LR's 90g

[LiveRock27]

I have been planning this tank out for over 7 months and slowly gathering the equipment for it and finally got it up and running last week.

Equipment

• 90g rr tank
• Custom Stand
• Berlin Sump - BS2
• Reef Dynamics INS100 Protein Skimmer
• Eheim 1262 Pump - 900GPH
• Finnex 500W Deluxe Titanium Heating Tube
• 2x AI Sol Blue Unit w/Controller and 48" mounting rack w/hanging kit
• ReefKeeper Elite
• 2x VorTech MP40w ES w/backup wet-side assembly
• VorTech MP10w ES w/backup wet-side assembly
• VorTech Battery Backup
• Aqua 25w UV
• 3x BRS 2 Part Doser - 1.1 mL Per Minute (Dosing 2 Part and Mg)

Full Tank

Left side

Right Side

I used about 70lbs of Reefsaver Rock and 60lbs of CaribSea Special Grade Reef Sand

Sump

And with dosing pumps put in

Everything is up and running, but I am still having problems calibrating my pH probe and I need to get my RKE NET module up and running.

 

[tbdh20]

Very nice!

 

[LiveRock27]

One question I do have is when should I start running carbon? Right now I am going to be running it in a bag in the sump, but hoping to upgrade to a reactor(if I can find room under the stand).

 

[florida reef]

Did you start the tank off with dry rock and live sand? If so I don't think there's a need to run carbon until you start ding livestock. Even then you don't have to use carbon, but it definitely has a lot of benefits. Looking great btw! I like the aquascape!!!

 

[LiveRock27]

Very nice!

Thank you!

Did you start the tank off with dry rock and live sand? If so I don't think there's a need to run carbon until you start ding livestock. Even then you don't have to use carbon, but it definitely has a lot of benefits. Looking great btw! I like the aquascape!!!

I started the tank with the dry rock and sand(not sure if the Special Grade is live sand). I plan on running carbon, but with my old aquairums I had started running it at the start, but was unsure if that was needed.
Thanks for the compliment on the aquascape. i drilled the rock as well to allow for frag plugs in the future.

 

[LiveRock27]

I did a water change before I went out of town last week and retested the water last night and everything looked good. I had my LFS test my water again this morning to make sure and they had the same readings so I added a small CUC(Astraea, Nassarius, Banded Trochus snails, and a Peppermint Shrimp). Just added a few of each of the types of snails because there is not a lot of algea yet. I will see how these do and keep an eye on my water quality, but I am hoping to transfer my pair of ORA Black Ocellaris, Wheeler's Shrimp Goby, and Pistol Shrimp from the 14g BC to this tank by the end of the week. Then I can start fragging the zoas, acans, chalice, and few sps that survived the move.

 

[Cubbies]

What is the plan for stock and coral. How do you like the flow. That's seems like a heck of alot of flow!

 

[LILBUDDHA]

What is the plan for stock and coral. How do you like the flow. That's seems like a heck of alot of flow!

I don't think it's too much imho. I am sure dialing the vortechs down to be tolerable will slow things down a bit.
LR nice job with taking ur time and getting what u wanted . Leaves no second guessing and no revamping .
Looks good ...

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[Reef Keeper 18]

Nice Scape!! you got plenty of swimming and coral room always good to have both!

 

[LiveRock27]

Thanks everyone.

I have the vortechs dialed down to around 60%. I had them a little higher, but it was causing the sand to have low spots in the middle of the tank.

My plan for corals is mainly SPS, but I will also have some zoas/palys and chalices. I am also looking for a nice anemone for my clowns. I want to hold off putting the clowns in this tank until I find it and then I am going to keep them all in a breeding box to see if I can get the anemone to host them before putting them in the tank.

As for fish my wife wants a Hippo Tang, but I am trying to convince her that our tank is too small for the long term health of the fish. I think I might lose this battle. I personally want a trio of Lyretail Anthias and down the line a Red Mandarin.

 

[LiveRock27]

I placed a few test frags in the tank the other day. An AC Purple Thunder, AC Tropical Sunset Milli, Purple Deaths, and Red Hornets. The zoas/palys are all open and doing well. The SPS is showing some polyp extension, but all still have a lot of coloring up to do after fragging them and moving them to the new setup.

I got an early Christmas present this morning. I picked up a male Lyretail Anthia and 3 females.
I watched all 4 eat at the store and all 4 are now out swimming around in my tank and all of them ate some mysis shrimp.

I have an anemone coming in beginning of next week(thank you WT) and will be moving over my Clowns and goby when it arrives.

I am also hoping to get a new camera after Christmas, so I can take some good pictures of the tank because right now I only have my Iphone.

 

[LiveRock27]

I transfered over everyone last night from my biocube, but it took a lot longer than I expected.
My SG in the BC had gotten up to 1.030. Every one made it in fine and all are out eating. today..
A little better picture of my male anthia

Clowns

I fraged everything I could today and I am transfering over my AC Kryptonight
acan, AC Fruit loops acan, 2 differnt AC rainbow acans, blue eyed devil zoas,
raptor rainbow zoas, Captin America palys, and 1 other zoa that i can't remember
now. The purple deaths, lunar eclipse, and Purple thunder acro that I put in
last week are all doing well and have colored up nicely. the strawberry
shortcake acro and sunset milli are still browned out, but have some polyp
extension, so I think they will just take longer to color back up.