The main goal of this tank is to gain experience and learn how to do saltwater. My plan is to make this tank as natural as possible and that means I will not be chasing numbers but rather trying to keep a healthy food chain of animals and to feed everything healthily and variably. I want to use as few chemicals as possible but adding as many plankton as possible and creating a breeding population up the food chain.
Reef Tank:
Equipment
28th January - for 1000$ bought a lightly used:
-110 (60"x18"x24") tank with glass lid and stand
-fluvial FX6 canister filter
-fluval marine 46 W light
-~75lbs live rock + GSP rock
-10 snails and hermit crabs
-buckets, 5G totes, aquarium cleaners, heaters, test kits, 8.4, food, and other basic equipment
Bought at LFS:
-200G box RPM salt
-~75lb live rock
-3 bags (120) lbs Aragonite special grade dry sand
-2 Aquamai KPS wavemaker
- 100gal/hr RODI filter
-Dr Tims bacterial starter
Bought later:
-Tunze 9012 skimmer
-fluval marine 59W light
-Changed to IO reef crystals
Livestock
Frostbite Clown mid Feb
Domino Clown
Assorted CUC late Feb
Rock Flower Anemone early Mar
Pandora Zoa
Yellow Parazoas
Green Base Toadstool
Foxface Lo
Melanurus Wrasse mid Mar
Skunk shrimp
Grape Caulerpa (refugium)
Fighting conch
Diamond Goby
Fire Shrimp late Mar
Zoa Colony
Frogspawn early Apr
Pipe Organ
Fruit Loops Zoa
2 (bred pair) Biota Blue Mandarins. mid Apr
Midas Blenny
Blastos
Duncans
Royal Gramma Basslet. Late Apr
2 Peppermint Shrimp
Elegance
2 Stylophora. Early May
2 Seriatopora (birds nest)
Red plating montipora
Freak Hair pavona
Pink Koji Wada Nepthea
Rock Flower Anemone
Red Tuxedo Urchin
Orange Ricordea. Mid May
Hortulanus Wrasse
Emerald Crab
Rainbow Acan Late May
Falco Hawkfish Early June
Banded serpent star. Mid June
Feeding
8am:
1 cube frozen brine shrimp
2 small Algea wafers
refill Algae clip (dried seaweed or grape caulerpa)
3 scoops live baby brine shrimp
20ml live phytoplankton
10ml AB+
1pm:
Flake food
2 Algae wafers
Refill clip
Spot feeding anemone and corals (2x week)
Live pods (every other week)
6pm:
1 cube frozen mysis shrimp
Micro-pellets
8pm:
Pinch of omnivore flakes
1 cube Frozen cyclops or baby brine shrimp
3 scoops live baby brine shrimp
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