Hey guys, been a creeper around these forums for a few years now but I’ve finally got around to setting up an account and documenting my tanks growth and progress.
Tank was set up at the start of the year and has been growing pretty good so far. All my previous tanks have been budget tanks with a lot of cheap equipment and DIY equipment, this is the first tank I’ve set up properly with quality equipment, so much easier..
Tank: 90cm x 75 cm x 50cm tank with low-iron glass
Lighting: 10x39w ATI Powermodule, 2 x Kessil a360N’s, 1 x Kessil A160we
Flow: Maxspect gyre 50w, 2 x Tunze 6025, 1 x Tunze 6015
Sump: 60cm-ish x 50cm-ish
Skimmer: Royal Exclusiv Double Cone Bubble King 180
Return Pump: Royal Exclusiv Speedy3 80w
Dosing pump: Kamoer 3ch
ATO: Tunze Osmolator 3155
Salt: Red Sea Blue Bucket
Reactor: Innovative Marine Mini-Max reactor with 150ml of activated carbon
Chiller: Hailea hc-500a
No other filtration in the sump, just the skimmer and a tiny bit of activated carbon. the Kamoer doses Ca, Alk and Mg and I also dose a few other products: K-balance 2ml/3days, B-balance 1.5ml/3days, Pohl's Xtra 2ml/3days, KZ Iron 2drops/3days, KZ potassium-iodide flouride 2drops/3days, KZ Coral Vitalizer 3drops/any night I remember. As you can see with the above dosing regime it is a lot less than recommended (e.g. 2ml/3days Pohls Xtra, manufacturers directions are 4ml every day for my tank). I try do weekly water changes of 20-30% although I am known to skip weeks quite often..
Might as well start with some earlier pics:
The very start, Early Jan:
Early Feb 2015:
October 2015:
This side is hard to photograph because of the ugly frag rack but you get the idea:
Now I just need to convince someone to come round with a DSLR so i can get some better pics
Thanks for reading, I will try update as things grow
Tank was set up at the start of the year and has been growing pretty good so far. All my previous tanks have been budget tanks with a lot of cheap equipment and DIY equipment, this is the first tank I’ve set up properly with quality equipment, so much easier..
Tank: 90cm x 75 cm x 50cm tank with low-iron glass
Lighting: 10x39w ATI Powermodule, 2 x Kessil a360N’s, 1 x Kessil A160we
Flow: Maxspect gyre 50w, 2 x Tunze 6025, 1 x Tunze 6015
Sump: 60cm-ish x 50cm-ish
Skimmer: Royal Exclusiv Double Cone Bubble King 180
Return Pump: Royal Exclusiv Speedy3 80w
Dosing pump: Kamoer 3ch
ATO: Tunze Osmolator 3155
Salt: Red Sea Blue Bucket
Reactor: Innovative Marine Mini-Max reactor with 150ml of activated carbon
Chiller: Hailea hc-500a
No other filtration in the sump, just the skimmer and a tiny bit of activated carbon. the Kamoer doses Ca, Alk and Mg and I also dose a few other products: K-balance 2ml/3days, B-balance 1.5ml/3days, Pohl's Xtra 2ml/3days, KZ Iron 2drops/3days, KZ potassium-iodide flouride 2drops/3days, KZ Coral Vitalizer 3drops/any night I remember. As you can see with the above dosing regime it is a lot less than recommended (e.g. 2ml/3days Pohls Xtra, manufacturers directions are 4ml every day for my tank). I try do weekly water changes of 20-30% although I am known to skip weeks quite often..
Might as well start with some earlier pics:
The very start, Early Jan:
Early Feb 2015:
October 2015:
This side is hard to photograph because of the ugly frag rack but you get the idea:
Now I just need to convince someone to come round with a DSLR so i can get some better pics
Thanks for reading, I will try update as things grow