snafte
Community Member
Hi guys, i thought i would share my experience with my new RSM 500 that i have recently set up. The tank was a major upgrade from my nano 21g cube, but so far it has been a dream come true and has gone very smoothly.
I erected and filled the tank about 4 weeks ago, and purchased the most amazing LR I have ever seen, full of life, frags and more.
I was very fortunate to be very good friends with a licensed collector, so the rock was not out of the water for very long at all, and thus to date I have had minimal die off, and even found a baby fish still alive and now living in the tank:
I have set the sump up with 6 dosing pumps for the following:
Calcium
Magnesium
Alkalinity
Nitrate remover
Phosphate remover
Trace Elements
The sump also houses a refugium with some Cheato in it
Currently I have no need to dose any of the nitrate or phosphate removers
After 3 weeks there has been no evidence of any ammonia or nitrate present in any of the tests (daily testing has been done)
I was ghost feeding for 3 weeks and only the nitrates increased to 7ppm.
I was also very excited to discover a baby speckled BTA that came on the LR
Here is few more images of some of the life that came with the rock
lots and lots of feather dusters, as well as some fantastic macro algae
Further to this i transferred my live stock from my existing cube into the new tank, and can honestly say the fish and coral all seem much happier!
Here is FTS taken today:
And if you feel like checking out a vid of the tank, which shows the caves and archway made check below:
[video=youtube;ZWHmzG91ZPw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWHmzG91ZPw&list=UUVC1zmQV5j995I9fj4Tydgw[/video]
I have also turned the old cube tank into a QT, and currently have a naso tang in there, whom hopefully will be joining the tank by the end of next week!!
I erected and filled the tank about 4 weeks ago, and purchased the most amazing LR I have ever seen, full of life, frags and more.
I was very fortunate to be very good friends with a licensed collector, so the rock was not out of the water for very long at all, and thus to date I have had minimal die off, and even found a baby fish still alive and now living in the tank:
I have set the sump up with 6 dosing pumps for the following:
Calcium
Magnesium
Alkalinity
Nitrate remover
Phosphate remover
Trace Elements
The sump also houses a refugium with some Cheato in it
Currently I have no need to dose any of the nitrate or phosphate removers
After 3 weeks there has been no evidence of any ammonia or nitrate present in any of the tests (daily testing has been done)
I was ghost feeding for 3 weeks and only the nitrates increased to 7ppm.
I was also very excited to discover a baby speckled BTA that came on the LR
Here is few more images of some of the life that came with the rock
lots and lots of feather dusters, as well as some fantastic macro algae
Further to this i transferred my live stock from my existing cube into the new tank, and can honestly say the fish and coral all seem much happier!
Here is FTS taken today:
And if you feel like checking out a vid of the tank, which shows the caves and archway made check below:
[video=youtube;ZWHmzG91ZPw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWHmzG91ZPw&list=UUVC1zmQV5j995I9fj4Tydgw[/video]
I have also turned the old cube tank into a QT, and currently have a naso tang in there, whom hopefully will be joining the tank by the end of next week!!
