Pulp Fishin's 60g Pentagon build

[Pulp Fishin]

Hello Reefers and first off thank you for your interest in my thread.
I've seen many great build threads and learned all that I could from them. So finally I'm sitting down to make my own.

First off the story.
Last summer I had my mega-flow wet/dry filter for my 135gFOWRL tank spring a leak. Lucky I was home and had only small live stock at the time. So I moved them to a 23g30x12x12) hospital-tank and started my work on breaking down my 135(72x18x24) to my 60g(30bx10sx18h) pentagon corner tank I had bought used for $100 w/ stand on kijiji.ca

First I had to have glass cut at a local glass shop for my sump & locate some marine safe silicone.
Then to converting my first tank (a 20gtall 24x12x18) into my sump.









Glass was $21, tank was $25used & silicone about $7. All prices in Cad!

[Pulp Fishin]

Rock/Sand & water:
I had about 110 mixed Indo/Tonga/Figi/Vanuatu and 1/3rd of the sand from my 135 go into the tank. It took a few days of playing with the rock to find something sturdy & looked good to me.

This tank never had the stared cyano break out probably since the rock/sand & water all came from my 135 before I completely drained it and broke it down(I had to in order to get the wet/dry out of the stand, i hated the wet/dry and happy its gone and i got credit for it)

at this point the hood is a $9 sheet of cut eggcrate and the light is a spare snap on!

Next was the initial livestock & my crabless CUC

[Pulp Fishin]

I also added a DIY refugium made from a spare red sea salt bucket. I found this worked great because I cut the hole with a dremmel. Also since its square shaped all I had to do to make a total seal was add a quality bulkhead and some spare parts I have arround. As you can see its fed by my phosban reactor and water flows out the bulkhead into the return past where the skimmer is(skimmer not in this pic).

[Pulp Fishin]

After this I kept my eye on some used aquarium equipment in my area. I passed up a few quality deals, optimistic that a great deal was around the corner.

I hated the egg-crate & snap on light even as a temporary thing so I made a DIY hood<---total cost $24. I almost had to make the hood myself since this shape/size auarium is not commen.

Fast forward 6 months and I have added a 36" T5 Retro Fit Kit to my hood, and I found a deal that was too gooo to refuse! Most important of the deal was I got 100lbs of live rock, a Euro-Reef skimmer & a 20gal sump to get my 135 back in working order, but a 250W metal halide Retro Fit and some corals and a handfull of livestock.

[Tswifty]

Looks like a nice start... I'm definitely a fan of the tote fuge, and all the DIY.

Nice to finally put a tank to the name.

Shake n' Bake?

[Pulp Fishin]

Originally posted by Tswifty8
Looks like a nice start... I'm definitely a fan of the tote fuge, and all the DIY.

Nice to finally put a tank to the name.

Shake n' Bake?

Thanks Tswifty, glad too finally get some tanks shots up for everybody.
Lets not forget the Uncle Ben's too.

I had limited equipment when I started but wasn't gona let that stop me!

Cheers

[Pulp Fishin]

For flow I did use 2xKoralia 3's that I had from my 135fowlr but I swapped one of them out for a Tunze 6025.

The pump I also got a great deal for slightly used. HABS#1 member tried to go from canister filter to sump but his family hated the noise so they wanted the canister back. HABS#1 happens to work in the same building as me so I got the Mag 7 w/ the return hose/valve & return after only a week or two of use.

This works to apx 33.5x turn over with head loss or 36.8x not including whats lost in the return.

Now, the fish!
In this tank I now only keep small fish. In the top pics you can see a small blond naso tang which I removed just by putting food in a sterile 2gal pickle jar & waiting till it went for the bait(I also caught both skunk cleaner shrimp & my coral beauty in the jar at the same time but they went right back in).

My stock list, since you can see most the fish in the above pics I won't bother to show a pic for each fish.
1 Coral Beauty
1 Blue Chromis
3 Ocellaris Clownfish
1 Green Mandarin
2 Yellow Watchman Goby's
& a Blue Stripe Pipefish
I have 2 Yellow Watchmen Gobys
I have a crabless CUC of apx 35-40 assorted snails & 2 cucumbers.
For inverts I have 2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, 2 Blood Cleaner Shrimp, 2 Harlequin Shrimp & 6 Sexy Shrimp!





My female Mandarin & blue stripe pipefish. Both eat frozen bryne & mysis like champs.

Harlequins

Sexy Shrimp-they host my Frogspawn

[Tswifty]

You know you can mod the 6025 easily to double the output?

I haven't looked into it, but I believe you just snip out every other plastic grate piece.

Might be worthwhile to look it up.

[Tswifty]

Here's the mod thread:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...5&pagenumber=1

[mg426]

Coming along nicely !!

[Pulp Fishin]

Thanks for the thread to that mod!
I've got some spare time this week with vacation so I'm goan set soem time so I can pimp-my-powerhead!

[Pulp Fishin]

For corals I mostly got LSP & soft corals.
Currently I have...

Soft corals:
Cabbage coral
Finger Leather Coral
Devils Finger
assorted Zoo's & polyps

LSP:
Cats Paw
Doughnut
Frogspawn


Next on my list of wants is ither a Crystal (Galaxy) Coral or a Torch Coral.

I also go apx 6 green frilly mushrooms and 1 lavander mushroom, I may have 2 or 3 more green frilly muchrooms because there was a few ready to split when I first got them, Ive seen one small shroom floating arround my tank so I just hope that it settled and found a nice spot too call home.

I just made a DIY frag rack so next time I see if one is ready to split I'll be ready for it!




Here are a few more full tank shots.

[Pulp Fishin]

More tank shots.







Lucky right after I started the tank my English Bulldog (Pablo) fathered a litter a puppies and my fiance gave me the stud fee to go into the tank so that lifted a lot of the fiancial burden.
This is his litter and me.

Next time his stud fee's going back into another bulldog!

[HumanIMDB]

Looking good!