Selter904
Active Member
Hello again everyone!
I just became a new member this past week, a few of you may have seen my thread in the new member introduction forum. Bellow I have outlined a more detailed inventory of my system. I am relatively new to the hobby with this being my first tank ever. I sorta threw myself headlong into it, and have been seeing good results I assume. I have had two peppermint shrimp procreate, my red bubble tip anemone has cloned once, as well as successfully fended off a sorta serious dyno attack that I originally misdiagnoses as cyno for a week.
The tank was started in February of this year. I have seen superior Coraline growth, as well as coral growth, and believe my colors are getting more vibrant. The blue and white LED's are on at 100% for 6 hours, then just Blues at 100% for 2 hours, then Blues at 10% for 2.5 hours.
I feed pellet and frozen mysis daily, frozen micro crustacean twice weekly, phytoplankton twice weekly. I also feed my Anemone a home concocted mix of muscle, scallop, and shrimp dice with garlic guard mixed in then frozen in empty mysis trays.
I dose calcium and purple up daily and alkalinity as needed.
Equipment
Fish
Inverts
Pic 1- is Tank Selter, Day 1, February 5th, 2012
Pic 2- Tank Selter, June 5th, 2012
Pic 3- Tank Today, July 7th, 2012
Pic 4- Top setup
Pic 5- Sump/Skimmer setup
I would love to hear feedback on what you all think, and what I could look at improving as I am an still relatively new to the hobby. Pics of coral and progressions to follow. Hope you all enjoy!
I just became a new member this past week, a few of you may have seen my thread in the new member introduction forum. Bellow I have outlined a more detailed inventory of my system. I am relatively new to the hobby with this being my first tank ever. I sorta threw myself headlong into it, and have been seeing good results I assume. I have had two peppermint shrimp procreate, my red bubble tip anemone has cloned once, as well as successfully fended off a sorta serious dyno attack that I originally misdiagnoses as cyno for a week.
The tank was started in February of this year. I have seen superior Coraline growth, as well as coral growth, and believe my colors are getting more vibrant. The blue and white LED's are on at 100% for 6 hours, then just Blues at 100% for 2 hours, then Blues at 10% for 2.5 hours.
I feed pellet and frozen mysis daily, frozen micro crustacean twice weekly, phytoplankton twice weekly. I also feed my Anemone a home concocted mix of muscle, scallop, and shrimp dice with garlic guard mixed in then frozen in empty mysis trays.
I dose calcium and purple up daily and alkalinity as needed.
Equipment
- 55gal Glass Aquarium
- Hang-on 90g Overflow w/ active siphon
- 25gal 4 chamber acrylic sump
- 750gph return pump
- Coral Vue Reef Octopus BH2000 Hob Protein Skimmer
- Marineland Emperor 400 Fish Aquarium Filter (simply for more water flow)
- Hydor Koralia Mag 7 Pump up to 2800GPH
- Eheim AEH3616090 Jager Aquarium Heater
- 20-30lbs live rock in center sump chamber w/ mixed plant & macro
- 80-90lbs Live Rock in Tank w/ select plants (that my tang will not eat)
- live copepods for inverts & future dragonet
- Duel Premium CREE LED lighting with independent manual dimmers on blues and whites
Fish
- 2- Clowns, one Onyx, and one mis-bar Ocolaris(I think).
- Six Line Wrasse
- Bi-Color Dottyback
- Yellow Tang
- Coral Beauty
- Green Chromis
Inverts
- 25+ various hermits
- 12+ sand sniffer snails
- 3 large turbo snails
- 1 Coral banded shrimp
- 1 sally light-foot crab
- 1 Emerald Crab
- 2 red bubble tip anemone
- Green Hairy mushroom
- red mushrooms
- blue/green mushrooms
- grey/orange ricordia
- 3 varieties of birds-nests
- 9 varieties of zoanthids
- 2 verities of green star polyps
- candy cane coral
- 3-headed forgspawn
- green short tentical plate coral
Pic 1- is Tank Selter, Day 1, February 5th, 2012
Pic 2- Tank Selter, June 5th, 2012
Pic 3- Tank Today, July 7th, 2012
Pic 4- Top setup
Pic 5- Sump/Skimmer setup
I would love to hear feedback on what you all think, and what I could look at improving as I am an still relatively new to the hobby. Pics of coral and progressions to follow. Hope you all enjoy!
