Kayla's and Josh's 50g Cube.

[Flipturn88]

50g SPS/LPS cube.

-24x24x20" Acrylic (MRC), BB with egg crate shelves, ~40kg LR (Fiji, Tonga)

-Custom drilled (11 bulkheads total)
-5x 1" + 2x 3/4" for Closed Loops
-2x 1" Overflows (one at the bottom with a modified durso, second just a backup)
-1x 1" for water change tap (in overflow box- connects to a 2m hose)
-1x 1" Return

-2x 29g sump, drilled with 1x 1" bulkheads each (return external-takes water from both tanks. An Old salt bucket, and filter floss to help limit micro bubbles. (Floss changed regularly to avoid excessive Nitrification bacteria.

-250w HQI AB 10k + 2x 24w T5 Aquamedic pendant.

-3500 Ocean Runner Return pump (external)

-2x 6500 Ocean Runner (CLs)

-1x TurboFlotor Multi skimmer, with carbon filtered air.

-1x Carbolitreactor, Holds one liter of Granulated carbon, fed via T'd return

-1x Auto Top off float, (with Auto shutoff pressure switch), connected to 5 stage RO/DI (No RO reservoir), same for the Sea Horse tank, and a spare 30g RO container.

-2x 200w Stealth Heaters

- Will become a ZEOvit system. Using the new Seachem Salt.

Pics soon.

Josh

[goodfortune]

That's an impressive setup Kayla; I'm looking forward to the pictures.

- Michael

[Flipturn88]

Thanks, Michael. I owe it all to Josh (the original poster of this thread); he designed and completed all the plumbing, not to mention all of the additional advice and late nights he invested to make it happen.

Here are some pics of the new setup and some of its inhabitants. I will take more later as time permits...








Kinda cute:


Just a couple quick coral shots:

My Blasto collection (my fav corals, as you can probably infer)







...I'm a lucky girl.

[sharkboy1410]

WOW, how do you get so much coral so quickly!!?? That looks really nice, just wait, next year it'll be awesome!Good luck!

[46bfinga]

looks awesome.where did you get the tank?is it diy?

[jayminor]

Wow!!

[mojo]

Very nice! I wish my tank looked half that good...

I do question your skimmer choice... is that TurboFlotor going to be enough?

[Viv]

Just a beautiful tank, You've got a salty thumb! After all if a gardener can have a green thumb when they make a beautiful garden, a reefer can have a salty thumb when they make a beaufiful tank! Congratulations! Its magnificent!!

[Flipturn88]

Originally Posted by sharkboy1410

WOW, how do you get so much coral so quickly!!?? That looks really nice, just wait, next year it'll be awesome!Good luck!

I had a lot of the coral already from a previous tank. I plan to sit back and watch it grow now...while adding a few more pieces along the way, of course.

Originally Posted by 46bfinga

looks awesome.where did you get the tank?is it diy?

I got the tank and the framework of the stand from Harley Guy, who got the tank from Andy @ MRC. The rest of the plumbing and carpentry is DIY. We will post more pics of that soon, since it's rather amazing how many holes this tank has!

Originally Posted by mojo

Very nice! I wish my tank looked half that good...

I do question your skimmer choice... is that TurboFlotor going to be enough?

The Turboflotor Multi is rated up to 250 gallons, and we calculated that my total real water volume (minus the liverock, etc) is around 90 gallons, due to the two 30 gallon sumps. So far it has been a great skimmer, so hopefully it will do the trick in this tank as well.

Originally Posted by Viv

Just a beautiful tank, You've got a salty thumb! After all if a gardener can have a green thumb when they make a beautiful garden, a reefer can have a salty thumb when they make a beaufiful tank! Congratulations! Its magnificent!!

Thank you! I do consider reefing much like gardening--and even a work of art in some ways as well, just with science and a lot of saltwater mixed in.

Thanks again everyone, and stay tuned...more pics to come.

[Loverotties]

WOW!!! Great tank and pic'sVery gelious!

[theplatypus]

Very nice

[Blorton]

Very nice! Is that starboard on the bottom? Good choice on pumps too.

Call me an elitist, but a setup that nice really needs a deltec skimmer on it.

Ya know - I'm thinking the indicator wheel on your electric meter never slows down. I'm sure mine doesn't.

Dan

[Melissa]

Beautiful, Kayla and Josh! Kayla, one day you should add your other tanks with specs and photos so we can see them all together. If you've never seen Kayla's tanks in person, it's a sight to see.

Melissa

[goodfortune]

Don't look at that needle to long; it might make you dizzy!!!

- Michael

Originally Posted by Blorton

...Ya know - I'm thinking the indicator wheel on your electric meter never slows down. I'm sure mine doesn't. ...

[emau]

is that frogspawn, the green spaghetti string with the white tips? if so i've never seen them so long?
very nice tank, thanks for sharing
peace
eric