Salt Addiction
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Finally found the build forum, no idea why it took so long to find lol.
First off we have the original 125. This is run off a Fluval FX4 and Marine LED of the same brand. Current plan when cycle completes is to setup as a mixed reef though it will primarily be a Leather/Softie mix until we upgrade her to RL90s like the upstairs setup. In addition it runs a 300w Jager heater, a 3rd gen Koralia power head, and another power head I forget the brand of. LR wise it has 150lbs roughly and is currently home to a Red Star that was given to us as a freebie from the guy we bought 300lbs of LR from, a Occelaris Clown, and a Vlamingi Tang who will be moved to the 600 gallon planned for the downstairs in a few years. So far it is cycling well with .5 ammonia, .25 nitrite, and 20ppm nitrate that was caused when the LR was introduced a week ago. Like the second one I am going to post we did fall for the "Its an instant cycle." from our LFS using Fritz Turbo, and unfortunately I had been out of the hobby long enough I believed them given after a week our levels were balanced. Fortunately though we have closely monitored it and livestock has been doing well in both tanks.
Diatoms! Hers seems to be doing alot better so far than mine, which is funny to me since mine has the sump and all the hookups for running an SPS dominant tank later.
Now for the upstairs Tank. This one runs a Eshops refugium style sump, 2 3rd gen Koralia powerheads with a wavemaker controller, x3 RL90 Red Sea LEDs, and a Xyclone skimmer with plans to move it to the downstairs once it has broken in and replace with a reef octopus.
Current Livestock:
1 Blue Hippo Tang
1 Ocellaris
x5 Azure Damsels exiled to sump
1 Stone crab exiled to sump
1 Mantis Shrimp exiled to sump
5 large bundles of cheateo (I give up spelling it...)
Hermits
And the under the hood...
And last but not least, Smart Plugs installed so we can shut down the filtration during phyto feedings, and the upstairs can shut down the wavemaker as well for times when anemone feeding needs to happen, all at the push of a button or via alexa!
First off we have the original 125. This is run off a Fluval FX4 and Marine LED of the same brand. Current plan when cycle completes is to setup as a mixed reef though it will primarily be a Leather/Softie mix until we upgrade her to RL90s like the upstairs setup. In addition it runs a 300w Jager heater, a 3rd gen Koralia power head, and another power head I forget the brand of. LR wise it has 150lbs roughly and is currently home to a Red Star that was given to us as a freebie from the guy we bought 300lbs of LR from, a Occelaris Clown, and a Vlamingi Tang who will be moved to the 600 gallon planned for the downstairs in a few years. So far it is cycling well with .5 ammonia, .25 nitrite, and 20ppm nitrate that was caused when the LR was introduced a week ago. Like the second one I am going to post we did fall for the "Its an instant cycle." from our LFS using Fritz Turbo, and unfortunately I had been out of the hobby long enough I believed them given after a week our levels were balanced. Fortunately though we have closely monitored it and livestock has been doing well in both tanks.
Diatoms! Hers seems to be doing alot better so far than mine, which is funny to me since mine has the sump and all the hookups for running an SPS dominant tank later.
Now for the upstairs Tank. This one runs a Eshops refugium style sump, 2 3rd gen Koralia powerheads with a wavemaker controller, x3 RL90 Red Sea LEDs, and a Xyclone skimmer with plans to move it to the downstairs once it has broken in and replace with a reef octopus.
Current Livestock:
1 Blue Hippo Tang
1 Ocellaris
x5 Azure Damsels exiled to sump
1 Stone crab exiled to sump
1 Mantis Shrimp exiled to sump
5 large bundles of cheateo (I give up spelling it...)
Hermits
And the under the hood...
And last but not least, Smart Plugs installed so we can shut down the filtration during phyto feedings, and the upstairs can shut down the wavemaker as well for times when anemone feeding needs to happen, all at the push of a button or via alexa!
