Baconforbreakfast
New Member
Hello everyone, thought I would contribute to the hive mind. I have a 40x36x24 saltwater tank. It has been through many revisions and I screw up alot. So if you'd like to see alot of trial and error, with emphasis on the error you are in the right place.
I originally set it up for the first time in 2014. It has lived through high nutrients, low nutrients, vermitid snails and most recently dinos.
I run 2 kessil a360s in a hybrid 36in ati t5 fixture. I dose kalk via doser and supplement with brs 2 part + tropic marin trace additives. I started with a vertex 180i skimmer which I dispise and replaced with an older aqua-c injection type skimmer which I love.
I have a 125 gallon aquarium I placed baffles in myself being used as a sump. I house chaeto, which in all honesty is the healthiest thing about my tank. I can grow algea very successfully.
I recently added a 40 gallon breeder into the system, but it is just full of water at the moment as I havmt decided the final direction to go with it.
My parameters are ph of 8.1 to 8.3, sg 1.026, temp 78.5, alk 9dkh, calcium 500, mag 1480. My nutrients at the moment are nitrate 3ppm and phosphate is .08. I have a trident and use hannah ultra low phosphate checker. The nitrate test is red sea.
Livestock consists of my blue hippo tang, which started out about the size of a quarter. A yellow watchman goby that lived through multiple tanks and moves and is the Oldman of tank. He has been with me since 2010. I have 2 engineer gobies, one fairy wrasse and 2 anthias.
I have a good size cleaner crew, snails of all different t sorts and crabs, one cleaner shrimp and a coral banded shrimp.
As far as Corals I have some larger leather mushrooms, some various mushrooms and some zoanthids. I tried to dip my toes in the water with some various lps and sps, I have a few survivors but nothing flourished....
I will post some pictures and try to be more descriptive as I go.
I originally set it up for the first time in 2014. It has lived through high nutrients, low nutrients, vermitid snails and most recently dinos.
I run 2 kessil a360s in a hybrid 36in ati t5 fixture. I dose kalk via doser and supplement with brs 2 part + tropic marin trace additives. I started with a vertex 180i skimmer which I dispise and replaced with an older aqua-c injection type skimmer which I love.
I have a 125 gallon aquarium I placed baffles in myself being used as a sump. I house chaeto, which in all honesty is the healthiest thing about my tank. I can grow algea very successfully.
I recently added a 40 gallon breeder into the system, but it is just full of water at the moment as I havmt decided the final direction to go with it.
My parameters are ph of 8.1 to 8.3, sg 1.026, temp 78.5, alk 9dkh, calcium 500, mag 1480. My nutrients at the moment are nitrate 3ppm and phosphate is .08. I have a trident and use hannah ultra low phosphate checker. The nitrate test is red sea.
Livestock consists of my blue hippo tang, which started out about the size of a quarter. A yellow watchman goby that lived through multiple tanks and moves and is the Oldman of tank. He has been with me since 2010. I have 2 engineer gobies, one fairy wrasse and 2 anthias.
I have a good size cleaner crew, snails of all different t sorts and crabs, one cleaner shrimp and a coral banded shrimp.
As far as Corals I have some larger leather mushrooms, some various mushrooms and some zoanthids. I tried to dip my toes in the water with some various lps and sps, I have a few survivors but nothing flourished....
I will post some pictures and try to be more descriptive as I go.
