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Hello SWF! (sorry in advance for the Long post, lack of proper grammar and spelling with the misuse of parenthesis. If you're anything like me you will read this and move to another thread) Please answer my questions at the bottom of the post!!
Have had good luck on the boards with you people in the past. Now its time to share my tank. ( I know meowzer and nissan will give me some good advice. That's why I'm posting!)
lets see.......before I post I better give you some info before you thread sharks tear me to pieces.
Tank is at about 2 months. Dry rock has plenty of green and coloring nicely.
0 nitrate and ammonia...Does anyone bother checking nitrite?
clarity plus acrylic 55 ish gallon with 20 pounds live tonoka (spell check) and 25 dry pounds of brs dry pukani and 5 tonga branch. looks like more than 50 total pounds so I'm rolling with it for now.
20 gal glass-display fuge (upgrade in the future) with mixed fine sand and crushed coral. Read that pods like the crushed coral. caul. Love my prolifera and chaeto. 3 mangroves for looks mostly.. 15 or so #'s of mixed rock. lots of pods of different species.
Gear:
Remora HOB skimmer
700 and 900 gph power heads.
4x65w coral life PC
Ordering Marineland reef capable 48-60inch lights next paycheck.
Sweat bullets and drilled my tank with a hole-saw and a cordless drill. never going glass again because it was so easy to drill. (thanks for the swf thread advice to ease my worries)
Drilled 2----3/4. 1 is at full load and the other is set just higher in case a snail clogs my hole.and an emergency 1/4 hole that if need be, flows to a tub under the tank. 500gph or so utility pump returning water to my main. My 2 drill holes gravity flow = my util pump.
Current livestock:
1 false rescued clown woohoo!
a locally tank raised orchid dotty back- my first fish that wasn't taken from its home in the ocean.
1 Randall Gobi which is hanging out with my.....
and having a love affair with my...
2 tiger pistols......that have paired. Got real lucky. Bought 2 tigers at a local shop that were put in separate bags because they were fighting when put into the same one.. One died (bad driving skills) Went back to the LFS and bought the last tiger shrimp. Put it in the tank and it disappeared. Or so I thought. Yesterday I saw the 2 digging in the same hole, working together without leaving each others side. My goby was leading the way and helping usher the two far from the safety of the shelter. Very fun to watch and recommend to anyone those Hasn't had a shrimp/Gobi combo
and 2 very small candy pistols.
only coral for now is a GSP (not reef worthy yet I know)
Future invert and coral plans:
fire shrimp or 2 or 3
Every species of Xenia I can get my hands on.
rhodactis shroom
Ric mushroom
Zoas galore. Sister is forcing me to buy eagle eyes. Have never had the new colorful zoas. Am excited!
LEDS should handle monti caps and digitas. maybe some SPS. Online sales people make it sound like its a great lighting system (marine land reef capable)
If my tank is free of harmful pests, ill get a maxima clam.....Can't have wormlike critters eat it. (bad experience)
Maybe a LT nem for my clown.
2-3 wrasse. Thinking mystery- and or a couple fairies
Criticism welcome!!!
?'s
Are my lights my cyano problem?
Have had some cyano in the past and have some now
. Phosphate is looking good but people say the reading can be false because the cynao is eating the Phos.
Added some flow and had no changes.
My PCS are 4x65 48". thinking my PCS are the problem. 2 bulbs are old, I replaced one 10k and one actinic on the one side. However that side still has cyano growth. Not sure if this matters. Seems like it grew worse on the side with the new lights
Doing a light starve and seeing results on day 2. Plan on doing a super starve before my LEDS come.
Going to add the LED lights soon so I don't want to grow a cyano farm.
Flow good?
About 1600 gph with the return pump adding some flow. Not sure how to calculate the 3/4 gravity return but it must add to flow along with my remora skimmer
Will the LEDS cut it alone?
This answer may only come from someone with Marineland reef capable lights. I guess they look like 12k? let me know how your corals are doing
Why not run t5's and LEDS?
Some people run multiple lights and I'm not sure why other than color. I'm thinking a 48x2 t5ho with 2 actinics. Ive read T5's 10k (not sure about 460nm) can block the shimmer of the LEDS and I want to avoid this if I can if the LEDS make my zoas glow.
Have had good luck on the boards with you people in the past. Now its time to share my tank. ( I know meowzer and nissan will give me some good advice. That's why I'm posting!)
lets see.......before I post I better give you some info before you thread sharks tear me to pieces.
Tank is at about 2 months. Dry rock has plenty of green and coloring nicely.
0 nitrate and ammonia...Does anyone bother checking nitrite?
clarity plus acrylic 55 ish gallon with 20 pounds live tonoka (spell check) and 25 dry pounds of brs dry pukani and 5 tonga branch. looks like more than 50 total pounds so I'm rolling with it for now.
20 gal glass-display fuge (upgrade in the future) with mixed fine sand and crushed coral. Read that pods like the crushed coral. caul. Love my prolifera and chaeto. 3 mangroves for looks mostly.. 15 or so #'s of mixed rock. lots of pods of different species.
Gear:
Remora HOB skimmer
700 and 900 gph power heads.
4x65w coral life PC
Ordering Marineland reef capable 48-60inch lights next paycheck.
Sweat bullets and drilled my tank with a hole-saw and a cordless drill. never going glass again because it was so easy to drill. (thanks for the swf thread advice to ease my worries)
Drilled 2----3/4. 1 is at full load and the other is set just higher in case a snail clogs my hole.and an emergency 1/4 hole that if need be, flows to a tub under the tank. 500gph or so utility pump returning water to my main. My 2 drill holes gravity flow = my util pump.
Current livestock:
1 false rescued clown woohoo!
a locally tank raised orchid dotty back- my first fish that wasn't taken from its home in the ocean.
1 Randall Gobi which is hanging out with my.....
and having a love affair with my...
2 tiger pistols......that have paired. Got real lucky. Bought 2 tigers at a local shop that were put in separate bags because they were fighting when put into the same one.. One died (bad driving skills) Went back to the LFS and bought the last tiger shrimp. Put it in the tank and it disappeared. Or so I thought. Yesterday I saw the 2 digging in the same hole, working together without leaving each others side. My goby was leading the way and helping usher the two far from the safety of the shelter. Very fun to watch and recommend to anyone those Hasn't had a shrimp/Gobi combo
and 2 very small candy pistols.
only coral for now is a GSP (not reef worthy yet I know)
Future invert and coral plans:
fire shrimp or 2 or 3
Every species of Xenia I can get my hands on.
rhodactis shroom
Ric mushroom
Zoas galore. Sister is forcing me to buy eagle eyes. Have never had the new colorful zoas. Am excited!
LEDS should handle monti caps and digitas. maybe some SPS. Online sales people make it sound like its a great lighting system (marine land reef capable)
If my tank is free of harmful pests, ill get a maxima clam.....Can't have wormlike critters eat it. (bad experience)
Maybe a LT nem for my clown.
2-3 wrasse. Thinking mystery- and or a couple fairies
Criticism welcome!!!
?'s
Are my lights my cyano problem?
Have had some cyano in the past and have some now
Added some flow and had no changes.
My PCS are 4x65 48". thinking my PCS are the problem. 2 bulbs are old, I replaced one 10k and one actinic on the one side. However that side still has cyano growth. Not sure if this matters. Seems like it grew worse on the side with the new lights
Doing a light starve and seeing results on day 2. Plan on doing a super starve before my LEDS come.
Going to add the LED lights soon so I don't want to grow a cyano farm.
Flow good?
About 1600 gph with the return pump adding some flow. Not sure how to calculate the 3/4 gravity return but it must add to flow along with my remora skimmer
Will the LEDS cut it alone?
This answer may only come from someone with Marineland reef capable lights. I guess they look like 12k? let me know how your corals are doing
Why not run t5's and LEDS?
Some people run multiple lights and I'm not sure why other than color. I'm thinking a 48x2 t5ho with 2 actinics. Ive read T5's 10k (not sure about 460nm) can block the shimmer of the LEDS and I want to avoid this if I can if the LEDS make my zoas glow.
