9.4 gallon acrylic cube build thread

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to share my new tank. Its a 9.4 gallon advance acrylic shallow cube with built in overflow - dimensions 15.25" x 15.25" x 9". Also have a 10 gal sump fuge combo.

Main Display:
Haitian shelf rock

Equipment:
Aquaillumination Nano Sol (no controller yet)
Aquacontroller Jr with DC8, temp, and pH
Ehiem compact 1000 return
Ehiem 75 watt heater
Avast Marine Auto top off with Aqualifter
Tunze 9002 protein skimmer
Standard 100watt eqiv 5400k CFL bulb for fuge

Current Livestock:
1 tailspot blenny
1 yasha goby
1 Yellow clown goby
1 Fire/Blood shrimp
1 scarlet cleaner shrimp
Massive clean up crew from reefcleaners.org

Coral:
Eagle eye zoanthids
Fire and Ice zoa frag
2 other types of zoas
Red monti cap
Red digi of some kind
red mushroom
Frogspawn
GSP

Macros:
3 mangroves in the display

Fuge:
TBS Live rock

Macros:
Chateo
Couple different types of caulerpa
Little bush thing that looks like a lego piece

Inverts:
Bunch of snails
Purple sea fan
Random Gorgonian
Large bivalve

This is the day the tank came in the mail nov 3 2011:


Added rock and sand nov 20 2011


Fuge rock came nov 30th 2011. Its TBS rock


Light finally came dec 6th 2011


Added a couple fish and coral dec 31 2011


most recent FTS 1/8/2012






Love this tank

 

Very very nice.

I love the rimless cube look myself.

Mangroves are so cool, nice to see them in the display.

Sharp looking tank.

 

Beautiful nano, congrats, sweet looking setup.

 

Thanks guys. This is my 4th aquarium, and so far my most successful.

I do 1 gallon daily water changes on this tank, and the coral have been responding amazingly. The eagle eye zoa frag has easily doubled in size since I bought it, and the red monti cap has already encrusted onto the rock thats holding it. This tank is less than 2 months old.

Here are another couple shots that I thought were cool:

 

Very cool.
Your scape looks awesome, makes the tank look wayyyy larger.

 

Love this tank. Makes me want to setup one at my desk at work.

 

Thanks guys!

Here are a couple pics of the refugium for this tank:


This is the $.01 gorgonian that you can get from Reefcleaners.org




Chaeto ball is full of dusters


Little out of focus but still looks cool


Purple gorg




Bottom left rock is actually a huge clam/bi-valve thing

 

Unfortunately no new additions this week, but I did take a few shots of the tank. My Yasha goby has finally grown a pair and is now hanging out with the other fish in his area of the tank.

Pics:

 

Very cool tank! I love your auascape!

How did you get your acropora milli to grow like that?

 

I pretty much bought it that way. I don't buy any frags on frag plugs because I hate the way they look in such a small tank. This one was just sitting on a frag rack at a weird angle. I was able to get a decent price on it, and it sat right on that little peak perfectly. I guess I got lucky