dwilliams87
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Hey guys, I wanted to start my own post here just to introduce you to my setup. I will be including pics throughout the posts, mostly of corals! I'd like to start off by telling you my name is Daniel. I didn't know if I had said that in any previous posts.
Like I said it is a 20G reef, with a CPR Aquafuge 2 Refugium with built in Skimmer. It is made for a 75 gallon, but I like to be on the safe side. I have 38 lbs of live rock in the display. With another 7 lbs in the refugium, along with some chaeto. I have a Subcurrent Filter that I can poly filter in where if needed I can put some carbon or other media in for some mechanical filtration. I use a MP 10 for flow and run it at about 800 GPH. I have a 4 bulb T5 fixture with Led moonlight's. My bulbs are all Geissman consisting of 2 Aqua Blues, 1 Actinic +, and 1 Fiji pink. I run my lights with actinic and pink for 2 hours, then add my Daylights for 7 hrs, and then for another hour only the actinic and Pink.
I do weekly 15% water changes. When I say weekly it could be up to 9 or 10 days at times. I dose Reef Solution and a Vitamin/ amino Acid formula daily alternating solutions. I feed my fish daily with Mysis Shrimp and Emerald Entree. I hand feed.all of my corals every other day with mysis shrimp for the Los and Rotifers with Reef Chili for my softies and SPS. Because of my weekly changes and over filtration I am able to do this with no changes in water chemistry. I check my levels every other water change before the change to be sure of this. My levels are as follows.
Ammonia - 0
Nitrites - 0
Nitrates - 5-10
Salinity -1.026
Ph - 8.2
Alkalinity - 8.7
Calcium - 450
Mg -1300
Phosphates - .05
I will be adding pictures in my next post.
Like I said it is a 20G reef, with a CPR Aquafuge 2 Refugium with built in Skimmer. It is made for a 75 gallon, but I like to be on the safe side. I have 38 lbs of live rock in the display. With another 7 lbs in the refugium, along with some chaeto. I have a Subcurrent Filter that I can poly filter in where if needed I can put some carbon or other media in for some mechanical filtration. I use a MP 10 for flow and run it at about 800 GPH. I have a 4 bulb T5 fixture with Led moonlight's. My bulbs are all Geissman consisting of 2 Aqua Blues, 1 Actinic +, and 1 Fiji pink. I run my lights with actinic and pink for 2 hours, then add my Daylights for 7 hrs, and then for another hour only the actinic and Pink.
I do weekly 15% water changes. When I say weekly it could be up to 9 or 10 days at times. I dose Reef Solution and a Vitamin/ amino Acid formula daily alternating solutions. I feed my fish daily with Mysis Shrimp and Emerald Entree. I hand feed.all of my corals every other day with mysis shrimp for the Los and Rotifers with Reef Chili for my softies and SPS. Because of my weekly changes and over filtration I am able to do this with no changes in water chemistry. I check my levels every other water change before the change to be sure of this. My levels are as follows.
Ammonia - 0
Nitrites - 0
Nitrates - 5-10
Salinity -1.026
Ph - 8.2
Alkalinity - 8.7
Calcium - 450
Mg -1300
Phosphates - .05
I will be adding pictures in my next post.
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