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00W's AIO Smorgasbord

Aquarium Profile and Equipment

What type of saltwater aquarium is this?
Mixed Reef
Total Water Volume
115
When did you start this tank?
Jun 16, 2015
What is your aquarium made of?
Glass
Aquarium Length (inches)
48
Aquarium Width (inches)
18
Aquarium Height (inches)
24
Aquarium Overflow/Drain
Drain Style (durso, herbie, etc)
Aquarium Sump
YES
Sump Water Volume
20
Aquarium Stand
Wood
Aquarium Controller
NO
Protein Skimmer
NO
Protein Skimmer Make and Model
Lifereef vs3-24
Aquarium Reactors
  1. None
Return Pump
Eheim compaction 3000
What types of equipment are you using for water flow and circulation?
  1. Powerhead
  2. Wavemaker
Water Flow and Circulation Equipment List
Jebao OW 20 x2, OW10, Jebao 1300, 2 sicce small WaveMaker.
Aquarium Lighting
  1. T5 Fluorescent
  2. Natural Sunlight
Lighting Equipment List
Odyssea T5 HO fixture
Lighting PAR and Goals
Low
Dosing Equipment Detail
None
Auto Top Off or ATO
NO
Aquarium Heating and Cooling
  1. I am using a heater or heaters
Water Temperature
77
Heating and Cooling Equipment Detail
Eheim 300w with ink bird controller

Aquarium Water Chemistry and Parameters

pH Level
8.3
Specific Gravity
1.027
Nitrate or NO3
19
Phosphate or PO4
1.12
Calcium
440
Alkalinity
7
Magnesium
1300
Salt Brand
Red sea blue bucket
Trace Element Dosing
Kent essential elements

Aquarium Natural and Mechanical Filtration

Substrate
Bare Bottom (BB)
Substrate Level
No Substrate
Live Rock
75
Live Rock Type
Unknown
Nutrient Export
  1. Protein Skimmer
  2. Filter Sock
Water Changes
YES
Water Change Details
10% every Monday

Aquarium Tank Inhabitants (fish, coral, invert etc.)

Fish List
  1. Angelfish
  2. Clownfish
  3. Surgeonfish Tang
  4. Other Predatory
Total Fish
4
Coral List
  1. Zoanthids
  2. Soft Coral
  3. Mushroom Coral
  4. Other
Total Corals
6
Invert List
  1. Anemone
  2. Snails
  3. None
Total Inverts
0
Livestock Detail
Have a trigger which is not listed.
Livestock Quarantine
  1. No Quarantine

Aquarium Nutrition (fish, coral, invert etc. feeding)

Fish Feeding Frequency
Multiple Daily Feedings
Coral Feeding Frequency
Do Not Feed Coral Directly
Fish and Coral Feeding
  1. Flake
  2. Pellet
  3. Frozen
  4. Algae Strips
  5. Other
Auto Feeder
NO

Additional Aquarium Information

What do you think are the keys to your success in reefing?
Patience
How is your wife today Tim?
Nerve blocks wore off so she's feeling the pain. Little bit of a rough night last night but she's doing better today after some rest last night. Trying to keep it elevated and trying to stay ahead on the pain meds.
 
We went out to check out the beach and the harbor, before the hurricane. The Weather Channel is doing a broadcast in my town right now, waiting for the hurricane to make landfall. My son tried to get on the broadcast, but it was raining too hard. I'll tell you guys because you all live pretty far away, but the pier she's standing on is where I catch a lot of flounder and redfish. Keep it a secret if you ever make it down lol
 
It looks like it is either losing it’s polyps or some are just closed. When I do a water change mine is above the water line for an extended period of time and when I fill the tank up they stay closed for about an hour. You have better eyes on it than I do with the picture. If it is losing polyps frag the healthiest piece for safekeeping. Just an observation, it is mounted slightly lower than your hammer and frogspawn, it has higher light demands than those lps. I would mount it at the highest point of your rock scape so it gets more light.
So it's dying? I can try to move it to another place, but it gives a good amount of flow there and because of the time it has been there, I thought that was an ideal place.
 
Nerve blocks wore off so she's feeling the pain. Little bit of a rough night last night but she's doing better today after some rest last night. Trying to keep it elevated and trying to stay ahead on the pain meds.
Sorry for the pain but I’m glad she’s doing better today.
 
Nerve blocks wore off so she's feeling the pain. Little bit of a rough night last night but she's doing better today after some rest last night. Trying to keep it elevated and trying to stay ahead on the pain meds.
Sorry for the pain but I’m glad she’s doing better today. I
 
So it's dying? I can try to move it to another place, but it gives a good amount of flow there and because of the time it has been there, I thought that was an ideal place.
Like I said I can’t tell for sure from the picture whether the polyps are retracted or gone. I would move your zaos down to where I circled in black and your birdsnest to where I circled in yellow.
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Luis, how close is it to the hammer? It could be getting stung at night after lights out. They can have some long sweeper tentacles.
 
Luis, how close is it to the hammer? It could be getting stung at night after lights out. They can have some long sweeper tentacles.
actually not much, like 3 inches, but it's been there for 3 or more month, right now I'm moving it
 
@kevgib67 @tbrown Too late to move the zoa as it already has polyps on the rock but I change the place of the birdsnest with the octospawn
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You can probably drop that mushroom down closer to the sandbed as well and open up some room for something else right there.
 
You can probably drop that mushroom down closer to the sandbed as well and open up some room for something else right there.
;)
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Well I boiled the Aiptasia today and I'll say that it looked like it worked. I hope I was fast enough. @tbrown And @Linlox don't worry I didn't forget to double tap.
 
I did similar but got plain white. :slightly-smiling-face:
I'm also going to use the white one or a very light blue one that they also have. I use that same brand for my Christmas lights and behind the TV.
 
I'm waiting for the ATO reservoir that I already ordered from BRS, I think I'll order some plumbing that I need there too, I just need to measure well what size I need, one question, is the pipe that lowers the water from the tank to the sump thicker than the one that returns it?
 

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