50gallon Low boy Frag tank

[MichaelB]

This has been one of my projects I've kept close to my chest. Arrangements were made with @MarcosD to aquire this tank roughly 2 weeks before I learned about decided to buy the 210gallon dream tank.

I got this tank a few weeks before I picked up the 210. I've had it for several months now, and it's been running for almost 2 weeks. The tank was heavily seeded with all live rock from 65gallon tanks sumps (recently broken down). The rocks and coral in the tank it's self was all from my zoa, mushrooms, and leather biocube frag tank (broken down last week)

Current coral: Zoas, mushrooms, several types of leathers (exlcuding my higher end ones currently in main tank.)

Livestock: Two biota yellow tang babies, Loads of multiple types of snails, hermits, and a xl pithos crab.

Lights, are aquatic life coral cover 48inch, and 2 noopsyche k7 3 pros.

Sapphire Sump 26 from @Srt4eric who also helped me get it plumbed properly. My attempts before he came according to his words, "if I ever did a job like this my boss would fire me on the spot lol."
With his expert hands on help It was hooked up properly.

Return pump: Ecotech vectra s1
Ato reservoir: Innovative Marine 5 gallon.

 

[MichaelB]

Future plans various types of corals to grow out including sps.

I also need to get a gyre, diy some properly sized frag racks for the left side of the tank, and to get a uv sterilizer to run if ever needed.

 

[tribbitt]

Very exciting. Following along!

 

[MichaelB]

So a Tank update here.

It's been just coming on 5 weeks since the 2 fish wipes that occured in the stock tank, and this frag tank.

Frag tank is loaded with a abundance of snails and hermits mostly intended for the 210gallon. Exlcuding My 2 giant zebra turbo snails and rock urchin currently in the nem tank also intended for 210gallon. The snails and hermits were the only things that didn't die in addtion to a insane amount of pods visible on the glass in pictures if you zoom in.

I plan to keep them tank fallow for probably 5 more weeks at the least. Not sure if it was ick or velvet. So I'm aiming to wait it out to ensure whatever it was is truly dead.

Today I've added a few test hammers from main biocube32 tank, and most of my nicer leather corals, Candycane corals. I did keep back 2 nice leathers and the sunkist bounce, sunrise mushrooms, nicer hammers, torches and the sps in current main tank.

The plan there is to shift all the sps to the 40gallon tank to make it sps dominated.

I wasn't confident enough to move over my nicer corals to this frag tank until I give it a few days to ensure the hammers are looking good.

Over all since last pictures I posted. here the frag tank only had leathers, mushrooms and zoas. However as you can see the leather, zoas, and shrooms are looking better than ever in this system with some even trying to grow out of the water.

If the test hammers do well I will add the rest of hammers and the torches.

Most of the larger corals hear will be heading to the 210gallon. I do possibly Anticipate mainly a softy tank with maybe some of those non reef safe angels or predator possibly in the future in the garage fish room. (Honestly just a thought no true decision made yet) However I don't think I will place half of those leathers or more than 1-2 zoas in the 210.

Garage will also have smaller fish and coral quarantine, treatment and observation tanks. With the frag tank serving for dbtc/ and observation for anything intended to go into the 210gallon LPS or 40gallon SPS systems.