Spill your guts!
- Thread starter ryebread
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jonthefb
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ok guys here goes!
Tank:
65 gallon AGA Reef ready black tank, with overflow kit
65 gallon Aga black stand
Lighting:
Homemade canopy
dual 250 watt Cooltouchlighting ballast/system
2 250watt 13K AB mogul based halides
Icecap 440 ballast
2 96 watt URI Actinic VHO's
1 4 inch radio shack cooling fan mounted in the canopy
3 timers, one for each of the halides, and one for the fan/vho's
Filtration:
25 gallon acrylic sump(used to be a us aquarium wet dry that i tore down and made into a fuge!)
2 65 watt pc 10k lights, lit 24/7 for sump
6 inches of Pure Caribbean aragonite in the sump and about 10 pounds of live sand
10 pounds live rock
mad amounts of caulerpa...feather/razor/bubble
Kent float valve connected to a 5 gallon bucket for auto top off
mag 9.5 ran externally
Circulation:
static 3/4 inch return from mag 9.5
1/2 inch sea swirl also powered by t from mag 9.5
NO OTHER POWERHEADS!!!!! YIPEEEEE!!!!
Inhabitants:
100 pounds of assorted live rock...fiji, tonga, marshall, florida aquacultured, etc
200 ponds of dry sand for 6 inch sandbed
20 pounds of aragalive
20 pounds of live sand from the shop
FISH:
Kole tang
Yellow headed Jawfish
Black Sailfin Blenny
Rainfordi Goby
Royal Gramma
CLEANERS:
LOTS of scarlet hermits
3 peppermint shrimp
astrea/nassarius(breeding)/Cerith(breeding)/bumble bee/stomatella/strombus/turbo/nerite snails LOTS
2 florida fighting conch
1 lettuce nudi
CORALS:
sps
3 Montipora capicornis (orange/purple with green polyps/Pink with green polyps)
3 Acropora yongei (green slimers..1 whole colony, 2 frags)
1 Poccilipora daimicornis (pink)
2 walt smith acro colonies....species unknown
4 Acro frags...species unknown
1 bottlebrush acro frag....species unknown
lps
1 pink/blue polyped cup coral frag
1 Blastomussa wellsi
1 Plerogyra maze brain
1 Euphyllia ancora Anchor coral
1 Euphyllia divisa Frogspawn coral
Softies:
1 small sarcophyton toadstool
silver tipped xenia
red sea pulsing xenia
ricordea Yuma (orange, green)
Ricordea florida (pink-blue, green, blue-orange)
Rhodactis sanchitomae
Indonesian Yellow polyps
assorted mushrooms (purple, green, red, etc)
bugs worms bugs worms bugs worms, etc
ROUTINES:
Daily:
check inhabitants
scrape glass
top off top off bucket
feed corals/fish/inverts homemade food
Weekley:
dose chemicals (Seachem calcium/clac carb) into top off bucket
pull out chunks of caulerpa
clean all sponges
clean salt creep
fight with power outages
Monthly:
10 percent water change
clean bulbs/reflector
clean entire tank
scrape coralline off front glass
Yearly:
replace bulbs
Tank:
65 gallon AGA Reef ready black tank, with overflow kit
65 gallon Aga black stand
Lighting:
Homemade canopy
dual 250 watt Cooltouchlighting ballast/system
2 250watt 13K AB mogul based halides
Icecap 440 ballast
2 96 watt URI Actinic VHO's
1 4 inch radio shack cooling fan mounted in the canopy
3 timers, one for each of the halides, and one for the fan/vho's
Filtration:
25 gallon acrylic sump(used to be a us aquarium wet dry that i tore down and made into a fuge!)
2 65 watt pc 10k lights, lit 24/7 for sump
6 inches of Pure Caribbean aragonite in the sump and about 10 pounds of live sand
10 pounds live rock
mad amounts of caulerpa...feather/razor/bubble
Kent float valve connected to a 5 gallon bucket for auto top off
mag 9.5 ran externally
Circulation:
static 3/4 inch return from mag 9.5
1/2 inch sea swirl also powered by t from mag 9.5
NO OTHER POWERHEADS!!!!! YIPEEEEE!!!!
Inhabitants:
100 pounds of assorted live rock...fiji, tonga, marshall, florida aquacultured, etc
200 ponds of dry sand for 6 inch sandbed
20 pounds of aragalive
20 pounds of live sand from the shop
FISH:
Kole tang
Yellow headed Jawfish
Black Sailfin Blenny
Rainfordi Goby
Royal Gramma
CLEANERS:
LOTS of scarlet hermits
3 peppermint shrimp
astrea/nassarius(breeding)/Cerith(breeding)/bumble bee/stomatella/strombus/turbo/nerite snails LOTS
2 florida fighting conch
1 lettuce nudi
CORALS:
sps
3 Montipora capicornis (orange/purple with green polyps/Pink with green polyps)
3 Acropora yongei (green slimers..1 whole colony, 2 frags)
1 Poccilipora daimicornis (pink)
2 walt smith acro colonies....species unknown
4 Acro frags...species unknown
1 bottlebrush acro frag....species unknown
lps
1 pink/blue polyped cup coral frag
1 Blastomussa wellsi
1 Plerogyra maze brain
1 Euphyllia ancora Anchor coral
1 Euphyllia divisa Frogspawn coral
Softies:
1 small sarcophyton toadstool
silver tipped xenia
red sea pulsing xenia
ricordea Yuma (orange, green)
Ricordea florida (pink-blue, green, blue-orange)
Rhodactis sanchitomae
Indonesian Yellow polyps
assorted mushrooms (purple, green, red, etc)
bugs worms bugs worms bugs worms, etc
ROUTINES:
Daily:
check inhabitants
scrape glass
top off top off bucket
feed corals/fish/inverts homemade food
Weekley:
dose chemicals (Seachem calcium/clac carb) into top off bucket
pull out chunks of caulerpa
clean all sponges
clean salt creep
fight with power outages
Monthly:
10 percent water change
clean bulbs/reflector
clean entire tank
scrape coralline off front glass
Yearly:
replace bulbs
