Broke down my tank of the month!

[lazycouch]

New tank build thread: I recently decided to break down my tank of the month (march 2025) due to suspicious looking seals.

I purchased the same tank in black instead (AIO AJ Q60 30g), thanks to Ellis Aquatics, to fit the same footprint and it's a great quality tank for the price; it had a good run for about 6-7 years.

I've been building on the new tank super slow and as opposed to when I first started, I think it's now begging me to add corals already instead of me begging the tank to hurry up lol.

 

[lazycouch]

Pic 1: the day i broke it down (04/04/26)

Pic 2: the day i replaced it with the new one

Pic 3: (04/18) filled 3/4 way with water from my frag tank and added rocks. the water started smelling so i threw in some carbon

 

[lazycouch]

A couple things I did differently with this one:

I threw my aquamaxx backpack skimmer back on because I wanted to stock it with more fish and plan on feeding frozen 3 times a day

Used chunky aragonite

Added a heavy clean up crew

Using a lid

Using FAUNA MARIN SALT instead of redsea

Stocklist so far:

CUC: lots of Nassarius snails and hermits for the aragonite crew, a huge emerald crab, ninja star astreas, and trochus for rocks and glass

FISH: conditioned and quarantined FAT Purple firefish (thanks to @calicoarl connect ), threadfin cardinal, oscellaris clown, pink streak wrasse, another type of cardinal, midas blenny

 

[lazycouch]

Will post an updated picture today after i do its first water change

 

[lazycouch]

today

 

[thresher]

today

Those two look like they are about to start round 1.

 

[lazycouch]

Those two look like they are about to start round 1.

i dropped some food in for the picture, i think they were going for the same shrimp

 

[lazycouch]

current test results:
ALK 9.3
CAL 460
MAG 1395
N 19.2
P 0.18

 

[Jimbo327]

Can’t wait to see the new tank grow in

 

[dpoltsdsu]

Awesome!

 

[ScientificReefer]

Looks good!

 

[lazycouch]

Can’t wait to see the new tank grow in

 

[lazycouch]

Awesome!

thank you

 

[lazycouch]

Looks good!

thank you