120g Craigslist tank restoration

Finally, I found a 120g for a used price $200.
She’s the ugliest most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on. I’m going to strip the two overflows, add a ghost overflow and oh so much more to get this one wet again. I decided to put my money towards reputable equipment, instead of the glass box. (Good timing considering frameless tanks are losing fashion, dang you Red Sea.)
My previous tank was a cadlight 60g and just a frameless beauty. That tank grew coral but limped by with basic equipment. (Lighting,Powerheads, manually dosing) Time to flourish and establish a low maintenance 120g for this reefer.


Today’s 120g specs!

Filtration
-6 stage RODI by Brs
-Skimmer Q3 DC by aquamaxx
-Avast marine spyglass reactor
-2 gallons of marine pure bio spheres
-bio pellets by ecobak
-Distilled Vinegar 30ml/day
-2 marine pure plates
-1 marine pure block
-1 xport Brick seeded with mb7 by brightwell
-1 liter of matrix by seachem
-aquascape made of pukani,staxx,fiji,caribsea
-Brs black media reactor
-Rox.8 Carbon daily
-Gfo by kolar labs

Supplements
- Alk,Ca,mag by ESV dosed hourly by KamoerRemote F4pro
-Fuel by seachem 20ml/daily

Equipment
-2 Hydra 32s by AI
-2 XF 350s by maxpect
-1 Return pump DCP15000 by Jebao

Plumbing
-1 modular marine overflow Bean animal with 1 1/4” drains
-2 returns 1 1/2 inches
-1 manifold powering 3 reactors and main return

Fish food
- Nori, LRS herbivoreLRS fish frenzy,krill,mysis,squid,brine shrimp,golden pearls,cyclops,calanus

Previous filtration methods no longer in use
-diy algae scrubber
-Gfo by rowaphos when needed
-co2 scrubber
-filter floss
-skimmer sn-143qp by skimZ
-High capacity GFO by BRS
-AF1 by aquamaxx
-nopox by Red Sea

Stocking list
-Hippo Tang
-Yellow Tang
-Tomini Tang
-Blunthead Wrasse
-Puddingwife Wrasse
-Canary Blenny
-Twinspot blenny
-Royal Gramma
-Mono
-Lyretail Anthias
-Blue Chromis
-Pair of Ocellaris Clowns
-Lamarck Angel
-Melanurus wrasse
margarita,trochus,Nass,Cerith
-Pencil & Pincushion Urchin

Here is how it looks now! 8/2022

Dual LowBoy Frag Build starts here pg. 34-

Build Thread - 120g Craigslist tank restoration

Finally, I found a 120g for a used price $200. She’s the ugliest most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on. I’m going to strip the two overflows, add a ghost overflow and oh so much more to get this one wet again. I decided to put my money towards reputable equipment, instead of the glass...

www.reef2reef.com

DIY stand- https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/tank-stand-first-timer.681397/

Previous build thread https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/setting-up-new-60g-cube.335836/

 

[fishguy242]

this cut like butter 4" thick rock...

 

[NowGlazeIT]

this cut like butter 4" thick rock...

Beastmode! Nice to know this thing does the job well. Had my eye on it for some time now.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I probably would do it under my lfs’s saw he’s a pretty chill guy I don’t think he would mind.

Hey I never thought of this. If my gsp gets out of hand I’ll ask them for help and they can just keep the gsp in return hah

 

[A Young Reefer]

Guys I have my zoa/paly garden taken over by pandora palys. And it’s covering all my other zoas what’s the best way to address this? I don’t have much experience with fragging zoas.

 

[A Young Reefer]

You won’t believe how many zoa morphs I have under there.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Guys I have my zoa/paly garden taken over by pandora palys. And it’s covering all my other zoas what’s the best way to address this? I don’t have much experience with fragging zoas.

I’ve always done my best to avoid fraging zoas off rock work but I’ll be in the same boat very soon. I try to glue down removable rubble for the zoas to grow on and pull the rubble back when they overgrow it.

 

[fishguy242]

You won’t believe how many zoa morphs I have under there.

caution, u tube it, PPE, palytoxin,better safe than sorry,
hammer and chisel...

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I want to post a full tank shot today because the tank has not looked this good since I introduced flatworm exit 3 weeks ago.

I do love this reef very much. Thank you R2R for helping get here.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Chow time!

 

[Goaway]

My fish like seafood from the grocery store. They will no longer eat mysis, bloodworms, live baby brine. What else do they have?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Guys I have my zoa/paly garden taken over by pandora palys. And it’s covering all my other zoas what’s the best way to address this? I don’t have much experience with fragging zoas.

I'm sorry to say it, but ya messed up adding those Pandora's in with the Zoas... Pandoras will grow over and shade out about anything.

Manual removal is going to be a constant process even (safely scraping) the mat of the Pandora's off your rock, they will be coming up again in a few weeks.

May consider fragging as many of your Other Zoas off of the rock, without getting any flesh from the Pandora's and starting a new rock. This is probably the route I would take.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

My fish like seafood from the grocery store. They will no longer eat mysis, bloodworms, live baby brine. What else do they have?

I try to keep a wide variety for them. Squid mysis rotifer plankton roe lrs brine Nori pellet blend. I’ve never tried bloodworms on saltwater fish tho.

 

[Goaway]

I try to keep a wide variety for them. Squid mysis rotifer plankton roe lrs brine Nori pellet blend. I’ve never tried bloodworms on saltwater fish tho.

Squid, mussel, nori, shrimp, random seafood mix bag. Chopped up with pellets. They care not for anything else. Unless its coral food.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Squid, mussel, nori, shrimp, random seafood mix bag. Chopped up with pellets. They care not for anything else. Unless its coral food.

Nice, I guess I spoil my corals more than my fish. I would always buy shrimp or scallops for my anemones.

 

[Goaway]

Nice, I guess I spoil my corals more than my fish. I would always buy shrimp or scallops for my anemones.

Coral get the mix and reef candy. The tang loves reef candy.

Or was it coral candy? I forget...

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Coral get the mix and reef candy. The tang loves reef candy.

Or was it coral candy? I forget...

How’s the coral candy or reef candy effect on phosphates?

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I only feed the coral when my phosphates are low. I use reef roids. I do broadcast feed small particle frozen foods but some coral do could care less, zoas go bananas for either.

 

[Goaway]

Nitrates and phosphates for me are usually low.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Nitrates and phosphates for me are usually low.

How often do you feed your coral?

 

[Goaway]

2 to 3 times a week. Trachy gets daily feedings. On accident.