Robinreefs94
Community Member
Hi everyone!
In July this year I started up my red sea reefer 170. It is a sort of a comeback since I have'nt had any tanks for about 2 years since I started up now again. The tank is situated in Stockholm, Sweden, and is for now pretty easygoing mixed reef of SPS:es and LPS:es. I've hade many soft corals before and I choose this time not to have any since they can pretty easily take over such a small tank within a relatively short period of time. Maybe some zoas may come in one day.. who knows.
Anyways, it was a pretty fast start up with good and well established liverock. Much life came with it (counted up to 50+ small snails in different species the first night and two corals to name some of the livestock) and it was as purple as you want it after a year usually at day one. So I thought why not start this up faster than I usually do. Within 1 week there were fishes, corals and a clean-up crew established. Everything has worked pretty good so far.
Tech info:
Lightning: AI prime 26 hd
Streamers: 2 tunze 6015
Returnpump: DC 2000
Skimmer: Deltec SC 1351
Heater: Jaeger 200w
Osomlator: Tunze 3155
Livestock:
Amphirion ephiphium
Pterapogon kauderni
Enchelyurus flavipes
Montipora digitata
Montipora setosa
Montipora capricornis
Seriatopora hystrix
Seriatopora sp.
Euphyllia parancora
Caulastrea curvata
Pavona cactus
Acanstrea sp.
Pocillopora sp.
My routines:
10% waterchange every other week.
Rowaphos in a sock.
Active carbon once a month.
Blowing the sand and rock with a pipette once a week.
Cleaning the filtersock in sump twice a week.
Feeding once a day with frozen food (artemia, mysis etc) and pellets for the nassarius snails and hermit crabs a few times a week.
One 10l bucket for ATO (got plans using the standard edition ATO with my ATO to not having to fill up the bucket as often as now).
Dosaging:
With redsea abc+ powder. Manually fix Mg and KH with redseas designated powders for it since those two doesn't seem to be enough with just the abc+ powder. I have plans for building a shelf over the ATO within the sump where a dosage pump with three 2l containers could fit. It will be tight but I think it's manageable. If u think it's a bad idea please let me know
Recent waterquality:
Salinity: 1.026
Temp: 25,1 celsius (77,18 fahrenheit)
pH: 7,7
KH: 8,3
Ca: 460ppm
Mg: 1320ppm
NO3: 0,5 mg/l
PO4: 0,03 mg/l
Pics or it did'nt happen:
I have cutted the red's and the green's recently down to a peak of 10% since i did get some problems with algaes on the glass.
In July this year I started up my red sea reefer 170. It is a sort of a comeback since I have'nt had any tanks for about 2 years since I started up now again. The tank is situated in Stockholm, Sweden, and is for now pretty easygoing mixed reef of SPS:es and LPS:es. I've hade many soft corals before and I choose this time not to have any since they can pretty easily take over such a small tank within a relatively short period of time. Maybe some zoas may come in one day.. who knows.
Anyways, it was a pretty fast start up with good and well established liverock. Much life came with it (counted up to 50+ small snails in different species the first night and two corals to name some of the livestock) and it was as purple as you want it after a year usually at day one. So I thought why not start this up faster than I usually do. Within 1 week there were fishes, corals and a clean-up crew established. Everything has worked pretty good so far.
Tech info:
Lightning: AI prime 26 hd
Streamers: 2 tunze 6015
Returnpump: DC 2000
Skimmer: Deltec SC 1351
Heater: Jaeger 200w
Osomlator: Tunze 3155
Livestock:
Amphirion ephiphium
Pterapogon kauderni
Enchelyurus flavipes
Montipora digitata
Montipora setosa
Montipora capricornis
Seriatopora hystrix
Seriatopora sp.
Euphyllia parancora
Caulastrea curvata
Pavona cactus
Acanstrea sp.
Pocillopora sp.
My routines:
10% waterchange every other week.
Rowaphos in a sock.
Active carbon once a month.
Blowing the sand and rock with a pipette once a week.
Cleaning the filtersock in sump twice a week.
Feeding once a day with frozen food (artemia, mysis etc) and pellets for the nassarius snails and hermit crabs a few times a week.
One 10l bucket for ATO (got plans using the standard edition ATO with my ATO to not having to fill up the bucket as often as now).
Dosaging:
With redsea abc+ powder. Manually fix Mg and KH with redseas designated powders for it since those two doesn't seem to be enough with just the abc+ powder. I have plans for building a shelf over the ATO within the sump where a dosage pump with three 2l containers could fit. It will be tight but I think it's manageable. If u think it's a bad idea please let me know
Recent waterquality:
Salinity: 1.026
Temp: 25,1 celsius (77,18 fahrenheit)
pH: 7,7
KH: 8,3
Ca: 460ppm
Mg: 1320ppm
NO3: 0,5 mg/l
PO4: 0,03 mg/l
Pics or it did'nt happen:
I have cutted the red's and the green's recently down to a peak of 10% since i did get some problems with algaes on the glass.
