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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

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What do you think are the keys to your success in reefing?
Patience

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@UncommonSense Welcome to smorgasbord after dark.

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It'll either run you off or bring you in! Hopefully it's the later.
Haha why thank you!

I’m notoriously introverted, but everyone enjoys company!
 

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Same! R2R is my version of leaving the house.

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Ha! I know I’d drive my friends and family crazy if I tried to info dump on them like I can here on R2R, plus the community is second to none!

I actually don’t use any other social media, and generally try to keep my digital footprint small… though, there’s too much good discourse happening around here for me to say no!
 

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Ha! I know I’d drive my friends and family crazy if I tried to info dump on them like I can here on R2R, plus the community is second to none!

I actually don’t use any other social media, and generally try to keep my digital footprint small… though, there’s too much good discourse happening around here for me to say no!
Same here. No FB or anything like that.

I know my wife and two boys get so tired of me talking about magnesium, or the correlation between NO3 and P04, but they're nice about it.

These days I just bring it here lol
 

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Same here. No FB or anything like that.

I know my wife and two boys get so tired of me talking about magnesium, or the correlation between NO3 and P04, but they're nice about it.

These days I just bring it here lol
Haha I desperately need a refresher in organic chemistry… I still remember enough, but it’s been a long time since I took anything even remotely relative to an organic chem class (hydroponic food production… good ol’ California!)

I’ve since been in much higher demand for my mechanical mindset, so the finer nuances of the chem side of things started to get pretty fuzzy…

Due to this, I’ve been hesitant to even restart dosing anything in my tank after my hiatus from the hobby… (a incident stick in mind wherein my college hydro teacher [dept head for 34 years] was making his own liquid fertilizer concentrate, and misplaced a decimal point during weight calculations… this led to a 100x overdose of manganese to ~268 massive tomato plants!)
 

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A true classic. No matter how many times I hear or listen to this song it just always hits me.


Paul Desmond on the alto sax here! The drum lead in is so pure, I keep restarting the song lol.
 

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