Fluval Edge 6g

[SixSteppa]

Hi all. After lurking here for a while I've decided to post my build thread for a Fluval Edge. It's been cycling for 27 days now and I am confident I can stock a fish but will still probably wait a week.

I have 6 1/2 lbs of liverock and 10lbs of Caribsea Arag-Alive Fiji pink sand.
I have cycled with the HOB everclear filter with just the sponge. I now added Chemipure Elite in the basket to get the water ready for the first inhabitant which will be a snowflake clown.

A Current USA Marine LED will arrive any day now.

I have a population of copepods 2 hermits and little white snails I think are limpets and a vermetid snail on the live rock.

Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5-10 (this morning prior to a water change)

Vermetid snail

Hydroids??

 

[twilliard]

All is looking well!
Cover that Vermatid with superglue

 

[SixSteppa]

Is that because they can eventually irritate corals?

 

[twilliard]

Ya depends on the population the strands they feed from can bug corals but does no harm as long as the coral can stay open out and happy

 

[gmendez619]

Looks good. Keep us updated

 

[Shep]

Very neat idea and design, keep us posted!

 

[SixSteppa]

So...four months down the line and here are some updated pics.

Added an Acan - Sep 20th

Blue Shirkan zoa - Sep 20th

 

[SixSteppa]

Nov 10th

 

[knukles55]

o nice good growth on that acan to for only a couple months

 

[knukles55]

can we get a FTS

 

[SixSteppa]

Today Dec 9th - Lots of growth!

 

[SixSteppa]

It's hard to see but that Acan has 8 heads growing under the two main heads.

 

[SixSteppa]

One clown, a peppermint shrimp, 4 hermits, 2 nessarius and an Astria. Lots of brissleworms and copepods milling about.

Thanks for watching!

 

[cameronh]

Cool! I used to have one. It was a native tank only, saltwater and all.

 

[brandon429]

Six

can we burn that newcoming algae off your rocks so that theres no way it can overgrow

tank looks great, I have algae ocd due to working with about three thousand lost tanks online lol. this is typical new tank growth, but also time for an easy easy intercept and algae free by Monday, that's avail too.

 

[SixSteppa]

Six

can we burn that newcoming algae off your rocks so that theres no way it can overgrow

tank looks great, I have algae ocd due to working with about three thousand lost tanks online lol. this is typical new tank growth, but also time for an easy easy intercept and algae free by Monday, that's avail too.

That darn brown algae on the substrate just showed up a few days ago. I've had some long hair stuff on the rocks during the 1st bloom but it went mostly away.

The match keeps going out when i try and get into the tank. How do i burn it off? Thanks.

 

[brandon429]

ha@!! yes it is not bad or in any way abnormal...but all the trouble tanks start this way and you are at the proverbial fork in the road underwater heh

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/r...llenge-thread-hydrogen-peroxide.187042/page-4

that way isn't the required way at all, but it sure does work lol./

whatever makes that algae gone in 3 days is the right approach imo

others specifically leave it in as part of a cycle and then fight it accordingly. options! we are simply showing options in that thread above to be algae free in about 36 hours typically, a few days more for the hardier invasions but a nice after shot nonetheless.
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