My 110G CUBE!!!

[Unarce]

Hi everyone,

I've been planning this set-up for about a year and was supposed to have completed it last September, until we decided to move. This is pretty much my first big tank, at least by my standards

Here's a full shot:

 

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Here's the right side:

 

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the left side:

 

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and the front:

 

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Lighting is a single 400watt Reeflux SE 10K on a PFO HQI ballast:

 

[Unarce]

KISS method? Yeah, right.

I wanted to avoid having any powerheads in the tank, which would look really funny in a cube. So, I decided to 'keep it simple' and have all 4 returns double as wavemakers as well.

 

[Anonymous]

Nice!!!!

 

[Unarce]

A Sequence Dart pumps into a Version 4 (opposed) OceansMotions 4-way...

...that alternates flow through top-right and bottom-left returns, than to the top-left and bottom-right returns:

 

[Unarce]

Thanks, Matt!!

 

[Unarce]

The space in the stand was a bit challenging to work with:

I'd like to thank my good friend Bryan for all his help with planning and plumbing. No way I could have done this without him.

 

[Anonymous]

Wow nice work, are you going to cram all those limited edition corals you seem to have in there??

 

[Unarce]

If a tank's birthday is considered the day you put water in it, than the DOB is February 17th. I admit, that I added inhabitants too fast, but wanted to make sure I got the tangs in there around the same time:

The clam was kind of pissed about going in there, too.

 

[Unarce]

Wow nice work, are you going to cram all those limited edition corals you seem to have in there??

Thanks, Mike! Since this is a whole new rockscape, I'll be starting over with frags again.

 

[Anonymous]

Absolutely kickass, Karl!!!

I can 'temporarily' house any frags until it's ready, you know...got plenty of room...



Peace,

Chip

 

[Len]

Dude, Karl, gonna be a nice tank! I hope you skip the entire algae phase like I'm going through (I've gone through about 5 stages already). Good news is coralline is beginning to fight through now

 

[Unarce]

Thanks, guys!

Chip - If you were local, you can have your pick of what's not going in there.

Len - Yeah, gotta keep my fingers crossed. The tank was started entirely of Nutri-SeaWater. Tried to get Catalina, but delivery was just too expensive. So, a wholesaler hooked me up with the live water for less than $1 a gallon.

All of the live rock, with the exeption of two, were cooked in my garage for over 3 months. I also got hooked up with Nature's Ocean Live Sand. I'm hoping this sort of start will minimize algae blooms.

 

[Anonymous]

Nice! Now I wished I had come out for that reflector!


How are those tangs treating each other?

 

[Unarce]

I was hoping you and Gresham would have come up for it

The tangs are okay so far. Lots of displaying, but no ones tried to inflict any real harm. They were introduced only a day apart. There was also an Achilles Tang, but he didn't make it. He would only eat Macro-Feast, but never put on weight

 

[Unarce]

Speaking of reflector, I sprung a little extra on some tempered starfire glass as the Lumenarc lens. Figured if the tanks is starfire, why stop there:

 

[Anonymous]

Beautiful. Great job.
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