Bella127's Cube

Bella127's Cube

Introduction

It is with great pride that I am a Captive Reef TOTM recipient. I call my current tank the "Bella Cube" which is named after my daughter. It was filled with water on January 7th 2008. The tank is located in my kitchen. My first tank was 29g Biocube and was set up for 2 years. I decided I wanted a larger tank and came across this 60 gallon cube and I fell in love with the dimensions. Over the past couple years, my coral selection has evolved and every piece of equipment in the tank has been upgraded at least once from lighting (Current Outer Orbit 150w), skimmer (Eshopps PSK 200), pumps (Koralia 1 Tunze 6000), ato (Tsunami ato), and heater (glass cheapy). I love reefing forums not only for the great information and friendship but also for the great deals. All the equipment upgrades were purchased used off of reefing forums which allowed me to keep setup costs down (which frees up funds for more coral ). In fact the only new purchases have been bulbs and ballast.

I have witnessed many people leave the hobby for a variety of reasons. I have seen hobbyists upgrade to huge system only to decide it is too expensive, too much work, or have some unfortunate event that forces them out of the hobby. My goal with the 60 gallon cube was to keep the tank manageable and affordable to avoid some of the issues that typically seem to cause others to leave the hobby. Tank maintenance is farily simple. On a daily basis the glass is cleaned and once a week a 5g water changes is performed.

Tank Specifications Display: 25"x25"x25" Great Lakes Aquarium 60 gal Lighting: 250w Blue Wave 3 ballast w/Lumenarc reflector powering a Radium 20 k bulb Ice Cap 430 over driving 2 x 24 w ATI Blue plus bulbs Current Powerbrite Blue L.E.D Module Refugium Lighting: 1 x Home Depot "fuge light" with 6500k bulb Skimmer: Bubble King mini 160 Water Movement: VorTech MP40W x 2 and Quiet One 4000 return pump Heater: Titanium heater by Finnex 300w Auto Top Off: Tunze Osmolator pumping out of an 8 gallon reservoir Controller: Digital Aquatics ReefKeeper Lite w/ 2 PC-4's, One SL-2 module, and Net module Sump/Fuge: 20 gallon tank houses skimmer, grape culerpa, return pump, ato sensing unit and fuge light. Supplemental power supply: American DJ PC-100/a 8 port power center Water source: BRS 4 stage rodi filling a 32 gal brute conatiner w/ auto float shut-off.   Water Parameters pH:8.1- 8.4 Specific Gravity: 1.026 Alk:9dkh Calcium:450 ppm Mag: 1500 ppm

	Inhabitants The Swimmers Picasso Clown, male Extreme Misbar clown, female 3 x Bangai Cardinals Algae Blenny Scopas Tang 2 x Purple firefish Yellow Wrasse Coral Beauty Angel The Janitors 20 Blue leg hermits 25 Astrea snails 4 Mexican turbo's 6 Nassarius snails   Zoa's and Paly's Darth Mauls Pretty Pennies Tubbs Blues Carlito Alien Eyes Candy Apple Reds Blue Hornets Everlasting Gobstoppers Magician's Purple Hornets Jokers Ring of Fire Martians Tangerines PHE Goldencloves/belladonna's Lemon Limes Purple Death Nuclear Green King Midas Planet Earth and a bunch more   LPS 2 scoly's 3 different strands of Duncan Dendro colony Frogspawn Yellow Torch White Hammer Neon Green candy cane Blasto Merletti   Softies Green Sinularia Rbta x 2 Tyree Neon Green Toadstool   Montis Super Man Sunset Reverse Sunset Chili pepper Season's Greetings Tyree LE flower pedal Idaho grape Tyree Undata   Sticks Green Slimer Blue stag Tri -color acro Chips acro

Tank Progression






Eye Candy

More information and photos can be found in Pete's Member's Reef Thread.

[jimsflies]

Congrats Pete! Thanks for being part of our community and sharing your outstanding tank.

Sorry about being a week late on the TOTM this month.

[Rabidgoose]

Congratulations Bella, well done. Very deserving and a good choice.

[thefishgirl]

Congratulations Pete! Well deserved! Your tank is gorgeous!!

[ReeferRob]

Congrats Petey! Tank looks great!

Love the new TOTM format and trophy!

[Argent]

Good Job Pete!

[Paulo]

Very nice tank. One of these days I will Have my tank so organized lol

[Sir Patrick]

Congrats on TOTM!!! You have one sweet tank!

[MizTanks]

Awesome tank!! Well deserved TOTM!

[tazzy695]

congrats bella