60g cube display tank

Main Tank:

24x24x24 60g Cube
Sump:
10g tank with no modificaion
Refrugium:
CPR AquaFuge Hang-On Refugium
Skimmer:
Bubble Magus BM-100
CA reactor:
Bubble magus CA reactor , not sure the model.

about 80 lbs LR ( I know, it is a bit too much for the 60g but I got no where to put them when I moved everything from my 120g over)
Also DSB about 6 inches of Caribsea Ocean Direct Oolite Live Sand
Salt mix:
Seachem Salinity
Live stock:
couple RBTA that are recovering from some beating when I had them in my 120g with no skimmer (ya i know!!! =/)
mated pair percula clown fish
couple yellow/golden wrasse
1 blue tang
1 Sailfin tang
3x Mandarin ( Suprisingly they have been living very happily and eating well, have them for almost a year now)
1 Bangaii cardinal(soon to move to my up and coming breeding tank)
1 bi-colour blenny
1 snow flake eel
1 convic blenny
6x chromis
Coral:
SPS (Bird's nest,couple acropora colonies, couple Monti cap frag and a rainbow monti frag)
LPS (Candy Cane with 30 heads, Duncan with about 15 heads, few torch croal frags)
Softies ( Large Toadstool, colt coral?, bunch of mushrooms and zoas and a GSP)

 

That is a great tank.

I really like the little Maxima nestled in the hairy mushrooms. Nice pink BTA.

Interesting mixture of fish, you obviously make it work.

Looks really nice, I am huge fan of cubes.

 

A large blue tang, large sailfin tang, and 3 mandarins in a tank that size... Kudos to you for getting that to work!

How do you keep your nutrients at acceptable levels with such a high bioload?

 

Ya I kno thatz kinda overstocking, I do have the skimmer running quite heavily and i am getting good production al lthe time. As far as for water quality goes, I test it every 2 weeks and all readings are good including CA and KH, the only thing about my tank is the phosphate level which at about 1.0ppm due to me using regular tap water instead of RO/DI which I will install one soon in the future.

 

I am glad you love the maxima with the haiy mushroom, cuz I am sure I have nothing to do with it, I placed the clam right next to the toad stool, and next morning it mvoed all the way over the other side sits with the hairy mushroom, either the clam "walked" over itself, or the convic blenny some how moved it when pushing sand around.

 

Wow

 

You have obviously put a lot of hard work into the tank, you can tell by the design of the sump and healthy appearance of the corals and fish.

Thank you for sharing.

 

I'm impressed with the bioload also. I like to see when someone can make a high fish and coral tank load work. I always thought that I had to go one way or the other and I'm finding that that is somewhat still the case but not always if you have the right equipment and are willing to do the maintenance. Understanding my limits though is important. I applaud someone that can make both work especially with an anemone!! Congrats!

 

Very nice.You will however need to rehome the Tangs very soon.

 

Yea, I will buy a new tank once I move in my own house. I really can't afford to lose my tangs, both of these guys got some funny characteristic.

The sailfin always run in front of the camera if I try to take some macro shot so I have to put some seaweed near the tank to move it away.

And the Blue tang survives few ich out break and moves where I lost some other fish during that.