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An update to my 40Br Sumpless Reef Tank

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My Sumpless 40Br Mixed Reef Tank. Set up since August 2012 (Moved from SC), most corals have been with me for about a year prior to the move.

Tank: Aqueon 40BR

Stand and Canopy: The stand is a nice entrance piece of furniture and the "half-canopy" and fixture cover was made by me.

Controller: Apex Jr. (Without Display, I use my iPhone 5/Computers to monitor the tank) + Apex VDM for LED dimming.

pH Monitor: Milwaukee SMS112

Light: RapidLED parts giving me 20 X Royal Blue, 14 X Cool Whites, and 2 X Moonlights.

Sand: Reef on the Rocks Aragonite + Large Particle Aragonite (Mix is 4:1)

Rock: Reef on the Rocks

Water Movement: 1 X Vortech MP10 (Yellow mode at about 1/2 power) + AquaClear 110 and another Power Filter (Described below).

Filtration: - AquaClear 110 housing a feed pump to a Phosban Reactor with 1/2 cup of BRS granular GFO. - Drs.FosterSmith Bio System Power Filter & Oxy Surface Skimmer (Use it as a mechanical filter plus carbon filtration (1/2 cup per week), without the surface skimmer).

Fish Feeder: Used when on Vacation, hand feed when I am home.

ATO: BRS Doser (50ml/min) used in custom set up (7G tub that is hidden). (I use Kalkwasser)

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Changes:

- Took off one of the Vortech MP10's... don't feel like I need it and it was making the clam angry.

- Majorly pruned the tank.

- Removed Ricordia garden rock and added a Baby Blue Squamosa Clam.

- Added Blue Staghorn coral (Bottom left) and a mixed color Hammer (With the Frogspawn).

- Finger Leather has been removed to make space in the tank.

- Green finger leather removed.

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  1. NEReef's Avatar
    Dude that tank is pisser!! I love how clean it looks. Very little equipment intrusion. It looks like you used overflow boxes to keep the HOB filters out of sight??? The top is a great idea too to cut down all visual cues that there are HOB filters in use. Any moisture problems with the reservoir in the ottoman looking thing?
  2. Electrobes's Avatar
    Thanks NEReef! I do have an overflow box hiding the AC110's intake, but the other Power Filter's intake is hiding behind the reef structure on the other side. Thankfully, even with a couple of spills, the ottoman has zero moisture issues.