10 gal micro sumpless reef tank

[scubasteve]

Heeeeeeee's baaaaaaaack.......

Shhhh lol

 

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Here is a post of the popbloom light par reading at surface of water hanging 15" above. Each square roughly 3.5". It's only a shallow 10 gal so par does not drop more then 50-75 at sandbed.

 

[barksy]

Loving the build. How's it going?

 

[scubasteve]

Loving the build. How's it going?

Been busy with work but here is a huge photo bomb! Did that get me on another watch list? I hope it's a Rolex. Lol

 

[scubasteve]

Let's just say I'm pretty much full for one heck of a packed 10 gallon. Definitely going to have a few losses as they grow out, hopefully the expensive ones live. Not bad for a sumpless setup, slight algae issue from me overfeeding fish but that's corrected and cleanup crew is slowly making it disappear. No media reactor or skimmer just helps phosphates jump but now I'm not feeding as much it's much better and added some phosguard to the hob filter chamber with some carbon, other side is bioballs and chaeto with a small led light.

Sps, zoas and acans are all doing great, purple whip gorg is doing well but the non photosynthetic one has a bit of algae but slowly clearing up after moved ight infront of powerhead. Maxima clam, feather duster, onyx picasso, hector goby, mandarin dragonette and sunrise dottyback are all doing well. Don't send the dottyback police he was getting picked on at the store but is friendly in my 10 gallon which is a shock but it does have a labrynth of caves to claim.

No need to dose anything yet except a little eight four to keep carbonate up. Using red sea coral pro salt since small water volume it's not so pricey. Almost 0 sediment mixing too. No r/o just tap treated with prime. Red sea trace colour pro test kit and A, B, C, D addittives on way.

Feeding fish 3 times a week with new life spectrum pellets and once a week mysis and cyclopeez.

Coral get twice a week dose of 1oz nannochloropsis phytoplankton, 1oz isochrysis phytoplankton, 6 drops polyp lab polyp booster, .2g reef roids, 1ml aqua vitro fuel, 2ml of red sea reef energy plus AB+.

Also boosting tank monthly adding tigger pods and tisbe pods, tank originally seeded with tigger, tisbe, rotifiers and cyclopeez.

Now for the pics....

 

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Maxima clam
pink cadillac
red ferrari
wild aussie
teal fuzzy birdsnest

 

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Superman monti digi
wild aussie
scorpion
wild aussie
RR goldenrod anacropora
metallic blue and green milli
wild aussie
strawberry shortcake
utter chaos
AOI

 

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scrambled eggs
Magician
can't f'n remember
mickey d's
vampire in drag

 

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aussie rainbow acan
red people eater, pinwheel, soprano's
aussie acan
rasta
aussie rainbow acan
aussie rainbow acan

 

[Mechano]

Nice old school rock structure, Looks natural.
Nice looking clam as well

 

[Luke.]

Looks good man

 

[scubasteve]

Nice old school rock structure, Looks natural.
Nice looking clam as well

I only changed it 3 times to make more room for coral. Lol kind of limit with such a small tank.

 

[Mechano]

I only changed it 3 times to make more room for coral. Lol kind of limit with such a small tank.

All in good fun. The set up is one of my favourite things in this hobby lol.