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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
To be fair, Oliver had no interest in babbling and talking till he was like a year old. He was on a mission to do whatever it is he pleases :grinning-face-with-sweat:
Yep Joe didn't care about walking he crawled 50 miles an hour.
 
Yep Joe didn't care about walking he crawled 50 miles an hour.
Haha we missed that stage! He crawled long enough to get to a chair and pull himself up. Now he's running and climbing and my word isnt he exhausting :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
 
Sorry John no groove is no bueno.
I'm not a classic rock dude, as you know but I heard this one today.

I love Traffic, Joel! Steve Winwood wrote this song about a (let's just call it a vision he had ;)). I was reading an article about him not too long ago. I don't post a lot of this time period bc not many people like it lol, but this is most of the genre and time period vinyl that I collect. Another homerun in the music game for you Joel, wow.
 
Put on 5 sheets of the brown parchment paper and pull them off one at a time.
Like 5 sheets over the lense of the light? I geuss I didnt realize how much light could go through that! I figured 5 sheets would be a black out lol I imagined one sheet and slowly expose leds lol
 
No. Unfortunately they are very basic. 2 channels, each one has an on and off time and they each adjust in 10% increments. That said, they are very bright and dirt cheap. I may eventually get something nicer and out these over a frag table or something, but for now they work.
There are nothing wrong with your lights. They seem to be very nice lights from what I can tell. I'd just say if you have to go in 10% increments DEFINITELY space them out.
 
There are nothing wrong with your lights. They seem to be very nice lights from what I can tell. I'd just say if you have to go in 10% increments DEFINITELY space them out.
Yea if i go full blown 10% i would do em weeks/months apart, and I would leave my white at 10% as that seems really bright as is
 
Jason was behind in almost everything and to top it off he was born at the beginning of the pandemic when I didn't even let my wife look out the door, I would come home from work and take a bath in the yard before entering the house, what a crazy time that was, people telling us that Jason had a condition and that's when I got tough and sent a couple of people to hell lol, now Jason is the top of his class and sometimes I would like to put a tape on his mouth because he talks like a parrot lol with everything he talks about
 
So he's got an ear infection?
Yeah, the doctor couldn't be sure but since we've been treating him since Monday and he woke up crying at 0530 this morning, he figured that's what it was.
 
I can't remember exactly when Big John started walking. I think he was born already talking, but I can tell you this...

He won his first fishing rodeo at 5.
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late bloomer
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Like 5 sheets over the lense of the light? I geuss I didnt realize how much light could go through that! I figured 5 sheets would be a black out lol I imagined one sheet and slowly expose leds lol
Play around with it a bit and see.
This is how we used to do it when I had T5's and we were acclimating fish/corals.
 

IF YOU HAD TO OPERATE EVERYTHING ELSE MANUALLY, WHICH AUTOMATED SYSTEM WOULD YOU KEEP?

  • Auto top-off

    Votes: 62 57.9%
  • Automated dosing

    Votes: 6 5.6%
  • Mechanical filtration / roller filter

    Votes: 4 3.7%
  • Automated water testing

    Votes: 3 2.8%
  • Automatic feeding

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Lighting schedule

    Votes: 21 19.6%
  • Controller and remote monitoring

    Votes: 4 3.7%
  • Leak detection and emergency shutoff

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • Automatic water changes

    Votes: 3 2.8%
  • None. I prefer to operate everything manually

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Something else (explain in the comments)

    Votes: 1 0.9%
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