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I’m ready to start getting this reef put together!
Since my initial post in the Meet & Greet Forum, my rock has continued to cook in the garage, I have received my RODI unit (it will be getting it’s first use this weekend) and painted to rear glass of the tank black. I made a horrible job of this; thus confirming my suspicion that I am not destined for a career in a body shop or as a graffiti artist. It’s against a wall though, so who cares.
Some details:
Tank: Juwel Rio 240 – with filter tower removed.
Filtration: Tunze Comline Reefpack 250.
Includes Filter 3162 (250 -850 LPH) (70 – 250 GPH) and DOC Skimmer 9004. I’ll run floss and carbon in the filter.
Flow: 2x Hydor Koralia 1600 Nano (1600 LPH) (425 GPH)
ATO: Tunze Osmolator Nano (a touch undersized for this tank, but it will do until I get the full version)
Lighting: Juwel T5s 1x Marine White and 1x Marine Blue. I have just found a unused (still in it’s box) Arcadia Twin T8 ballast, that was in my garage (bought years ago for another project). I’m planning to squeeze this in somehow to provide additional lighting, probably with 1x Arcadia Marine White and 1x Arcadia Actinic tubes.
This is going to predominantly be a Softy tank, but my wife really likes the look of Frogspawn, so we may stray into LPS.
The Fish Wish List looks like this:
Pair of Clowns (My 2 year old son loves Nemo)
Firefish x1
Royal Gramma x1 (We had both this and the Firefish in our last tank and my daughter really wants them again)
Starry Blenny x1
Mandarin Goby x1 (I know a refugium would usually be required, but my LFS only sells ones that will eat prepared food and I plan on adding live pods to the tank a regular basis)
Pair of Bengali Cardinals
Any comments or alternatives are welcome, I’m here to take advice.
Clean Up Crew and Inverts:
I have to have a Pink and Black Sea Cucumber. We had one last time, his name Coolio (Because he was as ‘Cool as a Cucumber’ – Credit: The Wife) I loved watching him magically appear in a new spot when you looked away for a second or two, despite the fact he hadn’t moved for the last 15 minutes of staring and waiting.
Emerald Crab x2 One per pile of rocks
Nassarius Snails x 5 I love the ‘Zombie rising from the grave’ action every time the tank is fed.
Hermits, probably Red Legged x5
Trochus Snails x2 One per rock pile. If my LFS can get them – I’ve never seen them in stock.
I reckon that’s it, again comments welcomed.
I’ll post a couple of pics soon; a reward for all that reading.
Cheers,
Matt.
Since my initial post in the Meet & Greet Forum, my rock has continued to cook in the garage, I have received my RODI unit (it will be getting it’s first use this weekend) and painted to rear glass of the tank black. I made a horrible job of this; thus confirming my suspicion that I am not destined for a career in a body shop or as a graffiti artist. It’s against a wall though, so who cares.
Some details:
Tank: Juwel Rio 240 – with filter tower removed.
Filtration: Tunze Comline Reefpack 250.
Includes Filter 3162 (250 -850 LPH) (70 – 250 GPH) and DOC Skimmer 9004. I’ll run floss and carbon in the filter.
Flow: 2x Hydor Koralia 1600 Nano (1600 LPH) (425 GPH)
ATO: Tunze Osmolator Nano (a touch undersized for this tank, but it will do until I get the full version)
Lighting: Juwel T5s 1x Marine White and 1x Marine Blue. I have just found a unused (still in it’s box) Arcadia Twin T8 ballast, that was in my garage (bought years ago for another project). I’m planning to squeeze this in somehow to provide additional lighting, probably with 1x Arcadia Marine White and 1x Arcadia Actinic tubes.
This is going to predominantly be a Softy tank, but my wife really likes the look of Frogspawn, so we may stray into LPS.
The Fish Wish List looks like this:
Pair of Clowns (My 2 year old son loves Nemo)
Firefish x1
Royal Gramma x1 (We had both this and the Firefish in our last tank and my daughter really wants them again)
Starry Blenny x1
Mandarin Goby x1 (I know a refugium would usually be required, but my LFS only sells ones that will eat prepared food and I plan on adding live pods to the tank a regular basis)
Pair of Bengali Cardinals
Any comments or alternatives are welcome, I’m here to take advice.
Clean Up Crew and Inverts:
I have to have a Pink and Black Sea Cucumber. We had one last time, his name Coolio (Because he was as ‘Cool as a Cucumber’ – Credit: The Wife) I loved watching him magically appear in a new spot when you looked away for a second or two, despite the fact he hadn’t moved for the last 15 minutes of staring and waiting.
Emerald Crab x2 One per pile of rocks
Nassarius Snails x 5 I love the ‘Zombie rising from the grave’ action every time the tank is fed.
Hermits, probably Red Legged x5
Trochus Snails x2 One per rock pile. If my LFS can get them – I’ve never seen them in stock.
I reckon that’s it, again comments welcomed.
I’ll post a couple of pics soon; a reward for all that reading.
Cheers,
Matt.