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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
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Ignore the fine China. I'm just very posh.
Oh man that and a good cup of coffee or a glass of milk and I would have a little slice of heaven on earth....
 
Oh man that and a good cup of coffee or a glass of milk and I would have a little slice of heaven on earth....
I call this composition "The Aftermath".
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I'll stop teasing now. Hope everyone is having something tasty today!
 
I call this composition "The Aftermath".
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I'll stop teasing now. Hope everyone is having something tasty today!
I had baked chicken and cornbread muffins for supper.
 
And here I am pulling snails and corals out of one tank and moving them to the other...

My wife and daughter are in the kitchen chopping something for dinner. Not sure what it is but sounds like carrots - probably for salad.

Interesting thing happened: I moved over 6 Trochus snails (plus a handful of hermits including my Halloween Hermit and a few Margaritas) and after 15-20 minutes of them being in the 70, they started spawning. Eggs and semen flying all over the tank...
 
Well @JoJosReef you made me jealous. I made a carrot cake

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Love the idea of sprinkling pecans on top, Walker. I'm definitely doing that on my next carrot cake.

Fun story. I was living in a shared flat with like 10 other people in Barcelona and baked my carrot cake but made a huge error on the oil (maybe a metric thing, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯...) and the cake came out with the consistency of... ground beef. I apologized to everyone and planned to dump it, but a flatmate came by later, saw it, grabbed a spoon and tried it, and next thing you know, the entire flat was eating it by the spoonful. One of the most successful desserts I ever made in that flat, second only to the full sized volcano cake complete with lava trails, a lake and dry ice for smoke :)
 

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