misty7850
Member
My 30 gallon SW (wanna be reef) up and running about 4 months now. Help everyone, advise and criteque please.
here's what I have, hope I didn't forget anything.
DIY hood with
Two 20 watt fluorescents
Two 40 watt hi lights
Two 60 watt hi lights
2 cooling fans
Penguin bio wheel filter 125
AquaClear multifunctional Powerhead 301
Rio powerhead 600
Via therm 100 heater
thermometer (temp 82 degrees)
Protein skimmer (DIY that my lfs helped me set up)
2” sand bed (40 lbs) SHOULD I ADD MORE ?
25 lbs lr
My livestock:
10 blue leg crabs
10 astrea snails
1 cucumber
2 emerald crabs
5 sand sifting crabs
2 peppermint shrimp (doing good job keeping aiptasia under control)
1 cleaner shrimp
1 pencil urchin
Condylactis anemone & anemone crab
Long tentacle anemone
2 tomato clowns (the larger one host the long tentacle, and chases the little one away, but it gets up under the anemone where she is not noticed and gets her fair share of attention.
:jumping:
One of our smaller LR has small bunch of pulsating xenia’s and
A couple of purple mushrooms
Had one hermit crab (Hermie) which was getting two big and eating my smaller crabs and snails
Had one small white unknown crab (whitie) which must have come with lr and he was terrorizing everything in the tank. My lfs said EVICT !!! My husband evicted them tonight, while I was at work, I just didn’t have the heart to do it.
use ro water with instant ocean for water changes
use plain ro water to top off evaporation
Using saltwater master test kit
PH 8.0
Amonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrates 20
What else should I be testing for ?
should I be adding any supplements ?
any suggestions on what to get next to add, I don't want too many fish, but would like to add 1 or two more if possible, any suggestions ?
:help: :notsure:
here's what I have, hope I didn't forget anything.
DIY hood with
Two 20 watt fluorescents
Two 40 watt hi lights
Two 60 watt hi lights
2 cooling fans
Penguin bio wheel filter 125
AquaClear multifunctional Powerhead 301
Rio powerhead 600
Via therm 100 heater
thermometer (temp 82 degrees)
Protein skimmer (DIY that my lfs helped me set up)
2” sand bed (40 lbs) SHOULD I ADD MORE ?
25 lbs lr
My livestock:
10 blue leg crabs
10 astrea snails
1 cucumber
2 emerald crabs
5 sand sifting crabs
2 peppermint shrimp (doing good job keeping aiptasia under control)
1 cleaner shrimp
1 pencil urchin
Condylactis anemone & anemone crab
Long tentacle anemone
2 tomato clowns (the larger one host the long tentacle, and chases the little one away, but it gets up under the anemone where she is not noticed and gets her fair share of attention.
:jumping:
One of our smaller LR has small bunch of pulsating xenia’s and
A couple of purple mushrooms
Had one hermit crab (Hermie) which was getting two big and eating my smaller crabs and snails
Had one small white unknown crab (whitie) which must have come with lr and he was terrorizing everything in the tank. My lfs said EVICT !!! My husband evicted them tonight, while I was at work, I just didn’t have the heart to do it.
use ro water with instant ocean for water changes
use plain ro water to top off evaporation
Using saltwater master test kit
PH 8.0
Amonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrates 20
What else should I be testing for ?
should I be adding any supplements ?
any suggestions on what to get next to add, I don't want too many fish, but would like to add 1 or two more if possible, any suggestions ?
:help: :notsure:
