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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
Frags came in this morning, all looked ok, the bag water was still cool. checked out very clean, no issues, I still dipped and put them on the sand bed. Question for the pros, the tops of my aquascape are 190 to 195 PAR, I can easily bump my lights up about 3% to 5% to get it slightly over 200 PAR were I plan to put the 2 acro frags , Would this be good or do I need to go higher.

frag pics:

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this freebie was added, can't I.D. it yet.

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Since I am the only one in the house that eats mushrooms the pan on the left is just pan seared pork chops with gravy.
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They both look delicious sir? How far are you from me? 3 hours?
 
Frags came in this morning, all looked ok, the bag water was still cool. checked out very clean, no issues, I still dipped and put them on the sand bed. Question for the pros, the tops of my aquascape are 190 to 195 PAR, I can easily bump my lights up about 3% to 5% to get it slightly over 200 PAR were I plan to put the 2 acro frags , Would this be good or do I need to go higher.

frag pics:

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this freebie was added, can't I.D. it yet.

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The deeper water SPS will do fine with 200 PAR, stuff like Acropora Valida, Acropora Echinata and Acropora "Deepwater".
The freebie kind of looks like a Galaxia frag?
 
This is such great news. So happy to hear that the aiptasia is almost all gone. So happy to say another tank was saved.
You can definitely say that! I have watched aiptasia disappear one by one. Almost every day led to more being gone. It was really cool to see them hatch in my tank. Ill have plenty of pics in the next few days
 
The deeper water SPS will do fine with 200 PAR, stuff like Acropora Valida, Acropora Echinata and Acropora "Deepwater".
The freebie kind of looks like a Galaxia frag?
Lower than 100 par for sure on the acans brother. Mine live in almost shade
 
Lower than 100 par for sure on the acans brother. Mine live in almost shade
I thought the same thing too at first but he was talking about the sps frags below the acan.
 
@kevgib67 and @ShakeyGizzard. I ordered yalls seeds and had them mailed to you. I ordered and sent them on separate days, so there would be no confusion. And I added your addresses to your orders. And they got that because they recognized that one was a p o box. However, what do I get today at my housASAP.
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Both of sets of seeds! They sent them all to my house. I guess since I already had an account with them, they just automatically went to me? Im not sure.
Anyways, my apologies fellas. Ill send them to you guys. They'll be in the mail asap.
 
My wife said yesterday she got a really good price on pork chops and told me to do something with them. On this week’s podcast of cooking with Kev we will be preparing pan seared pork chops in mushroom gravy.
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how dare you. store bought garlic?
 
The deeper water SPS will do fine with 200 PAR, stuff like Acropora Valida, Acropora Echinata and Acropora "Deepwater".
The freebie kind of looks like a Galaxia frag?
im cool with that, first thought was GSP
 
@kevgib67 and @ShakeyGizzard. I ordered yalls seeds and had them mailed to you. I ordered and sent them on separate days, so there would be no confusion. And I added your addresses to your orders. And they got that because they recognized that one was a p o box. However, what do I get today at my housASAP.
20250711_150518.jpg

Both of sets of seeds! They sent them all to my house. I guess since I already had an account with them, they just automatically went to me? Im not sure.
Anyways, my apologies fellas. Ill send them to you guys. They'll be in the mail asap.
Oh, jeez, sorry but thank you so much! I was expecting dried seeds in an envelope from your peppers.
 
I thought the same thing too at first but he was talking about the sps frags below the acan.
true, I have an Acan already but like the red one so I got it
 

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