no feed back ??? lol. ill try and take shots of the refuge this weekend and update some of the equipment
I'm a 27 year old college student who works in a pharmacy making decent money so i've been dropping money for the past few years like crazy(for me, maybe not you) in corals and recently upgrading to the current equipment in hopes of upgrading to a 120gallon with a 55gallon sump/refuge... finishing my AA pretty soon i'll be working on my bachelors and i'm paying out of pocket hoping for no loans. So at this point i grow coral out for my LFS for trade ends... and if at all possible I make Orlando's Reefapalooza an exception on my budgeting
dropped $180 in april this year which i've never spent on livestock like that before
Chemistry:
Alk is pretty stable fluctuating 7.7-8.1 throughout the week
Calc is pretty solid at ~450
Mag 1450-1500
Nitrate and phosphate undetectable
(currently do not test anything else)
Equipment:
Taotronics LEDS 165W dimmable white/blues X (2) blues run ~70 % and whites ~30-40% blues run 12 hours and whites 9 hours
- im pretty proud of what these lights do for the cost of them
Jabeo RW8's X (2) - run both at 30% wavemaker 24/7
Reef octopus space saver 110 (used to run it 4-6 hours a day when LPS were hurting) now run 24/7
i forget my pump ill try and upload that at some point but i know its 3800 GPH adjustable with 30 minute feed mode, i must be in the 1000-1500 range
Feeding:
Mysis shrimp is target fed to all LPS once weekly(i try my best sometimes don't get to it)
-if i don't target feed ill feed the whole tank and try to turn pumps off for an hour or so
Dr.G's SPS and LPS formula i broadcast feed around 7AM and turn all pumps off(i try for twice a week or every 4-5 days) just 5ml of each
Dr.G's phyto i do the same as SPS/LPS except the time varies & i add half of the dose in the refuge(2.5 ml in both tank and refuge)
regular basis feeding : 1-2 square inch of seaweed sheets (mainly for the tomini tang) once daily(i try to leave some under the magnet cleaner to use for next day)
new life spectrum Thera+A pellets(regular formula) : feed every night around 8-9pm - but if i have the day off ill do multiple smaller doses
Corals:
I mainly go for SPS right now, i must have a at least a dozen monti varieties and they are my favorite...currently 5 acros(only know the name of 2 - cali tort &green slimer) and the 5th acro im trying to bring back to life. still testing the waters with acros, but it seems im passing with the ones i have. My pride acro has no name but its been going for a year & 1/2 now and has 4x its size which im very proud of, could not get a good pic of it though(its on image 316). i'm not very familiar with all the names of my birdsnest/ stylopora names but they seem to thrive in my tank and i have 4 types currently. various zoas(i don't keep track of names) some mushrooms, LPS include my favorite, duncans, my chalice that has been doing great. not sure where the scroll coral fits in. Have a Lobo that im digging but it suffered in the past and they seem to be very slow at recovery, but it looks good now.
I'm going to start updating this every now and then with new coral stock, techniques, products, etc.
Anyways, thanks for checking it out..comment, concern, feedback, smack talk all good. haha
-Josh F.
