Jebao

🐠🪸 My First Marine Aquarium – DIY Reef Project

My first marine aquarium, now running for 6 months! I’m learning everything on my own and personally designed and built the sump, modified the cabinet, and installed the entire electrical system myself, including internal lighting, three protected power outlets, circuit breakers and an electricity consumption monitor.

Equipment includes two AI Hydra 32 HD lights, a Bubble Magus skimmer, Jebao pumps, a 100 W heater, refugium, bubble trap, DIY automatic top-off and sensors, plus 35–40 kg of live rock.

Currently home to 16–17 fish, crabs, a shrimp, a sea urchin and snails.

🌊 My dream is to create a beautiful reef full of colorful corals. I’m still learning, so any advice is welcome! 🙏🪸

The 80L AIO Nano reef is cycled and ready to go! In the last week we added in the manual filter roller mat and the Jebao DLW-5 Wavemaker to help move that detritus out through the roller mat and skimmer. We have been just dusting off the rock work daily to help loosen it up as well.

Parameters, Our Ammonia and Nitrite has been at zero for 2 weeks now, our alkalinity is sitting at 7.3, the nitrate is sitting steady at 10ppm, and calcium is sitting a little lower at 370 which is fine for a no livestock tank.

The plan now is for a 20-25% water change, keep loosening the detritus from the rock and skimming it out. Dosing copepods and phytoplankton that we culture ourselves, and hopefully add in a pair of clowns in the next week or so! 🐠🪸

Update:

Got the Jebao auto dosing fine tuned now, parameters have been stable this week. I also added the CO wildfire nem to the tank and it has chosen a really cool spot right where my clowns hang out. I added a peppermint shrimp and a tuxedo urchin to take care of some aptasia and hair algae. I also got my little fuge running with chaeto and an auto feeder so the fish still get fed if I forget before I go to work. In the last pic, I got this 3D printed anemone/fish guard for my wave maker and I think it is genius lol

A compact and affordable wavemaker your tanks needs to achieve great flow!

We’ve been using the Jebao SLW-10 in our 15g tank, and the flow has been great. You can tune the flow to your specific needs with its built-in controller.

Tank Size Recommendations

SLW-3: 1–10g

SLW-5: 5–15g

SLW-10: 15–30g

SLW-20: 30–50g

SLW-30: 50–90g

ReefBay is now selling fish supplies and we appreciate your support! 💙

Big news: ReefBay is now selling fish supplies! 🥳

For the first time, ReefBay as a company is now offering products directly.

We’re starting with fish supplies like fish food, additives, and other reefing essentials, including brands like Dr. Tim’s, Fritz, Brightwell, Seachem, CaribSea, Jebao, and more.

To celebrate, we’re offering 5% off all ReefBay company products through April 30th

Use code APRIL5 at checkout.

This is just the beginning, and we’re excited to keep expanding the products we offer. Thank you for supporting ReefBay!

Added an Ocean Sea Pacific Sea Wave with a Nero 5 to the tank so I could introduce some more random flow. This perfectly compliments the four Jebao DMP40s and the corals are loving the extra water movement.

my tank 1month

- 35x35x35

- x2 RBTA anemones

- x3 grenn neon torch.

- x3 purple torch

- x3 turbo snails

- x1 tuxedo

- x1 clowns fish

- x1 banggai cardinal

- x3 green chromis

1) aquaknight v3

2) mini Q skimmer

3) jebao elw-5

4) aquarium fan