Tank has just hit 8 months old!!
Tank
8 months old 15g cube aio
Equipment and filtration
Return pump - aqua medic D.C. 1.1
wavemaker - coral box qp-5
light - 165w Chinese led on timer
cooling - 4 fan clip on
heating - 100w eheim jager
temp controller - AC211
skimmer - 100L/H needle wheel made from scrap parts and various skimmers
9w UV sterilizer
1G refugium cheato
Chemipure blue run passive in return
Maintenance
- 10% bi weekly water change
- clean equipment monthly
- vacuum sand once per week
- bubble scrub tank once per week 30 minutes
Water Chemisry
alk - 8.3
calc - 420
mag - 1400
salinity - 35
nitrate - 0.75-1
phosohate 0.03
Current fish
2 x black and white occy clowns approx 2 1/4 inch
1 x flame angel approx 2 1/2 inch
1 x mandarin approx 1 1/4 inch
Current inverts
1 x coral banded shrimp approx big ****
1 x crocea clam approx 5 inch
2 x strombus snail approx 2 inch
3 x hermit crab approx 1/2 inch
6 x various smaller snails
Current Coral
various sps acropora, stylopora, seriatopora, and one Duncan. Favourite being the strawberry shortcake
Dosing and feeding
randy's receipy alk, calc, mag
amminos - 0.5ml every 2 days
reef roids - 1/4 dose every 2 days
Red Sea trace colors 0.2ml per day
1/2 frozen cube chopped cockle per day
1/4 frozen cube cyclops per day
ocean nutrition formula 1 pellets when I feel like it walking past
vinegar 7.5ml per day
Loses and notes
Since starting this tank the only lose I have suffered was an orange starfish. And I do believe he met his demise from the wavemaker. So all in all not bad so far with a single loss.
coraline!! In the last few months coraline has gone crazy, covered my back wall tried to cover the clear acrylic when I've forgotten to clean it, covered the rocks and anywhere it possibly could.
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