My 9 Gallon Stealth Cube Build

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mooriginal

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Here are some pics of my new tank that ive been nurturing for a while now :langle
Finally started to get some stock in there...

A few stats:
40 litres
External Marine Heated Eheim Canister filter
Custom built to include the tank and cabinet to look as one piece.
No pipework of any sort showing in the tank no powerheads or heaters
all handled under the tank in canister hidden in cabinet which is also its stand.













W.I.P. scaping and new stock

new 14k 150w Marine Lux bulb on for 30 mins
new stock been in for 2 hours today











And finally a tank shot
 
TimSchmidt

TimSchmidt

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She's a beauty all right! How is the canister holding up? How to do clean the canister? Any check valves, or ball valves? I love it. Can you tell :shock:
 
EDGRAY

EDGRAY

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OMG!!!!! what a nice tank..... really interesting colors u have!!!!....i wish my zoanthids have 2 colors in each head like your acans!

ED
 
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mooriginal

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thanks guys
here are some updated pics for you all ...

I can take some shots of the 'workings' of everything ..later

Ed - I wish I had your Rics ! they are lovely
I shall take a special pic for you of my orange yuma with leds on it !

Just briefly for Tim - cannister is eheim 2126 marine
very easy to clean - open lid take out trays
tip out old water - and syphon any crud around heater element at bottom
done !

Here are pics with new blue leds with auto on light sensors
they are great ! just got them yesterday - when main lights went off - the leds went out automatically will take some pics of them too for your guys [from ebay]







 
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mooriginal

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Also wanted to explain why its stealth

There are no part or extras on show in the tank
if you looked around all the sides you wouldnt see any equipment - the HOB there is temporarily
The main flow is coming out of exit hole hidden in the cave formed by the white reef plate rock you so in the main of picture.
Stealth also because the important parts of filtration are all hidden under the tank in cabinet that hides all the pipework.

Also have managed to get a floating look to bottom of tank so there is a 5 mm gap between slate rock top of cabinet and glass bottom - of which you can in some pics ive got leds mounted to make a glow from under the tank
 
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mooriginal

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heres some shots of the pipework and cabinet



pics today of some new stuff
acan maxima

night time


blasto frag - not sure if its too horizontal onto light being to much light


green acro [new]

night time


left tank view

orange yuma happy at bottom in cave


orange acan echi [new]


tank right view


enjoy
 
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johnanddawn

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nice tank and awesome corals
question - your stealth plumbing work (very cool BTW) doesn't seem to skim the surface - are you getting a surface film?
 
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mooriginal

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thanks guys
i use top of by hand at moment its not too bad as i have the MH quite high but even so about a litre jugful every 3 days is not too bad or less on cooler days...

I am indeed getting surface skum- so have a plan
either replace the cave affect with some tubing with branches
with one the branches pointing directly at the surface.

or get eheim pump to sit between pipework back to tank so get flow of 1250 lph
leave the cave untouched and let the extra flow break the surface
at the moment i get surface agitation but not enough to break it...

current plans are for the eheim pump as I could do with the extra flow

i find the flow goes straight up and then cascades down ...
it means things are quite calm at bottom of tank which i like....
but with extra pump would get a better cascade affect

waiting on some funds before i go ahead and get the pump...
 
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mooriginal

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some updates -

Summary - lots of stock that had been poorly has been languishing in back recesses of the cube.
Had a recent move around and put some of the recovering stock out and finished of the rockscaping of the tank - this is how its going to stay now ...

new items for the cube - deep water lobo, hydno - echnio - favia - duncans

hope you enjoy...










 
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mooriginal

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ato - is by my right hand :gcool
hehe
lose about a 1inch in about 2-3 days and bit more during the warmer days when i had the fan blowing on water surface.

Going to be looking at a very simple bottle type affair to ATO.

As for surface scum - still getting a bit - but noticed when fan was blowing across the water surface it got rid of most of it...
 
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helifaxnz

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That is one cool tank :cool1:

Where are your moon lights?
So having the water pushed out via the centre of the mound is enough flow?

I love the Acans. It is very hard to get them here in NZ (funny really as we are so much closer to these corals than you are :evil: )
 
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mooriginal

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Happens so many places doesnt it - local availibilty is rubbish cause its all exported !

Moon lights are from ebayer in Hong Kong
I can give pass on details if you like
I like the moonlights as they are very strong and quite sturdy - theyve dipped into water countless times and being sealed havent had any problems so far..

The flow from the centre is just about right - could do with being with a bit more - but i choose so far not to add an extra pump to boost flow as it seems to be working ok so far ... the eheim was rated at 950lph
 
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