Jared’s sca 50g reef (1 year update 5-17/24)

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Movie night

 

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So may 17th is the 1 year anniversary of the 50g, I cleaned it really well over the weekend and took some photos.

We can start with the sump area, it hasn’t changed too much, but it’s certainly not as clean as it once was.

Day 1

Now - overall it hasn’t changed much. I added the skimmer, sandbed container, mangroves and the filter sock holder. I need to tidy up the wires a bit. But it’s been functioning well for me. The 10g is borderline too small now as it’s packed full so I do want to go bigger down here.

You can see the small fan and kamoer dozers mounted

The mangroves are doing very well, both have the second set of leaves, I trimmed the growth bud so now the new growth should start to branch out.

 

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I dusted and rearranged the lego display

 

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Some fish and coral pics for the 1 year anniversary

 

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Today is may 17th - it’s the 1 year anniversary of the sca50g.

Overall I’m very happy with how this tank is starting to progress. Algae issues are seemingly starting to get better as I added a few turbo snails from my other tanks temporarily to help out.

But the reality of the situation is it’s getting getting close to summer and getting hot. Inside my house today is 102* f and I have 2 fans running on the tank and sump to keep it cool. So far the tanks surviving for now, but its only may, and it’s going to only get hotter as we get closer to summer. afternoon temps on the tank are
Reaching 82-83*, So that leads me to a difficult choice - try and keep this tank cool, or take it down until construction is done. Also since I’m running the fans, evaporation is like an extra 1-1.5g a day I’m having to add manually since I don’t use a traditional ato.

So I’m really leaning towards taking it down, there is a mess of drywall and paint work that needs to be done, and it’s going to be rough keeping it out of the system, I will have to temporarily set up a tank in my bedroom with my other system (omg I have like no room left in my room) . My bedroom has a small window ac I bought to keep me and the reef system in my room cool. But it’s barely adequate for the room as is with 2 tanks, so adding a 3rd constant 78* heat source will mean getting a bigger window unit to keep up.