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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
its the other way around for me, my wife is so tight with money she squeaks when she walks
You need to try harder to find a way to loosen her up ;) ;)
 
Quel poisson absolument magnifique ! Je peux voir tellement de personnalité.
I recently learned (thanks to Adrian Monk) that poisson means fish.
 
Good morning Smorgs!!
Check out this check I got in the mail yesterday!!
Wooohoo! Looks like I’m going to get some more corals. I never thought I’d actually get some money for this. Especially since the Army already pays me for hearing loss and brain damage.
What a nice surprise! Who actually wore hearing protection in combat though?
Maybe a random lieutenant while he spent days trying to read a map with gps coordinates?…lol if you know you know. For some reason lieutenants always had problems reading maps.
God forbid if they have to give fire grid coordinates. We had one that read the incoming rounds from radar and placed them instead of the radar coordinates of where the incoming was coming from. We fired on ourselves. Luckily no one was hurt from it that night. Crazy thing is that lieutenant never was even reprimanded we must have had too much other stuff going on at the time I guess.
Anyway hope everyone has a great day I know that I am!!!
Woooohoooo!
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Happy for you James and thank you for your service! My best friend, coincidentally named James, retired after 20 years as a C-130 pilot, did 2 tours and is now a Delta pilot. He’s got a nice gig going.
 
I used it because it was at the point to kill coral but after 72h it took out around 80%. I was turkey baster 3 times per day at least before with water changes every 3 days, coral snow, micro bacter 7 but still covered. The remaining went out with water changes, micro bacter 7 and coral snow. I think also the tank stabilized.
Im gonna hold off on chemiclean as long as possible but it does seem to have good reviews! Luckily I think i fixed the root cause (6months of neglect this summer while in the hospital with my brother) so I just need to knock it down now and I'm hoping microbacter and calcium carbonate(basically coral snow) do the trick
 
Happy for you James and thank you for your service! My best friend, coincidentally named James, retired after 20 years as a C-130 pilot, did 2 tours and is now a Delta pilot. He’s got a nice gig going.
Have him fly out some of that birdsnest you been hogging lol
 
I’m currently
He's pretty easy to butter up and he normally gives me what I ask for as long as it's within reason. When we sold the land that she left him he gave me money to fence in land and get my horse do while he's very responsible he's not stingy.
I’m currently clearing land for a horse I’m buying for my wife. My two sons helping me.
What a coincidence….lol
And you live in one of my most favorite places on earth.



I love it here in the mountains. What kind of horse does she want to get?
 
Why :crying-face: , they are beautiful :face-with-tears-of-joy::face-with-tears-of-joy::face-with-tears-of-joy:
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Speaking of palys I have my first baby coral... lol
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Buttering the wife up to buy me a hydros system :face-with-tears-of-joy: :face-with-tears-of-joy: :face-with-tears-of-joy:
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Maybe you should take a lesson from Ginger Billy...
 
Never heard of the sausage, making Luis’s y...

You can probably order the greens from Amazon. I have never heard of the sausage but i think it will be good with any smoked sausage.
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Aww, that is no good.
I have lightly become obsessed with these, Jill. What size tank did you have the fish in, or max size you would recommend?
Smaller tank is fine for those John.
They have no swim bladder so they mostly just perch all day.
 
Better late than never, my wife's version of Swamp Soup

1 package (1 lb) original Conecuh sausage sliced
1 onion chopped
1 turnup diced
1 can black eyed peas undrained
2 cans collard greens undrained
1 can turnup greens undrained
1 can diced tomatoes drained
1/2 to 1 qt chicken chicken broth
about 1/2 teaspoon of creole seasoning
she sprinkles salt, so add to your taste, same with pepper

soup in picture had 2 cloves of garlic added when cooking onion, first time she added it.
could not taste the garlic.

cook sausage in pot with onion until onion starts going clear
add other ingredients, add broth until you get the consistency you want
simmer for about an hour

good with corn bread

this is a very good stone soup to build on, we have tried other bean types but settled on black eyes.





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Into the cookbook FOR SURE!
 

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