Hello everyone, here's a bit of info regarding my current setup.
I'm running a mixed reef 90 gal, that's roughly 11 months old. It's been quite the learning experience, have definitely made my share of mistakes (the evidence will be in some of the attached photos). But it's all needed for my "someday" dream tank, that I hope to happen in the next few years.
I started off with the plan that I would just convert my 60 gal freshwater tank over to a reef tank. I was having some problems planning where to put the sump due to awkward stand size, and was disappointed in how narrow it was. It just happened that this 90 gal showed up on a local classified, and I snatched it up. So I had to return a lot of the equipment that I had already bought and upgrade!
My equipment list is as follows:
* Trigger Systems Crystal Sump - 30 inch
* CPR CS90 Overflow Box (I don't recommend, if you have the option; get a drilled tank...for anyone that this info is relevant)
* Reef Octopus Classic 150 Space Saver Protein Skimmer
* Tom Aquatics Aqua-Lifter Dosing Pump (Overflow Box Pump)
* Danner Supreme Aqua-Mag 7 Water Pump (Return Pump)
* Aqua Medic EcoDrift Controllable Pump/Powerhead - 8.1
* Eheim Jager TruTemp 50 Watt Fully Submersible UL Approved Heater
* Aqua Medic EcoDrift Controllable Pump/Powerhead - 4.1
* Photon 48-V2
* CaribSea Arag-Alive Special Grade Reef Sand
* Pukani Dry Rock
Current Fish Stock List:
(2) Ocellaris Clownfish
(1) Two Spot Bristletooth Tang
(1) Bonsai Coral Beauty Angelfish
(3) Indian Ocean Lyretail Anthias
(1) Royal Gramma
(1) Yellowtail Damsel
(1) Springeri Dottyback
Inverts:
(1) Maxima Clam
(1) Blue Linckia Sea Star
(1) Peppermint Shrimp
(1) Blue Tuxedo Urchin
(1) Pincushion Urchin
(?) Cerith, Banded Trochus, Nassarius, Spiny Star Astraea , and Turban Snails
(1) Fighting Conch
(?) Blue and Scarlet Hermit Crab
(1) Emerald Crab
(1) Trapezia Pocillopora/Acropora Crab
(6) Dwarf Colored Feather Dusters
Corals:
Caulastrea
Hammer
Nepthea
Micronesian Torch
Pocillopora Cauliflower
Strawberry Fields Goniopora
White Kenya Tree
Blue Snowflake Polyps
Radioactive Zoanthids
Fluorescent Green Star Polyps
Mountain Dew Leather Toadstool
Brown Toadstool
Armor of God Zoanthids
Green Duncan
Aussie Hulk Lord Acan
Mystic Sunset Montipora
Pink Birdsnest
Mystic Rose Zoanthids
Ultra Blue Tenuis Acropora
Blue Devil Zoanthids
Leprechaun Birdsnest (My favorite)
Pink Pocillopora
Toxic Pocillopora
Fire and Ice Polyp
Purple Montipora Undata
Stellar Stylophora
Sinularia Finger Leather
Purple Montipora digitata
Fuzzy Lobophytum Leather
Mint Pavona
.....I think that's all of them?
Attached are my timeline photos, the first one is what my tank looked like advertised. I painted it, scraped old paint off back glass, and made some changes to the canopy
Previous owner said it was for dart frogs and was a saltwater tank before that.
Empty- Freshly Painted
First attempt at playing with aquascape. Turned out that this tank wasn't wide enough either, so there were some modifications.
Working on aquascape.
It lives! Was so clean....
Starting to get the uglies.
Jaws and Orca, my two troopers. The first additions after they did time in fish jail (quarantine). They thought they were in the ocean when first added I think, hardly ever left the top of the tank and seemed scared to go down by the rock.
There's a gap here of when the tank got really really bad, prefer not to remember it, I had almost threw in the towel. This photo is the first on the attempt to recovery, with dumb mistakes, mainly my choices in fish selection as a newb; the copperband and the regular sized coral beauty.
Thing's finally turning around!
Almost present day, this is about a month ago!
I do a 15 gal water change weekly, change my filter sock every other day. I currently do have somewhat high nitrates, from being somewhat heavy stocked and feeding heavy I assume. It's something I'm taking steps to improve, such as; adding chaeto to refugium, adding a ceramic biomedia plate.
Thanks for looking!
I'm running a mixed reef 90 gal, that's roughly 11 months old. It's been quite the learning experience, have definitely made my share of mistakes (the evidence will be in some of the attached photos). But it's all needed for my "someday" dream tank, that I hope to happen in the next few years.
I started off with the plan that I would just convert my 60 gal freshwater tank over to a reef tank. I was having some problems planning where to put the sump due to awkward stand size, and was disappointed in how narrow it was. It just happened that this 90 gal showed up on a local classified, and I snatched it up. So I had to return a lot of the equipment that I had already bought and upgrade!
My equipment list is as follows:
* Trigger Systems Crystal Sump - 30 inch
* CPR CS90 Overflow Box (I don't recommend, if you have the option; get a drilled tank...for anyone that this info is relevant)
* Reef Octopus Classic 150 Space Saver Protein Skimmer
* Tom Aquatics Aqua-Lifter Dosing Pump (Overflow Box Pump)
* Danner Supreme Aqua-Mag 7 Water Pump (Return Pump)
* Aqua Medic EcoDrift Controllable Pump/Powerhead - 8.1
* Eheim Jager TruTemp 50 Watt Fully Submersible UL Approved Heater
* Aqua Medic EcoDrift Controllable Pump/Powerhead - 4.1
* Photon 48-V2
* CaribSea Arag-Alive Special Grade Reef Sand
* Pukani Dry Rock
Current Fish Stock List:
(2) Ocellaris Clownfish
(1) Two Spot Bristletooth Tang
(1) Bonsai Coral Beauty Angelfish
(3) Indian Ocean Lyretail Anthias
(1) Royal Gramma
(1) Yellowtail Damsel
(1) Springeri Dottyback
Inverts:
(1) Maxima Clam
(1) Blue Linckia Sea Star
(1) Peppermint Shrimp
(1) Blue Tuxedo Urchin
(1) Pincushion Urchin
(?) Cerith, Banded Trochus, Nassarius, Spiny Star Astraea , and Turban Snails
(1) Fighting Conch
(?) Blue and Scarlet Hermit Crab
(1) Emerald Crab
(1) Trapezia Pocillopora/Acropora Crab
(6) Dwarf Colored Feather Dusters
Corals:
Caulastrea
Hammer
Nepthea
Micronesian Torch
Pocillopora Cauliflower
Strawberry Fields Goniopora
White Kenya Tree
Blue Snowflake Polyps
Radioactive Zoanthids
Fluorescent Green Star Polyps
Mountain Dew Leather Toadstool
Brown Toadstool
Armor of God Zoanthids
Green Duncan
Aussie Hulk Lord Acan
Mystic Sunset Montipora
Pink Birdsnest
Mystic Rose Zoanthids
Ultra Blue Tenuis Acropora
Blue Devil Zoanthids
Leprechaun Birdsnest (My favorite)
Pink Pocillopora
Toxic Pocillopora
Fire and Ice Polyp
Purple Montipora Undata
Stellar Stylophora
Sinularia Finger Leather
Purple Montipora digitata
Fuzzy Lobophytum Leather
Mint Pavona
.....I think that's all of them?
Attached are my timeline photos, the first one is what my tank looked like advertised. I painted it, scraped old paint off back glass, and made some changes to the canopy
Previous owner said it was for dart frogs and was a saltwater tank before that.
Empty- Freshly Painted
First attempt at playing with aquascape. Turned out that this tank wasn't wide enough either, so there were some modifications.
Working on aquascape.
It lives! Was so clean....
Starting to get the uglies.
Jaws and Orca, my two troopers. The first additions after they did time in fish jail (quarantine). They thought they were in the ocean when first added I think, hardly ever left the top of the tank and seemed scared to go down by the rock.
There's a gap here of when the tank got really really bad, prefer not to remember it, I had almost threw in the towel. This photo is the first on the attempt to recovery, with dumb mistakes, mainly my choices in fish selection as a newb; the copperband and the regular sized coral beauty.
Thing's finally turning around!
Almost present day, this is about a month ago!
I do a 15 gal water change weekly, change my filter sock every other day. I currently do have somewhat high nitrates, from being somewhat heavy stocked and feeding heavy I assume. It's something I'm taking steps to improve, such as; adding chaeto to refugium, adding a ceramic biomedia plate.
Thanks for looking!
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