My 50g reef

[MaxSc]

Hello everyone,
I wanted to make a post about my new 50 gallon aquarium I recently upgraded to so that I can get some feedback from more experienced reefers.

Current stocking:
1 ocellaris clown fish
14 scarlet hermit crabs
about 20 dwarf cerith snails
5 nerite snails
soft and some lps corals

Salt mix:
hw marinemix reefer

Equipment:
2 aqua clear 50s that are using fluval bio max and one has activated carbon

4 power heads

200 watt marine land heater

tunze nano ato

2 kessil a160we tuna blues with kessil controller

current lighting schedule:
2 hour blue lights only
12 hours of 150 par
1 hour blue lights only

1.023 salinity

Unfortunately I can’t post my other water parameters yet. I need to get new test kits but, I want to wait until I’ve saved enough to buy those hanna checkers instead of using salifert test kits.

 

[Stephen8169301]

Awesome stuff good luck following along! Why you running salt that low just curious also might need to juice up that heater to a 300wt in a 50gal

 

[MaxSc]

Awesome stuff good luck following along! Why you running salt that low just curious also might need to juice up that heater to a 300wt in a 50gal

honestly I dont know what salinity would be the most effective. I saw a bunch of different salinity recommendations kinda just decided I should do 1.023

 

[Stephen8169301]

honestly I dont know what salinity would be the most effective. I saw a bunch of different salinity recommendations kinda just decided I should do 1.023

I gotcha all good jc you’ll see a lot of people run about 1.025 to 1.028 just try to stay at 1.023 no lower

 

[MaxSc]

I gotcha all good jc you’ll see a lot of people run about 1.025 to 1.028 just try to stay at 1.023 no lower

Thanks for the info maybe I should slowly start increasing my salinity through water changes

 

[Stephen8169301]

Thanks for the info maybe I should slowly start increasing my salinity through water changes

No problem for reference natural seawater gravity is 1.026 I run my tank at 1.026. Great looking corals would love to see a FTS!!

 

[MaxSc]

I gotcha all good jc you’ll see a lot of people run about 1.025 to 1.028 just try to stay at 1.023 no lower

Also what do you think about my lighting schedule? I feel like 14 hours a day is too long of a time for my lights to be on. I only schedule them to be on for so long so I can see my tank in the morning and the rest of the night when I get home.

 

[MaxSc]

No problem for reference natural seawater gravity is 1.026 I run my tank at 1.026. Great looking corals would love to see a FTS!

Ok and what does fts mean?

 

[Stephen8169301]

Ok and what does fts mean?

Full tank shot and I would cut seeing them in the morning by 2 to 3hrs I leave my house at 5am lights trickle on at 7 I’m actually about to make it start coming on at 9am instead of 7. 14hrs is a little too long imo corals need about 8 to 12hrs max I believe

 

[MaxSc]

Full tank shot and I would cut seeing them in the morning by 2 to 3hrs I leave my house at 5am lights trickle on at 7 I’m actually about to make it start coming on at 9am instead of 7. 14hrs is a little too long imo corals need about 8 to 12hrs max I believe

Ok I’ll post a fts right now and I’ll re adjust my lighting schedule tonight

 

[Stephen8169301]

Really diggig the scape!

 

[MaxSc]

Really diggig the scape!

Thank you the one on the right side is a man made piece i bought online from aquatic sealife

 

[Stephen8169301]

Thank you the one on the right side is a man made piece i bought online from aquatic sealife

Really like that one

 

[MaxSc]

Some type of tube worm is taking over my anthelia rock i’m starting to grow

 

[MaxSc]

Came home to a power outage. Really wish I had an eco tech mq40 and battery backup.