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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
yeah, I always appreciate the flow, lighting, feeding, care, on all the websites that have that. supposedly chalice is easy right? I really need photo synthetic stuff that would appreciate some food not required to feed it. I am going to have to do a lawn mowing again. I have some gha that grows in the back corner and hard to reach where the Kenya is. I think tomorrow I will do this and do a little WC. maybe prep another jug too. want to try and get back into a routine of WC. been kind of lax with health stuff going on.
Scoly, acan lord, Cynarina, wellsophyllia, trachy, plates all fit that category. I have everyone of those and they've all been very hardy for me. I also think they're all stunning
 
Is it okay to put better pieces of rock in my sump on the chamber were my return pump is? I have a few that won't fit in my middle section of my sump.
Yes.
 
Thank you! I have been keeping then in buckets on my shelf but I am trying to organize the shelf better.
Just remember they'll displace water which will raise the level and cause salinity to raise when evaporation happens. You'll either need to raise your ATO sensor or pull water out to make up for the additional rocks.
 
Just finished organizing my supply shelf and my food shelf. Before everyone was just scattered randomly on the shelf and the food shelf and it was really unorganized. Now everything is divided by what it is used for in totes which freed up the food shelf to be just a food shelf. 🙂 I will add labels later because my label maker is at work.

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Is it okay to put better pieces of rock in my sump on the chamber were my return pump is? I have a few that won't fit in my middle section of my sump.
Yes it is but beware that your ATO will turn on more often or you will have to top up manually more often because the volume of the return chamber will be less than it was. Not a problem but something to be aware of.

--edit @tbrown already pretty much addressed this--
 

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