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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

That Crusso Kid

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Well that's your fault for the following reasons:

1: Having a legendary music cutoff time
2: Being awake at 0300 hours
3: Thinking your opinion matters

1: I have no music cut-off time.
2: Perfectly normal
3: It wasn't an opinion I was offering. Please note the "for me" part of my comment. Now, had I not included the "for me" part then I would have been offering an opinion.
 

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Please note the "for me" part of my comment.
Where's your counter song?

I'm admittedly having trouble finding a groove tonight. I did listen to some really old, The Prodigy, tonight and forgot how good they were, especially back then.

I chose to play experimental jazz instead.

Football Win Some Lose Some GIF
 

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Where's your counter song?

I'm admittedly having trouble finding a groove tonight. I did listen to some really old, The Prodigy, tonight and forgot how good they were, especially back then.

I chose to play experimental jazz instead.

Football Win Some Lose Some GIF
Counter song before bed. Goodnight John.

 
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I completely understand and agree with a lot of what is said about the rhododendrons lol, but in a medical application, your replacing 10s of thousands of would be prescriptions for pain killers and sedatives with a plant. Yes it can lead to other things and can be found by kids if not properly managed, but so can oxytocin!
Very well said my friend! It was the only thing that the hospice nurse administered that helped eased my dad's pain near the end of his cancer battle.
 
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Good morning Smorgasbord family!!!! Its Friday Eve and my wonderful hubby's birthday! He always says i give him too much for gifts and I always feel like I don't give him enough. Tonight I will be cooking him his favorite meal of fried cubed 🦌 and cream style corn.
 

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Good morning Smorgasbord family!!!! Its Friday Eve and my wonderful hubby's birthday! He always says i give him too much for gifts and I always feel like I don't give him enough. Tonight I will be cooking him his favorite meal of fried cubed 🦌 and cream style corn.
Good morning Peanut! Sounds like an exhausting day of pampering and showering your husband with gifts.
 

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Good morning Peanut! Sounds like an exhausting day of pampering and showering your husband with gifts.
Its a labor of love! I wish we were taking the day off work to be together but he's going to be building a ramp at our church for people to get up on the stage. Our preachers wife now has to be in a wheel chair and she hasn't been able to go up and sing in the choir since she's started having to use the chair.
 

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Its a labor of love! I wish we were taking the day off work to be together but he's going to be building a ramp at our church for people to get up on the stage. Our preachers wife now has to be in a wheel chair and she hasn't been able to go up and sing in the choir since she's started having to use the chair.
He’s a keeper!
 

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I understand I don't need one... But all I have is the Tidal and not enough resources for water changes. Which will set me back further. I could try selling the remora for 150$. That'll be able to afford a new skimmer entirely.
Cam, I don't run a skimmer and I've done maybe 3 5 gallon water changes on my 70 in the past 6-8 months. I also don't use RODI for my top off water or water change water but my municipal water here is able to do that.
Do you dose anything in your 70? Do you have sand?
 

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@cdemoss01 No skimmer for me ever and I have trouble keeping my nutrients up. It's all about the biome and stability. I know you get pulled in 100 different directions by the advice you get elsewhere, but ill lovingly say that I think you mess with your tank to much. You have to establish a standard before you can know what you need to do to keep it steady. Let it ride for a bit man and stabilize.
Well as of this morning somehow there are bubbles! And a lot of them. It's a very dry skim though. Very clear small bubbles not a frothy type thing.

As of a standard. I guess at this point I'm just trying to keep my levels down and have no gha. All the gha that grew back is dying, it grew back while dying. It's odd. I
All it takes is a quick scrub and it goes away.
 

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