7095 controller and a tunze rock. They were placed in the tank and the flow in the tank is much better.

I hope to move over more corals later in the week and get the kalkwasser reactor up and running. I should have some updated pictures posted tomorrow night.

goat585 · Dec 22, 2009

Here are some pictures of the current aquascaping. I have about half of my corals transferred to the new tank. I plan on moving the rest over the next couple of weeks. Once they are moved I am going to move the fish.

Full Tank

Left Side

Right Side

Center

Blackhawk Fan · Dec 23, 2009

Looks awesome Tom. I love the scaping.

goat585 · Dec 31, 2009

I finished off my auto top off system last weekend. I am using a reef filler pump to pull water from a 40 gallon ro/di storage container. It feeds the water to a reeftek kalkwasser reactor and then into the sump. So far it is working very nicely. Here are some pictures.

goat585 · Jan 4, 2010

I picked up a rose anemone last week. My maroon clown are loving their new home already.

I have moved over all my corals to the new tank. I still need to move over my tangs and trigger. The plan is to move them this weekend.

Here is the latest aquascaping

Front

Left Side

Right Side

My Saltwater World · Jan 5, 2010

Amazing build. Love the aquascaping and the way you have it set up.

nayrgaijin · Jan 5, 2010

Wow digging the update ! This is one sweet tank man, if I'm ever back in Illinois I will have to send you a PM

johnanddawn · Jan 5, 2010

very nice set up -well done

goat585 · Jan 7, 2010

My Saltwater World said:
Amazing build. Love the aquascaping and the way you have it set up.

Thank you

nayrgaijin said:
Wow digging the update ! This is one sweet tank man, if I'm ever back in Illinois I will have to send you a PM

Thanks, come on out. I hold some of club meetings at my house

johnanddawn said:
very nice set up -well done

Thank you

Blackhawk Fan · Jan 7, 2010

I miss that tank.

It's nice to see you make something so beautiful with it Tom. Keep the updates coming.

goat585 · Jan 7, 2010

I setup up a couple of two little fishy reactors. One for carbon and one for GFO. The plan is to fill them up tomorrow. I used a line off my return for the tank to feed the reactors. You can also see my tunze controller and drivers.

SaraB · Jan 7, 2010

Looking good Tom! Fishroom looks nice, clean and orderly!

goat585 · Jan 7, 2010

Blackhawk Fan said:
I miss that tank.

It's nice to see you make something so beautiful with it Tom. Keep the updates coming.

Thanks Mike,

It is a ton of fun to work with but it is a ton of work to get it up and going. Everytime I think I am done I find something else to do.

You are welcome to come by anytime and see it, if you get out this way.

goat585 · Jan 7, 2010

SaraB said:
Looking good Tom! Fishroom looks nice, clean and orderly!

Thanks, I need to get the wires cleaned up a little. Eventually I will clean them up but I am waiting until I decide on a controller or at least get my temp controller up and running.

underwaterfirefighter · Jan 7, 2010

Awsome build. Everything is looking very good. Keep the updates coming. Really enjoying this thread. Thanks for sharing.

Dave

goat585 · Jan 18, 2010

I did some work this weekend and added a sand bed to my frag tank and divided it in half for my two pairs of clown fish. One side I plan to have a anemone for my clowns and the other side will be for frags. Here are a couple of pictures

I also got a nice closeup of my pink tip hammer coral. I plan to add pictures of the individual inhabitants over the next couple of weeks.

goat585 · Feb 17, 2010

Thanks for the comments.

I took a couple of more photos today. The tank is running quite well. I did move up my halide a little higher to try and get a little better spread of light. I also added a vortech to my frag tank which is doing a real nice job moving the water in the tank. Two weekends ago I borrowed a friend par meter and took a bunch of readings. I hope to have a picture with all the numbers on it posted in the next day or so.