Meers
Community Member
Hi all,
I have had tropical aquariums for a few years and approximately half a year ago decided to experiment with Saltwater. Have started with a 15 gallons aquarium, with some small frags of softcorals and a few zoanthids and moved to a 40 gallons soon after and have been upgrading the system in order to make it SPS compatible.
Currently am running it under 4 T5 24w lamps, a sump with a Bubble Magus NAC5, tunze osmolator to keep the water level and salinity. From the sump water is sent to a refugium standing above the display tank where I run a carbon reactor, gfo and have a 4 channel doser for Balling and vitamins. To keep the water flow I have a Tunze nanostream 6045. My next project is to replace my carbon and GFO by bio pellets. For that purpose a bag of Vextex is now in the fish closet and this weekend will be preparing the reactor, soaking a very small amount of pellets and start the trial. Am a bit fearful due to the many crashes I have read about it, but very hopeful it will help push my nitrates and phosphates levels down.
Currently I keep a few Euphilia, zoanthids, montipora, and am trying my luck with a few frags of seriatopora, stylopora and acropora.
Curiously, acropora seems to be going along better than the seriatopora, which started well, but at some point just slowly began to die off after a boom of ciano. This was before adding the GFO. Now they are doing better but still almost no growth.
Currently kept fish:
Paracanthurus hepatus
Pseudocheilinus hexataenia
Zebrasoma flavescens
Synchiropus picturatus
Valenciennea sexguttata
Pseudanthias squamipinnis
Chrysiptera parasema
CUC:
2 Trochus
2 Tectus
1 Lysmata amboinensis
2 Lysmata wurdemanni
Glad for any advice.
Regards,
André
I have had tropical aquariums for a few years and approximately half a year ago decided to experiment with Saltwater. Have started with a 15 gallons aquarium, with some small frags of softcorals and a few zoanthids and moved to a 40 gallons soon after and have been upgrading the system in order to make it SPS compatible.
Currently am running it under 4 T5 24w lamps, a sump with a Bubble Magus NAC5, tunze osmolator to keep the water level and salinity. From the sump water is sent to a refugium standing above the display tank where I run a carbon reactor, gfo and have a 4 channel doser for Balling and vitamins. To keep the water flow I have a Tunze nanostream 6045. My next project is to replace my carbon and GFO by bio pellets. For that purpose a bag of Vextex is now in the fish closet and this weekend will be preparing the reactor, soaking a very small amount of pellets and start the trial. Am a bit fearful due to the many crashes I have read about it, but very hopeful it will help push my nitrates and phosphates levels down.
Currently I keep a few Euphilia, zoanthids, montipora, and am trying my luck with a few frags of seriatopora, stylopora and acropora.
Curiously, acropora seems to be going along better than the seriatopora, which started well, but at some point just slowly began to die off after a boom of ciano. This was before adding the GFO. Now they are doing better but still almost no growth.
Currently kept fish:
Paracanthurus hepatus
Pseudocheilinus hexataenia
Zebrasoma flavescens
Synchiropus picturatus
Valenciennea sexguttata
Pseudanthias squamipinnis
Chrysiptera parasema
CUC:
2 Trochus
2 Tectus
1 Lysmata amboinensis
2 Lysmata wurdemanni
Glad for any advice.
Regards,
André
