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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
Enjoy Japan!!!
Welp I made it. 31 hour jet lag. Currently 1am over here, cannot sleep. Room smells of ciggeretes, not the best AC, floating feeling, weird noises outside the door and no food vending machines.
 
I bought 5 micro brittle stars and now have probably 2.3 million it seems. Like you said, all I see are their little legs poking out searching for food.
Same!
 
I have to politely disagree, remember my friend who was in a big hunting family? I was over one evening and his dad was cooking one and asked if I wanted to stay for dinner. I remembered how excited tiny Tim’s family was when Mr. Scrooge showed up with the largest goose in town for Christmas dinner and I thought why not. One bite was all I could do. It was dark, greasy and had a fowl ( 😉) taste. Now I-know what is coming, it has to be cooked right. I have learned to avoid food that has to be cooked right to be edible. I stick with food that is delicious whether it’s cooked right or wrong.
Haha Kevin, there's no way on Earth I can argue with that. While you CAN make a Canadian goose taste good, they're better for baiting crab traps.
 
Some of mine got up to an inch+.
I don't think these are much smaller than that. Man I hope they're hungry. I have a couple wrasse. Would you wait until lights out to add them @tbrown ?
 
Welp I made it. 31 hour jet lag. Currently 1am over here, cannot sleep. Room smells of ciggeretes, not the best AC, floating feeling, weird noises outside the door and no food vending machines.
It will all change when you have your first bite of spam sushi! Enjoy.
 
I don't think these are much smaller than that. Man I hope they're hungry. I have a couple wrasse. Would you wait until lights out to add them @tbrown ?
I’m not Tim but definitely.
 
Guys my berghia from @ReefEngineer arrived this morning and they are fat!! They're bigger than what I ordered and bigger than I thought berghia even got! The cuatomer service with this company, is 2nd to none.
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Ill be drip acclimating for salinity and adding them after lights out tonight
if they work, try and save them and send to Joel. Once they go in the tank, you usually don't see them again. the aiptasia just slowly disappear. so I have no idea how you would catch them. maybe have a tiny frag with aiptasia and place it in a Petri dish? I would couple a couple go in the sump too.
 
These are all either on my hit list or in my tank lol. Id also like to highly recommended ANacropora, theyre beautiful and prolific, hardy corals. The goldenrod anacropora is the finest pop of yellow in my tank.
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That goldenrod is gorgeous man!
 
You guys were discussing wedding dance songs a few days back... My brother-in-law picked this one for his dance with my mother-in-law:


I'm not knocking the song, it's a great song. But did he listen to the words before picking that song?
 
I don't think these are much smaller than that. Man I hope they're hungry. I have a couple wrasse. Would you wait until lights out to add them @tbrown ?
Definitely wait until lights out or may be feeding your wrasses an expensive snack! Also, turn down flow or off so they are being blown around the tank until they can get settled.
 
Well Luis, you did it again! But I know your tank is far from being a cheap tank.
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It will all change when you have your first bite of spam sushi! Enjoy.
Ahh... Spam Musubi! I was introduced to that when I was stationed in Hawaii. Now, I make it myself. When my wife and I went to Hawaii for a vacation a couple years ago, that was the first thing I ate. She gave me a ... what the heck... look for eating Spam! Little did she know, they (locals) eat that ALOT!!
 

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