Back to my first saltwater tank

[njtiger aquariums]

So I don't believe I created a tank build thread on this site so I figured I would start.

I been doing saltwater tanks for about 3 years. I started out with a 36g bow front (used to be a tropical fish tank). I quickly upgraded to a 54g corner tank. My 36g went thought different options, from a second saltwater tank, to a QT tank, to nothing, and then finally a tank with one cichlid in it. Fast forward a couple of years and I decided to move out of my apartment and into my mom's house (to save money for a house). I sold off all my live stock and cleaned out all my tanks. About a month at my mom's and I was like "I can't go any longer without a tank". I found a spot for my 36g tank and was going to make it a nem tank only. That has quickly change and its back to a mix reef tank.

Live Stock:
* 1 Flurry clown
* 1 Condy Nem
* 1 Rose Bubble Tip Nem
* 2 Flower nems
* Hammer
* Green birdnest
* 1 Coral Beauty
* 1 Green/Blue chromie
* Red cap
* a couple of different zoas

Equipment:
* 1 Kessil 360we connected to a Kessil controller
* 2 Kessil A150 Deep Ocean Blues
* HOB Fuge with a LED light
* In tank filter (which is slowly being phased out)
* UV filter (which I might slowly phase out as well)
* 2 Jabeo RW4s
* My DIY raspberry Pi controller

 

[Florida Sunshine]

Looking good!

 

[njtiger aquariums]

thanks

 

[njtiger aquariums]

So my green birdnest has been in my tank for about 28 days. When I first added it I did not have my test kit for mag, cal, dkh. I noticed that there was a lot of white skeleton on the frag with a little green showing under the blues. When I got my test kit I started to track my levels and dose as needed. Now I am noticing more green than white (if there any white left at all) and polyps coming out. sorry for the bad picture

 

[njtiger aquariums]

So today I setup my auto doser (which I got for Christmas) cause I have been dosing about the same amount every day. Because this is my first time using an auto doser I set the dose lower (about half) than what I been dosing every day. I will keep testing every day for a little (then go every week)

 

[njtiger aquariums]

Ok been some time since I updated this.

My current live stock compare to my first list:

Live Stock (before)
* 1 Flurry clown
* 1 Condy Nem
* 1 Rose Bubble Tip Nem
* 2 Flower nems
* Hammer
* Green birdnest
* 1 Coral Beauty
* 1 Green/Blue chromie
* Red cap
* a couple of different zoas

Live Stock (now):
* 1 Flurry clown
* 2 flower nems
* Hammer
* 1 coral beauty
* red monit caps
* a couple of different zoas
* 1 yellow clown goby
* 1 sand star
* Satosa
* Red Acro

Equipment(before):
* 1 Kessil 360we connected to a Kessil controller
* 2 Kessil A150 Deep Ocean Blues
* HOB Fuge with a LED light
* In tank filter (which is slowly being phased out)
* UV filter (which I might slowly phase out as well)
* 2 Jabeo RW4s
* My DIY raspberry Pi controller

Equipment(now):
* 1 Kessil 360we connected to a Kessil controller
* 2 Kessil A150 Deep Ocean Blues - (connected to my pi-controller)
* HOB Fuge but no fug just carbon, gfo, bio-pelltes, and heater inside it - (connected to my pi-controller)
* In tank filter (which just runs filter floss) - (connected to my pi-controller)
* 2 Jabeo RW4s
* My DIY raspberry Pi controller

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Cool and thanks for sharing!

 

[njtiger aquariums]

Well I have not been keeping this thread updated and I do apologize about that. I am sitting here thinking that I might break this tank down. It has not gone the way I wanted and having one issue after another. This tank was to be a 'hold me over' tank. low maintance just to keep me in the hobby while I save for a house. Things ain't going as planned (like always) and I been dropping more and more money into this system. I need to stop that so I can get a house and get my dream tank going. I just know if I break it down I will still have that need for something