Nutter
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Hello Reefers,
I'm a little late starting this thread as I started my build on January 2nd of this year. It just so happens that the morning after I finally filled up the tank, my wife gave birth to our first child.
The tank was an upgrade from my Biocube 29, so some of the corals that are larger to start in this tank are transplants from there. The tank had some periods of ups and downs in the beginning, mainly due to my insistence on attempting to save a powder blue tang from Petco and not quarantining it. It succumbed to ich and most of my inhabitants became infected. Fortunately, I was able to clear it up with a combination of kick-ich and Polyp Labs Medic. The downside, however, was that the kick-ich ticked off a number of my corals and even lead to some coral death. The good news is I did not lose any other fish.
The skimmer and carbon being off for three weeks with limited water changes didn't sit well with the tank, and I ended up with a dinoflagellate infestation that was a serious pain to get rid of--but it was overcome with peroxide dosing and three day periods of darkness. The tank has been ich and dinoflagellate free since the second week of March.
Underneath I keep things pretty simple. In the first chamber of the sump I run my protein skimmer, a filter sock, and my carbon reactor. The carbon only runs for 6 hours per day, as it is on the same timer as the refugium light. The second chamber is the refugium and chaeto is the only beneficial algae I grow. The third chamber is the return pump and a GFO reactor. The reactor is there for emergencies but is not run on a day to day basis.
Current stock:
(1) Sailfin Tang
(1) Blue Potters Angel
(1) Melanarus Wrasse
(1) Vanuatu Mystery Wrasse
(1) Lubbocks Fairy Wrasse
(1) Blue Throated Sailfin Fairy Wrasse
(1) Orange Mandarin Dragonette
(1) Firefish Goby
(1) Bourbonias Anthias
(2) Donis Picasso Clowns
(1) Tangaroa Goby
(1) Oblique Basslet
(1) Starcki Damsel
(1) Sandsifting Starfish
(1) Orange Tiles Starfish
Equipment:
ATI 8 Bulb Sunpower T5/LED Hybrid
2 Vortech MP40s
Vortech MP 10
Vortech Battery Backup
Tunze Turbelle Nanostream 6055
2 BRS Dosers (Dosing Calcium and Alkalinity)
Tunze Auto Top Off
Vertex Omega 180i Protein Skimmer
Sicce Syncra Pro (800 GPH) Return Pump
H380 HALO II LED ALGAE GROW LIGHT - KESSIL (Refugium Lighting)
2 BRS Single Chamber Reactors
Jaeger Heater
Current Parameters:
PH - 8.2
Temp - 78.4
Nitrates - 5
Phosphates - 0.13
Alkalinity - 8.0
Calcium - 440
Here are some pictures I just took today
I'm a little late starting this thread as I started my build on January 2nd of this year. It just so happens that the morning after I finally filled up the tank, my wife gave birth to our first child.
The tank was an upgrade from my Biocube 29, so some of the corals that are larger to start in this tank are transplants from there. The tank had some periods of ups and downs in the beginning, mainly due to my insistence on attempting to save a powder blue tang from Petco and not quarantining it. It succumbed to ich and most of my inhabitants became infected. Fortunately, I was able to clear it up with a combination of kick-ich and Polyp Labs Medic. The downside, however, was that the kick-ich ticked off a number of my corals and even lead to some coral death. The good news is I did not lose any other fish.
The skimmer and carbon being off for three weeks with limited water changes didn't sit well with the tank, and I ended up with a dinoflagellate infestation that was a serious pain to get rid of--but it was overcome with peroxide dosing and three day periods of darkness. The tank has been ich and dinoflagellate free since the second week of March.
Underneath I keep things pretty simple. In the first chamber of the sump I run my protein skimmer, a filter sock, and my carbon reactor. The carbon only runs for 6 hours per day, as it is on the same timer as the refugium light. The second chamber is the refugium and chaeto is the only beneficial algae I grow. The third chamber is the return pump and a GFO reactor. The reactor is there for emergencies but is not run on a day to day basis.
Current stock:
(1) Sailfin Tang
(1) Blue Potters Angel
(1) Melanarus Wrasse
(1) Vanuatu Mystery Wrasse
(1) Lubbocks Fairy Wrasse
(1) Blue Throated Sailfin Fairy Wrasse
(1) Orange Mandarin Dragonette
(1) Firefish Goby
(1) Bourbonias Anthias
(2) Donis Picasso Clowns
(1) Tangaroa Goby
(1) Oblique Basslet
(1) Starcki Damsel
(1) Sandsifting Starfish
(1) Orange Tiles Starfish
Equipment:
ATI 8 Bulb Sunpower T5/LED Hybrid
2 Vortech MP40s
Vortech MP 10
Vortech Battery Backup
Tunze Turbelle Nanostream 6055
2 BRS Dosers (Dosing Calcium and Alkalinity)
Tunze Auto Top Off
Vertex Omega 180i Protein Skimmer
Sicce Syncra Pro (800 GPH) Return Pump
H380 HALO II LED ALGAE GROW LIGHT - KESSIL (Refugium Lighting)
2 BRS Single Chamber Reactors
Jaeger Heater
Current Parameters:
PH - 8.2
Temp - 78.4
Nitrates - 5
Phosphates - 0.13
Alkalinity - 8.0
Calcium - 440
Here are some pictures I just took today
