I figure the best way to introduce myself and my tank is a little background.
My name is Matt, I an a .net developer, I love reeftanks, coral more than fish, I was on thereeftank for years and pretty sure I had an account here just never set it up.
I used to have a 55g gallon mixed reef years ago then stopped when I had no time[life, family, two jobs and school]. Then I started a fluval edge reef tank. Both of these tanks I did a DIY Retro LED setup. The 55g worked very well but the close proximity and high moisture content in the tiny lillte hood in the fluval edge made it difficult to use the LEDs. Then I bought a home and remodeled its 1st floor, exterior, put up privacy fence, a patio,deck addition, and an above ground pool.
This is not my forever home so I have been holding out on a large saltwater tank. I wanted a tank in my home office and had a setup for an unconventional 29 gallon where the tank is on the bottom of the stand and the top of the stand was open for things other than fish. It was fresh water to start then I moved it to a reef tank and did DIY leds and put a HOB sump and small Skimmer in.
I then plumbed in a 20g satellite tank to increase volume and use it as a frag tank.
The Point of this was to set up the cheap generic brand items and see how it went. Only issue[knock on wood] was the uv sterilizer.
Then I found a great deal on craigslist.
I found a 40g Breeder with a stand, Current 130w PC Light, Vector 130 Skimmer, BRS standard Media filter w/ Maxi Jet Pump, RIO 2100 for the return pump, almost all of the plumbing[All The Valves and BulkHead] and stainless shears for $200. The Vector Skimmer looked brand new!
I turned my 20g Long into the DIY sump and picked up another power head and dosing pump. My params were steady through the swap and have been steady for about 3 months. I haven't lost a single coral since I started. Fish are another story.
Only down sides are:
The cheap UV sterilizer I bought was kicking out stray current and some of my sps bleached and one lps did. They have full polyp extensions and my lights are adjustable.
Literally lost my clown fish.
EQUIPMENT/TANKINFO:
Jebao dcs 5000
VECTOR 130 Skimmer
Media Filter MaxiJet pump running Carbon.
2 Jecod DP-3 dosing pumps [Alk/Cal/Mag/Topoffs][Randys reef recipe 1]
BloomSpect 165w LED Light
[blues on for 11 hrs @ 100% and whites on for 7.5 hrs at 100%]
3 550 gph Sunsun JVP 110s[ 1 in sump to prevent settling in hard to maintain chamber. 2 in center frag chamber always on to stop settling.]
Jebao TW-10 PowerHead with wavemaker controller. Slowest sine pattern set at 7 out of 8 strength.
Jebao ow-10 PowerHead with wavemaker controller slowest sine pattern set at 5 out of 8 strength. Max is 1000 + gph
Nero 5
Uv sterilizer
100w Heater
65w Chinese LED over sump. 450par
Reef Keeper Power supply with temp sensor
Seneye reef
Two little fishes phosban reactor with a 110gph pump, red dragons breath macro, red blue led grow strip wrapped around it for a algae reactor 12 hours on.
30 lbs LR
20 lbs fine LS
20 lbs small coarse sand
water changes about 2-4 g weekly
Red Sea [red bucket]
FISH/INVERTS:
Yellow Coris Wrasse
2 Picaso Clowns
Lawnmower Blenny
Purple Firefish
Cleaner Shrimp
CUC:
20 blue leg hermits
20 astrea snails
12 cerith snails
1Turbo Snails
POLYPS/SOFT:
Lucious Teal Zoas
Watermelon Zoas
Combo Zoas???
Fire and Ice Zoas
Some Blue Fancy Can't Remember Their Name Zoas
Finger Leather
GSP
Toxic Lantern rhodactis
Fireworks Zoas
LPS:
Blue Grean Acan
Aussie Ultra Acan Lord
Blastos
Elegance
Duncans
Frogspawn
Branching Hammer
Cyphastrea Meteor Shower
Laptastrea Orange
Krytonite Candy Cane
War Coral
Green Lobo
Unknown Favia
Merletti Blasto
LA Lakers Scroll
SPS:
Green Stylo
ORA Green Gecko
Silver Bullet Acro
PearlBerry Acro
Aqua SD Teal Pika Pika Acro
Unkown Acro
Cali Tort Acro
Pink Lemonade BirdsNest
ORA Borealis
Aqua SD Toxic Millie
Rainbow Pocillipora
Waynes Reef Acro
Raspberry Delight Millie
Purple Stylo
Spongodes Monti
Tricolor Granulosa Acro
Aqua SD Aussie Wolverine 3 Acro
ORA Red Planet
Garf Bonsai
Miyagi Tort
IC Raspberry Limeade
RN Teal Granulosa
Unkown Deep Green wooly looking acro Now one of my favorites
Scripps Acro
Green Pocillopora
Ponape Birdsnest
ASD Blue Whale [Pretty sure its a mille]
ASD Yellow Jacket
ASD Rainbow Millie
ASD MorningGlory Tenius
ASD Ice Queen Enchinata
ASD Toxic PlatingMonti
PARAMS:
Salifert test Kits
Alk 7.3 dkh
Cal 420 ppm
Mag 1300 ppm
Salinity 1.026
Temp 79.5
API test Kits
Ph 8.3
Amm [NH3/NH4] 0ppm
Seneye
NH3 .003ppm
NH4 7.72- 10.14 ppb
PH 8.18-8.32
o2 8
Hanna
Phosphorus .03022 ppm
Red Sea
Fe .03
I .06
K 420ppm
NO3 1-2ppm favoring 1ppm
My name is Matt, I an a .net developer, I love reeftanks, coral more than fish, I was on thereeftank for years and pretty sure I had an account here just never set it up.
I used to have a 55g gallon mixed reef years ago then stopped when I had no time[life, family, two jobs and school]. Then I started a fluval edge reef tank. Both of these tanks I did a DIY Retro LED setup. The 55g worked very well but the close proximity and high moisture content in the tiny lillte hood in the fluval edge made it difficult to use the LEDs. Then I bought a home and remodeled its 1st floor, exterior, put up privacy fence, a patio,deck addition, and an above ground pool.
This is not my forever home so I have been holding out on a large saltwater tank. I wanted a tank in my home office and had a setup for an unconventional 29 gallon where the tank is on the bottom of the stand and the top of the stand was open for things other than fish. It was fresh water to start then I moved it to a reef tank and did DIY leds and put a HOB sump and small Skimmer in.
I then plumbed in a 20g satellite tank to increase volume and use it as a frag tank.
The Point of this was to set up the cheap generic brand items and see how it went. Only issue[knock on wood] was the uv sterilizer.
Then I found a great deal on craigslist.
I found a 40g Breeder with a stand, Current 130w PC Light, Vector 130 Skimmer, BRS standard Media filter w/ Maxi Jet Pump, RIO 2100 for the return pump, almost all of the plumbing[All The Valves and BulkHead] and stainless shears for $200. The Vector Skimmer looked brand new!
I turned my 20g Long into the DIY sump and picked up another power head and dosing pump. My params were steady through the swap and have been steady for about 3 months. I haven't lost a single coral since I started. Fish are another story.
Only down sides are:
The cheap UV sterilizer I bought was kicking out stray current and some of my sps bleached and one lps did. They have full polyp extensions and my lights are adjustable.
Literally lost my clown fish.
EQUIPMENT/TANKINFO:
Jebao dcs 5000
VECTOR 130 Skimmer
Media Filter MaxiJet pump running Carbon.
2 Jecod DP-3 dosing pumps [Alk/Cal/Mag/Topoffs][Randys reef recipe 1]
BloomSpect 165w LED Light
[blues on for 11 hrs @ 100% and whites on for 7.5 hrs at 100%]
3 550 gph Sunsun JVP 110s[ 1 in sump to prevent settling in hard to maintain chamber. 2 in center frag chamber always on to stop settling.]
Jebao TW-10 PowerHead with wavemaker controller. Slowest sine pattern set at 7 out of 8 strength.
Jebao ow-10 PowerHead with wavemaker controller slowest sine pattern set at 5 out of 8 strength. Max is 1000 + gph
Nero 5
Uv sterilizer
100w Heater
65w Chinese LED over sump. 450par
Reef Keeper Power supply with temp sensor
Seneye reef
Two little fishes phosban reactor with a 110gph pump, red dragons breath macro, red blue led grow strip wrapped around it for a algae reactor 12 hours on.
30 lbs LR
20 lbs fine LS
20 lbs small coarse sand
water changes about 2-4 g weekly
Red Sea [red bucket]
FISH/INVERTS:
Yellow Coris Wrasse
2 Picaso Clowns
Lawnmower Blenny
Purple Firefish
Cleaner Shrimp
CUC:
20 blue leg hermits
20 astrea snails
12 cerith snails
1Turbo Snails
POLYPS/SOFT:
Lucious Teal Zoas
Watermelon Zoas
Combo Zoas???
Fire and Ice Zoas
Some Blue Fancy Can't Remember Their Name Zoas
Finger Leather
GSP
Toxic Lantern rhodactis
Fireworks Zoas
LPS:
Blue Grean Acan
Aussie Ultra Acan Lord
Blastos
Elegance
Duncans
Frogspawn
Branching Hammer
Cyphastrea Meteor Shower
Laptastrea Orange
Krytonite Candy Cane
War Coral
Green Lobo
Unknown Favia
Merletti Blasto
LA Lakers Scroll
SPS:
Green Stylo
ORA Green Gecko
Silver Bullet Acro
PearlBerry Acro
Aqua SD Teal Pika Pika Acro
Unkown Acro
Cali Tort Acro
Pink Lemonade BirdsNest
ORA Borealis
Aqua SD Toxic Millie
Rainbow Pocillipora
Waynes Reef Acro
Raspberry Delight Millie
Purple Stylo
Spongodes Monti
Tricolor Granulosa Acro
Aqua SD Aussie Wolverine 3 Acro
ORA Red Planet
Garf Bonsai
Miyagi Tort
IC Raspberry Limeade
RN Teal Granulosa
Unkown Deep Green wooly looking acro Now one of my favorites
Scripps Acro
Green Pocillopora
Ponape Birdsnest
ASD Blue Whale [Pretty sure its a mille]
ASD Yellow Jacket
ASD Rainbow Millie
ASD MorningGlory Tenius
ASD Ice Queen Enchinata
ASD Toxic PlatingMonti
PARAMS:
Salifert test Kits
Alk 7.3 dkh
Cal 420 ppm
Mag 1300 ppm
Salinity 1.026
Temp 79.5
API test Kits
Ph 8.3
Amm [NH3/NH4] 0ppm
Seneye
NH3 .003ppm
NH4 7.72- 10.14 ppb
PH 8.18-8.32
o2 8
Hanna
Phosphorus .03022 ppm
Red Sea
Fe .03
I .06
K 420ppm
NO3 1-2ppm favoring 1ppm
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